IT Career Energizer
415 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 97 ratingsWant to learn what it takes to start, develop and build a successful career in the Information Technology industry? The IT Career Energizer podcast enables you to find out how. More than 300 IT and tech professionals, consultants and experts have shared their career experiences and insights to help you to succeed. Previous guests have included Jeff Atwood (Stack Overflow), Troy Hunt (Have I Been Pwned), Nicole Archambault (La Vie en Code), April Wensel (Compassionate Coding), Kent Beck (Agile Manifesto), Chani Simms (SHe CISO Exec Founder), Danny Thompson (Community Leader), Sanjeev Sharma (DevOps Expert) and many more industry recognised figures.
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Improve Your Interpersonal Skills and Don´t Be Afraid to Take Any Opportunity with Roberta Matuson
April 27, 2020 00:00 - 19 minutes - 26.6 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Roberta Matuson. She has helped leaders in Fortune 500 companies, as well as small to medium-sized businesses, achieve dramatic growth and market leadership through the maximization of talent. Roberta is a leading authority on leadership and the skills and strategies required to earn employee commitment and client loyalty. She is also the author of several books including the recently released “Evergreen Talent”. In thi...
247: Improve Your Interpersonal Skills and Don´t Be Afraid to Take Any Opportunity with Roberta Matuson
April 27, 2020 00:00 - 19 minutes - 26.6 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Roberta Matuson. She has helped leaders in Fortune 500 companies, as well as small to medium-sized businesses, achieve dramatic growth and market leadership through the maximization of talent. Roberta is a leading authority on leadership and the skills and strategies required to earn employee commitment and client loyalty. She is also the author of several books including the recently released “Evergreen Talent”. In thi...
246: Join a Startup to Progress Fast and Build a Strong Skillset with Steve Kahan
April 20, 2020 00:00 - 40 minutes - 56.5 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Steve Kahan. He has a distinguished career. Steve has helped to grow seven startup companies from early-stage development to going public or being sold, resulting in a total value of more than $3 billion. He is currently Chief Marketing Officer for Thycotic, a cybersecurity company, which he has helped take from $10 million to over $60 million in its first three years. And late last year his book “Be A Startup Superstar: ...
Join a Startup to Progress Fast and Build a Strong Skillset with Steve Kahan
April 20, 2020 00:00 - 40 minutes - 56.5 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Steve Kahan. He has a distinguished career. Steve has helped to grow seven startup companies from early-stage development to going public or being sold, resulting in a total value of more than $3 billion. He is currently Chief Marketing Officer for Thycotic, a cybersecurity company, which he has helped take from $10 million to over $60 million in its first three years. And late last year his book “Be A Startup Superstar: ...
245: Invest in Yourself Continuously and Become Passionate About What You Do with Siddick Elaheebocus
April 13, 2020 00:00 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Siddick Elaheebocus. Siddick has worked in the IT industry for 18 years. He is currently a Director and Technology Strategist for an IT services company based in the French Pacific providing vendor-agnostic digital advisory, professional services and training. Siddick is also a Chartered IT Professional, a long-standing Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), a technology conference speaker and a mentor. He is also a former Mic...
Invest in Yourself Continuously and Become Passionate About What You Do with Siddick Elaheebocus
April 13, 2020 00:00 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Siddick Elaheebocus. Siddick has worked in the IT industry for 18 years. He is currently a Director and Technology Strategist for an IT services company based in the French Pacific providing vendor-agnostic digital advisory, professional services and training. Siddick is also a Chartered IT Professional, a long-standing Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), a technology conference speaker and a mentor. He is also a former Mic...
244: Overcome Your Introversion and Realise That Asking for Help is a Strength with Derick Rethans
April 06, 2020 00:00 - 20 minutes - 28 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Derick Rethans. Derick is a PHP internals expert and author of Xdebug. He works as an independent contractor and consultant on PHP extensions and related projects. Derick has contributed to the PHP project in numerous forms and is the host of the PHP Internals News podcast as well as being a frequent speaker at conferences. In this episode, Phil and Derick Rethans discuss why asking for help is a strength rather than a w...
