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Jim Kohl has 33 years of experience delivering solutions across a wide range of industry domains (Banking, Insurance, Aircraft, Point of Sale, CAD/CAM). He is an avid promoter of technologies to help developers become better software engineers and collaborators. Recently Jim transitioned into DevOps as a great way to help do this. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/jim-kohl-productivity/ What You Will Learn In This Episode The biggest impediment to scaling dev teams. The solutions you can't find on Google and StackOverflow. The missing element to your current document repository that makes it difficult to keep up to date. Why GitHub is a killer resource for Project Management. How to ensure no developer is left behind. Why developers are a lot like squirrels. The mindset you need to be successful in technology and business.  

An All-American kid growing up, Tanner Gers is a man who's been forced to reinvent himself over and over again throughout his life, but the biggest reinvention was moving forward after waking up in the hospital totally blind. Since that day, Tanner has influenced the world as the host of the Creative Success Show, at CreativeSuccessShow.com, on his health and fitness blog,  ABSolutelyLean.com, as a professional speaker, author, and a US Paralympian. Tanner finds the fuel to achieve more and do more through fulfilling his big mission in life; help people across the world achieve their potential in every aspect of life, regardless of circumstance. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/tanner-gers-motivation/   What You Will Learn in This Episode How adversity and failure is going to affect you, whether you are ready for it or not. Find out how to handle it. Why other people project their "glass ceilings" onto you, and what that means to you. What to do about o

Career Hyperdrive Course: Day 7 The Career Hyperdrive Course is a free 7 day email and audio course for technical professionals to help launch your career into hyperspace. Each module in this course is designed to help you overcome a major barrier to your career growth. Here's what you're going to get out of the course. The motivation you need to overcome your biggest career obstacles and navigate asteroids. Productivity tips to help you crush it at work without killing your personal life (leaving more time at the cantina). Jedi mind tricks that will build your respect and influence across the organization without needing to move into a management track. A droid masterclass that's going to guide you through the process of selecting the right technology for the right problem, every time. Social engineering hacks to break into the elite inner circles and get a seat at the Jedi Council. A strategy that will raise your value (and salary) within your organization and increase your reputation a

Career Hyperdrive Course: Day 6 The Career Hyperdrive Course is a free 7 day email and audio course for technical professionals to help launch your career into hyperspace. Each module in this course is designed to help you overcome a major barrier to your career growth. Here's what you're going to get out of the course. The motivation you need to overcome your biggest career obstacles and navigate asteroids. Productivity tips to help you crush it at work without killing your personal life (leaving more time at the cantina). Jedi mind tricks that will build your respect and influence across the organization without needing to move into a management track. A droid masterclass that's going to guide you through the process of selecting the right technology for the right problem, every time. Social engineering hacks to break into the elite inner circles and get a seat at the Jedi Council. A strategy that will raise your value (and salary) within your organization and increase your reputation a

Career Hyperdrive Course: Day 5 The Career Hyperdrive Course is a free 7 day email and audio course for technical professionals to help launch your career into hyperspace. Each module in this course is designed to help you overcome a major barrier to your career growth. Here's what you're going to get out of the course. The motivation you need to overcome your biggest career obstacles and navigate asteroids. Productivity tips to help you crush it at work without killing your personal life (leaving more time at the cantina). Jedi mind tricks that will build your respect and influence across the organization without needing to move into a management track. A droid masterclass that's going to guide you through the process of selecting the right technology for the right problem, every time. Social engineering hacks to break into the elite inner circles and get a seat at the Jedi Council. A strategy that will raise your value (and salary) within your organization and increase your reputation a

Career Hyperdrive Course: Day 4 The Career Hyperdrive Course is a free 7 day email and audio course for technical professionals to help launch your career into hyperspace. Each module in this course is designed to help you overcome a major barrier to your career growth. Here's what you're going to get out of the course. The motivation you need to overcome your biggest career obstacles and navigate asteroids. Productivity tips to help you crush it at work without killing your personal life (leaving more time at the cantina). Jedi mind tricks that will build your respect and influence across the organization without needing to move into a management track. A droid masterclass that's going to guide you through the process of selecting the right technology for the right problem, every time. Social engineering hacks to break into the elite inner circles and get a seat at the Jedi Council. A strategy that will raise your value (and salary) within your organization and increase your reputation a

