Podcast appearances and mentions of rob kaufman

In this episode of Dear Grad Student, Elana chats with high school friend and fellow PhD student, Rob Kaufman, about his experience changing fields, fighting loneliness, and using personal, traumatic experiences to foster growth in his life.Shop LGBTQIA merch: https://www.deargradstudent.com/LGBTQIAShop podcast merch: https://www.deargradstudent.com/merchFind all things podcast at: https://deargradstudent.comFind the podcast on Twitter: @DearGradStudentFind the podcast on Instagram: @DearGradStudentPodFind Elana on Twitter: @elana_glogerMusic provided by: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4171-open-those-bright-eyesLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/[Episode edited by Coral Arroyo]Support the show

He’s a drummer, teacher, composer, father and one of my best friends in the world. From his home in Stockolm, Sweden, we meet Mr. Andersson. We talk about life and career and adjustments to expectations on episode 10 of Mike’s Moment Of… Music: Life Negotiations with Michael Andersson.  Michael Andersson is a freelance drummer with touring and recording credits worldwide. Graduated from Berklee College of Music were he studied under Prof. Ed Kaspik and Prof. Rob Kaufman. Born 1975 in Borås, a small town on the west coast of Sweden, Michael started taking lessons at the public school of music at the age of 8 were he studied for Julian Kursawa and Per Nordebring. Growing up in Borås were the music scene was somewhat small but still flourishing he joined several different bands as well as the academic ensembles that was offered at the public school. At the age of 16 he would record his first solo album "Mystery Island" at the Swedish Radio with producer and engineer Per Mossling. Michael and Per would join forces again and this time for the solo album "Black Spot". Both albums were experimental and bold and put forth by the Swedish Radio. At this time Michael was endorsed by Yamaha Scandinavia and Zildjian Cymbals. 1995 and at the age of 18 Michael joined the "Central Band of the Royal Swedish Army" were he studied drums and percussion with Capt. Tommy Törner. 1996 and 10 months after the military service he enrolled as a scholarship and performance major at Berklee College of Music. The years at Berklee meant musical growth and experience as a session player both live and in the studio. Michael graduated from Berklee as a Calato Regaltip and Zildjian artist and moved to Los Angeles were he would work with Berklee Alumni Pablo Mungia (Emmy Nominee and Emmy Winner) and musical director Kevin Nadeu for Royal Caribbean and Holiday on Ice. The steady Thursday gig at the Backstage Cafe in Beverly Hills brought a lot of attention to his playing which would result in new meetings and musical adventures. Several years of session work in Los Angeles finally brought Michael back to Europe were he toured with great players such as John Daversa, Ludwig Girdland, Luiz Luz, Santiago Roque, Michael Sean Harris, Chrissy Faith and Derek Davies. Extensive touring with this band throughout Europe with artists such as Leo Sayer, Patricia Kaas, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Cheb Mami, Fools Garden. Today Michael resides in Stockholm were he performs with extraordinary percussion ensemble ConRytmo with Johan Svensson (drummer for Britney Spears). Michael is a session player with a broad repertoire from jazz to pop and rock and an experienced and credited studio and touring musician. Michael endorses Gretsch Drums, Calato Regaltip sticks and Zildjian Cymbals exclusively. www.beatsharkmusic.com On the website you will find links to Michael’s Youtube, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram pages and channel.

For our first episode of Collaboration Code Radio, Chelsea Kaufman, CEO and Co-Founder of the coding bootcamp LEARN academy, sits down with the other founders to dive into the origin story. Rob, Matt, and Chelsea go into some of the behind-the-scenes details of where LEARN academy came from, the relationship with our sister company Notch8, and some good insight on the mission and purpose of LEARN academy, San Diego’s original coding bootcamp. Special Guests: Matt Clark and Rob Kaufman.