Overcome Your Introversion and Realise That Asking for Help is a Strength with Derick Rethans
April 06, 2020 00:00 - 20 minutes - 28 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Derick Rethans. Derick is a PHP internals expert and author of Xdebug. He works as an independent contractor and consultant on PHP extensions and related projects. Derick has contributed to the PHP project in numerous forms and is the host of the PHP Internals News podcast as well as being a frequent speaker at conferences. In this episode, Phil and Derick Rethans discuss why asking for help is a strength rather than a w...
243: Develop Adaptability and Direction Recognition Skills and Have Confidence in Your Abilities with Stephen Woolston
March 30, 2020 00:00 - 21 minutes - 30 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Stephen Woolston. Stephen is a program and service delivery consultant with an extensive background in IT infrastructure. He holds a first-class computer science degree from Nottingham University and started his career working on mainframe systems at Norwich Union. He is also a professional coach, helping people to become happier and more successful in what they do. In this episode, Phil and Stephen Woolston discuss how...
Develop Adaptability and Direction Recognition Skills and Have Confidence in Your Abilities with Stephen Woolston
March 30, 2020 00:00 - 21 minutes - 30 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Stephen Woolston. Stephen is a program and service delivery consultant with an extensive background in IT infrastructure. He holds a first-class computer science degree from Nottingham University and started his career working on mainframe systems at Norwich Union. He is also a professional coach, helping people to become happier and more successful in what they do. In this episode, Phil and Stephen Woolston discuss how...
242: Choose Jobs That Help You Learn and Welcome the Chance to Lead with Aslam Khan
March 23, 2020 00:00 - 23 minutes - 32.3 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Aslam Khan. He has more than 20 years of experience in software design and architecture, leveraging his background in Electronic Engineering. He is a regular speaker at local and international conferences on software development and agile methodologies as well as the author of Grokking Functional Programming. He says that he is convinced that software development is hard, very hard. In this episode, Phil and Aslam Khan ...
Choose Jobs That Help You Learn and Welcome the Chance to Lead with Aslam Khan
March 23, 2020 00:00 - 23 minutes - 32.3 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Aslam Khan. He has more than 20 years of experience in software design and architecture, leveraging his background in Electronic Engineering. He is a regular speaker at local and international conferences on software development and agile methodologies as well as the author of Grokking Functional Programming. He says that he is convinced that software development is hard, very hard. In this episode, Phil and Aslam Khan ...
Every Day Actively Practice Your Skills and Recognize Your Strengths and Weaknesses with Kevin Kline
March 16, 2020 00:00 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Kevin Kline. He is the Principal Program Manager at Sentry One, a leading provider of award-winning tools for database management and monitoring. Kevin is a founding board member and former president of the international Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS). He frequently contributes to database technology magazines, websites, and discussion forums. Kevin is also an author or co-author of several books includi...
241: Every Day Actively Practice Your Skills and Recognize Your Strengths and Weaknesses with Kevin Kline
March 16, 2020 00:00 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Kevin Kline. He is the Principal Program Manager at Sentry One, a leading provider of award-winning tools for database management and monitoring. Kevin is a founding board member and former president of the international Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS). He frequently contributes to database technology magazines, websites, and discussion forums. Kevin is also an author or co-author of several books including...
Create a Learning Roadmap but Also Let Curiosity Take You in New Directions with Madison Kanna
March 09, 2020 00:00 - 15 minutes - 21.1 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Madison Kanna. She is a software developer working at Keeper Security. Madison is also the host of the CodeBookClub, an online community with live online meetups for beginners and intermediate developers. She blogs about JavaScript and teaching yourself how to code without attending a Bootcamp. In this episode, Phil and Madison Kanna discuss how someone who is new to the industry can map out what they will learn and ...
240: Create a Learning Roadmap but Also Let Curiosity Take You in New Directions with Madison Kanna
March 09, 2020 00:00 - 15 minutes - 21.1 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Madison Kanna. She is a software developer working at Keeper Security. Madison is also the host of the CodeBookClub, an online community with live online meetups for beginners and intermediate developers. She blogs about JavaScript and teaching yourself how to code without attending a Bootcamp. In this episode, Phil and Madison Kanna discuss how someone who is new to the industry can map out what they will learn and ...
