Businesspanel
Kathyleen Beveridge:
Tech career
About Me
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Immigrated to the USA in 1980
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Attended USC and UCSC with her major as MBA and Finance
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Deeply believes in her mission statement: Not only to survive but to thrive with passion, compassion, humor, and style.
Journey into high tech and influence
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Started in Wells Fargo, which marks beginning of her high tech journey for one year
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Switched into HP and worked for 8 years with 5 different positions
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Cost accountant
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Financial assistant
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Program manager
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Purchasing manager
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Manager business planning
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Switched to Qualcomm and worked for 14 years
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Switched to Thermo Fisher Scientific as a Senior Director of marketing sales for 3 years and still going
Goals of the companies
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HP Inc.: create technology that makes life better for everyone, every where
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Qualcomm.: inventing the tech the world loves
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Thermo fisher scientific: enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, safer
Similarities between her main 3 companies:
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Doing something that the world wants, and benefits the ecosystem
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Helping people with their retirement plan
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She felt that the impact she was doing with these jobs and companies was benefiting the world in a better way
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Her jobs were generational and life changing because of the impact
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All the companies had a system like Mr. Mort has in our class with the scrum teams
Kris Porter:
Engineering career
Research
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Center for embedded networked centers
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Networked info mechanical systems (NIMS)
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Introduced to the linux os, software development
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Finished grad school (2008)
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Systems engineer start up, helping fix tech based accessories (2010)
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Worked at NBC universal, streaming media infrastructure (2012)
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Begins to intro to DevOps, transitioned to Qualcomm (2014)
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DevOps is a key role in tech-based companies to make sure everything wanted goes on your page successfully and is secure
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Working at twitter (2021)
Continuous Learning - highlights
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CCNA training
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Machine learning and deep learning (qualcomm)
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Python (learned by himself through udemy)
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Data structures, algorithms, and more
Some projects worked on
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Streaming media infrastructure for the 2012 olympic games
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Analytics infrastructure projects (locationsmart and qualcomm)
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Twitter projects
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New data center deployment
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Migrating hometimeline to graphQL
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Class Discussion
Agile methodology (tech perspective):
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Different companies have their own versions of Agile
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Different companies use it based on their needs for their goals
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For example, Qualcomm, had groups of 150 engineers
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Used roadmaps and flowcharts to coordinate with other engineers
Greatest skill an engineer or someone hoping for a career in tech:
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Perseverance and the drive/passion to learn
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Adapt and learn from your mistakes
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Minimize your distractions and maintain a good balance
Ways that learning code would help in other sectors?
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Coding can teach skills and methods you can use to tackle other problems