Latest Vetsintech Podcast Episodes
11.4 Sarah Lawler-Muzquiz Alcatraz Security and AI
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - November 04, 2020 22:06 - 48 minutesToday I have a great conversation with Sarah Lawler-Muzquiz with Alcatraz. Their technology combines new edge-based touchless authentication security with AI for access. We discuss the pros and cons of AI, the technology, tech for good, and a pathway to the industry for a young woman.
David Maimon - GSU CISO Cybersecurity Program
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - October 08, 2020 19:58 - 42 minutes10.8.20 We get to talk #cybersecurity with @David Maimon from GSU talking about their evidence-based cybersecurity program which provides students with #scholarships and matches them with #CISOs so they are well prepared to hit the ground running in a cyber career.
Bill Thomson and Becky Cole DC Blox
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - September 03, 2020 14:15 - 43 minutes9.3.20 We have the pleasure of speaking with Bill Thomson and Becky Cole with DC Blox which is a colo provider in the southeast. They discuss building in nontraditional data center cities, marketing, community outreach, and their career paths into the data center industry. This is a bit diff...
Amy Al-Katib Editor in Chief at Mission Critical Magazine
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - August 14, 2020 19:30 - 55 minutes8.14.20 in today's episode, we speak with Amy Al-Katib Editor in Chief at Mission Critical Magazine. Amy came from outside the industry and grew her career into an Editor post. Her journey from Blockbuster to Editor is inspiring. #womenintech #womenindatacenters #tradesintech #tradesindatacen...
Nabeel Mahmood Futurist, Consultant
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - July 09, 2020 16:29 - 46 minutes7.9.20 Today we speak with Nabeel Mahmood Futurist, and C-Suite consultant on buzzwords, cryptocurrency, AI, Smart Cities, Robots, Machine Learning, the path forward after covid, new ways of learning and the importance of triaging your technology. He provides his insights into the quality of li...
Natalie Sharma Design and Branding
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - June 18, 2020 19:45 - 51 minutesNatalie Sharma is the Founder & Creative Director of Pixetal Studio, a niche design studio that specializes in creating websites, brand identities, and user interfaces as scalable visual systems for industry innovators. She is a Jackson, Mississippi native and an honors graduate of Mississippi U...
Valerie Crafton Construction Management
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - June 05, 2020 14:53 - 51 minutes6.5.20 Valerie Crafton with @Turner and Townsend discusses construction management, women in the industry, taking chances, and her role as dean at @AATCU. Her career choice was made early on, and continues to enjoy her career in construction. She discusses various jobs in the construction indu...
Kevin Kent- Sustainability in Data Centers
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - May 07, 2020 20:19 - 56 minutes5.7.20 Episode features Kevin Kent with CFPUE and OSU Wexner Medical Center. Kevin is a Climate Reality Leader and discusses energy efficiencies in data centers both as a necessity and as a career. He is an international speaker on data center energy efficiency creating awareness and providing ...
Dr. Julie Albright Author of "Left to Their Own Devices"
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - April 23, 2020 19:18 - 44 minutes4.23.20 We speak with Dr. Julie Albright Digital Sociologist and author of Left to Their Own Devices, How Digital Natives are Reshaping the American Dream. She has a dual Doctorate in Sociology and Marriage and Family Therapy from USC where she teaches master’s level courses on the Psychology o...
CherylODonoghue Author, Scholarship Founder, Emotional Intelligence Leader
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - April 17, 2020 16:38 - 36 minutes4.17.2020 Episode we interview Cheryl O'Donoghue Author and Emotional Intelligence Leadership Champion and Founder & CEO, Emotional Intelligence Leadership Resources and founder of the outreach organization Mission Sisters who work which offers scholarships for training and school. Cheryl is th...
Amanda Trumble ABB and WIMCO
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - April 02, 2020 20:00 - 34 minutesApril 2, we interview Amanda Trumble with ABB who discusses her work at ABB in the power division, starting a WIMCO chapter for the great lakes region and the value of mentorship and women supporting women. We discuss work-life balance and the need for personal health days, and some great new b...
An Interview With Lee Kirby Salute Mission Critical - Careers for Women, Vets and Trades in Data Centers - Carrie Goetz
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - March 26, 2020 14:50 - 23 minutesThank you for your service, first! For the kick-off of our veterans' talent initiative, we start with the great work being done by Salute Mission Critical. In their words, "Clients worldwide turn to Salute Mission Critical they need precise execution in their data center environments. Whether ...
Juli Ierulli, Marketing Mgr, Caterpillar power, VP 7x24Exchange and Founder of WIMCO
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - March 12, 2020 17:44 - 34 minutesMarch 12 we talk to Juli Ierulli, Ecommerce Marketing Manager for @Caterpillar, Chair of the 7x24 Exchange International WiMCO and now VP of @7x24Exchange.org. Juli discusses her journey, International Data Center Day and outreach in general. Many of the jobs didn't exist when we began in thi...
Interview with Dr. Stevance Astrophysicist STEM at work
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - March 03, 2020 17:40 - 33 minutesTaking a science spin, this week we interview Dr. Heloise Stevance @Sydonahi on her journey as an astrophysicist, the science, super and killer nova and other fun space topics. She shares her tips for learning, not being afraid to fail, and how failure is learning! Also discussed a strong fema...
Karla Gil, JavaScript programmer
Operation Code interviews with vets in tech - February 26, 2020 17:32 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsShe was always attracted to coding and pursued her interest while still in the service. Upon getting out, she went to the General Assembly coding school. She spent a year helping someone with their website and then landed a job at a startup in Des Moines, Iowa, which has a worker-safety system, ...
