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IT Career Energizer

Summary: IT Career Energizer is a tech career development podcast where Phil Burgess chats with successful IT Professionals, Consultants and Experts every Monday about how to start, develop and grow a career in tech. Jeff Atwood (Stack Overflow), Troy Hunt (Have I Been Pwned), Laurence Bradford (Learn To Code With Me), April Wensel (Compassionate Coding), Dan North (Behaviour-Driven Development) and David J Anderson (Lean Kanban) are just some of the 200+ featured guests to date. IT Career Energizer was created for YOU, the programmer, tester, business analyst, dba, project manager and anyone who wants to or is already working in tech. Each episode details the journey of a successful IT professional who shares their WORST IT career moment and lessons learnt, their greatest SUCCESS and what EXCITES them about the future of careers in the IT field, and much more. Each episode ends with THE REVEAL where Phil uncovers more advice, tips and insights for you, the listener.

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Podcasts:

 Take a Proactive Approach to Your Career with Stephen Kuenzli | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 25:04

Phil’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.

 Why Effective Onboarding and Having Exciting Work to do Matter so Much with James Turnbull | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 19:07

Phil’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”.

 Keep Your Work Life in Perspective and Pair Curiosity with Generosity with Josh Clark | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:23

Phil’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.

 Raise Issues Constructively and Be Prepared to Tackle Tough Problems with Michel Weststrate | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 18:23

Phil’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.

 Persevere, Network and Continue to Explore New Tech with Erik St. Martin | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 19:10

Phil’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.

 Choose Something You Are Passionate About to Drive Your Career Forwards Faster with Denny Cherry | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 25:10

Phil’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.

 Be a Giver Not a Taker and Build Your Communication Skills with Nils Hofmeister | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 20:06

Phil’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.

 Learn Fast Adapt and Get a Blog to Share What You Know with Jamie Maguire | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:52

Phil’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.

 Choose Work That Interests You and Attend User Groups to Kick-start Your Career with Damian Brady | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:12

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.

 Create Your Own Website Write about What You Discover and Be Dependable with Jeremy Keith | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:36

Phil’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.

 Focus on Career Security Not Job Security with Laura Klein | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 22:44

Phil’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. In this episode, Phil and Laura talk about the differences between job security and career security. And they discuss the importance of research and preparation as well as the growing emphasis on ethics within the industry

 Stop Fearing Failure and Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable with Aimee Knight | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:02

Phil’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.

 Take Every Opportunity To Learn Something New with Michael Hunger | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:13

Phil’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. In this episode, Phil and Michael discuss behavioural career tips, why patience, understanding and compassionate are so important and why you shouldn’t be afraid to be a contributor.

 Allow Your Curiosity To Be Insatiable with Dave Malouf | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:31

Phil’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. In this episode, Phil and Dave discuss the likelihood of having multiple careers, why you can unintentionally become a zealot and why having an insatiable curiosity can drive your career forward.

 Network Face-to-Face Learn Teach and Mentor with Jen Looper | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:07

Phil’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.

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