Create a Career To-do List and Seek Work That is Personally Fulfilling with Anna Murray
March 02, 2020 00:00 - 24 minutes - 34.6 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Anna Murray. She is a nationally recognized technology consultant, speaker, and blogger as well as the owner of a successful software development company. She founded one of the earliest web-development firms, emedia, in 1996 and is a double recipient of the Stevie Award for Women in Business. She also serves as the President of the Board of the International Women’s Writing Guild. In this episode, Phil and Anna ...
239: Create a Career To-do List and Seek Work That is Personally Fulfilling with Anna Murray
March 02, 2020 00:00 - 24 minutes - 34.6 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Anna Murray. She is a nationally recognized technology consultant, speaker, and blogger as well as the owner of a successful software development company. She founded one of the earliest web-development firms, emedia, in 1996 and is a double recipient of the Stevie Award for Women in Business. She also serves as the President of the Board of the International Women’s Writing Guild. In this episode, Phil and Anna ...
238: Become More Organized and Spend Time with Others to Learn Fast with Mandy Michael
February 24, 2020 00:00 - 24 minutes - 34.3 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Mandy Michael. She is a community organizer, speaker, writer, and developer. Mandy is currently working as a Development Manager at Seven West Media in Western Australia. Her passion is front end technology and she’s a strong advocate for women in technology, volunteering at events such as She Codes and Muse JS. She is also Founder and Organiser of Fenders, a local meetup for Front End Developers, co-organizer and dir...
Become More Organized and Spend Time with Others to Learn Fast with Mandy Michael
February 24, 2020 00:00 - 24 minutes - 34.3 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Mandy Michael. She is a community organizer, speaker, writer, and developer. Mandy is currently working as a Development Manager at Seven West Media in Western Australia. Her passion is front end technology and she’s a strong advocate for women in technology, volunteering at events such as She Codes and Muse JS. She is also Founder and Organiser of Fenders, a local meetup for Front End Developers, co-organizer and dir...
237: Be Flexible About Your Career Plans and Explore All of The Possibilities with Mahdi Kafi
February 17, 2020 00:00 - 14 minutes - 20.3 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Mahdi Kafi. He started his career at Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Canada where he learned the basics of IT consulting. He now works for DXC Technology where he is an IT consultant helping HR departments to better understand how to make employees' lives easier through the use of technology. In this episode, Phil and Mahdi Kafi discuss the need to keep an open mind when it comes to your career. They talk about how the indu...
Be Flexible About Your Career Plans and Explore All of The Possibilities with Mahdi Kafi
February 17, 2020 00:00 - 14 minutes - 20.3 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Mahdi Kafi. He started his career at Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Canada where he learned the basics of IT consulting. He now works for DXC Technology where he is an IT consultant helping HR departments to better understand how to make employees' lives easier through the use of technology. In this episode, Phil and Mahdi Kafi discuss the need to keep an open mind when it comes to your career. They talk about how the indu...
Why Altruism Really Pays as Does the Right Work-Life Balance with Simo Ahava
February 10, 2020 00:00 - 23 minutes - 32.7 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Simo Ahava. He is a recognised expert on customizing web analytics and tag management solutions to improve the entire “life cycle” of data collection, processing and reporting. His main areas of expertise lie with Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, and Google has appointed him as a Google Developer Expert in these fields. He is also a partner and co-founder at 8-bit-sheep, a prolific blogger and an experienc...
236: Why Altruism Really Pays as Does the Right Work-Life Balance with Simo Ahava
February 10, 2020 00:00 - 23 minutes - 32.7 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Simo Ahava. He is a recognised expert on customizing web analytics and tag management solutions to improve the entire “life cycle” of data collection, processing and reporting. His main areas of expertise lie with Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, and Google has appointed him as a Google Developer Expert in these fields. He is also a partner and co-founder at 8-bit-sheep, a prolific blogger and an experienc...