Kelly Flowers, Women Leading Technology Sorority, Girl Scout Scholarships to STEM camp
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - February 21, 2020 17:30 - 37 minutesKelly Flowers with Service Express and founder of the Women Leading Technology Sorority discusses aftermarket service as a career option, but most importantly why she founded the WLT sorority, the outreach programs there and her work with the Girl Scouts. WLT is a sponsor for the STEM camps in ...
Nancy Novak - Women in Construction and Women Outreach Final Mix
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - February 11, 2020 16:12 - 50 minutesCarrie Goetz interviews Nancy Novak, SVP of Construction at Compass Data Centers that provides custom, move-in-ready data centers from edge deployments to core facilities serving hyperscale, cloud and enterprise customers. Nancy frequently speaks on diversity and inclusion in construction and te...
Dameion Brown, Veteran and Security Professional
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - February 04, 2020 19:15 - 48 minutesToday we interview Dameion Brown. He is a security professional and the chapter president of ASIS in Jackson, MS. and a member of Infragard. He works for a multinational oil and gas company, champions veterans in the industry and is working with me to bring the message of job possibilities to c...
Vincent Abruzzo, Marine
Operation Code interviews with vets in tech - February 04, 2020 17:39 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsVincent started programming in the mid-90s when he stumbled across AOL punters and similar tools. At the age of 18, he joined the Marine Corps. His specialty for the Corps was "data network specialist." Vincent spent time in Bahrain and Djibouti, Africa, where he won a Navy and Marine Corps achi...
Wendy Stewart, VP Databank - Women, Dallas DC Women's Group, Diversity and Management
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - January 23, 2020 17:55 - 33 minutesIn this episode, we interview Wendy Stewart, VP with Databank data centers on being a woman VP, the Dallas Data Center women's group she started, WIMCO and diversity. She discusses managing diverse and remote employees and how she motivates her team to be 1% better every day. As a distinguishe...
Interview with Jeff Clark - Careers for Women, Trades, and Vets in Data Centers and Tech - Carrie Goetz
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - January 16, 2020 17:38 - 29 minutesToday's interview with Jeff Clark, a Principal at Michaud, Cooley, Erickson Engineers. Jeff talks about his path starting as a draftsman, to becoming a Principal at the firm. We discuss the importance of CAD and how 3D is changing the industry. Trades and 2 year degrees are a valuable part of...
Ali Taylor-Cipolla
Operation Code interviews with vets in tech - January 13, 2020 23:47 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAli Taylor-Cipolla is married to an Air Force vet of 14 years. Among her jobs prior to studying at the Microsoft Military Spouse Training Academy, Ali was the head chef at a fraternity at Mississippi State University, and a cook at a Popeye's on a military base in Germany. She and her future hus...
Interview with Greg Crumpton of Service Logic on Trades - HVAC, Power, Mechanical
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - January 09, 2020 17:07 - 28 minutesTrades are needed! In this informative episode with industry veteran Greg Crumpton of Service Logic, he discusses his career and work as a tradesman in the data center, HVAC, Electrical, mechanical realms and creating apprenticeships to reach the younger generations. Greg also discusses the hu...
Michael Evans - Insights into Customer Relationship Management from a Veteran with Salute
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - January 02, 2020 20:36 - 30 minutesToday's episode includes a frank discussion with former Marine, Michael Evans, VP at Salute Mission Critical discussing sales, customer relationship management and why he loves the industry. Michael didn't start in the industry, but once he got here, he found a home. He has had various position...
Interview with Shelley Armato, CEO of MySmartPlans
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - December 17, 2019 15:26 - 21 minutesToday's episode provides insight from Shelley Armato, CEO of MySmartPlans, a construction documentation management platform. Shelley discusses her journey into the industry (spoiler alert, not what you would think!) and how the company was founded out of necessity to solve the problems surround...
Millennials and Careers in Data Centers Final Mix
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - December 09, 2019 22:34 - 41 minutesToday we have a great interview with Bill Kleyman from Switch and Kacey Armstrong with Vertiv who collectively lead the Millenials and GenZ group within IMasons. Kacey comes from construction to the modular world, and Bill operates within the data centers. Both have a unique perspective on the...
Millennials and Careers in Data Centers - Bill Kleyman and Kacey Armstrong
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - December 09, 2019 22:34 - 41 minutesToday we have a great interview with Bill Kleyman from Switch and Kacey Armstrong with Vertiv who collectively lead the Millenials and GenZ group within IMasons. Kacey comes from construction to the modular world, and Bill operates within the data centers. Both have a unique perspective on the...
Seth Lewis, 9 years Air Force
Operation Code interviews with vets in tech - December 05, 2019 17:22 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsSeth spent 9 years in the Air Force, flying on transport planes to every continent but Australia. He spent his downtime on the flights studying technology, and after separating, went to Lambda School and then Hack Reactor. He's now applying his skills, especially Docker and Kubernetes, at one of...
Melissa Chambal, Cnet-Training and the Power of Certifications to Jumpstart Your Career
Careers for Women, Trades and Veterans in Tech and Data Centers - December 03, 2019 15:14 - 32 minutesIn this episode, we interview Melissa Chambal with Cnet-Training discussing Cnet's Master's degree program and the power of their various certifications as a path into the industry. Melissa explains the importance of certifications for individuals with and without degrees. Learn her path into ...
Silas Avilez
Operation Code interviews with vets in tech - November 20, 2019 23:23 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsSilas enlisted in the Army at age 17, served in logistics, and was deployed to Afghanistan. While he was in, he studied accounting, finance, and investing on his own, and when he separated, he was ready. He enrolled in the Veteran Capital program and built his sales and networking skills, and no...
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