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This episode's Community Champion Sponsor is Ossur. To learn more about their ‘Responsible for Tomorrow' Sustainability Campaign, and how you can get involved: CLICK HERE---Episode Overview: How can we transform the billions of dollars in wasted building energy into actionable cost savings for healthcare? Our next guest, Chris Hallendy, is tackling this challenge as CEO of Resolute Building Intelligence. With deep roots in IT analytics and data science, Chris helped pioneer a revolutionary approach to building intelligence. Previously serving as Resolute's lead architect and chief product officer, he developed a patented solution that can analyze building data in just one day- a process that typically takes months. Driven by a mission to optimize healthcare facilities that operate 24/7 and directly impact patient care, Chris shares Resolute's innovative vision for turning complex building data into real-time, actionable insights. Join us to discover how Resolute's analytics-powered platform is transforming healthcare operations and beyond. Let's go!Episode Highlights:Transformed IT analytics expertise from Compuware into an innovative building intelligence solution that helps healthcare facilities reduce their share of $100 billion in annual wasted energyDeveloped a patented one-day system integration technology, revolutionizing the traditional months-long process of connecting and configuring building analyticsRepositioned facility operations as a critical component of patient care by showing how building conditions directly impact recovery and satisfaction scoresProved the financial impact of optimization by demonstrating how every operational dollar saved can generate 20-30x revenue impact for healthcare organizationsChampioned the importance of early data collection, emphasizing that future AI capabilities depend on establishing a strong foundation of historical building dataAbout our Guest: Chris is the CEO of Resolute Building Intelligence, a leading Building Analytics solution provider that helps customers improve building performance by transforming the massive amounts of incoherent data generated daily by building systems and equipment into real-time, actionable answers needed to effectively resolve the everyday, real-world problems that cause building systems and equipment to underperform, operations to be inefficient, and critical resources to be wasted.Prior to assuming the CEO role, Chris was Resolute's lead architect and chief product officer and was the driving force behind the Company's automated and patented building-integration technology, resulting in the world's only Building Analytics solution that can be connected, configured, and used in a single day, accelerating time to value while reducing total cost of ownership.Links Supporting This Episode: Resolute Business Intelligence website: CLICK HEREChris Hallendy LinkedIn page: CLICK HEREResolute Business Intelligence LinkedIn page: CLICK HERE Mike Biselli LinkedIn page: CLICK HEREMike Biselli Twitter page: CLICK...

Season 2, Episode 9(Episode 19): Playoff Memories @ Compuware/USA Arena - Andrew & Griff reflect on memories from some of their favorite Michigan high school hockey playoff games -------------------- All episodes can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, & YouTube. -------------------- Intro/Outro Audio: Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/prigida/stellar-escape License code: QVYQ4N3RMKXMKH8X

Travelling is fun, but stressful. Is the destination going to look like the pictures on the website? Voila, Trip Advisor. Dave Young: Welcome to the Empire Builders Podcast, teaching business owners the not so secret techniques that took famous businesses from mom and pop to major brands. Stephen Semple is a marketing consultant, story collector, and storyteller. I'm Stephen's sidekick and business partner, Dave Young. Before we get into today's episode, a word from our sponsor, which is, well, it's us. But we're highlighting ads we've written and produced for our clients, so here's one of those. [Wyatt Works Plumbing Ad] Dave Young: Hey, welcome to the Empire Builders Podcast, that's where we're at, right? I'm Dave Young. Stephen Semple: That's where we're at for right now. Dave Young: Yeah, I don't know. And as we're recording this, it's early in the morning. Stephen has gone to the great trouble of researching empires, and people that built them, and how they did it. And just before he hits record, he whispers in my ear the topic of the day, and all I have to do is show up and do this kind of stuff. Hi, Stephen. Stephen Semple: Hey. You're really doing so well this morning. Dave Young: Look, it's early, I'm still waiting for the meds to kick in. I'm stalling because I'm trying to think of things that I know about the empire that you told me about. We're going to talk about TripAdvisor. Stephen Semple: Yes, sir. Big player in their space, man. Dave Young: They are. And my recollection is they're sort of travel agency-ish, but they're also just big search and ad, and you just find them when you're going to a place and you want to know stuff about things before you hit the ground. Stephen Semple: And that's literally the inspirational idea for TripAdvisor. So TripAdvisor was founded by Steve Kaufer in February of 2000, and today they get like 400 million visitors a month to the site. Dave Young: That's not nothing. Stephen Semple: That's not nothing, it's pretty significant. But here's the interesting thing, the thing that really drives them, user review was actually an afterthought when they started their business. It's not where it started. So, Steve has got a major in computer science, in 1985 he graduates, and he decides to start this software company, and he stayed there with a bunch of friends, and he stayed there for 10 years, and he worked at night. And in fact, what it was, he started off doing this productivity tool, which found errors in C code, and he grew it to 160 people, and doing 18 million in sales, and then the market changed and it contracted. And by the time he sold it to Compuware in '98, they were down to a dozen people. But it was a learning lesson for him, because what he discovered when he reflected back on it is he had on these blinders, and the blinders was, as the business was contracting, he kept thinking, "All I need to do is invest a new product, all I need to do is make this thing better and it'll work." What he was not connecting with was what did the customer actually want? Dave Young: How is the market changing too, right? Stephen Semple: Correct. Dave Young: Man, if you think that you're the rock and you ignore the fact that the market is changing around you, you think you're doing something wrong, you just haven't opened your eyes. Stephen Semple: Yes. And he believed that business failed because he had this complete product first focus. Product, product, product, not looking at the market, not looking at the customer, and that shaped what happens next. So he basically walked out with nothing from that venture, and he goes on vacation in 1998 and he goes down to Mexico. He and his wife are going down there and he's planning the trip. So like, "Well, where should we go?" "Well, how about Mexico? How about [inaudible 00:04:43] of Cancun? They go into a travel agency.

A star-struck roller hockey player from Florida went to a practice in Michigan and caught the eye of the coach of one of the top AAA teams in the US, even to this day.Noah moved to Michigan at the age of 14 and began his hockey career with Compuware, which led him to a spot on the USNTP. Winning Gold with Team USA at the Gretzky/Hlinka Cup, and having his stick in the Hockey Hall Of Fame, are just two of his major accomplishments.Babin battled through depression and earned a contract with the Carolina Hurricanes, only to have his career cut short by an injury.Now as a coach, he uses what he learned to help hockey players with the same aspirations he once had.

Lea A. Ellermeier is the President of SheepMedical USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of SheepMedical Ltd, the #1 Japanese orthodontic aligner manufacturer. She is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded and served as CEO of three dental technology companies 2C MedTech, REPLICATE Dental Technologies and Lingualcare, Inc. Lingualcare was purchased by 3M Company in November, 2007.  Post-acquisition, she was president of 3M's Lingualcare subsidiary and a member of the management operating committee of 3M Unitek. Lea has spent her career building disruptive technologies with executive roles at OraMetrix, acquired by Dentsply (NYSE:XRAY) AutoTester, partially acquired by Compuware, now BMC Compuware and marketing and international sales roles at  XTRA On-Line, Micrografx and GeoWorks.  Lea earned a B.A. in Political Science (Cum Laude) from the University of Texas El Paso and an M.B.A. from Thunderbird, School of Global Management in Glendale, AZ. Lea is a mentor at Tech Wildcatters and Health Wildcatters and has served on the board of TeXchange. She frequently speaks at start-up technology and healthcare forums and is a guest lecturer at SMU's Cox School of Business, University of Texas Dallas and Dallas public schools. Lea is also a painter and a writer. Her first book, Finding the Exit; It's Not Where You Start, It's Where You Finish, was published in 2018. Lea's art can be viewed on Instagram @leaellermeier.

What's it all about? The right people with the right ideas and the right money change the world. Impact investing is talked about a lot these days, but my guest this week has been making real impact through cleantech investments for many years. We talk about what makes an investable start-up or founding team, what areas of technology and disruptive business models are receiving investment, and same example companies from seed to exit. I hope you enjoy the episode. About Anton Arts:  Anton Arts is a Managing Partner at SET Ventures since 2018. He is a board member of Green Eagle Solutions, ESFORIN, instagrid and GreenFlux (acquired by DKV). From 2010 until 2018, he was an independent advisor providing strategic advisory and corporate finance services to deeptech companies. Before that, Anton was a Partner at US firm New Venture Partners where he worked closely with the R&D organizations of major European technology companies such as Philips to incubate and invest in spin-out transactions. Prior to NVP, Anton was a Partner at Gilde IT Fund, a leading international venture capital fund based in the Netherlands that he joined in 1997. His track record includes 20+ investments and exit transactions valued at >€1B. He started his career at Uniface, a successful Dutch software company acquired by Compuware in 1994. Anton holds a degree in Business Administration from Nyenrode University. About SET Ventures Since 2007, Amsterdam-based SET Ventures has invested in digital technology for a carbon-free energy system by backing pioneering founders with capital, community, and insights. SET Ventures invests in companies with sustainable solutions and a strong digital DNA leading the systemic change of how energy is generated, distributed, stored, and consumed in sectors such as distributed infrastructure, energy retail, buildings, mobility, and industry as well as enabling technologies. Social links:  Anton Arts on LinkedIn: (99+) Anton Arts | LinkedIn SET Ventures website: HOME - SET Ventures SET Ventures on Twitter: SET Ventures (@SET_Ventures) / Twitter SET Ventures on Linked In: (99+) SET Ventures: Overview | LinkedIn About Hyperion Cleantech Group: Hyperion Cleantech Group is the holding company for businesses focused exclusively in cleantech talent acquisition, retention, leadership development. working with some of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world, helping to find extraordinary talent to enable their growth and success. Partnering with leading cleantech VCs, as well as directly with founders and entrepreneurs in the sector. With our clients we are transforming business and growing a strong and prosperous cleantech economy. We work across EMEA and NORAM, with teams based in the UK, Germany and the US. Hyperion Executive Search is a retained search firm operating at Board, NED, C-Suite, VP and Heads of… level www.hyperionsearch.com Fully Charged Recruitment is a contingent recruitment firm operating in the Mid/Senior level. www.fullychargedrecruitment.com EPISODE LINKS instagrid - Portable Power for Professionals ESFORIN: Marktführer für Flexibilitätsvermarktung von Strom Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribe I'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated. Twitter https://twitter.com/Cleantechleader Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DavidHuntCleantechGuide Instagram https://www.instagram.com/davidhuntcleantech/

This week, we got to chat with Steve Marney and  Jake Waggoner from DMI. DMI is a mix of Compuware and many other acquisitions and Steve's team is focused on Auto Industry disruption. We had a great chat surrounding the recent boom in EV cars, what a software-defined vehicle is, and how security impacts the entire experience. We finished the chat talking about the talent gap, competing for IT talent, and how they home-grow and grow their technical teams. Overall this was a phenomenal listen, as Steve is an encyclopedia in this space. Hope you enjoy it!

We catch up with Mike Hartman who played in the NHL for 13 years and won a Stanley Cup with the New York Rangers in 1994. He talks about his time playing hockey in Michigan as a youngster and going to Red Wings games with his dad. Was fun and good times with his friends. As Mike was moving along he played with Jimmy Carson who starred in the NHL as well played for the Compuware hockey teams in Michigan. He decided at 16 to put all his eggs in his basket and go to the OHL. He felt it would be the quickest way to the NHL. Was very tough being an American and going to play in Canada. Mike had been recruited by Michigan State but decided to chase his dream. Jimmy Dellavano of the Red Wings called him one day and helped him in his development as a player. Told him all the things he needed to do to improve his game and make him a better player. Don Luce of the Buffalo Sabres drafted him and he made the team out of training camp. Scotty Bowman was the coach at the time and had a way of doing things when coaching. It is a great listen to how Mike climbed his way to the NHL.

Lea A. Ellermeier is the President of SheepMedical USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of SheepMedical Ltd, the #1 Japanese orthodontic aligner manufacturer. She is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded and served as CEO of three dental technology companies 2C MedTech, REPLICATE Dental Technologies and Lingualcare, Inc. Lingualcare was purchased by 3M Company in November, 2007.  Post-acquisition, she was president of 3M's Lingualcare subsidiary and a member of the management operating committee of 3M Unitek. Lea has spent her career building disruptive technologies with executive roles at OraMetrix, acquired by Dentsply (NYSE:XRAY) AutoTester, partially acquired by Compuware, now BMC Compuware and marketing and international sales roles at  XTRA On-Line, Micrografx and GeoWorks.  Lea earned a B.A. in Political Science (Cum Laude) from the University of Texas El Paso and an M.B.A. from Thunderbird, School of Global Management in Glendale, AZ. Lea is a mentor at Tech Wildcatters and Health Wildcatters and has served on the board of TeXchange. She frequently speaks at start-up technology and healthcare forums and is a guest lecturer at SMU's Cox School of Business, University of Texas Dallas and Dallas public schools. Lea is also a painter and a writer. Her first book, Finding the Exit; It's Not Where You Start, It's Where You Finish, was published in 2018. Lea's art can be viewed on Instagram @leaellermeier.

Episode 85 (Petr Klima) This week, the fellas were joined by another young talent from southeast Michigan, Zion Green. This stud just committed to Northern Michigan University and has a chance to play there as a true freshman this upcoming season! While growing up in Birmingham, he played AAA for Honeybaked, Little Caesars, Compuware, and Oakland Jr. Grizzlies. This past season, he shipped off to Maine where he played for the Nordiques 16U AAA team - essentially the feeder team for the Maine Nordiques of the NAHL. A big thanks to Zion for joining us and sharing his hockey story so far, and there's a bright future ahead! 

What are the leading global food and agtech scenes? In this episode of Table Talk we join experts from the food and agtech investment community to shed some light on how countries are helping to support innovation and disruption and find out what is the secret to success. Joining host Stefan Gates are Christian Guba, Associate, Atlantic Foods Ivan Farneti, Co-Founder, Five Seasons Ventures and Nadav Berger, Founder & Managing Director, Peakbridge VC. Join the conversation to find out what different countries are doing to nurture food and agtech start-ups in this fascinating look at the future of food. About our panel Christian Guba, Associate, Atlantic Foods Christian is an Investor with Atlantic Food Labs, an early-stage VC Fund & Venture Studio based in Berlin. Atlantic Food Labs invests in ambitious and mission-driven startups along the entire food value chain and has backed companies such as Gorillas, Formo, Mushlabs or Infarm. Christian gained a Master in Management from HHL Leipzig and before joining Atlantic Food Labs he worked with btov Partners, BCG Digital Ventures, and Google. Ivan Farneti, Co-Founder, Five Seasons Ventures Ivan has been an active venture capital investor for the last 20 years and he is the co-founding Partner of Five Seasons Ventures, the first European venture fund fully focused on Foodtech. He is passionate about product and technology innovation aimed at solving big challenges in the food industry: from alternative sources of proteins, to functional foods, from new models of food distribution to the reduction of food waste. At Five Seasons he invested in gene editing company Tropic Biosciences, pet nutrition company Butternut Box and three more companies yet to be announced. His experience from previous venture funds in London, includes structuring venture investments, organisational and strategy development, setting up governance for growth and planning for successful exits. He was an early stage investor in Everbridge, Inc. (Nasdaq: EVBG), Tridion BV (acquired by SDL Plc), Gomez, Inc. (acquired by Compuware), Plazes AG (acquired by Nokia), among others. In his spare time he enjoys family life, cooking, fly fishing, and practicing karate and jiu jitsu with his son Adam Nadav Berger, Founder & Managing Director, Peakbridge VC Coming from a Third generation food industrialist family , Nadav has actively built many companies specialising in food applications, marketing and distribution. In 2008, Nadav co-founded the food applications lab FoodLab. The innovative developments at FoodLab lead to founding FoodLab Capital, a premier seed fund. The successful portfolio includes DouxMatok, InnovoPro, NextFerm and SimpleOrder (exited). After that Nadav co-founded and is the managing Partner of PeakBridge, a fund manager managing NEWtrition (Nick's, TasteWise, Prenexus, UKKO..)– a series A+ Global fund for FoodTech and FoodSparks® – the 1st. European seed fund with collaboration with the EIT Food. Nadav holds a B.A in economics and political science from Tel Aviv University and an EMBA from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management.