Career Hyperdrive Course: Day 3   The Career Hyperdrive Course is a free 7 day email and audio course for technical professionals to help launch your career into hyperspace. Each module in this course is designed to help you overcome a major barrier to your career growth. Here's what you're going to get out of the course. The motivation you need to overcome your biggest career obstacles and navigate asteroids. Productivity tips to help you crush it at work without killing your personal life (leaving more time at the cantina). Jedi mind tricks that will build your respect and influence across the organization without needing to move into a management track. A droid masterclass that's going to guide you through the process of selecting the right technology for the right problem, every time. Social engineering hacks to break into the elite inner circles and get a seat at the Jedi Council. A strategy that will raise your value (and salary) within your organization and increase your reput

Career Hyperdrive Course: Day 2 The Career Hyperdrive Course is a free 7 day email and audio course for technical professionals to help launch your career into hyperspace. Each module in this course is designed to help you overcome a major barrier to your career growth. Here's what you're going to get out of the course. The motivation you need to overcome your biggest career obstacles and navigate asteroids. Productivity tips to help you crush it at work without killing your personal life (leaving more time at the cantina). Jedi mind tricks that will build your respect and influence across the organization without needing to move into a management track. A droid masterclass that's going to guide you through the process of selecting the right technology for the right problem, every time. Social engineering hacks to break into the elite inner circles and get a seat at the Jedi Council. A strategy that will raise your value (and salary) within your organization and increase your reputation a

Career Hyperdrive Course: Day 1 The Career Hyperdrive Course is a free 7 day email and audio course for technical professionals to help launch your career into hyperspace. Each module in this course is designed to help you overcome a major barrier to your career growth. Here's what you're going to get out of the course. The motivation you need to overcome your biggest career obstacles and navigate asteroids. Productivity tips to help you crush it at work without killing your personal life (leaving more time at the cantina). Jedi mind tricks that will build your respect and influence across the organization without needing to move into a management track. A droid masterclass that's going to guide you through the process of selecting the right technology for the right problem, every time. Social engineering hacks to break into the elite inner circles and get a seat at the Jedi Council. A strategy that will raise your value (and salary) within your organization and increase your reputation a

The roles of the NPCs that will help push and pull the player characters into emotional reactions. This is the final episode of a multi-part podcast series on roleplaying games and Dungeons & Dragons. Part 1: 10 Business Lessons Learned in Roleplaying Games Part 2: Interview Players for Your D&D Campaign by Playing Board Games Part 3: Picking a Genre and System for your RPG Part 4: Developing an Epic D&D Campaign Story Part 5: Cultural Inspirations For Your D&D Homebrew More info on this campaign.

Anthony M. Verna III, is the managing partner at Verna Law, P.C. Anthony has his Bachelor's degree in computer science from Case Western Reserve and his J.D. from Rutgers Law School.  Not only practicing at his own firm, Anthony has lead multiple continuing education classes and professional development seminars including "Practicing Before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board" at Lawline.com. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/anthony-verna-entrepreneurship/ What You Will Learn in This Episode What could happen if you don't read the End User Licence Agreements. The first step every entrepreneur should take to protect their intellectual property. Who owns the content when two or more parties collaborate. The tricky boundaries when authoring software using open source contributions. When Creative Commons is appropriate for your work and when to choose a different license.  

Paula Paul entered the workforce as a software engineer after an internship with IBM in the early 80's. Since then she has shipped commercial software, evangelized .NET for Microsoft, and held executive positions in corporate IT. After 'flipping the table' mid-career, she came back to technology through a passion for teaching people to code. Paula is currently an architect with AmWINS Group, Inc. and enjoys work in the community as an ABI (Anita Borg Institute) Syster, diversity speaker, and mentor. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/paula-paul-people/ What you will learn from this episode Why this is the perfect time to get into the technology industry. The demographics of awesome software developers. Why "TechnologyPeople" is an awesome glitch. The hardest part of working in the tech industry and why we struggle in that area. How to get around the passive-aggressive resistance of engineers. The win-win scenario of being wrong. Why we need to tap into the emotions of the people we are serving.

Brandy Semore has over fifteen years of management experience in various fields with a strong grounding in internet, data center operations and business management strategies. She graduated from Oklahoma State University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and holds a MBA from Oklahoma City University, with an emphasis in project management and is PMP certified with the Project Management Institute. Beyond being a working mom delicately balancing her career with her family – she is passionate in helping and serving others. Brandy is dedicated to coaching others in managing successful projects, regardless of one's background or training, as seen from her blog articles Project Success: Six Factors. She is also an advocate for equal pay and equal opportunity for women working in technology. She serves as the volunteer President and Executive Director for Oklahoma Women in Technology (OKWIT), which she co-founded in March 2016. Since its inception, OKWIT has attained over 350 members and expanded fro

