IT Career Energizer

Phil’s guest on today’s IT Career Energizer podcast is Neil Killick. He is a Len/Agile software product development practitioner, who also coaches. Over the years, he had used Lean, Agile and Scrum working methods in most of his roles. Currently, he is working as a consultant with a focus on digital business and UX analysis. He works to foster great team practices and deliver software flawlessly. Neil is also an experienced keynote speaker. He has delivered talks at Agile events, across the world.

Andy Budd is a renowned Design Leader and agency CEO. He started his IT career working as a designer. During his early career, Andy became a pioneer in the field of Web Standards. At that point, he published his first book – CSS Mastery. Over 14 years ago, he co-founded Clearleft, one of the UK’s first dedicated User Experience consultancies.

My guest on today’s show set up a software company while studying for a Ph.D. in Plant Science. He has since worked for a number of companies at Group IT Manager and CTO level as well as immersing himself in the world of Social Software acting as a Social Media consultant. More recently he completed an almost eight-year stint leading Green Monk, the clean tech, energy and sustainability practice of industry analyst firm Red Monk, before joining SAP as Global Internet of Things Evangelist.

My guest on today’s show is a full-time Python trainer. In a given year, he teaches courses at companies in the United States, Europe, Israel, and China as well as to people around the world through his online courses. He is a regular panelist on the Freelancers Show podcast, CTO of Rent Like a Champion and a published author, his most recent book being “Python Workout”. He is also credited with having created one of the world’s first 100 websites just after graduating from MIT.

My guest on today’s show is a full-stack developer, having recently joined Test Double which is an agency of highly skilled developers on a mission to improve how the world writes software. Prior to Test Double, he spent a decade working for 1Password where he focused his efforts on browser extensions and web page filling features.

My guest on today’s show has spent most of her career in the software testing world, which led to her founding the Software Testing Club. This evolved to become the Ministry of Testing which is a community of software testers that want to change, share and improve their craft. She says that she is a big believer in doing things ethically and that she’s fascinated by the world of community, marketing, tech, and software testing.

My guest on today’s show is Nicholas Walsh. Nicholas is a Technical Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, working to empower developers everywhere and to create engaging educational content. Nicholas has worked to build developer tools across multiple organizations that power artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities in applications. Many moons ago he worked as a research assistant in the biotech space.

My guest on today’s show is a front end developer who has been writing code since he was 8 years old. He enjoys people, code and talking to people about code. He now travels around the world encouraging, educating and empowering developers in the web development community.

My guest on today’s show is an internationally recognized author, speaker, blogger and sometimes teacher and consultant. He has been working with the web since late 1993 and is recognized as an expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS and web standards. He is currently a technical lead at non-profit organization Rebecca’s Gift and is also co-founder of An Event Apart, a web design conference for UX and front-end experts.

My guest on today’s show is currently a VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research. He is a recognized industry expert on a variety of topics including digital transformation, social collaboration and online business models.  And in 2015 he was identified as one of the top 20 people most mentioned by IT leaders.

My guest on today’s show is a Principal Program Manager for Mobile Developer Tools at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005 working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software and web services. Before becoming a Principal Program Manager he was a professional mobile developer and has been crafting apps since 2011.

My guest on today’s show is a functional programming advocate. He has worked in the IT industry for more than 15 years in a variety of roles including software support, development lead, project management and systems analysis. He is the co-founder of the Knoxville Functional Programmers group and is currently a senior consultant for Result Stack.

My guest on today’s show has been creating software for several decades. He has trained developers around the world, led eXtreme programming projects for the US government and eBay, and introduced Lean and Agile concepts at Google, Guidewire Software and Apple. In 2017 he refocused on technical training and coaching, both in person and online.

My guest on today’s show has worked in IT for over twenty years after failing to become a writer and divides his career into three parts. The first third was spent building applications for the fast-paced online gambling industry. The second third was spent maturing that business, in the area of third line support and operations. And the remainder of his time was spent working on container technology within the highly regulated financial sector.

Fran Buontempo is the editor of the ACCU’s (Association of C and C++ Users) Overload magazine. Fran has been programming in C++ for over a decade and also knows C# and Python. Fran has also written a book about how to program your way out of a paper bag.