Are you confused about what it means to have a brand? Are you looking to clarify your personal or business brand? Do you want to better understand branding, strategic marketing and putting your brand into action? Our special guest Davaughnu Banks answers these and other questions about brand, strategic marketing and leadership. Davaughnu Banks is the Founder and Chief Marketing Consultant of Envision Brand Marketing, the business model of which is DREAM.PURPOSE.ACTION.® He brings over 20 years of experience as an accomplished strategic marketing and advertising professional. He also has a passion and collaborative hands-on servant-leadership style that has enabled him to plan and execute award-winning marketing solutions for small, medium-sized, and Fortune 500 companies. Davaughnu's enjoyed working with a lot of great brand partners such as Ford, Hilton Worldwide, White Castle, Bosch, Great Lakes Coffee, The Shops @ Rockvale, General Motors, Compuware, Warrior Sports, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, and many more. Originally born in Toronto, Canada and then raised in Windsor, Canada, Davaughnu now lives in the Metro-Detroit area with his wife Liz and their two teenage sons. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights… Understanding brand and brand strategy What it means to dream relative to your brand The role of purpose in your brand The critical need to turn your brand strategy into action Aligning your execution with your strategy and brand Brand and marketing strategy is about your long-term business strategy (not your short-term sales desires) Connecting brand perception with value The importance of staying in your brand lane Staying within your mission, values, pillars, and evolve with your customer as their needs change Branding and marketing strategy processes apply to any size business (only the scale changes) Where to start with your brand and marketing strategy Importance of educating your team around the brand Understanding the difference between your brand versus your visuals and taglines A brand hot seat and case study Where to start when considering your brand Role of perception in branding and marketing Critical role of stories and storytelling in branding and marketing Targeting your brand and message to people's wants Leadership lessons from the movie Remember the Titans Resources: Davaughnu Banks Envision Brand Marketing Website The Leadership Junkies Podcast Cardivera Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon talks with Mikey Eckstein, Chuck Bennett and Josh Landon about the power of podcasting. Hear all about their new podcast TALK-ish! Chuck Bennett is Michigan’s Style Guru. A trailblazer among national major metropolitan dailies, having won numerous national awards, he is the only African American male working as a society columnist, attending a minimum of 3 or 4 exclusive charity galas a week. He writes the Society column and a popular gossip column for the Detroit News called Society Confidential. As president of Chuck Bennett, Inc., Image Experts, his legendary event planning skills have partnered him with some of Detroit’s best-known names to create unforgettable moments, including MGM Grand Detroit, The Roostertail, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Compuware and Christian Dior. Bennett is a highly sought-after master of ceremonies and is called upon frequently whenever a new restaurant or club opens in the Metro Detroit Area. He is the Fox 2 News Style Ambassador, appearing regularly on-air offering tips on event planning, etiquette, style and fashion. A member of the Board of Directors for Danialle Karmanos Work It Out foundation, he has helped raise millions of dollars for numerous charities, including Detroit Meals on Wheels, Boys and Girls Club, Yatooma Foundation for The Kids, The Rhonda Walker Foundation, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and his pet project, The Horatio Williams Foundation, for which he has spearheaded facilitating hundreds of college scholarships for at-risk youths. For Hour Detroit Magazine, Bennett annually names Detroit’s Best Dressed. Other accomplishments include a 2-year stint as the Style Ambassador of Art Van Furniture, Michigan’s largest furniture retailer, and an appearance on the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern as the on-air guide to Detroit soul food; Chuck also has a two-page, full-color feature in “Who’s Who in Black Detroit”, in the Men to Watch section. He is a former radio afternoon drive time host on 910 AM and hosted his own TV show on WADL. Currently, Bennett is the creator of The Social Metro (TheSocialMetro.com), Metro Detroit’s premiere online social magazine. He hosts a streamcast on Facebook Live and Youtube called “Chuck Bennett’s Happy Hour.” He is a co-host on a podcast called "Talk-ish" on Iheart Radio. He also manages/mentors models/actors. Mikey Eckstein, CEO of Embarco Management Founded by Mikey Eckstein in 2006, Embarco Management is a prominent entertainment company that continues to provide world class entertainment to casinos, venues and festivals around the world. Embarco was created to provide a one stop shop for venue owners, film production and artists looking for Detroit area services, entertainment and strategic collaborations. With 10+ years in business, Embarco has produced over 1000 shows, acted as a conduit in the growth of successful broadcasters careers, negotiated many record deals, created strategic partnerships for professional athletes, designed concierge services for celebrities and their demanding schedules and has Associate Producer credits in Life Goes On, Cut Print and the documentary Cobo Hall. Josh Landon is happy to be back home in the D. Born in the City of Detroit, raised on the City's east side, he graduated from Denby High School, and earned his degree in broadcast journalism from Eastern Michigan University. Go TARS!!! Go EAGLES!!! Josh Landon started working in Lansing, Michigan as a reporter. From there, He worked in Florida, Virginia, Wisconsin, and now back home. He had been gone for eight years before the wonderful opportunity to work FOX 2 came his way. Local TV news has been in Josh since he was a kid. His mother used to make me watch the local news in Detroit growing up. She taught him that it's important to know what's happening around you. At some point during his childhood, the local news became COOL to Josh. Josh recalls a time when he was maybe four or five years old, his cousin Andre and I were at the Detroit International Auto Show. They were two little kids sitting in the car, checking it out, and out of nowhere a news crew walked up to interview them. They made the news later that. That was a cool experience Josh still remembers to this day. From the moment Josh watched anchors and reporters doing their jobs, he was officially hooked, and knew this was the job for him, and he’s happy to be back home. Josh is extremely thrilled to be joining Mikey and Chuck on the AWESOME TALKISH podcast! Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!   Connect with Mikey Eckstein, Chuck Bennett and Josh Landon: Awesome Talkish Podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1248-talkish-70003549/ 

On this week's episode of Conversational Selling, we speak with Fred Diamond, President, Executive Director, and Co-Founder of IES, the Institute for Excellence in Sales. He's also the host of the award-winning Sales Game Changers Podcast. Fred started his prolific career in software sales with Apple, Compaq, and Compuware, and had a side-hustle as an in-demand party DJ. He has interviewed 1000s of sales professionals and leaders, always seeking tips to pass on to IES members to help them get better at the art and science of professional sales. We chat with Fred about all he's learned from hosting a webinar a day, as well as: The three big challenges everyone is facing right now Being empathetic to customers' concerns The three keys to successful sales Differentiating yourself as a professional by staying committed to your development And more

David Gardner Cofounders Capital https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Hats-Master-Roles-Entrepreneur-ebook/dp/B00OKUDHC4 David is a serial entrepreneur, writer, adviser, and early-stage fund manager with over thirty years of experience in creating and building software technology companies. After failing at retirement twice, David became the Triangle's most active angel investor spending his time as a volunteer coach and mentor to startup founders and managing a free accelerator he sponsors with the Town of Cary. To combat the lack of early stage capital in NC, David created and runs Cofounders Capital, a $12M seed fund, the success of which led to a second $31M fund. As an entrepreneur, David was the founder or co-founder of seven companies including PeopleClick (purchased for $100 million) and Report2Web, which sold for $12M in less than eleven months from inception. He has demonstrated a record for consistency across multiple industries with six successful exits in a row… and one he refuses to talk about. David served as the Executive VP and Thought Leader for Compuware, a Fortune 1000 Corporation, after it acquired ProviderLink, a healthcare IT exchange he founded. As a writer, David is author of a popular book on entrepreneurship called The StartUp Hats. He has published many articles and forward-thinking white papers on technical innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development. Among other firsts, David is credited with founding and launching the first software-as-a-service venture in NC. As a lifelong learner, David is constantly researching new technologies and challenging traditional ways of thinking. In addition to several years of full-time computer science and business-related post graduate studies at NCSU, Mr. Gardner holds degrees in Philosophy and Music with a postgraduate concentration in theology and dead languages. What drives David today is his passion for helping smart, coach-able, first-time entrepreneurs build their businesses, watching them succeed and witnessing their life-changing transformations.

Join Jon’s conversation with Mikey Eckstein, Chuck Bennett, and Josh Landon on the power of podcasting. Hear all about their new podcast TALK-ish! Chuck Bennett is Michigan’s Style Guru. A trailblazer among national major metropolitan dailies, having won numerous national awards, he is the only African American male working as a society columnist, attending a minimum of 3 or 4 exclusive charity galas a week. He writes the Society column and a popular gossip column for the Detroit News called Society Confidential. As president of Chuck Bennett, Inc., Image Experts, his legendary event planning skills have partnered him with some of Detroit’s best-known names to create unforgettable moments, including MGM Grand Detroit, The Roostertail, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Compuware, and Christian Dior. Bennett is a highly sought-after master of ceremonies and is called upon frequently whenever a new restaurant or club opens in the Metro Detroit Area. He is the Fox 2 News Style Ambassador, appearing regularly on-air offering tips on event planning, etiquette, style, and fashion. A member of the Board of Directors for Danialle Karmanos Work It Out foundation, he has helped raise millions of dollars for numerous charities, including Detroit Meals on Wheels, Boys and Girls Club, Yatooma Foundation for The Kids, The Rhonda Walker Foundation, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and his pet project, The Horatio Williams Foundation, for which he has spearheaded facilitating hundreds of college scholarships for at-risk youths. For Hour Detroit Magazine, Bennett annually names Detroit’s Best Dressed. Other accomplishments include a 2-year stint as the Style Ambassador of Art Van Furniture, Michigan’s largest furniture retailer, and an appearance on the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern as the on-air guide to Detroit soul food; Chuck also has a two-page, full-color feature in “Who’s Who in Black Detroit”, in the Men to Watch section. He is a former radio afternoon drive time host on 910 AM and hosted his own TV show on WADL. Currently, Bennett is the creator of The Social Metro (TheSocialMetro.com), Metro Detroit’s premier online social magazine. He hosts a StreamCast on Facebook Live and Youtube called “Chuck Bennett’s Happy Hour.” He is a co-host on a podcast called “Talk-ish” on Iheart Radio. He also manages/mentors models/actors.   Mikey Eckstein, CEO of Embarco Management Founded by Mikey Eckstein in 2006, Embarco Management is a prominent entertainment company that continues to provide world-class entertainment to casinos, venues, and festivals around the world. Embarco was created to provide a one-stop-shop for venue owners, film production, and artists looking for Detroit area services, entertainment, and strategic collaborations. With 10+ years in business, Embarco has produced over 1000 shows, acted as a conduit in the growth of successful broadcasters careers, negotiated many record deals, created strategic partnerships for professional athletes, designed concierge services for celebrities and their demanding schedules, and has Associate Producer credits in Life Goes On, Cut Print and the documentary Cobo Hall.   Josh Landon is happy to be back home in the D. Born in the City of Detroit, raised on the City’s east side, he graduated from Denby High School, and earned his degree in broadcast journalism from Eastern Michigan University. Go TARS!!! Go EAGLES!!! Josh Landon started working in Lansing, Michigan as a reporter. From there, He worked in Florida, Virginia, Wisconsin, and now back home. He had been gone for eight years before the wonderful opportunity to work FOX 2 came his way. Local TV news has been in Josh since he was a kid. His mother used to make me watch the local news in Detroit growing up. She taught him that it’s important to know what’s happening around you. At some point during his childhood, the local news became COOL to Josh. Josh recalls a time when he was maybe four or five years old, his cousin Andre and I were at the Detroit International Auto Show. They were two little kids sitting in the car, checking it out, and out of nowhere, a news crew walked up to interview them. They made the news later that. That was a cool experience Josh still remembers to this day. From the moment Josh watched anchors and reporters doing their jobs, he was officially hooked and knew this was the job for him, and he’s happy to be back home. Josh is extremely thrilled to be joining Mikey and Chuck on the AWESOME TALKISH podcast! Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon’s Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!   Listen to the Awesome Talkish Podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1248-talkish-70003549/

App Modernization and the state of mainframe DevOps was the topic of episode 4 of DevOps Unbound. Our panel included Rosalind Radcliffe of IBM, Sam Knutson of Compuware and BMC and Gerta Sheganaku of Tricentis, joining MItchell Ashley and Alan Shimel. It was a lively conversation about real life scenarios that enterprises face everyday. Join us and be sure to follow DevOps Unbound at https://devopsunbound.com

Eliminating as many bottlenecks as possible in the Software Delivery Lifecycle is essential to competing effectively in the Digital Age. Dev teams must continuously deliver new features and services their customers demand, while Ops teams need to predict and solve problems as quickly as possible, ensuring optimal performance, availability and security. Achieving this state of equilibrium is next to impossible in siloed organizations with staid cultures—a breeding ground for friction and mistrust. Join April Hickel, BMC AVP of Product Management and Sam Knutson, VP of Product Management for Compuware, a BMC Company, to understand how modernizing tools, processes and culture, including adopting mainframe-inclusive DevOps, can help organizations continuously deliver high quality apps and services to market more quickly.

In the latest episode of Real Estate for Breakfast, host Phil Coover is joined by living Chicago real estate legend Bob Wislow. Phil and Bob discuss the properties managed and developed by Parkside Realty throughout Chicago, including the ground-up development of Fulton East – a 12 story commercial building including 5,000 square feet of retail, 3 levels of enclosed parking and 8 stories of office space. The top is crowned with an 8,000 square feet outdoor space. Fulton East is the nation’s first office building designed to deliver health-focused operating solutions for the post-COVID-19 business environment, and is receiving national publicity and attention. Each of the 10,605 square foot floor plans enable flexible, custom planning options to accommodate safe social distancing. State-of-the-art wellness features include a hands-free elevator system and air and surface disinfection systems housed within a beautiful glass and steel grid exterior design that fits the historic district where the property is located. Bob Wislow is chairman and CEO of Parkside Realty, Inc. In 1978, Bob Wislow and Camille Julmy founded U.S. Equities Realty which they, together with Nancy Pacher, grew to be Chicago’s largest, privately-owned commercial real estate services firm. U.S. Equities has been responsible for a number of major projects including the development of the Harold Washington Library Center, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Center For Care & Discovery and Comer Children’s Hospital at the University of Chicago, Poetry Foundation and John Stroger Hospital for Cook County; co-development of One Financial Place , Grand Plaza and The Cook County Hospital Headquarters and Clinic Building; and the redevelopments of the John Hancock Center, Willis Tower, 20 North Michigan, and 840 N. Michigan in Chicago; as well as overseeing the development of Compuware’s Headquarters in Detroit, Bank Boston’s Headquarters in both Argentina and Brazil, 618 S. Main in Ann Arbor, and in partnership with Clayco Centene’s Headquarters in St. Louis.In Spring 1999, U.S. Equities was retained by Millennium Park Inc., (the group representing the Park’s private donors) to oversee the design, engineering, fabrication and construction of Frank Gehry's Pritzker Pavilion and BP Bridge, Anish Kapoor’s monumental Cloud Gate sculpture and Jaume Plensa’s Crown Fountain. In addition to development and project management services the firm provided tenant representation, asset and property management, leasing, real estate consulting, and financial and investment services. Its Chicago headquarters, directly across from Millennium Park, housed original works of art, including paintings, prints and sculpture by over 150 artists. Through its annual Artist in Residence program, the company commissioned artists to create original, limited edition books related to the cities where the firm did projects. After nearly four decades of success in Chicago, Wislow and his partners merged their firm into CBRE, the world's largest commercial real estate services firm, in the summer of 2014. At the time, U.S. Equities leased and managed 17 million square feet of Chicago property, including Willis Tower, 2.5 million square feet of office and retail space along Michigan Avenue, Union Station, Metra Market, and six Illinois tollway oases. The successfully merger brought more than 400 U.S. Equities employees under the CBRE flag. In August 2019, after five successful years with CBRE, that includes projects like the World’s largest Starbucks Roastery on Michigan Avenue, Wislow and Julmy formed a new, boutique real estate venture called Parkside Realty Inc. The real estate veterans will maintain their portfolio and develop new projects, such as Fulton East, a 12-story, 90,000-square-foot office and retail building under construction at 215 N. Peoria Street, in the heart of Chicago’s Fulton Market.A native Chicagoan, Wislow is known by friends as a dedicated heli-skier, road biker and fly fisherman, an avid arts supporter and longtime dedicated steward for civic engagement in Chicago. He has, or is serving, on the boards of many organizations and institutions, including the Chicago Public Library Foundation, Rush University Medical Center, Civic Committee, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Civic Consulting Alliance, CHICAGO Symphony Orchestra, Columbia College, North Central College and the Chicago Chamber of Commerce. Wislow has been honored with the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Lifetime Achievement Award, the NAIOP Chicago Award for Excellence, and the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) Legacy Award. For more information on the Fulton East project, visit https://fulton-east.com/.