Supplement Engineer Blog: https://supplementengineer.com/blogs/supplements Supplement Engineer IG: https://instagram.com/thesupplementengineer Supp Engr Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4D6M54tttp09QorWfBn5AO Supplement Engineer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNACHGhSRNCc98hHgBZhk_A?view_as=subscriber   In this episode of the Supplement Engineer Podcast, I'm joined by Rob Kaufman, Co-Founder of SteelFit USA. SteelFit is a sports nutrition company from the makers of Pro Tan® based in south Florida, committed to producing high-quality, physician-formulated supplements for everyone from physique athletes and the casual gym rat.    In this episode, Rob and I discuss:  Rob's early days working for ProTan The founding of SteelFit The decision to make SteelFit a separate brand apart from ProTan Design philosophy behind SteelFit products Patented vs generic ingredients Topical creams for fat burning Thoughts on keto supplements and will SteelFit release jump into the mix Our favorite types of beer Rob's current training regimen The decision to avoid using distributors and focus on direct-to-consumer Are trade shows like the Arnold and Olympia worthwhile to go to for a brand? Rob's daily supplement regimen Rob's first supplement experience Negative supplement experiences Upcoming SteelFit product releases for 2019 SteelFit Website: https://steelfitusa.com SteelFit IG: https://www.instagram.com/steelfitusa/ Rob Kaufman IG: https://www.instagram.com/iamsteelfit/   If you enjoy this podcast and want to see more content like it, please consider leaving a review! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/supplement-engineer-podcast/id1447389041?mt=2&ls=1

One of the biggest areas of stress for CTOs is productivity and someone with a lot of wisdom in this area is Rob Kaufman. Rob is the co-founder of LEARN Academy where he helps people become software developers and then helps them become employed in the field. Today on CTO Studio with Rob we go deep into the subject of productivity and running a coding school. Join us and listen in to this fascinating discussion!  In this episode, you’ll hear: How much focus is on collaboration skills at LEARN Academy? Why it's important to have students solve their own problems. What is the difference between a junior developer and a senior developer? The naive algorithm: what is it? Why he knows what burn out looks like and how he actively fights against it. And so much more! Our first topic is LEARN Academy, Rob graduates about 20 coders every 2 months. The format for LEARN Academy works like this: it's 3 months full-time in the classroom and then one month full-time in an internship before graduating. They work with companies all over San Diego to ensure their graduates end the program with work experience. When he talks to prospective students he tells them the last day of group projects and the first day of internships should feel like same, just in a different place. And he also tells them the last day of their internship and the first day of their full-time job should also feel that way. But for about 40% of their students it feels exactly the same and it's in the same place - about 40% of their graduates end up staying on with their internship and working their after graduation. They also offer job services for the other 60%, and they offer job services beyond their graduate's first job. They reach out when they are transitioning from their first job and LEARN Academy's career services person meets with them, does a second resume check and talks to them about growing from their junior roles and transitioning into the next phase of their career. His goal as well as his CEO's goal at LEARN is a long-term partnership with their students. It's not about coming in and learning code and never contacting LEARN Academy again, it's a much bigger process that takes place over the entire career of the student. In fact, LEARN has been so effective with their partnerships that alumni are now hiring new graduates into their businesses! What does the landscape look like for LEARN among the coding schools out there? When they started there were no code schools in southern California, and the idea came about because his software consulting office in Portland brought in six interns from a local code school up there and they hired four of them after graduation. Rob wanted to replicate that process in his San Diego office but he couldn't because there were no code schools in the area. Driving home one night after an SD Ruby meetup he realized if no one else was going to start a code school then he was going to have to do it. Fortunately, his partner Chelsea was there to help. She has a background in business and education which combined with his passion for technology allowed them to create a code school. Because Chelsea is from San Diego and Rob is from LA, their school was built with a San Diego vibe to it. They inherently created a place with a work-life balance and with community at its core.  They've had students who have lost family members while they were in school and those students needed to suspend their time and come back at a later cohort. They sit down and have a conversation with their students; they work with people wherever they are at and that allows the school to be successful. Code schools live and die by their employment number - that is what they are competitive about. He can say comfortably that 84% of LEARN Academy graduates have employment in software development within 6 months of graduation, and they are stingy about that number. For example, they had an alumnus whose father passed away and the alumnus took over the auto dealership. They don't count him because he doesn't have a job as a software developer. They want to be honest with that number and to be realistic about that number. So what type of people do they attract as a result of that number - people who want a job or people who want to code? It is both, according to Rob. They want a career and software development is a great career because it has a future that is really obvious. There is a huge shortfall of software developers in the industry and that is why code schools now exist. There is a great need for talent. And how many of those people who come to LEARN Academy are looking for their first careers versus people changing fields? Most people who come are changing their careers. Rob estimates probably 80-90% have had some sort of job, they aren't fresh out of school. He further breaks it down by explaining roughly 60-65% of LEARN students are in their 20s and 30s looking for their first big career or wanting to change their career. And the other 35%-40% are people who did things like software development in the 80s and then went into management, or maybe they are a CEO or CTO who is tired of doing the nearly impossible task of finding a technical co-founder. So they want to know enough to be their own technical co-founder and join LEARN to do it. Also on today's CTO Studio Rob and I also talk about who teaches at LEARN Academy, and why to balance your talent ratio. We end the show by talking about how to choose which specific productivity regimens we should add into our lives and then how to add them. You can hear us weigh in all of those topics on today’s CTO Studio.  