Take a Proactive Approach to Your Career with Stephen Kuenzli
February 03, 2020 00:00 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Stephen Kuenzli. He has designed, built, deployed and operated highly available and scalable software systems in high tech manufacturing, banking, and e-commerce sectors, for nearly 20 years. He has a B.S. in Systems Engineering and he loves working through challenging design problems and building solutions that are safe and enjoyable to use. In this episode, Phil and Stephen Kuenzli discuss the need to develop n...
235: Take a Proactive Approach to Your Career with Stephen Kuenzli
February 03, 2020 00:00 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Stephen Kuenzli. He has designed, built, deployed and operated highly available and scalable software systems in high tech manufacturing, banking, and e-commerce sectors, for nearly 20 years. He has a B.S. in Systems Engineering and he loves working through challenging design problems and building solutions that are safe and enjoyable to use. In this episode, Phil and Stephen Kuenzli discuss the need to develop n...
234: Why Effective Onboarding and Having Exciting Work to do Matter so Much with James Turnbull
January 27, 2020 00:00 - 19 minutes - 26.6 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer is James Turnbull. He is VP of Engineering at Glitch. James was previously a founder and CTO at Empatico, CTO at Kickstarter, VP of Services at Docker and a CTO in residence at Microsoft to name but a few. He is also the author of several books, including “Monitoring with Prometheus” and “The Docker Book”. He is originally from Melbourne, Australia, but now resides in Brooklyn, New York. In this episode, Phil and James Tur...
Why Effective Onboarding and Having Exciting Work to do Matter so Much with James Turnbull
January 27, 2020 00:00 - 19 minutes - 26.6 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer is James Turnbull. He is VP of Engineering at Glitch. James was previously a founder and CTO at Empatico, CTO at Kickstarter, VP of Services at Docker and a CTO in residence at Microsoft to name but a few. He is also the author of several books, including “Monitoring with Prometheus” and “The Docker Book”. He is originally from Melbourne, Australia, but now resides in Brooklyn, New York. In this episode, Phil and James Tur...
Keep Your Work Life in Perspective and Pair Curiosity with Generosity with Josh Clark
January 20, 2020 00:00 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Josh Clark. He is a UX designer and design leader who helps organisations build products for what’s next. Josh is the founder of Big Medium, a New York design studio specialising in future-friendly interfaces for artificial intelligence, connected devices and responsive websites. He is the author of several books and he speaks around the world about what’s next for digital interfaces. In this episode, Phil and Jo...
233: Keep Your Work Life in Perspective and Pair Curiosity with Generosity with Josh Clark
January 20, 2020 00:00 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Josh Clark. He is a UX designer and design leader who helps organisations build products for what’s next. Josh is the founder of Big Medium, a New York design studio specialising in future-friendly interfaces for artificial intelligence, connected devices and responsive websites. He is the author of several books and he speaks around the world about what’s next for digital interfaces. In this episode, Phil and Jo...
232: Raise Issues Constructively and Be Prepared to Tackle Tough Problems with Michel Weststrate
January 13, 2020 00:00 - 18 minutes - 25.6 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Michel Weststrate. He is a trainer, speaker, micro-consultant and independent open source developer. As well as the author of MobX, MobX-State-Tree, Immer and a plethora of smaller packages. Michel is on a quest to make programming as natural as possible In this episode, Phil and Michel Weststrate discuss how to raise issues in a constructive way that greatly improves the chances of them being solved. They talk a...
Raise Issues Constructively and Be Prepared to Tackle Tough Problems with Michel Weststrate
January 13, 2020 00:00 - 18 minutes - 25.6 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Michel Weststrate. He is a trainer, speaker, micro-consultant and independent open source developer. As well as the author of MobX, MobX-State-Tree, Immer and a plethora of smaller packages. Michel is on a quest to make programming as natural as possible In this episode, Phil and Michel Weststrate discuss how to raise issues in a constructive way that greatly improves the chances of them being solved. They talk a...
Persevere, Network and Continue to Explore New Tech with Erik St. Martin
January 06, 2020 00:00 - 19 minutes - 26.7 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Erik St. Martin. Over the past 15 years, Erik has been a Web Developer, a Software Engineer and a System Architect. He is passionate about all things Go, Kubernetes, Containers, Distributed Systems and Information Security. Erik is currently a Principal Cloud Developer Advocate for Microsoft Azure, who is actively involved in the OSS community. In this episode, Phil and Erik St. Martin discuss the need for those ...