Investment in European Agtech was expected to double to £2.3bn last year, what is causing such a flurry of activity in the space, and why are investors so drawn to investment in European Agtech? Advice for start-ups Join our panel including Five Seasons Ventures, Rockstart, Yield Lab Europe, and Food For Thought as we investigate the trends that are driving the agri-tech investment boom. What’s the current landscape for agtech and food tech, what are the challenges and common mistakes that start-ups make when seeking investment, and what advice do they have for start-ups looking to break into the space. It’s a fascinating look into the world of investment in agtech, and a great way for young businesses to get insight into what investors want. About our panel Nicky Deasy, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Yield Lab Europe Nicky Deasy oversees the day to day operations. Previously she ran Alta Corporate Finance, primarily advising early stage MedTech companies to raise venture capital, as well as other M&A advice. She was Director of Corporate Finance with EY, and Associate Director with KPMG Corporate Finance. Mark Durno, Managing Partner Agritech, Rockstart Mark is an entrepreneur with a focus on the agrifood industry. He grew up farming 350 ha of mixed production (arable/dairy/beef) in Scotland. As a member of the startup team of UrbanFarmers, a first-mover European vertical farming company, he led the expansion of the company from Switzerland to The Netherlands, and was part of growing the team from 3 to ~30 people. In his role as Managing Partner at Rockstart AgriFood, he is a founding partner of the fund and oversees the fund management between Denmark and The Netherlands. Mark is a qualified Scottish lawyer (LLB (Hons), PG Dip. LP) and holds an Executive MBA (cum laude & Student Award 2016) from Rotterdam School of Management. Ivan Farneti, Five Seasons Ventures Ivan has been an active venture capital investor for the last 20 years and he is the co-founding Partner of Five Seasons Ventures, the first European venture fund fully focused on Foodtech. He is passionate about product and technology innovation aimed at solving big challenges in the food industry: from alternative sources of proteins, to functional foods, from new models of food distribution to the reduction of food waste. At Five Seasons he invested in gene editing company Tropic Biosciences, pet nutrition company Butternut Box and three more companies yet to be announced. His experience from previous venture funds in London, includes structuring venture investments, organisational and strategy development, setting up governance for growth and planning for successful exits. He was an early stage investor in Everbridge, Inc. (Nasdaq: EVBG), Tridion BV (acquired by SDL Plc), Gomez, Inc. (acquired by Compuware), Plazes AG (acquired by Nokia), among others. Christine Gould, Founder & CEO, Food For Thought Christine has dedicated her career to making ag innovation more open and collaborative. She created Thought For Food to inspire young people to get involved in developing the solutions their future depends on. Christine holds an MPA in Science & Technology Policy from Columbia University. She sits on the Board of Young Professionals in Ag Development and is a Founding Member of the Ashoka Changemakers League of Intrapreneurs

Coté probably messed up his math on the Thoma Bravo profit from Compuware. Maybe it's more like $5bn (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/they-found-5-billion-in-the-couch/). But, obviously, he's just farting around with incomplete information. He apologies and will sit in the corner for awhile. For entertainment only! With the virus shutting down conferences and keeping people in the home office, we discuss the value of in-person conferences and how remote ones might could be better. Also, GKE’s kubernetes cluster pricing (and Amazon’s drop to match the price) gives us an anchoring point for pricing running a cluster. Coupled with the recent CNCF survey you could make an interesting stew. Finally, Coté tries to run some numbers to figure out how much Thoma Bravo profited from taking Compuware private. (Also, he always mispronounces it as Thom-oh Bravo.) Hey! If you want to understand VMware’s new strategy and portfolio around application development, tune into the March 10th webinar on the topic (https://www.vmware.com/app-modernization.html): register now (https://www.vmware.com/app-modernization.html)! Mood Board: The Hello Boss episode. You mean I gave my kids a lecture all for nothing? Shit the living room door. Espresso macchiato. Blue bonnet coffee. What am I missing out on? Sitting, trapped in your head. I’m hoping we realize no one needs to be working. Why blockchain is important for corn Containers and the mainframes, Too unqualified to speculate? This post-conference era You can’t do your dishes in the office Those poor developers: having to pay for things! $879/year per cluster helps someone keep their job. It’s always Monte Carlo simulations with you So adult. I’m trying Matt Ray. We IPO’d because we were running out of money, what a time to be alive. This week’s white guys talking about white guys. Relevant to your interests How Marc Benioff’s Vision for Salesforce’s Future Triggered Executive Shuffle (https://cloudwars.co/marc-benioff-executive-shuffle-keith-block-salesforce/) VMware exceeds $10B in sales in FY 2020 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/vmware-exceeds-10b-in-sales-in-fy-2020/) Cisco begins new round of layoffs (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3546902-cisco-begins-new-round-of-layoffs) How much money do SREs make? (https://www.gremlin.com/site-reliability-engineering/how-much-money-do-sres-make/) Coronavirus 2020 tech conference cancellations list (https://www.zdnet.com/article/coronavirus-2020-tech-conference-cancellations-list/) Google and Microsoft just canceled two conferences ahead of their major ones (https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/2/21162185/google-microsoft-io-2020-build-tech-conference-coronavirus) HP Enterprise suspends nearly all events (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3548025-hp-enterprise-suspends-nearly-all-events) Important OpenShift Commons Gathering Amsterdam 2020 Update: Shifts to Digital Conference – Red Hat OpenShift Blog (https://blog.openshift.com/important-openshift-commons-gathering-amsterdam-2020-update-shifts-to-digital-conference/) Google cancels its biggest annual event over coronavirus fears (https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/03/tech/google-i-o-canceled-coronavirus/index.html) BMC to Acquire Compuware (https://newsroom.bmc.com/news-releases/news-release-details/bmc-acquire-compuware) Baron’s has a bunch of numbers: https://www.barrons.com/articles/bmc-backed-by-kkr-is-buying-compuware-in-biggest-deal-yet-51583264075 Probably sold for about $2bn. Selling about $650m of Dynatrace stock. Got several $100m’s in dividends from DT. Still owns 52% of DT ($9.294bn valuation, so $4.83bn asset in equity). Original purchase price: $2.5bn 2 + 0.65 + 0.150 + 9.294 = $12.09bn cash out, plus $4.83bn equity - $16.92bn profit on $2.5bn…?! Undated Forrester chart (https://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/252479530/Mainframe-software-market-shrinks-with-BMC-Compuware-deal) showing increasing mainframe spend. Agile software development is dead. Deal with it (https://siliconangle.com/2020/02/03/agile-software-development-dead-deal/). Coronavirus Updates: Epidemic Slows in China but Spreads Globally (https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEKgN5u7JvjHJHytxo42U6oMqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowjuuKAzCWrzwwt4QY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen) - Check out the Ali app angle Apple to pay up to $500 million to settle lawsuit over slow iPhones (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/02/apple-to-pay-up-to-500-million-to-settle-lawsuit-over-slow-iphones.html) Google makes Hangouts Meet features free in the wake of coronavirus (https://www.engadget.com/2020/03/03/google-makes-hangouts-meet-features-free-in-the-wake-of-coronavirus/) CNCF survey No lead-gen on the PDF (https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CNCF_Survey_Report.pdf)! CLASSY. Demographics: “September and October 2019 and received 1,337 responses.” 30% of respondents from orgs with 5,000+ employees. ??? “The top job functions were software architect (41%), DevOps manager (39%), and back-end developer (24%)” Most respondents from “Software,” “Technology,” and “Financial Services” - all the bleeding edge. Amazon is #1, Google probably #2. CI/CD (loosely applied) is at 40% to 50% - which is close Coté’s ongoing estimates (https://noti.st/cote/2ChRh3/the-blinking-cursor-or-kubernetes-for-developers-architects-other-people-who-arent-supposed-to-use-it#sp2hATg) (and, considering that most of the respondents are from tech and banks, if we’re cynical, probably less for the other industries). The jump in production is really quick, maybe (Page 5, “Use of Containers since 2016”? It took about 4 years for prod use to be broadly done (in Dec 17, prod reached 75% which matches test) Use of containers over time https://paper-attachments.dropbox.com/s_ED3FAAE6EB8DCA991BF78F6CB5BCF05A0BFA699799537BB76BD43F42093FDAC7_1583424884691_image.png Most figures like these (e.g., number of containers in production) would be a lot more interesting/useful if they were broken out by company size. E.g., larger companies probably use more containers in production, tech and banks probably have put containers in production earlier, also telcos - T-Mobile alone has 34,000 containers in production (https://www.altoros.com/blog/t-mobile-handles-1m-transactions-per-day-on-kubernetes/) (probably even more by now). Similarly, how many clusters are in production would be interesting to see by organization size. # of clusters in production https://paper-attachments.dropbox.com/s_ED3FAAE6EB8DCA991BF78F6CB5BCF05A0BFA699799537BB76BD43F42093FDAC7_1583426321342_image.png Challenges https://paper-attachments.dropbox.com/s_ED3FAAE6EB8DCA991BF78F6CB5BCF05A0BFA699799537BB76BD43F42093FDAC7_1583425630448_image.png Challenges are sort of interesting, as always. I don’t like “culture” as a broad category. That usually just means “people don’t do what I think they should do [and instead have their own ideas of what’s best].” However: obviously “security”…”complexity” is another broad category - and, boy, long-time SDT sponsors must love “monitoring” as a money-pot to go after! Side-note: so, “servishmesh” means (https://www.hashicorp.com/products/consul/) a registry to look-up how to connect to other pods/components in your kubes (like, JNDI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Naming_and_Directory_Interface)); getting the actual network connection to that other component; securing the network connection; load balancing (this term is getting way over-blown, I think?); and then doing the layer whatever networking to account for dynamically assigned IP addresses and stuff in kubernetes. Maybe, like microservices stuff like circuit breakers, or is that too far? Not that many people use their own serverless framework (10%), but 34% of those who do use knative. The “why you use kubernetes” chart (pg. 11) didn’t force people to rank enough: pretty much everyone agrees that All The Value-Props are great. Helm wins for packaging. Autoscaling https://paper-attachments.dropbox.com/s_ED3FAAE6EB8DCA991BF78F6CB5BCF05A0BFA699799537BB76BD43F42093FDAC7_1583426553765_image.png I don’t know enough about auto-scaling to say much, but it looks like most people don’t do auto-scaling unless it’s for purely stateless apps, which makes sense. The drop-off after that (queues, batch-jobs, stateless, and DB) seems to indicate that auto-scaling other stuff is difficult, untrusted. “nginx kept its lead this year as the top Kubernetes ingress provider (62%), followed again by HAProxy (22%)” - F5 got a good control-point on the kubernetes market for $670 million (https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/f5-acquires-nginx-for-670m-to-move-into-open-source-multi-cloud-services/), plus the entire rest of the nginx business. “40% of respondents get their info from Twitter” - humanity had a good run! Non Sense Public Enemy Fires Flavor Flav After Bernie Sanders Rally Spat (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/public-enemy-flavor-flav-bernie-sanders-960272/) SETI@home Search for Alien Life Project Shuts Down After 21 Years (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/seti-home-search-for-alien-life-project-shuts-down-after-21-years/) ## Sponsors Arrested DevOps Podcast: Subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting (https://www.arresteddevops.com/)https://www.arresteddevops.com/ (https://www.arresteddevops.com/). Conferences, et. al. KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) in Amsterdam, July/August, use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off. VMware/Tanzu lurnin' workshop (https://kccnceu20.sched.com/event/ZJZE) DevOpsDays Austin 2020 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2020-austin/welcome/) May 4th and 5th. ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) in Seattle June 1-4. Dev (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)O (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ps (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)D (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ays Minneapolis, (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/) August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration. THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Dark Towers (https://www.audible.com/pd/Dark-Towers-Audiobook/0062878840?ref=a_author_Da_c19_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=1ae0e65e-ad09-4aa7-aa73-772cefb1b5e1&pf_rd_r=24SC19H1SFVCKQYH01C5) Press Box Pod (https://www.theringer.com/the-press-box) - Strain pun headline segment Tasty Meats Paul’s Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/paulczar/) Matt: SelfControl.app (https://selfcontrolapp.com/) Humble Bundle Cybersecurity 2020 (https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cybersecurity-2020-wiley-books?partner=8443) Coté: First 30% of the first Jack Reacher book, The Killing Floor (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40105393-killing-floor). Also, see other books Matt Yglesias is reading (https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5255248-matthew-yglesias). Cover art from Marcingietorigie in wikicommons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caff%C3%A8_Espresso_Macchiato_Schiumato.jpg).

Compuware sold to competitor, in coronavirus outbreak, the elderly, sick are most vulnerable, voters can be their own best defense against Russian interference, agony of theMichigan primary voter , and Michigan State basketball enters final week of season with chance at Big Ten crown.

Tyler Duke joins the show to talk about his experience in Switzerland and his year in Detroit for Compuware. 