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http://learn.notch8.com/ () Rob Kaufman has been programming since the age of 2, and hasn’t stopped since. He’s dedicated to helping businesses make the products they dream of into reality, and to learning and sharing as much about business and software as possible. Most recently, he’s been focused on sharing that knowledge with as many people as he can through http://learn.notch8.com/ (Learn), the San Diego developer’s boot camp. WORST MOMENT In the consulting side of the business, keeping some clients that you know you should have let go. I’ve always had a hard time letting go of projects. In startups, in particular, you have to let go of your failures. In consulting, it’s being able to let go of clients. HUGE SUCCESS My goal in high school was to start my own company by the age of thirty. I was able to start Notch8 at the age of 26, much earlier than what I had anticipated. Superpower Taking an idea and forming it into concrete actions. Kryptonite I get overloaded with meetings, I’m an introvert by nature. As my people interactions increase everyday and the number of people that I’m dealing with go up, trying to keep that sanity and the time to actually create things is tricky for me. IF YOU CAN HAVE ANY SUPERPOWER… Being invisible.   RECOMMENDED RESOURCE OR APP http://www.downcastapp.com/ (Downcast): A very cool podcatcher for iOS and Mac.   RECOMMENDED BOOK http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143126563/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0143126563&linkCode=as2&tag=stalifhac-20&linkId=DEIUFQM66PA5KYLY () http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143126563/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0143126563&linkCode=as2&tag=stalifhac-20&linkId=4JT2YWKJTCRC4X3T (Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity)   ADVICE TO HACKER NATION Always take the time to do the paperwork, planning, keeping your books up, understanding your finances. Those things get shuffled out of the way when the going gets tough and things get busy. The more you let that stuff slide, the more out of control you feel. And the more out of control you feel, the more stressed you are and then the more stuff slides. And it can be a really bad spiral.   Action Step Find a mentor and take them out to lunch FOLLOW https://twitter.com/orangewolf (Twitter) https://github.com/orangewolf (Github) http://www.notch8.com/ (Notch8.com)

Rob Kaufman explores tools and options for improving your development process: common issues with managing tasks, starting work, committing branches, and getting completed tasks verified and deployed to production. It's all about automating the little steps because details are too easy to forget.

Rob Kaufman discusses common testing philosophies and methodologies in use by the Ruby community.

Rob Kaufman demonstrates Tanning Bed, his new Solr search mixin for any Ruby class. Tanning Bed makes fewer assumptions about how you want to deal with the Solr search engine, while still providing easy Ruby-like interfaces.

Rob Kaufman talks about his new Ruby 1.9 or Bust project. The project is dedicated to updating popular Ruby gems to be Ruby 1.9 compatible, and is seeking donations to hire a full-time developer to work on porting gems.

Rob Kaufman takes on database scaling with MySQL. This talk will walk you through setting up a Master (read write) Slave (read only) MySQL network, as well as a Master Master, or Multi-Master network. The talk will also cover the whys and when of database clustering.

Rob Kaufman talks about using ActionMailer safely, how to keep out of the spam box and how to test your emails before your customers see them.

Rob Kaufman takes on Capistrano 2. What is it? How does it work? What's changed since version 1?

What do you do when third-party data vendors don't speak REST? Rob Kaufman discuss real-world techniques for importing and exporting data. (This talk was also given at RailsConf 2007.)

Rob Kaufman shows how easy it is to integrate Solr powered search into your Rails application using the ActsAsSolr plugin.