Choose Something You Are Passionate About to Drive Your Career Forwards Faster with Denny Cherry
December 30, 2019 00:00 - 25 minutes - 34.9 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Denny Cherry. He is recognised as one of the deftest and most knowledgeable cross-platform IT consultants in the world. He has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional since 2008 and has held the highest level certification available for each version of SQL Server since 2000. He has also published dozens of articles and is an author of multiple books as well as a popular speaker. In this episode Phil and De...
Be a Giver Not a Taker and Build Your Communication Skills with Nils Hofmeister
December 23, 2019 00:00 - 20 minutes - 27.9 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Nils Hofmeister. He is an Engineering Director working at Xing. He started his career as a software engineer, working on virtual reality projects and computer games. And after spending some time on DevOps projects, he now focuses on helping cross-functional development teams to succeed. In this episode, Phil and Nils Hofmeister discuss the challenges of managing remote working and how his team overcomes them. They spe...
Learn Fast Adapt and Get a Blog to Share What You Know with Jamie Maguire
December 16, 2019 00:00 - 27 minutes - 38.6 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Jamie Maguire. He has a keen interest in web development, code, machine learning, psychology, business, and start-ups. Jamie has been writing code since he was a kid, often typing out magazine code listings and then changing the code to see how they behaved. He’s currently a Microsoft .NET Senior Developer, a Microsoft AI Most Valuable Professional and a STEM ambassador. In this episode, Phil and Jamie Maguire dis...
Choose Work That Interests You and Attend User Groups to Kick-start Your Career with Damian Brady
December 09, 2019 00:00 - 21 minutes - 29.5 MBEPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Damian Brady. He is a Microsoft Cloud Advocate who specialises in DevOps and MLOps. He has been a programmer and consultant for more than 20 years across a broad range of industries and he regularly speaks at conferences and other events around the world. In this episode, Phil and Damian Brady discuss the way MLOps is developing. They talk about how to choose the career path that is right f...
Create Your Own Website Write about What You Discover and Be Dependable with Jeremy Keith
December 02, 2019 00:00 - 23 minutes - 32.8 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Jeremy Keith. He is a web developer at Clearleft, a design agency that he co-founded, in 2005. He is the author of several books about web design and is a regular speaker at conferences across the world. He is also an organiser of events, including the recent Patterns Day 2 in Brighton. In this episode, Phil and Jeremy Keith discuss how writing improves your spoken communication skills and builds your career. Th...
Focus on Career Security Not Job Security with Laura Klein
October 04, 2019 00:00 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Laura Klein. Laura has been an engineer, designer and product manager helping companies of all sizes learn about their users so that they can build products people enjoy using. She’s author of the books “Build Better Products” and “UX for Lean Startups” as well as co-host of the podcast “What Is Wrong With UX”. In this episode, Phil and Laura talk about the differences between job security and career security. And they di...
Stop Fearing Failure and Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable with Aimee Knight
October 02, 2019 00:00 - 26 minutes - 36 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Aimee Knight. She is a software architect at Tuft and Needle, specialising in JS, React and CSS. She is also a Google Developer Advocate for Web Technologies, a panellist on the JavaScript Jabber podcast and n international keynote speaker. In this episode, Phil and Aimee Knight discuss how not being afraid to fail and becoming comfortable with being uncomfortable improves your career prospects. Aimee shares how she learned...
Take Every Opportunity To Learn Something New with Michael Hunger
September 30, 2019 00:00 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Michael Hunger. Michael is the Caretaker General of the Neo4j Developer Community. For the past few years he has been working with Neo Technology on the open source Neo4j graph database. He likes to help Neo4j users to be successful with their use cases & projects and he is the project lead of Spring Data Neo4j. He is also an author of several books as well as a regular conference speaker. In this episode, Phil and Michae...