With a new CEO and president at IBM, we talk about what’s been going on good and bad at IBM in recent years. Big bets were made and that whole cloud things overshadowed things. We also talk about the mysteries of private equity, here what Thoma Bravo has done to make billions of dollars of Dynatrace and Compuware. Finally, we briefly talk about the whole microservices and serverless are silly trend - monoliths rule! (Oh, and some small Java talk.) (Sorry there’s so much high-volume on Coté's end. Hopefully your ear-holes won’t hurt too much. Coté needs to get a new pop-filter.) Mood board: Interpol can’t find me in Australia, right? Digital transformation is bad. Did they decide that the kids are all right? Thought leader me into happiness. You are so much more cynical than me. What does IBM do? Reverse halo effect. Surviving the trough of disillusionment. We’ll stick up for digital transformation - No! For the rest of your life, do better. Minor bread talk. Relevant to your interests IBM IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is stepping down, Arvind Krishna to take over (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/ibm-ceo-ginni-rometty-steps-down-arvind-krishna-to-take-over.html) 1 big thing: Ginni Rometty out at IBM (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-5a7bbb49-ba2e-448b-92b1-997a5006be88.html?chunk=0&utm_term=twsocialshare#story0) IBM’s Lost Decade (https://www.platformonomics.com/2020/02/ibms-lost-decade/) IBM didn’t spent much CAPEX (https://www.platformonomics.com/2018/05/follow-the-capex-separating-the-clowns-from-the-clouds/), three others did. Coté: what’s there to say that’s new? Cloud wasn’t executed well (I guess?) and Watson was a poor choice for such a high priority. Thoma Bravo to Explore $2 Billion Sale of Compuware (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-30/thoma-bravo-is-said-to-explore-2-billion-sale-of-compuware?srnd=deals) So, did Thoma Bravo do well here? “could value the mainframe software provider at around $2 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.” “Thoma Bravo took Compuware private in 2014 in a deal valued at $2.5 billion. It carved out Compuware’s application performance management division, renamed it Dynatrace Inc. and took it public last year.” Dynatrace market cap is ~$9.1bn (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DT?p=DT&.tsrc=fin-srch), was ~$6.7bn on IPO day (https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GrEhTb9AZgUJ:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-31/thoma-bravo-controlled-dynatrace-s-ipo-raises-570-million+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nl) (August 2019). Brenon@451 on the IPO (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/infrastructure-software/dynatraces-dynamic-debut/), August 2019: “Post-offering, the PE firm still owns about 70% of Dynatrace.” And: “Dynatrace raised roughly $570m in its offering, some of which will go toward paying down its nearly $1bn in debt.” 451’s note on the 2014 going private (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/ma/thoma-bravo-gets-better-than-face-value-from-compuware/). So, if Thoma Bravo still owns 70%, then have ~$6.37bn worth of equity (70% of market cap of $9.1bn)…sounds… really good for laying for laying down $2.5bn, plus you might get $2bn more from the rest of Compuware. That’s crazy, right? That Compuware was sitting on that much extra value? This week in cloud architecture patterns tl;dr: ¯_(ツ)_/¯ The State of Serverless (https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-serverless/) This is just about AWS Lambda. (That said, what else is there?) “Among the companies with the largest infrastructure footprints, more than three quarters have adopted Lambda.” Lots of node.js and python use, not much Java and .Net use. Java and python were added in the same year (2015), node.js since the start in 2014. Coté’s summary of their analysis: Lambda used with lots of data processing, primarily with python and node, at mostly large orgs. Not used by Java devs. Modular Monolithic Architecture, Microservices and Architectural Drivers (https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/01/monolith-architectural-drivers/) “Monoliths are the future,” (https://changelog.com/posts/monoliths-are-the-future) Kelsey Hightower. “Now that our industry is finally recovering from the mass delusion that microservices was going to be the future, it's surely time to for the even bigger delusion that serverless is what's going to provide the all-purpose salvation.” @dhh (https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1225117740962181120?s=21) Also: his 2016 suggestion (https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-majestic-monolith/) that monoliths work best for small teams, microservices for huge orgs. Related: Reframing and Retooling for Observability, James Governor (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2020/02/05/reframing-and-retooling-for-observability/) - overview of observability, in serious James mode. JRebel Java survey: Over 60% use Java 8 or older. Java 8 was released in March 2014, no more updates to Java 8 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history). Tomcat dominates app server use at 60%+. Free and works is a hell of a combination (https://memes.yarn.co/yarn-clip/46d6e34c-6a40-4edb-bead-f7132543ff82). Spring and Spring Boot very dominate. “It was very surprising to see how many of our survey respondents are paying for Oracle JDK. I fully expected the open source options to have a much larger market share.” (https://www.platformonomics.com/2020/02/ibms-lost-decade/)- 1 big thing: Software disaster sinks Iowa caucus (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-bf16b6d8-a2f7-4493-99d5-221968175e2a.html?chunk=0&utm_term=twsocialshare#story0) Google Numbers Google parent Alphabet Q4 earnings: Revenue disappoints (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alphabet-google-q4-earnings-191155754.html) Alphabet discloses YouTube ad revenues of $15.15 billion, Cloud revenues of $8.92 billion for 2019 (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/03/alphabet-discloses-youtube-cloud-revenues-for-the-first-time.html) Related: Instagram brought in an estimated (https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-20-billion-ad-revenue-2019-report-2020-2?international=true&r=US&IR=T) $20bn in 2019. That’s a lot of money. Security Google releases open-source 2FA security key platform called OpenSK (https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/30/google-releases-open-source-2fa-security-key-platform/) Apple Engineers Propose Standardized Format for SMS One-Time Passcodes (https://www.macrumors.com/2020/01/31/apple-standardized-format-sms-one-time-passcodes/?utm_source=Benedict%27s+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9fb8b1f9a9-Benedict%27s+Newsletter+321&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-9fb8b1f9a9-70424493&mc_cid=9fb8b1f9a9&mc_eid=288b3f86c8) HPE acquires identity management startup Scytale (https://venturebeat.com/2020/02/03/hpe-acquires-identity-management-startup-scytale/) Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate (https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21120248/microsoft-teams-down-outage-certificate-issue-status) Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances (https://multipass.run/) Nonsense Podcast app Overcast adds automatic intro skipping and overhauled Voice Boost feature (https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/21117380/overcast-podcast-app-new-features-voice-boost-2-intro-skipping) I Have a Costco Credit Card. 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During this episode, You Me and Your Top Three host, Gregg Garrett, speaks with Larry Freed, CEO Give and Take, Inc.. Larry is a multi-time CEO who utilizes the concepts from Adam Grant’s best-selling book Give and Take to scale businesses. He speaks about SaaS businesses and partnering with academic institutions and their PhDs to create unique and valuable business opportunities. Larry dives deep into the knowledge collaboration capability and the art of encouraging people to invest in one another by giving and seeking help; deepening relationship trust. And, of course, Larry shares his top three – ranging from his spouse and three sons, to leadership teams who built trust and support to win together, to ultra-smart experts that define industry segments via the seeds that grow into businesses. Finally, Larry shares the secret to deep relationships – being brave enough to ask for help. About Larry Freed Larry is the CEO of Give and Take Inc., a company that was co-founded by Adam Grant (Wharton), Wayne Baker (Univ. of Michigan) and Cheryl Baker.  Give and Take provides solutions that help organizations improve knowledge collaboration, foster a culture of generosity and improve engagement.  The Reciprocity Ring is a dynamic, face-to-face exercise where groups learn to bring the “pay-it-forward” concept into action and practice.  Givitas is a purpose-built, knowledge collaboration platform that can scale across an organization that makes it easy to ask for and give help every day, while fostering a giving culture and providing equal access to community knowledge and experiences. Larry’s background includes being the co-founder and CEO of ForeSee, the leader in customer experience analytics.  He led the company from inception (2001) to successful exit in 2013, returning over 22 times the capital invested in the business.  After the exit at ForeSee, Larry advised, mentored and consulted with early stage and growth stage technology companies.  He also served on the board of directors of various tech companies. Earlier in his career, Larry also had executive leadership roles at Compuware (Vice President) and Bank One (CTO).  Larry has authored two books, Managing Forward and Innovating Analytics. Show Highlights Segment 1: Overview 1:14        The three types of relationships: Takers, Matchmakers and Givers (Adam Grant Give and Take – Book) 3:19        Larry Freed – CEO. Investor. Mentor. (Give and Take, Inc. ForeSee. 2nd Stage Partners. Wolverine Venture Fund. Compuware.) Segment 2: The “Top Three”   5:39        Larry’s “Top Three”: Former and Current Colleagues – people you rely on to “help you go”. (Cia McCaffrey. Don Morrison. Mitchell Cohen. Dave Jansen.) 7:02        “If tech doesn’t work, the company doesn’t work.”  9:20       The importance of the ‘people person’. 11:30      “Don’t tell me what you think I want to hear because that is a waste of our time. Tell me what I don’t know. Tell me what you think I don’t want to know.” 14:31      Larry’s “Top Three”: Co-founders, Board Members and Investors – Know what you know; know what you don’t. Knowledge, expertise, and brilliance. (Claes Fornell. Wayne Baker. Cheryl Baker. Adam Grant.) 16:44      How to create a Board of Advisors. (Pete Karmanos. Scott Johnson.) 19:43      What drives satisfaction in sales? Accentuating the positive but not embellishing. 23:12      The pattern of tech transfer, etc.: “The key is to always understand what [the professors] role will be.”  28:29     Larry’s “Top Three”: Family – wife, three sons and the extended family –the support to work the enormous amount of hours. 30:58      Engaging children in the world of business.   Segment 3: Industry Disruption & Transformation   34:48      The core focus of Give and Take, Inc – boosting performance and building culture. 40:37      “I would have thought that getting people to give help would have been harder than getting people to ask for help. It’s the complete opposite.” 43:10      The request must be SMART 1) Smart. 2) Meaningful. 3) Actionable. 4) Real .and 5) Time Boxed. 44:54      Not trying to recreate other solutions – complimentary to other solutions. 48:51      Purposeful Networking – “Build a relationships because I’ve asked for something and you’re going to help me with it.” 50:00      Micro-mentoring: “Don’t ask them to be your mentor, ask them for help.” – Adam Grant 53:47      Hint: “Start asking for help...most people want to give if it is easy to give.” 57:22      AI and the knowledge collaboration industry. Segment 4: Leadership & Wrapping Up 1:01:12  “Leadership is setting a vision and leading by example.” 1:01:47  Piece of advice to leaders: Ask for help. 1:02:32  Stay in touch with Larry via LinkedIn or email (larry.freed@giveandtakeinc.com). Visit  Givitas.com or GiveandTake.com for more information on Give and Take, Inc. Additional Information Contact Larry Freed: Larry’s LinkedIn Larry’s Email Contact Gregg Garrett: Gregg’s LinkedIn Gregg’s Twitter Gregg’s Bio Contact CGS Advisors: Website LinkedIn Twitter

Compuware Corp. CEO Chris O'Malley talks with Crain's Senior Editor Chad Livengood about how the information technology company has reinvented itself over the past five years since spinning off several divisions of its business and returning to its roots of developing software for mainframe computers, which remain the mainstay of IT operations for banks, airlines and insurance companies. Compuware remains based in the former Compuware Building (now called One Campus Martius), the headquarters of Quicken Loans.

During this episode, You Me and Your Top Three host, Gregg Garrett, speaks with Steve Tack, SVP, Product Management at Dynatrace – a technology giant that is part of the backbone of many of the most well-known brands in this digital world. Steve shares the journey that took the company from a small division of a large technology organization to a spin-out and PE-backed growth firm to a publicly-traded technology firm. Steve also gives hints on how to grow a successful global product team and how to stay ahead of the market by focusing exclusively on hiring ex-founders to lead different product segments. And, of course, Steve speaks about his top three –  from his executive peers to his global product group to his former athletic coaches. Finally, you have to hear about how the most critical moment of Steve’s success wasn’t ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange, but a milestone that took place years ago when the executive team decided to bravely cannibalize their own business and innovate the entire product offering. About Steve Tack As SVP of Product Management, Steve is responsible for product vision and go-to-market strategy at Dynatrace. Steve has a passion for delivering innovative solutions that help customers digitally transform and, with 20 years of software experience, he uses his market development expertise to bring a relentless customer focus to the company’s products. Prior to this role, Steve held management positions in technical sales and engineering. Outside of Dynatrace, Steve is an active volunteer and enjoys time cycling, coaching and spending time with his wife and two kids. Steve has a B.A. in Economics from Kalamazoo College. Show Highlights Segment 1: Overview 1:25        Competing the connecting world – The Transformation First Mile. 3:45        Having the bravery to change. 5:43        Steve Tack – From technology in the dot com era to leading product strategy for an enterprise software company. (Dynatrace. Compuware.) Segment 2: The “Top Three”   8:30        Steve’s “Top Three”: John Van Siclen – Managing a business while maintaining a customer first mindset. 12:16      Steve’s “Top Three”: Bernd Greifeneder – Always think about the next step of disruption. 14:17      Steve’s “Top Three”: The Dynatrace Executive Team – Bravery. 15:08      Steve’s “Top Three”: Dynatrace Product Leaders – The importance of an entrepreneurial mindset. 18:48      “We don’t want people who are going to delegate decisions up.” 20:29      Steve’s “Top Three”: Steve’s high school swim coach – You really can’t control anything around you, but you can control what you do. 22:50      Steve’s “Top Three”: Steve’s collegiate football coach – “There are people who want the play coming their way, and then there are people who hope it goes in the other direction.” (Kalamazoo College.) 28:00      Steve’s “Top Three”: Steve’s wife and his father – The reasons Steve can put his focus on work. Segment 3: Industry Disruption & Transformation   28:55      Dynatrace – Software Intelligence for the Enterprise Cloud. 32:19      Buzzwords and clichés only matter when you understand how enterprises are adopting technologies and personalizing them to their business. 35:15      “Go out there and find out what the market is going to look like in 2020.” 38:25      The steps required after going public – the company inside the company. 44:31      How customers are taking an interest in the Dynatrace reinvention and transformation story. 46:46      Hint for leaders: Establish the vision and have mantras that are clear, tangible, and actionable. 48:14      Hint for leaders: “Putting the candidates into a spot where you really feel like you are working with that person.” 51:33      The surreal experience of going public. Segment 4: Wrapping Up 54:06      How to make speed real: Set the cadence for the business. 56:02      Know when it is your own energy trying to push something forward versus the market. 57:50      Hint for leaders: “You have to invest and think in different time horizons.” 59:31      Follow Dynatrace and Steve on LinkedIn. Additional Information Contact Steve Tack: Steve’s LinkedIn Steve’s Twitter Contact Dynatrace: DynatraceWebsite DynatraceLinkedIn DynatraceTwitter DynatraceInstagram Contact Gregg Garrett: Gregg’s LinkedIn Gregg’s Twitter Gregg’s Bio Contact CGS Advisors: Website LinkedIn Twitter

If CFO Joe Aho’s career DNA were uploaded to Ancestry.com, he would likely discover a family tree populated with no less than five financial planning analysts and 17 senior sales representatives. Needless to say, his career roots are multifunctional, with numerous titles and different tours of duty inside both finance and sales operations. Having joined Compuware nearly 20 years ago, Aho has served as CFO for the last four – his longest occupancy of any one position at Compuware  — which says a lot about his past appetite for job migration. Asked about his priorities as Compuware’s finance leader, Aho leaves little doubt that acquisitions are top of mind for the mainframe technology company that appears eager to open a new chapter of growth one that opens new doors for Compuware while discovering fruitful synergies with its past. NOW SUBSCRIBE: The Quarterly Digest of CFO Strategic Insight http://bit.ly/2Wfv291 (25 CFO Profiles Every Issue).

A vouloir trop vite enterrer le mainframe, on oublie ses gigantesques volumes de données et de transactions, son écosystème performant, ses outils de développement, ses innovations, et l'évolution de ses modèles économiques, même chez IBM. Le mainframe a encore un avenir. Entretien avec Véronique Dufour-Thery, Vice President South Europe & MENA de Compuware.

Si par le jeu des consolidations, et parfois des migrations vers le cloud et même des abandons, le nombre de clients du mainframe tend à se réduire, celui des transactions et du volume des données ne cesse d'augmenter. Le secteur du mainframe continue de s'afficher en progression, et s'adapte jusqu'au DevOps pour séduire les développeurs. Entretien avec Véronique Dufour-Thery, Vice President South Europe & MENA de Compuware.

Vasil Hlinka CEO of AwareAbility Technologies, an Internet of Things technology company. In addition to consulting with customers on their data capture investments and needs, they produce hardware that can operate in ultra low-power and no-power environments. Before AwareAbility, Vasil held a number of consulting and leadership positions at a number of technology and IT companies. In addition to consulting, his portfolio includes work at Lochbridge, Compuware, and BMW Financial Service. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrics and Electronics Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

When you hear "mainframe" I bet you think "old school," or "dinosaur," or at the very least "legacy." After this episode with Compuware's Tim Ceradsky, you might change your mind. With hundreds of billions of lines of COBOL driving the vast majority of transaction processing in the US economy, mainframes aren't going anywhere any time soon. In fact, with COBOL programmers retiring en masse over the next decade, colleges and codes schools are picking up on the massive demand. And get this -- Compuware's tools allow the use of modern CI/CD tools, IDEs, and code visualizations that make a good case to banish the green screen monochrome horror stories you might imagine. Stick around for the fascinating tale of the COBOL Renaissance. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Christopher O'Malley is one of the leading voices in the DevOps for Mainframe community. He is relentless in advocating how the mainframe platform can not just exist, but thrive in todays agile/DevOps environments. His evangelism not only keeps his company Compuware front and center in the mainframe DevOps discussion, but really lifts the entire market. In this chat we catch up with Chris to talk about the latest release of Topaz, what are the latest trends in the mainframe market and what we can expect in the near short term. Chris is always a great interview with lots to say and this interview is right on point.

Read the complete transcript on The Sales Game Changers Podcast. EDWARD'S' FINAL TIP TO EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Pay attention to your family. Eat healthy. Be sure that you exercise." Edward Hughes is a Senior Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Operations at Appian Corporation. Prior to coming to Appian, he also held sales leadership positions at Compuware, Pegasystems and Rational Software. Find Edward on LinkedIn!

Infostretch CMO, Leila Modarres talks with Compuware VP of Product Development David Rizzo about how the mainframe is providing the backbone for digital transformation in the world’s largest and most active enterprises.

Jeff Spadafora is the Director of Global Coaching Services and Product Development for The Halftime Institute. He spent 20 years as a leadership and executive development consultant for Fortune 1000 companies such as Ford Motor Company, Sears & Roebuck, Compuware, Domino's Pizza, Visteon, Northern Trust Bank, Helene Curtis, and Sky Chefs. Favorite Success Quote “As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of your life, the full potential of your soul will never emerge.”~Henry Van Dyke Key Points 1. Success Will Not Fulfill You In today's materialistic and ego driven society, we are incepted from birth with the idea that buying more stuff and achieving higher status will lead to joy and fulfillment. But as anyone who has ever been to the top will tell you, this is simply not true. While it is true that achieving goals, improving your material comfort, and reaching new heights of social prestige will increase your momentary happiness, this path does not offer any sort of contentment or joy in the long term. It results in a never ending quest to recreate the dopamine high that is released every time that you hit a new tax bracket. 2. Giving  Yourself Away is the True Path to Gaining Everything While living a life in pursuit of excess material wealth won't lead to fulfillment, living a life in pursuit of generosity and impact, and legacy will. If you truly wish to live a life of fulfillment and joy, not just momentary happiness and brief episodes of ecstasy, you must start by giving yourself to a cause bigger than yourself. You must find a passion and a calling that makes it difficult for you to stay in bed in the mornings because you are so excited about how you will get to change the world. As cliche and trite as it may sound, finding a calling that is about a bigger picture than just yourself is the true path to success. Perhaps at this moment, you can't find that calling or simply don't know how you want to impact the world. This is fine. Start with simple things: Volunteer at a local habitat for humanity, give away 10-15% of your income to a cause you believe in, or even just call your grandparents from time to time. Find things to do that remind you that you are a small part of a whole, find things that let you serve and give without any expectations. Give yourself away and you will gain everything. 3.You Need to Line Up your Core, Capacity, and Context  Similar to the four pillars, the Three C's are the essentials of life that must be in alignment for you to be living a “10” life. Core: This is who you are, what your mission is, and what you stand for. To have a well defined “core” (in the sense of success and fulfillment, not your abs), you must define your virtues, your beliefs, and your character traits that will remain unwavering no matter how strenuous the external circumstances become. (also called NUTS or Non-negotiable, unalterable terms by Wayne Levine) And you must also discover and be actively pursuing what you believe to be your calling and purpose in life. Capacity: This is how you are showing up in each area of your life, it's about maximizing your potential. Are you staying in the best shape you can physically? Are you being the best husband, father, friend, son, or brother that you can relationally? Are you connected with whatever your definition of God is? (Or if you are an atheist, have you done your research and do you have peace about the question of God?) Context: This is where you are working towards your calling and purpose. Do you need to move jobs, cities, or countries? Do you need to stay where you are and simply work change how you are showing up? Only you can answer these questions, and it is imperative that you take the time to do so lest you work your whole life away on something that you realize (too late) was never in line with your calling in the first place. 4. Busyness and Comfort are Your Two Greatest Enemies  The two greatest enemies to success and fulfillment are not laziness or greed or ignorance, but busyness and comfort. Busyness and comfort are malicious and sneak into your life slowly, without any obvious signs, but once they are in, they slowly and surely convince you that you are ok at your current level because there isn't the pain necessary to elicit change. When you are comfortable, it is difficult to find a real reason to change your lifestyle or pursue dreams, and when you are constantly busy, you never have the time to sit down and ask these questions in the first place. Don't allow busyness or comfort to rob you of your destiny. Take time to evaluate where you are in life with an open and unbiased mind. Go down the rabbit hole and it is likely that you will come out of the other side with a better understanding of yourself, your purpose, and the actions required to achieve it.

Read the complete transcript to this podcast on The Sales Game Changers website. Ivan Gomez is the president and founder of NextStage, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations leverage inside sales as a powerful go to market strategy. They help with implementation, best practices, marketing integration and many other things. Ivan has worked at some great companies in inside sales leadership, such as Ellucian, Echo360, Rosetta Stone, QlikTech and Compuware. Ivan is also the DC area chapter president for the American Association for Inside Sales Professionals. Find Ivan on LinkedIN!

Diva Tech Talk interviewed Chris Rydzewski, tech veteran, serving as Executive Director for the Michigan Council of Women in Technology (www.mcwt.org). Chris did not originally plan a path in technology: “Ironically, I stumbled into it,” she said. Matriculating at the University of Michigan (http://umich.edu/ ), “I loved math and stats,” she said, “but I wound up with a degree in marketing.” Having lived in Texas for a while, Chris returned to Michigan and joined IT powerhouse Compuware (www.compuware.com) in the early 1990’s . “They had 5 lines of business, and were really big, at that time.” For eight years, Chris sold Compuware solutions, supporting the Rocky Mountain states and then the entire Midwest. Then she became an international product line sales director responsible for coaching direct and channel sales teams in South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Chris then moved to BMC (www.bmc.com) focusing, for 5 years, on sales to large Michigan-based corporations. She subsequently moved back to Compuware as a strategic sales manager for key “named accounts” regionally. The move allowed her to explore other products including product portfolio management and change management offerings. In 2013, Chris moved over to Compuware’s application performance management division, a growth segment for the company. Within a year, private equity investment firm, Thoma Bravo LLC purchased Compuware for $2.4 billion. Under the agreement, Thoma Bravo split Compuware into two separate companies: the mainframe software business (under the Compuware name) and Dynatrace (www.dynatrace.com), real-time software management and maintenance. Chris stayed with Dynatrace, selling for them for the next four years. “It was always about solving problems. And that’s what I love about technology.” In the summer of 2017, changes at Dynatrace spurred Chris to leave the company. She asked herself questions like “what is my gift?” and “what is it that I should be doing, moving forward?” She was “tapped on the shoulder” to consider the opportunity with the Michigan Council of Women in Technology. “For the previous 12 years, I had always been a volunteer,” Chris said, but now assumed the role of Executive Director. In her new role, Chris is responsible for full MCWT P&L management with oversight over the organization’s fiscal health, budget, fundraising, staff, and more. She is laser-focused on “operational improvements and efficiency.” With a mission to “grow and inspire girls and women in the field of technology in Michigan,” MCWT consumes most of Chris’s energies. “This is the ‘give-back’ time for me.” MCWT runs 35+ large and small events each year; has given over $1 million in scholarships to college-bound and post-college women pursuing technology careers; will run 10 summer tech camps for 5 th through 8 th graders this year; has 13 after-school girls’ middle school and high school tech programs; hosts an annual Website design contest for middle school and high school girls; a mentorship program for mid-career women, and more. While still small, compared to other nonprofits, MCWT “has a lot of programs and stakeholders,” Chris said. And she is now responsible to work closely with the Mission Officers, Infrastructure Leads, Staff, Volunteers, and the Boards to help drive success for all the programs and events! Chris has been grateful to observe “many great leaders over the last 12 years” of her volunteerism at MCWT, teaching her key leadership lessons: ● “Be passionate” about whatever you choose to do. ● “Be open to new opportunities.” ● “Believe in yourself. “ ● “Be relevant.” Chris commented: “You are not really going to know what you are good at, until you try different things, and see what bubbles up to the top.” “I think women have different characteristics” than men, Chris said. “ I think we listen better and communicate better.” Some of her former colleagues “would be amazed at how I could pull out information” when she was making joint sales calls with them. She emphasized that “you have to make yourself heard” particularly when you are in the minority in the workplace. A self-admitted “workaholic,” Chris admits to occasionally have a problem balancing family, and work. She has deployed a few practical tactics to address this. “My husband and I have ‘date nights,’” she said and the time between dinner and when her teenage daughter goes to sleep is the time when everyone focuses on family. Driving her daughter anywhere, she turns herphone off. As a family, they also plan big trips that all of them can take, together. “You should not always have your work drive you. Your family is super-important; there is so much more,” said Chris. “Technology makes everything relevant” according to Chris. She can be reached through the new and improved MCWT website (www.mcwt.org). For the full blog write up, make sure to check us out on online at www.divatechtalk.com, on Twitter @divatechtalks, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/divatechtalk. Follow our show and tell us what you like with an online review.

Chris O'Malley is bullish on mainframes. As you would expect someone who is the CEO of Compuware. But it is more than just bullish. Today's mainframes can run as fast as you need them too. Want to run Java or JS node? No problem. There is no reason to treat the mainframe as if it is not a native of today's computing environments. In fact for many tasks the mainframes is the best tool for the job. Chris is a great advocate and I think you will find this chat very interesting.

While we were interviewing Marlin Williams, we discovered that she was responsible for key elements of the Compuware move to downtown Detroit from Farmington Hills in 2003. The story was fascinating to us and we decided to dedicate an episode to this part of Marlin's story.   QUOTE IT “How do you cast a wider net?” (6:17)  “I wasn’t afraid to ask.” (15:56)    DIG IN (5:35) Making the move from suburbia. (8:03) Shifting the corporate culture. (13:24) A personal journey of continuous improvement.   Tip of the Week Own your fear.  

Diva Tech Talk interviewed Dr. Rita Barrios, Chair for the Department of CyberSecurity and Information Systems, and Associate Professor, at the University of Detroit, Mercy (http://www.udmercy.edu/) graduating approximately 150 trained technology professionals each year. Rita said: “My Dad was always my biggest supporter.” The 7th child of 8 siblings in her “very strict” family, Rita admitted that she was “a little on the geeky side” in her high school years.  She entered the Detroit College of Business, specializing in accounting, but dropped it in favor of a technology major. She got married, and gave birth to a daughter during her senior year of college.   Rita’s several internships during that senior year (when her daughter was 6 months old) were at the Grand Trunk Western Railroad (gtw.railfan.net/), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway (https://www.cn.ca/).  After graduation, she became a full-time employee as a junior programmer.   Grand Trunk’s IT department was eventually bought by Compuware (www.compuware.com).  Rita was promoted from junior programmer to project manager (“a huge leap”).  Her first large challenge was a two-year international EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) project among three cross-border entities, automating the manifest for U.S. Customs to enable trains to cross borders without stopping. She credited her immediate management for empowering this next career phase. “Anything we needed, they made sure we had.”  The secret to the success of that project was digging into the details rather than becoming overwhelmed by the totality of the undertaking. “I took it a bite (byte) at a time!” Rita’s next step was as a Compuware contractor to Ford Credit (https://www.ford.com/finance) to maintain their legacy information systems, going from programmer to senior DBA.  Rita also obtained her Masters of Science in Information Systems, Software Assurance at the University of Detroit, Mercy; then later completed her PhD in information science, with a focus on security assurance and cybersecurity at Nova Southeastern University (http://www.nova.edu/).  “An opportunity came where I could move to academia,” Rita said.  “ That’s how I landed at Detroit, Mercy.” Additionally, she received certifications from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg University, School of Public Health in data specialization, and a certificate in criminal justice and law enforcement from the FBI Detroit Citizens Academy. A single mom for 14 years, Rita is justifiably proud of her two children. “I have a daughter, now working on her PhD in Material Engineering. And I have a son, going into digital media and graphics arts.”   Rita is also excited about her own cybersecurity field. “We teach is how to do investigations, how to do digital forensics/hacking. We partner with the Criminal Justice Program because you cannot have a crime without some digital piece to it, these days, and look at it from the criminal point of view. We also partner with the law school, talking about cyberlaw. “ Rita’s specialty has spun off into a side business. She runs an IT training and education consultancy, RitaBarr LLC (www.ritabarr.com) specializing in corporate IT training, and also partners with Mackinac Investigators on digital forensics investigations.   “At some point, I would like to grow the business.”  Ever-ambitious, Rita is also looking forward to moving to the “business side” of academia, at some point.   Along the way, Rita said that “I have always been the only female in the room.” As an example, “I presented research at the Department of Defense to a bunch of military people, who were all guys. Coming up through IT, I was the only female, but I have never felt like the only female. I was never discriminated against.”  This feeling changed though “when I went to the University.”  There she experienced “over-talking, interruption, all of it. I have been told by my colleagues that I better ‘know my place, young lady, ’ ” she lamented.  Rita recommended her approach to deal with this negative phenomenon. “I am very professional. I go into a very robotic mode, very stoic. I lay out the facts with no emotion. I plan to say.“ Rita’s focused leadership lessons/advice currently include: “Spend time to get to know people. Find out their strengths, and where they belong.” “Bring the best people around you; then get out of their way.” “If you think about it --- that the project’s too big --- you will not achieve what you want to achieve. So, whatever comes, just take it in.” “Stay flexible. There is nothing you can’t overcome; nothing is impossible.” And summing up: “There are no shortcuts.”  For Rita, success is always about hard work. For the full blog write up, make sure to check us out on online at www.divatechtalk.com, on Twitter @divatechtalks, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/divatechtalk. Follow our show and tell us what you like with an online review.