Allow Your Curiosity To Be Insatiable with Dave Malouf
September 27, 2019 17:11 - 29 minutes - 45.1 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Dave Malouf. Dave a Consultant, Coach and Educator. His mission is to help designers and design teams reach their value potential for the organisations they work with. He has been a designer, a design leader, and a former professor of design. And brings this to bear with frameworks and methods to help professionals level up. He is a co-founder of the Interaction Design Association, the co-founder of several conferences as w...
Network Face-to-Face Learn Teach and Mentor with Jen Looper
September 25, 2019 00:00 - 17 minutes - 23.8 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Jen Looper, a Google Developer Expert and a Cloud Developer Advocate Lead at Microsoft with over 18 years’ experience as a web and mobile developer, specialising in creating cross-platform mobile apps. She is also the founder and CEO of Vue Vixens, which is an initiative promoting diversity in the Vue.js community. In this episode, Phil and Jen Looper discuss why making connections by physically meeting people is still t...
Don’t be Dogmatic about Processes Don’t be Afraid to Fail with Joe Natoli
September 23, 2019 00:00 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Joe Natoli. Joe is a UX consultant, author and speaker. He has nearly three decades of experience consulting with and training the product development teams of some of the world’s largest organisations. He has taught over 140,000 students through his online courses and is a regular keynote speaker and lecturer at events across the globe. In this episode, Phil and Joe Natoli discuss how dogmatically sticking to p...
Let Your Inadequacies Spur you on and Learn Continually with Mark Heckler
September 20, 2019 00:00 - 18 minutes - 26.4 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Mark Heckler. He is a Pivotal Principal Technologist and Developer Advocate, conference speaker and published author focusing upon software development for the Internet of Things and the cloud. He has worked with key players in both the private and public sector across multiple industries to develop critical capabilities on time and on budget. He is also a frequent open source contributor as well as author/curator of a dev...
Take Time before Choosing your Focus and Be Community-Driven with Steph
September 18, 2019 00:00 - 33 minutes - 46.6 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Steph. She is a Security Analyst with a background in journalism and web hosting. She is the creator and editor of StephAndSec.com which is a blog focused on technology, inclusion and lifetime learning. She’s also a chapter lead for Women In Security and learning as much as she can about anything and everything. In this episode, Phil and Steph discuss what it takes to work in the IT security industry. They talk ab...
Read Widely and Always be Willing to Learn from Others with Scott Ambler
September 16, 2019 00:00 - 23 minutes - 32 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Scott Ambler. Scott works with organisations around the world to help them to improve their software processes. He provides training, coaching and mentoring in disciplined agile and lean strategies at both the project and organisational level. He is also the founder of the Agile Modelling (AM) and Agile Data (AD) methods and co-founder of Disciplined Agile (DA). In this episode, Phil and Scott discuss why Scott got inter...
Communicate Effectively and Become a Constant Learner with Diomidis Spinellis
September 13, 2019 00:00 - 22 minutes - 30.7 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Diomidis Spinellis. He is a professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business, and a long-time IT practitioner. He is the author of many open-source software tools, including UMLGraph, CScout, and git-issue. His latest book is “Effective Debugging: 66 Specific Ways to Debug Software and Systems”. In this episode, Phil and Diomidis Spinellis discu...
Get Involved in AI Now and Develop Your Mental Discipline with Noelle LaCharite
September 11, 2019 00:00 - 22 minutes - 31 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Noelle LaCharite. She is an advocate for women in technology, and passionate about mindful Leadership, work-life harmony and helping people achieve more through the use of AI. She has spent many years as a trainer, solutions architect and evangelist for IBM, RedHat, EMC, Amazon and Microsoft. Noelle has delivered keynotes, workshops and conferences around the world. In this episode, Phil and Noelle LaCharite...
Take a Proactive Approach to Your Career and Give Back with Lyndsey Padget
September 09, 2019 00:00 - 40 minutes - 55.4 MBPhil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Lyndsey Padget. Lyndsey is the founder of Longplay Software and a full stack developer, having worked at both mega-corporations and start-ups. She enjoys sharing her knowledge on topics including git & release management, test-driven development, agile and Kanban, and many more. And she believes that the difference between a good software engineer and a great one often has little to do with code. In this episode, Phil an...