In Episode 125 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk with Bill Bliss about Microsoft Teams extensibility.   Weekly updates Validating your Office add-in manifest just got easier—Introducing the Office add-in validator by the Office Dev team SharePoint PnP webcast—SharePoint Framework and organizational considerations b the PnP Team New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online March 2017 by Vesa Juvonen Correctly reference images in SharePoint Framework solutions by Waldek Mastykarz Avoid errors editing SharePoint Framework project configuration with Visual Studio Code intelligence by Waldek Mastykarz Writing unit tests for your SharePoint Framework components by Elio Struyf Calling a custom webhook trigger in an Azure Logic app by Elio Struyf Consuming an Azure AD secured web API from your web app / native app by Elio Struyf Using cloud services to automate a business process by Paul Shaeflein An intro to Power BI for the Office 365 developer by Chris O’Brien Show notes Microsoft Teams Developer docs Bot development Tab development Creating deep links to tabs Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network. The podcast RSS is available on iTunes or search for it at “Office 365 Developer Podcast” or add directly with the RSS feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast. About Bill Bliss Bill Bliss is a Partner Platform architect for Microsoft Teams, a founding member of the Microsoft Teams product. He focuses on the Microsoft Teams developer platform and its integration with Bot Framework. He rejoined Microsoft in late 2013, after a nearly 10-year absence, to work on the iOS and Android versions of the MSN applications (News, Sports, Finance, Food & Drink, and Health & Fitness). He also worked on the DMX startup group (the predecessor of the Microsoft Teams effort) and was the PM architect for MSN. Immediately before rejoining Microsoft, he was VP of Product Management in VMware’s End-User Computing (EUC) Division, responsible for product management of Horizon Application Manager and the core Horizon platform. Bill joined VMware in 2011 after serving as VP and GM of Myspace, Inc.’s Search and Recommendations team, where his team built three new service platforms. He also he served as the business owner for News Corp.’s $900M advertising contract with Google. He’s been a part of two start-ups: Gomez, Inc. (now a division of Compuware), where he was VP of Emerging Technologies, and Klir Technologies, where he was CTO. Before Klir, he was an SVP at Expedia, Inc., responsible for Expedia.com and Hotels.com product management, product roadmap, and business analytics. Prior to Expedia, Bill worked over 16 years at Microsoft in a variety of senior technology and management roles from 1987 to 2003. As general manager of the Natural User Interface group, he worked on advanced search and user interface technology for Windows, building on his experience as general manager of MSN Search. Under his tenure, MSN Search launched in 1998; by 2002 it had grown to over 100 million queries per day, more than $100M in annual revenue, and 34 international markets in 13 languages. Prior to MSN Search, he was a founding member of the team that designed and built the first two versions of Microsoft Outlook, and holds nine U.S. patents related to Microsoft Outlook. He earned a BS in Computer Science from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.   About the hosts Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at aka.ms/richdizz and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, Texas, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.   A Civil Engineer by training and a software developer by profession, Andrew Coates has been a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft since early 2004, teaching, learning and sharing coding techniques. During that time, he’s focused on .NET development on the desktop, in the cloud, on the web, on mobile devices and most recently for Office. Andrew has a number of apps in various stores and generally has far too much fun doing his job to honestly be able to call it work. Andrew lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and two almost-grown-up children.

Diva Tech Talk interviewed veteran tech professional, Julie Christ, Founder and CEO of TechSmart Solutions.  Julie graduated from the University of Michigan, with a computer science degree, and a business minor, then a relatively new degree program.  “It was pretty leading edge,” said Julie.  “Throughout my career, I would be only female in a room of 40-50 people.  It was a differentiator for me.  It never inhibited me; it never bothered me. I just knew that I would be remembered.” Julie’s first job was as a business analyst at Compuware (www.compuware.com) where she was working to understand customer needs from a tech perspective. Her first Compuware customer was General Motors (www.gm.com). Julie moved overseas, and lived in London, U.K. for a year working for Little Caesar’s.  When she returned to the U.S., she continued with Little Caesar’s (www.littlecaesars.com) in their corporate headquarters as a technical project manager and assumed complete responsibility for that private company’s gamut of financial systems.     Julie began the consulting segment of her career, working for EDS (www.eds.com), where she underwent rigorous leadership training.  Then she moved, for the next 5 years, to $9 billion automotive supplier, Arvin Meritor, where she is proud to have had a career of “firsts”, and was part of “some amazing projects!”  She moved subsequently, to Volkswagen, under the aegis of Compuware, to launch VW.com (“which was a significant project, re-launched in a very tight timeframe, in multiple time zones and multiple countries, with no issues.”).   Then she migrated to R.L. Polk(www.rlpolk.com), a supplier of market research and data for the automotive industry.     In 2008, Julie founded TechSmart with a fundamental mission of providing overall company solutions (“whether that’s a technical solution, or a business solution”). Her client base includes organizations in hospitality, municipal government area, food services, banking as well as several core automotive customers.   Julie’s leadership lessons for other women/girls in tech include: deploy kindness, recognize and use every person’s gifts, be humane, but DON’T over-apologize, and ensure you have mentors.  “Look for people who have alignments to what you think makes up a good leader.” For the full blog write up, make sure to check us out on online at www.divatechtalk.com, on Twitter @divatechtalks, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/divatechtalk. Follow our show and tell us what you like with an online review.

When you hear the phrase “technology sector” you probably think of multi-billion dollar companies like Google, Apple, or Facebook. But you don’t have to be in Silicon Valley to work in tech. There are opportunities across the globe, both in offices and in working at home. It is one of the fastest growing labor sectors, and the jobs pay above average salaries. And it’s not just for startup founders, engineers, or coders. The experiences, skills and values that serve you in one field--whether it’s marketing, sales, communications, HR or anything else--can be used in the diverse tech field. This week on Find Your Dream Job, Mac chats with Albert Qian a high-tech digital marketing and product marketing manager, and founder of the tech-centered job community, Albert’s List. Albert has helped professionals around the country find rewarding work in the technology space. In this episode, he shares tips on how you can make the jump into big tech. In this 34-minute episode you will learn: Backgrounds and skills that help people thrive in the technology sector How networking makes all the difference in landing a tech job How you can use your humanities degree to find a technology job The benefit of code training academies and what to look for in technology bootcamps This week’s guest: Albert Qian (@albertqian | LinkedIn)Founder, Albert’s ListAuthor, The Social Media EcosystemOrange County, Calif. Listener question of the week:  I have an upcoming interview, and I’m curious how I should prepare my online profiles. What are employers looking for when they Google my name? Do you have a question you’d like us to answer on a future episode? Please send your questions to Cecilia Bianco, Mac’s List Community Manager at cecilia@macslist.org. Resources referenced on this week’s show: GlassDoor.com - Highest Paying Jobs In-Demand Hongkiat.com - To 10 Websites to Learn Coding (Interactively) Online Code Academy TreeHouse CodeTree Khan Academy Albert’s List Coursera U2Me Workbridge Associates Tech In Motion Events Land Your Dream Job in Portland (and Beyond) - 2016 Edition If you have a job-hunting or career development resource resource you’d like to share, please contact Ben Forstag, Mac’s List Managing Director at ben@macslist.org. -- Thank you for listening to Find Your Dream Job. If you like this show, please help us by rating and reviewing our podcast on iTunes. We appreciate your support!Opening and closing music for Find Your Dream Job provided by Freddy Trujillo, www.freddytrujillo.com. -- FULL TRANSCRIPT Mac Prichard: This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life. I'm Mac Prichard, your host, and publisher of Mac's List. Our show is brought to you by Mac's List and by our book, Land Your Dream Job in Portland and Beyond. To learn more about the book and the updated edition that we're publishing in February, visit macslist.org/eBook. Thanks for joining us today. When you hear the phrase "technology sector" you probably think about multi-million dollar companies like Google, Apple, or Amazon. You don't have to be in Silicon Valley or Seattle to work in tech. It's no wonder many people move to these places to work for technology companies, however. This sector grows faster than the rest of the economy and the jobs pay above average salaries, but there are opportunities across the globe, not just California or Washington state. It's a field not just for startup founders, engineers, or coders. This week on Find Your Dream Job, we're talking about tech jobs. Ben Forstag has an online site you can use to find the highest paying jobs in the sector. Cecilia Bianco has answers for what you need to do when any employer googles you. Finally, I'll talk to an engineer who helps people find tech jobs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. First, though, let's start as we do every week by checking with the Mac's List team. Ben, Cecilia, how are you two doing? Ben Forstag: I'm doing great. Cecilia Bianco: Doing really good, Mac. Mac Prichard: Good. It's great to have you both here in the studio. Now, tech jobs. Before you all came here, did either one of you work in the technology sector? Cecilia Bianco: Yeah. I actually had an internship at a startup in college. It was called NOUO and it was a database for everything going on at the university restaurants, bars, and what to do on the weekend. It was an interesting experience. Ben Forstag: When I was in college, I was an intern at Compuware in Detroit. They are a software services company. I was in the marketing department so I wouldn't call it a tech job per se but it was where I first learned how to use HTML which has been a great skill for me. Mac Prichard: I have not worked in the tech sector. I had the good fortune, way back in the early 80s when IBM first introduced their PC's, to work at a non-profit that actually bought them. That was, in those days, bleeding edge technology. I learned all about floppy disks and Wordstar 3.0. Speaking of discovery, let's turn to Ben who's out there every week looking for resources that you, or listeners, can use. Ben, what have you learned for us this week related to technology? Ben Forstag: Mac, since today we're talking about technology I wanted to share two different blogs that I found, specifically blog posts, around technology. The first one comes from Glassdoor.com which is a resource we talked about last week. This comes from their blog which is around all kinds of workforce issues. This blog is the 25 highest paying jobs in demand. It's a list of the highest paying jobs that there's a huge demand for, as you would guess. The key takeaway of this job post is that almost half of the jobs listed were in the tech sector. I wrote out the top tech jobs. They are software architect, software development manager, solutions architect, analytics manager, IT manager, data scientist, security engineer, hardware engineer, database administrator, and software engineer. I don't know what most of the jobs do, I'll admit, but these are all jobs where the average salary is well over $100,000 a year. There's clearly a lot of money and opportunity in the tech sector. Thirty years ago our parents or grandparents might have been urging us to go and be doctors or lawyers because they thought that's where we were going to make a lot of money and take care of them in their old age. Nowadays, parents are probably urging their kids to go off to Silicon Valley and become software engineers and analytics managers because that's where all the money's at. Mac Prichard: That's an impressive list. I know we'll include that in the show notes, too. Ben Forstag: I'll include this specific URL to this blog post in the show notes. The key, I think, here is knowing the coding languages that are most in demand, if you want to get into the tech sector. I did a little bit of googling and what I found were the most in demand languages were SQL, Java, JavaScript, C#, C++, Python, Ruby on Rails, and iOS Swift. Cecilia, I saw you shaking your head when I read that list. Do you know any of these coding languages? Cecilia Bianco: (laughs) No, I don't. I did recently discovered that Mac's List runs on SQL. While I have no idea how to run it or anything about it, I know what it's called. Ben Forstag: You know we've got it. How about you, Mac? Mac Prichard: I'm doomed because I don't recognize any of these languages. I have some Spanish but I don't think that's going to cut it. Ben Forstag: Ten years ago, I thought I was really advanced because I know HTML. No, I don't know any of these either so I'm doomed as well. Here's the good news for all of us in this room and all of our listeners, you can learn almost all of these languages online, in your home, in your pajamas, and often for free, which brings me to my next blog resource for the week, which is a blog post on a website called hongkiat.com. That's H-O-N-G-K-I-A-T .com. (I don't know where these names come from!) The blog is the top 10 websites to learn coding, interactively, online. There are a lot of different websites out there where you can take courses, where you can learn just about any one of these languages, and other tech skills. Some of these websites you may have heard of before, Code Academy, Codetree, Treehouse, or Khan Academy. Khan Academy, I know, has been making the news a lot recently because they teach just about any subject you want to learn. The really cool thing about this is most of these sites offer at least some free training. You can scale up and pay for extras, but the baseline on most of them is free. The one reason I really like this hongkiat.com blog post is it gives a good summary of what each site teaches in terms of what languages you can learn, price point of what you can get for free and what you have to pay for, the teaching methodology, and the difficulty level for each online course. They have a matrix at the bottom of the blog post that displays all this information in a really easy and intuitive way. I would suggest you check out this blog post. It's, again, the top 10 websites to learn coding, interactively, online. I will have the URL in our show notes. Mac Prichard: Great. I know that our listeners will look forward to seeing that. Thanks, Ben. If you have a suggestion for Ben for a resource you think would be valuable to our listeners, write him. His email address is ben@macslist.org. Let's turn to you, our listeners. Cecilia, our community manager, is here to answer one of your questions. Cecilia, what are you hearing, this week, from our listeners? Cecilia Bianco: This week our question is, "I have an upcoming interview and I'm curious how I should prepare my online profiles. What are employers looking for when they google my name?" I think they're looking for a few different things, but the main reason an employer is googling you is to check your credibility. They want to see what pops up when your name is googled. Are you saying who you say you are? Do your online profiles align with what you've said about yourself thus far in your cover letter, resume, and any other correspondence you've had with them. Especially if you're applying for a tech job, this is important because you want to make sure what's popping up in a google search, that whatever comes up shows your credibility in your field. Are you a part of online tech groups? Online communities that are having conversations around the technology sector? Are you tech savvy and active online in social media, and with tech writing? Firstly, I think to prepare you should start by googling yourself and seeing what pops up. From there, you can focus on what you need to improve. Mac and Ben, I know I've googled my own name before, have you googled yours? Ben Forstag: I have. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I've got a last name that is not very common and it's probably the case that I know, or am immediately related to, any Forstag out there in the world. If you are a Forstag and you don't know who I am, please give me a call so we can chat. I have googled myself. I get the usual mish-mash of old posts that I've written for Mac's List, or other websites, my social media profiles, press releases I've written for other organizations. I would like to make one quick addendum to your suggestion, though. When you google yourself, I think it really helps if you're in blind mode or user mode on your browser because Google remembers a lot of your search history, and that doesn't show you what everyone else out in the world is looking for or finds when they type in your name. If you use, I think it's called "Guest Mode" in Chrome, or Blind Mode in other- Mac Prichard: I think it might be called Incognito. Ben Forstag: Incognito Mode in Chrome. That cleans the slate and shows you what everyone else in the world sees when they google your name. It's a good way to see what other folks see. Mac Prichard: I have googled myself and it is a good practice because you want to see what others will see about you. I made a deliberate effort some years ago to make sure I filled out online profiles for common sites like LinkedIn, Yelp, Facebook. Those are the ones that pop up. Cecilia Bianco: I saw a lot of the same stuff when I googled myself. Past work, past blog posts, and all my online profiles came up, which I think is a good thing. After you google yourself, you want to figure out where you can improve what's popping up on Google. The first and most important thing to focus on is LinkedIn because you can get the most value out of an employer looking at your LinkedIn profile and it's really common to want to see that. If your LinkedIn profile isn't popping up, what you want to do is change the URL on your LinkedIn profile to include your full name. That way, it'll make you a little bit more searchable. That's pretty easy to do. You just hit edit profile and you'll see it pop up so you can make a change to that long URL.LinkedIn is very important to make sure that's popping up. It's good to have your profile setup and ready to go for an employer to see before you even apply for the job, because they might google you right when they see your resume. You want to be prepared for that. Once LinkedIn's taken care of, you want to see what other social media accounts of yours are popping up, if they are. You want to make sure you don't have anything on those accounts that you don't want an employer to see. If you're using Twitter and Facebook, you want to make sure your privacy filters are set to only show things to strangers that you want them to see. They can be great tools to support your credibility because if you're showing on all your social media platforms that your interests and passions and things you like to talk about are the same in what you've said in your job application, that demonstrates that you're a credible applicant and that they're going to trust you more. You want to make sure those are all cleaned up before you apply. If you don't have time to clean them up before applying, just make sure your privacy filters are locked tight with just what you want them to see. Mac, we've talked about this before. I know you've googled past job applicants. What were you looking for when you did that? Mac Prichard: Two things. One, I wanted to see that track record of accomplishment or experience in the area for the job that they were applying for. I think you're making a really important point, Cecilia, about the importance of showing rather than telling. People can say that they're interested in a topic or they have experience in an area, but if you go online and you see that they've actually done work and there are examples of that work then that's very powerful. The second thing I'm looking for is what clients and colleagues will see when they google that person because if I do higher than candidate, as an employer, they're going to become part of the time. The image that they're projecting to the world becomes part of our company's brand. I want to make sure that that aligns with the values and the mission of our firm. Cecilia Bianco: That's definitely really important. One last tip, the more profiles you're active on and feel comfortable with an employer seeing, the better. This gives you the most control over what's going to pop up into the Google search and what they're going to see when they google you. Overall, the easiest way to control what an employer will see if they google you is to google yourself and then determine where you can improve. Mac Prichard: Good. Well, thank you, Cecilia. That's excellent advice. If you have a question for Cecilia please email her. Her email address is cecilia@macslist.org.These segments by Ben and Cecilia are sponsored by the 2016 edition of Land Your Dream Job in Portland and Beyond. We're making the complete Mac's List guide even better by adding new content and making the book available on multiple eReader platforms. In February of next year, we'll launch the revised version of the book and you'll be able to access Land Your Dream Job in Portland and Beyond on Kindle, Nook, iPad, and other digital devices. You'll also be able to get, for the first time, a paperback edition. Whatever the format, our goal is the same, to give you the tools and tips you need to get meaningful work. For more information, visit macslist.org/eBook and sign up for our eBook newsletter. We'll be sending you publication updates, share exclusive book content, and provide you with special pre-sale prices. Let's turn to our expert guest this week, and that is Albert Qian, who is a high tech digital marketing and product marketing manager. He's originally from Silicon Valley and he now works in Orange County, California. He's also the founder of Albert's List, a Facebook Jobs Community with more than 10,000 members that includes recruiters, hiring managers, job seekers, and more. Through the use of social media, Albert has helped fellow group members find work at companies like eBay, Google, and GoPro. Albert, thanks for joining us. Albert Qian: Thank you for having me on, I really appreciate the time. Mac Prichard: It's a pleasure to have you on the show. Let's talk about tech jobs. When people think about technology they think, "These jobs are in Silicon Valley, they're for coders, engineers. If you don't have a degree in electrical engineering you're out of luck." What's been your experience? Albert Qian: My experience is that when you look at the entire technology and high tech ecosystem for what's out there, there's actually a lot of opportunities available even for people who aren't engineers. I was out at the Golden State Warriors basketball game on Sunday and I ran into somebody who is a designer, so User Interaction Designing, UI, UX, that kind of thing, which is a really hot field right now in the area of high tech. You have a lot of people who need to design their websites, their web applications, there mobile applications. When I asked her what her background was she said that she was somebody who had gotten a degree in counseling psychology with an emphasis on education. I've seen similar stories where people who have psychology backgrounds also get jobs where they're in project management, PMP roles where they're working on, and with, engineers on getting a lot of products to market. There's a lot of different areas. Mac Prichard: Let's pause there for a moment, Albert. I can imagine our listeners thinking, "I've picked up my BA in Psychology. How do I make the leap into design work and doing user experience testing?" How do people make that journey? Albert Qian: I think the journey is made where you think about a product as just an end user, right? Many of us have smartphones today. We, no doubt, use a bunch of different applications whether it's on our phone, or on the web, we're all Facebook users, Twitter users, Uber users, things like that where we're using all these different apps. The way where we can apply a Humanities degree into a technology job is by applying our very own experience. Obviously, there's a little bit of knowledge in needing to know how some of this technology works and domain knowledge will always set you apart, but because we're all the end user of so many different types of technology today, we can always have the power and the ability to share these with the technology teams that we work with, and take those ideas into fruition into a product. Mac Prichard: Technology matters but so does human experience and understanding human behavior is always a marketable skill in technology. Albert Qian: Right now, you see a lot of technology that's out there on the market, a lot of prospective users. It takes a keen human eye to be able to look in-between, where you have the ability to use that technology, the solution to be able to really get users to come and user the product and stay using the product. Mac Prichard: For people who don't have psychology degrees, I know there are a lot of other opportunities in technology. Can you talk a little bit about that and the kinds of backgrounds and skills that help people thrive in this sector, outside of engineering. Albert Qian: I've seen people who have English degrees get jobs where they're doing things like technical writing, they are marketing specialists where they focus on writing collateral, or doing blogging content for a lot of technology companies that realize that they need to find a way to reach a broader audience. There are folks who can go into technology sales. If you're able to speak the language and also use your charisma in being able to sell technology products to others, that works as well. There's everything along the lines of the post-engineering process. Once you create a product, you've got to find a way to sell it. Selling the product includes everyone from product marketers, to sales folks, to people who manage social communities, to people who do the accounting/finance stuff in high tech, and really everything in-between. Mac Prichard: How do you see people break into that world, Albert? Whether it's after they've graduated or perhaps they're mid-career and they experience in another field but they want to break into technology. What do people that stand out or are successful at that do? Albert Qian: I think understanding the important of a particular domain is important to start out with. I think knowing what and why the technology is important is something that people are always looking for. Even though we live in such a technologically connected world a lot of people are great at using the technology but they don't understand why the technology is important from a business perspective. Mac Prichard: Albert, when we're talking about the domain, explain that for our listeners? Albert Qian: A domain would be a technology area. For example, one that I'll use is cloud computing… Mac Prichard: There's a lot of opportunity there and it's important to know the field that you want to focus on. What about training if you want to break into technology, there are code academies out there, online training schools, how helpful can those be to people who want to work as programmers, particularly those who didn't have that training in college and, maybe, want to make a career switch? Albert Qian: I think it's an interesting way to go about switching from one career into another. I've spoken to people who have taken these courses and people who are naturally interested in programming and they see people in these courses ... I've seen the example where these types of courses can really be beneficial for somebody who is interested in coding. One of my friends from college decided to go and take one of these 12 week boot camp courses. Now, he leads a technical team at a startup out in Santa Barbara. That's an example of where it is successful. Another one of my friends took one of these courses as well and now she has transitioned from an account management sales role into a product management role for a company out in Boston, Massachusetts. Have there been successes? Absolutely. I think, on the other hand ... I've spoken to programmers, as well, who look at this type of audience and they question whether they really get a lot of effective training out of it. On one hand, while you do know how to code, your ability to be creative within this coding knowledge is somewhat limited because you're working from a very limited perspective where, maybe, understanding coding isn't necessarily a natural forte of yours. This goes back to the original point where within technology and the technology sector, there is not necessarily a need to just become a programmer and that's just technology in its whole. As we've discussed throughout this podcast ... If you have the skills to be able to write, you can be a marketer, you can be a technical writer. If you're a person who can talk to people and to a very good job on that, you can be a salesperson. You can be an account executive, you can be a business development individual within any of the companies that work in tech out there. If you have in degree in, say, accounting or finance, you can go work in a money perspective in many of these different companies. You can do very well for yourself. Programming doesn't have to be the end-all, be-all. However, there are a lot of different resources out there for people who want to pursue that path. Mac Prichard: When does it make sense for people to get training in programming? If they want to be a programmer? Can that be an asset if they want to be a project manager or work in marketing or sales or communications in tech? Albert Qian: I certainly think that being technical is very helpful, especially in an area where you might interface with a lot of engineers. If you are a web marketing individual and you want to launch a product, being able to talk about the interactive features of a website may help a lot. Being able to talk about how something can be marketed as a product marketer when you're interfacing with your social media manager who may know how to code can be really helpful once in awhile. A lot of the jobs these days are merging together. Your technical writer may need to know how code works and write about how that works from purely a writing perspective. Mac Prichard: Coding can help, and other skills matter a lot, too. If someone is thinking about getting training in coding, and you mentioned your two colleagues that have had a positive experience, what advice do you have for people who are shopping around for either an online course or a boot camp or a code academy? What should they look for? Albert Qian: For the boot camps that exist in 8 to 12 week increments, a lot of them have interesting payment plans where either you give them the $15,000 to start and they put your through that process. Or, there are ones that take a portion of your salary when you start. That's one pricing model that exists out there. Another model out there that exists are the massive open and online courses, the MOOC's, that exist. You can go to websites like Coursera, or Code Academy, or U-2-me.com and you can pay for anywhere from $30 to $200 to $300 course where you can do self-directive learning on coding. I think when you're doing the coding learning process, it's always important to have a project in mind that you're doing.If you're just doing the code to learn how to code, you don't really get much out of it. If there's a website that you'd like to make, or a business that you have that you'd like to improve upon and develop a web application, or a mobile application, I believe that's usually the best way to take and the best course of action to approach with when it comes to learning how to code and gaining technical knowledge. Mac Prichard: Have a project that engages you and actually produces a result. Stepping back to shopping for a course, you mentioned 3 different options, and they have 3 different price points, obviously, but are there any warning signs that people should look out for when they're considering signing up with one of these boot camps or an online course? Albert Qian: There's a lot of financial consideration. For example, there's a lot of these coding academies that have popped up in the last couple of years that have already seen their doors close. If you're learning how to code and you go to one of these coding academies that ends up closing after you leave, you may be no better than where you began. I think name recognition counts a little bit. I think understanding the practical outcomes of what you're learning is also important as well. If you're going in and you know you want to do front end web development, knowing the right types of languages that you're going to be taught is a very important first step. That's one thing as well. Looking at reviews from students who have attended in the past and seeing where they've landed and going with that as well. Mac Prichard: Look for companies that have a track record, have good reviews, and can talk about their outcomes and how they've helped students. Albert Qian: It also doesn't hurt ... If you do want to go on Coursera or u2me and you find yourself a $15 course that teaches you how to code, you can't really lose with that. Having a little bit of extra knowledge never hurts. Mac Prichard: Let's move on. In our earlier conversation before this interview, what struck me was when we were talking about how people find tech jobs, you brought up a lot of techniques that I hear about any job search. One point you made that stuck with me was that networking still matters. Can you talk more about that and how networking can make a difference in getting a tech job? Albert Qian: Networking can make a difference because you put yourself in front of a live person. If you email people, they have the option to ignore you. If you call people, they have the option to never return your voice mail. Putting yourself in front of another individual and putting your best foot forward is always a plus. Humans respond very well when they see somebody that impresses them. Going out there and giving out your business cards in a reasonable method, obviously, and immersing yourself in front of a lot of people who speak tech, perhaps even a lot better than you do, is really a great way to start. If you're in a major metropolitan area around the country, there are quite a few, actually, events one can attend on a bi-monthly basis. They can meet up with people who work in technology. Mac Prichard: Ours is a national audience. I know you're in California, but are there groups that you see that operate across the country that our listeners might want to check out? Albert Qian: Yeah. One major one that I've gotten to know a little bit here in my time in Orange County is called Workbridge Associates. They host an event in all major cities across the country called Tech In Motion. Tech In Motion is a monthly networking event. Sometimes, they have content, sometimes they don't. Various technology professionals in technology marketing, people who program, all get together to share insights, exchange business cards, and get to know each other. I think, just from my understanding, they've got people in Seattle, Portland, the Bay Area, LA and Orange County, Chicago, Tampa Bay, New York City, Austin, Texas, and so many more. Mac Prichard: Excellent. We'll be sure to include that in the show notes. We're coming to the end of our interview, Albert. What else would you like to share with our listeners? Albert Qian: I'd like to invite any of your listeners to look at joining Albert's List. We, are you've mentioned, are that marketplace where we bring together job seekers, recruiters, and numerous opportunities. Like what you do with Mac's List. We have a main California group that you can find under Albert's Job Listings and Referrals. We also have groups that cover Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and New York City. We invite you to join. You can go to our main Facebook group at bit.ly/findyournextjob. That's B-I-T . L-Y / find your next job. All one word. You can also visit us online at albertslist.org. We currently just have a signup page for our email list. We send out emails every 2 to 3 weeks which includes everything from an update on the jobs report that the US Labor Department sends out every month to highlights of jobs that have been posted in our group, to upcoming live networking events, mainly available in the San Francisco Bay Area, where you can meet other professionals and get referred, and just get to know the people in your community. Mac Prichard: We'll be sure to include both of those links in the show notes. Albert, thanks so much for joining us this week. Albert Qian: Definitely. Thank you, again, for having me. Mac Prichard: Great. We're back with Ben and Cecilia. Now, what did you two thing of the conversation with Albert? What were some of the most important points you heard him make? Cecilia Bianco: I really liked what he had to say about applying for a tech job just with experience with human behavior and human experience and what a user experiences on a website. I think that's good to have in your mind going into an interview at a tech job. I think it can be a lot more valuable than I ever thought it was from what he said. Mac Prichard: I think you're right. Working the technology sector isn't just about coding. The experiences and values that can serve you in one field, whether it's marketing, sales, project management, human resources are also valuable in the technology sector. What about you, Ben? Ben Forstag: I think Albert went back to one of the golden rules of job searching which is networking and how important it is to network within the field that you're interested in exploring. I like the way he put it when you show up at a networking event, it's really hard for people to ignore you. It's an opportunity for you to present yourself in a positive light in front of people who matter and decision makers at companies. Mac Prichard: I agree. It doesn't matter what the sector might be. Human connection still matters. People always will tend to hire people they know or people that are recommended to them by people they trust. Well, thank you both, and thank you, our listeners, for listening. We'll be back next week with more tools and tips you can use to find your dream job. In the meantime, visit us at macslist.org where you can signup for our free newsletter with more than a hundred new jobs every week. If you like what you hear on our show, you can help us by leaving a review and rating at iTunes. This helps others discover our show and helps us help more job seekers. Thanks for listening.

Episode 104 is in the history books, and we had a pretty decent set of conversations with our guests for the night about everything from secure storage, cloud vs local hosting, the information technology job market here in the metro Detroit area and this weekend's Windsor Comic Con happening across the river that you might want to check out... From how deleting your browsing history can get you nailed with an obstruction of justice charge to the ridiculous scariness of people in Colorado dying from the plague...yes...that plague...and on out to Hawaii banning non-compete agreements for IT workers and the impending fight the fireworks retailers are gearing up for over Chinese lanterns of all things and more, our opening segment covered the news and stories of the week that caught our eye.  We also chatted a bit about our upcoming event next week at Hopcat, our Pink Slip Party event next month at the Majestic...so listen in to make sure you're up to speed on everything going on. Our second segment dove in with one of core sponsors, Online Tech.  We had Yan Ness and Mike Klein, the co-CEOs of the company.  Yes, co-CEOs, which is an interesting approach in and of itself, but just barely scratches the surface of what Online Tech has going on.  From their approach to securing your data to providing a ton of white papers and resources to help you have the conversations you need to have about data security in your own organization, their site is a treasure trove of information about what they do and the industry as a whole.  Check them out at http://www.onlinetech.com/ In our third segment, we got to chat with long-time member of our group, consistent attendee at our events, and one of the best recruiters we've built a relationship with over the years, Andrea Kress.  She's with Lochbridge, one of the companies spun off of everything that went on with Compuware, so she's been around the block a few times and has some great insights to offer.  We chatted about the job market here in the metro Detroit area, tips and tricks for you to keep in mind while you're interviewing, what matters most to recruiters like her when it comes to evaluating candidates and more.  Check out Lochbridge at http://lochbridge.com/ In our fourth and final segment, we took a call from one of the organizers of this weekend's Windsor ComiCon.  With guests like Kevin Smith and a whole list of comic artists, film and tv guests, it's definitely worth taking a look at if you're looking to cross the border for a little fun this weekend.  Details can be found at http://windsorcomicon.com/ Then the usual banter and wrapping things up for the night, and episode 104 came to a close. [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218918314" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Again, you can find tonight's guests at: Online Tech: http://www.onlinetech.com/ Lochbridge: http://lochbridge.com/ Windsor ComiCon: http://windsorcomicon.com/ Podcast Detroit: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastDetroit As always, we can be found: On the web: http://www.ITinTheD.com On Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ITintheD/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=91763 On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ITintheD  On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ITintheD 

Jeff Spadafora spent 20 years as a leadership and executive development consultant for Fortune 1000 companies such as Ford Motor Company, Sears & Roebuck, Compuware, Domino's Pizza, Visteon, Northern Trust Bank, Helene Curtis, and Sky Chefs. In 2005, he began working as a leadership coach with the Halftime Institute. Since then, he has coached over 130 men and women through the Halftime Journey and continues to make this a primary part of his ministry. He is the lead designer of the curriculum at The Halftime Institute. www.Halftime.org  Theology of Business helps marketplace leaders to integrate their faith into their businesses to make a greater impact in society and in eternity. If you want to learn more about how to partner with God in your business, this show is for you. This is a podcast by Christian business leaders for Christian business leaders. | Entrepreneurship | Marketing | Nonprofit | Church | Author | Startups | Marketplace | Ministry | Faith | Success | Leadership   www.TheologyofBusiness.com

Jeff Spadafora spent 20 years as a leadership and executive development consultant for Fortune 1000 companies such as Ford Motor Company, Sears & Roebuck, Compuware, Domino's Pizza, Visteon, Northern Trust Bank, Helene Curtis, and Sky Chefs. In 2005, he began working as a leadership coach with the Halftime Institute. Since then, he has coached over 130 men and women through the Halftime Journey and continues to make this a primary part of his ministry. He is the lead designer of the curriculum at The Halftime Institute. www.Halftime.org  Theology of Business helps marketplace leaders to integrate their faith into their businesses to make a greater impact in society and in eternity. If you want to learn more about how to partner with God in your business, this show is for you. This is a podcast by Christian business leaders for Christian business leaders. | Entrepreneurship | Marketing | Nonprofit | Church | Author | Startups | Marketplace | Ministry | Faith | Success | Leadership   www.TheologyofBusiness.com

Jeff Spadafora spent 20 years as a leadership and executive development consultant for Fortune 1000 companies such as Ford Motor Company, Sears & Roebuck, Compuware, Domino’s Pizza, Visteon, Northern Trust Bank, Helene Curtis, and Sky Chefs. In 2005, he began working as a leadership coach with the Halftime Institute. Since then, he has coached over 130 men and women through the Halftime Journey and continues to make this a primary part of his ministry. He is the lead designer of the curriculum at The Halftime Institute. www.Halftime.org  Theology of Business helps marketplace leaders to integrate their faith into their businesses to make a greater impact in society and in eternity. If you want to learn more about how to partner with God in your business, this show is for you. This is a podcast by Christian business leaders for Christian business leaders. | Entrepreneurship | Marketing | Nonprofit | Church | Author | Startups | Marketplace | Ministry | Faith | Success | Leadership   www.TheologyofBusiness.com

Click here for a copy of the book Halftime for FREE A Halftime Journey From Success to Significance  “There was this giant dissonance between the life I was living, which was joyless, and this pathway of joy so clearly outlined in the Bible. And I said, “How am I going to bridge this gap? How am I going to reconcile this?”-Jeff Spadafora So many people “have been brainwashed into thinking that the key to happiness is to make as much money as you can as fast as you can,” begins Jeff Spadafora in this inspiring and enlightening message of how to integrate your career with your God-given gifts and purpose. He relates how we mistakenly tend toward a “binary vision” of thinking that we can only choose the marketplace or the mission field, when in fact there are multiple ways that we can remain in our current platform and still be fully obedient to God’s plan for us. We can “bloom” right where we are currently planted!  “Live an integrated life, where your Tuesday afternoon board meeting self is the exact same self as on Sunday morning at 10 a.m. when you’re tearing up hearing the Gospel.” –Jeff Spadafora  You will learn How to determine God’s plan for your life How to become self-aware through your skills and passions How to “unlearn” the expectations others have placed on you How to have the courage to become who you were created to be How to experience real and lasting joy and peace! Resources Checkout Jeff’s Articles: THE “COWBOY” APPROACH TO YOUR SECOND HALF JUST DOESN’T WORK WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE? I LOST MY HEART A JOURNEY AN ANCIENT HALFTIMER DOWNLOAD JEFF’S BIO HERE Halftime Institute Click here for a free copy of this incredible book We are excited to announce that we have partnered with the Halftime Institute! If you are at the place where you would like to move from success to significance click here to get a copy of this book for free. This book is one of the most transformational books I have ever read - John Ramstead Video Library about Halftime Halftime Mission & Vision Become a member of Halftime   Bio Jeff Spadafora is the Director of Global Coaching Services and Product Development for The Halftime Institute. He spent 20 years as a leadership and executive development consultant for Fortune 1000 companies such as Ford Motor Company, Sears & Roebuck, Compuware, Domino’s Pizza, Visteon, Northern Trust Bank, Helene Curtis, and Sky Chefs.In 2005, Jeff was inspired by Bob Buford’s book Halftime and began his journey of discovering God’s true purpose for his second half. As he worked with his Halftime coach, it became clear that his calling is to help other people discover their calling. He has coached over 130 men and women through the Halftime Journey and continues to make this a primary part of his ministry. As the leader of The Halftime Institute’s global coaching staff, he is also responsible for recruiting, training, and managing Halftime Certified coaches throughout the world. In addition to being the lead designer of the Halftime curriculum and one of the primary facilitators of workshops for groups of people embarking on the Halftime journey, Jeff also writes and speaks globally about the issues of life purpose, joy, and kingdom impact. He lives in Evergreen Colorado with his wife Michelle and 3 teenage children.  He enjoys fishing, hunting, skiing, mountain biking and everything else the great outdoors of Colorado has to offer. “Too many people focus the better part of their lives on the wrong things: the company’s agenda, other peoples’ ideas of success . . . money. Over time, this leads to frustration and emptiness. True freedom comes as a people discover their God-given design and pour themselves into service for others.”  –Jeff Spadafora

Success to Significance Click here to get Halftime – From Success to Significance FREE.  We’ll even pay the shipping! Coaches Corner Our goal is to add value to you by addressing the questions you have submitted.  Please comment below so we can include your question on the next episode!The goal of coaching is to accelerate a leader’s development.  Coaching speeds learning time, enabling leaders to make significant leaps in learning and behavior change in a matter of months rather than years. “Too many people focus the better part of their lives on the wrong things: the company’s agenda, other peoples’ ideas of success . . . money. Over time, this leads to frustration and emptiness. True freedom comes as a people discover their God-given design and pour themselves into service for others.”  –Jeff Spadafora   Halftime Institute   Click here to get Halftime – From Success to Significance FREE.  We’ll even pay the shipping! Why are we doing this?  This is one of the most impactful books I have ever read.  It changed the direction of my life and I know you will find huge value in it. Get this book now so that you too can:  Uncover the key questions and challenges facing everyone during this unique season of life  Learn how to create capacity to catch a new vision for a life of joy, Kingdom impact and balance  Discover how to transition from success to significance!   Resources Halftime Institute  Become a member of the Halftime Institute and accelerate your journey Get your copy of Halftime shipped to you for free Meet your coach Jeff Spadafora is the Director of Global Coaching Services and Product Development for The Halftime Institute. He spent 20 years as a leadership and executive development consultant for Fortune 1000 companies such as Ford Motor Company, Sears & Roebuck, Compuware, Domino’s Pizza, Visteon, Northern Trust Bank, Helene Curtis, and Sky Chefs. In 2005, Jeff was inspired by Bob Buford’s book Halftime and began his journey of discovering God’s true purpose for the second half of his life. As he worked with his Halftime coach, it became clear that his calling was to help other people discover their calling. He has coached over 130 men and women through the Halftime Journey and continues to make this a primary part of his ministry. As the leader of The Halftime Institute’s global coaching staff, he is also responsible for recruiting, training, and managing Halftime Certified coaches throughout the world. In addition to being the lead designer of the Halftime curriculum and one of the primary facilitators of workshops for groups of people embarking on the Halftime journey, Jeff also writes and speaks globally about the issues of life purpose, joy, and kingdom impact. He lives in Evergreen Colorado with his wife Michelle and 3 teenage children.  He enjoys fishing, hunting, skiing, mountain biking and everything else the great outdoors of Colorado has to offer.

Bei der zwölften Episode von DTR handelt es sich um eine extra lange Weihnachts-Sonderausgabe. Tom und André podcasten das erste Mal "single-ended" aus dem troii Office in Linz, powered by Stiegl Weihnachtsbockbier. Thematisch geht es dieses Mal um Gadget-Weihnachtsgeschenke, dem letzten Technologieplauscherl in Linz und Evernote, dass in Tom einen Verfechter gefunden hat. Abschließend verraten Tom und André Tricks und Kniffe aus der JUnit-Ecke. Viel Spaß mit dieser Episode! Wie bedanken uns bei unseren Hörern für den tollen Support und das Feedback und wünschen allen ein frohes Weihnachtsfest und einen guten Rutsch! Intro & Rückblick Fiverr DTR.fm @ App.net App.net User ID 200.000 iMessage What's App @HistoricalPics Technologieplauscherl bei Compuware (18.12.) Scala Play Framework Scala Programming Language Node.js Vert.x Compuware (DynaTrace) Application Performance Management YSlow Compuware (DynaTrace) Free Ajax Edition New Relic - Application Performance Monitoring YourKit JVM Profiler Gadget Weihnachtsgeschenke JBL Flip - portabler Stereo-Aktiv Lautsprecher mit Bluetooth Kindle Paperwhite Bose Soundlink II Mobile Speaker mit Bluetooth Doxie Flip Elevation Dock @ Kickstarter Evernote Evernote Evernote Premium Skitch Moleskine Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 Scanner

IT in the D, Episode 22 This was a GREAT episode. One of the ones where we could have sat there for anther two or three hours easily, and never run out of things to talk about. With our guests Elaina Farnsworth of Mobile Comply, Nate Hughes of Detroit Labs and Amber Coffman of Spark Digital Strategy, there was no shortage of things to talk about or topics to dive in...and a bit of ranting, naturally... In our first segment, we went through our usual round-up of news items that had caught our eye over the past week.  Things like our Support the Troops event next Thursday, "How is Black Friday an international thing...complete with riots and chaos in Ireland?", that stores being open on Thursday proved to be a very good thing for them, and so all of those protests and debates about letting people stay with their families and pledging not to shop that day were...worthless...because the landscape has changed permanently, you can bet on it. We even got a little bit into how small of a world it can be sometimes, and why you don't judge people based on how they treat the CEO, but rather how they treat the secretary...or perhaps the DJ.  Who happens to run a networking group you're a part of...but you don't know that.  And who's cohost and longtime friend is friends with your boss...and eight other people you work with. In our second segment, we chatted with Elaina Farnsworth about Mobile Comply, and what they've got going on...which, as it turns out, is quite a bit.  They've created a whole new training program to support the new CompTIA Certification, Mobility+, which teaches everything you need to know...and prove you know...about the basics of all things mobile.  From architecture to infrastructure, and from platform agnostic best practices to security...it's a great foundation.  They're running a special right now on the prep class for the test...and, well, since they quite literally wrote the book on it, you can be sure the teaching is sound. In our third segment, we switch over and engage with Nate Hughes, one of the founders of Detroit Labs.  Just a great chat overall.  From the beginnings at a few empty desks in the Compuware building to their space at the Madison building that they eventually filled to breaking point out to their move into their new building, where they span two entire floors of the old Lane Bryant building downtown.  We'd heard some of the stories from Erika Carlson during her last visit, but it was really great to sit down and hear it all from Nate's perspective, which can seem to be paradoxical at times.  They're a mobile application development company looking to hire developers...but not really necessarily mobile app devs.  They tell potential clients their prices are almost assuredly going to be the highest...and yet they're swamped with work and growing. For our fourth and final segment, we dragged Amber Coffman from Spark Digital Strategy out of lurker mode and talked a bit about what digital strategy is, what services she brings to the table for her clients, and what digital strategy is...and, more importantly, why you need one.  Brands versus identities.  Personal versus corporate.  Damage control and reputation management.  We chatted a bit about this story involving some shady practices by a company concerned about their online reputation...and it may wind up costing them more than the backlash they're already receiving. [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/122997429" params="color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Links from tonight's show: Mobile Comply: http://mobilecomply.com/ Detroit Labs: http://www.detroitlabs.com/ Spark Digital Strategy: http://sparkdigitalstrategy.com/ The lawsuit over a negative review: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/couple-fined-3500-writing-negative-review/story?id=21018224 The IT in the D Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ITinTheD IT in the D on Twitter: https://www.twitter.

It used to be that you took your car from place to place. Nowadays it may be the other way around. Vehicles are so loaded with technology that in some cases they are driving themselves. But that’s not the only story behind today’s connected car. Join John McElroy along with Richard Wallace from CAR, TomTom’s Nick Cohn and Steven Surhigh from Compuware to discuss what makes a car connected on Autoline This Week.

It used to be that you took your car from place to place. Nowadays it may be the other way around. Vehicles are so loaded with technology that in some cases they are driving themselves. But that’s not the only story behind today’s connected car. Join John McElroy along with Richard Wallace from CAR, TomTom’s Nick Cohn and Steven Surhigh from Compuware to discuss what makes a car connected on Autoline This Week.

Jay and Linda Kordich the man who is universally known as "The Father of Juicing," is back on the scene with a great new book that he and his lovely wife, Linda, have written called Live Foods Live Bodies, Recipes for Life. You guessed it.  It's filled with the more than 100 juicing recipes that are designed to help you ward off illness and reach optimum health.   Jocelyn Glei Editor-in-Chief of the Webby Award-winning website www.99u.com, a resource for insights on making ideas happen,  the Executive Producer of the popular 99U Conference in New York City, and the editor of a new book on productivity and creativity called "Manage Your Day-to-Day."  Charles Clapp is an Atlanta-based attorney at CMC Law, a firm specializing in consumer bankruptcy for individuals, families, and small businesses.  He has represented both debtors and creditors and helped thousands of debtors to receive a bankruptcy discharge.  His areas of expertise include foreclosure, repossession, garnishmnet, collections, and bankruptcy related litigation.   Bill Butler was dismissed on 10/311998 at Chrysler corporation by Compuware's division called professional services .His Chrysler supervisor was not there.  He told them he did not want to know why and just left. He started his job search in Massachusetts where he was born and had several good interviews with no calls for another interview or job offer.

Mark Hillman, VP of Strategy and Product Line Management, Compuware, speaks with Center for Digital Strategies MBA Fellow, Torlisa Jeffrey T'12, about the emergence of cloud computing and the vast business implications of its adoption.

Terry Harshfield, Director of Product Management for Compuware, discusses the Vantage 11.5 release, which was announced on October 12th. You’ll hear how Vantage supports disruptive technologies like virtualization and WAN optimization, how Vantage delivers Java and .NET monitoring in context of the end user experience, and about the added support for SAP and Cerner applications.

Claudia Dent, Vice President of Product Management for Gomez, the Web Performance division of Compuware, discusses the Gomez fall release, which was announced on October 12th. You’ll hear about the new Gomez First Mile, the new operational dashboard, as well as other new and updated features of the Gomez fall release, which is now available [...]

Ron Wilson, product strategy director for Compuware’s cloud computing solutions, discusses some of the application performance challenges that virtualization presents to IT organizations, how successful organizations are addressing those challenges, and how virtualization can be used as a stepping stone to cloud computing.

Francis Cordon, subject matter expert for Compuware’s Java and .NET monitoring solutions, discusses the importance of Java and .NET monitoring, some of the shortcomings of traditional approaches and how to reduce the impact of monitoring on the application being monitored.

Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, interviews David Kelly, Senior Analyst at Upside Research and Lori Ellsworth, Vice President of Changepoint Solutions at Compuware. The three discuss how IT organizations can better manage change, employ IT portfolio management techniques and processes, and manage their short-term shrinkage or reduction needs, while remaining flexible when the [...]

Compuware Product Management Director Terry Harshfield discusses the latest Compuware release, Vantage 11.  Terry includes insight into the solutions’ top-down approach to service delivery, why end user experience monitoring is so important and other highlights made available within this release.

Gary Kaiser, Compuware’s subject matter expert for Application Performance Management (APM), provides an overview of APM design, implementation and operation fundamentals. Gary provides tips on getting started with APM, along with practical and achievable steps toward better service delivery.

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