Kevin Jean-Charles is the Founder of Transparency Financial Technology Corp which owns and operates Finslide brand, a personal cashflow technology that services families and individuals. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/kevin-jean-charles-leadership/ Key Takeaways What is the #1 priority to your brand? Are you enabling your employees to be successful in that area? Support your employees but don't be a "helicopter boss." No hovering. Don't count the hours, count the moments and conversations. Your life can change after one conversation. Make sure each conversation will have a positive impact on the people around you. Make each day a masterpiece. To engage an audience, whether it be with technology or conversation, you have to make it relevant to them. Helping youth understand personal finance and cash flow means you need to engage them using the user interfaces that help them the best. Think before you speak - you don't have to be an abusive boss.

Theo Priestley is the CEO of Cronycle, a content discovery and collaboration platform. Priestley has a wealth of experience in senior positions at software companies and advisory roles working with diverse startups such as Cupenya, and Novaquark (developing the E3 hit Dual Universe). Priestley is very active in the startup community mentoring within UK and US accelerators. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/theo-priestley-productivity/ Key Takeaways Documentation for the sake of documentation is unproductive. Kit bags are project and document templates to build on quickly instead of creating from scratch. Find like-minded people who are willing to run with POCs and then proving it works. Information is everywhere and we are poor at filtering the noise. It feels like we are drowning in a content tsunami. Groups tend to fall into the relevance paradox. They don't know to look for different types of information because of the lack of experience and knowledge. (You don't know what you

Kindle Rashod is a motivational hip-hop artist targeting other creative artists and entrepreneurs. His brand involves more than just making music. Through blogging, writing books, podcasts, and videos, Kindle wants to provide information on motivation, productivity, innovation, and faith. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/kindle-rashod-motivation/ Key Takeaways Most people don't have the mindset to be motivated and become successful. Successful business leaders, motivational speakers and best-selling authors put a lot of emphasis on having the right mindset. Unmotivation is a gradual thing. You can become comfortable at the level you're at and stop moving forward. emphasis on attitude about the world Prepare your mind and body for success. You are the company you keep. If you hang around unmotivated people, you will be unmotivated. Stop watching television to increase your productivity. Medidate on images of goals. Print out pictures of black checks, money, pictures of audience. Write a life p

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Priest Willis, Sr is CEO of Affiliate Mission – the fastest growing affiliate management startup in North Carolina. Priest got his start in affiliate marketing in early 2000's where he cut his teeth building a few niche affiliate sites and eventually started managing company programs like Lenovo, Atomicpark.com and BuyCostumes.com. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/priest-willis-entrpreneurship/ Key Takeaways Affiliate marketing is not MLM, get rich quick scheme. Amazon was first to put together affiliate programs. Entrepreneurs are hungry. Many millionaries have 7 streams of income. Affiliate marketing is a pay-for-performance model with no inventory. Little risk is involved because no inventory. Build up an audience and be an influencer. Subscription boxes are doing really well. As a merchant, it's a cheap way to extend your marketing program. Find a hot niche right now like Suicide Squad and then sell costumes. Position yourself to look for the new hotness.

Bill Schmarzo is the CTO of EMC's Big Data Consulting Practice and a frequent industry speaker, a blogger, a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Management as well as an author. Schmarzo wrote "Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science" and "Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business". Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/bill-schmarzo-people/ Key Takeaways The companies who are successful with Big Data addressed the cultural or people issues. How do we get people engaged in the process so that we're delivering the analytics in a way that is actionable to our stakeholders? Many companies tend to start with implementing Hadoop and then waiting for magic to happen. It doesn't happen. Data science is really identifying the variables and metrics that MIGHT be a better predictor of performance. "Might" is a license to be wrong and in many companies the idea of wrong is bad. In the BI space, the IT departments over promised and under deliveredwhich has lead bu

Nick Rust has spent the majority of his professional career working in Healthcare IT (10 years), with a particular emphasis in Health Care and Medical Device information security. Show notes at http://hellotechpros.com/nick-rust-technology/ Key Takeaways It's common that most people don't have experience in healthcare IT. When medical devices first came out, it was an instrument, not a piece of information technology. Radiology has more tech and devices than most other departments. Biotech been around for decades, IT came in 1980s. New biotech are computers integrated into the instruments. The facilities and instruments are not good at network segmentation. FDA recently said that the industry is far below standard. The most basic security features are missing in many biotech areas. No network whitelisting. Running Windows XP. Gaining network access to medical devices is an excellent way of escalating level of access across the network. If you can gain control of one hospital in a network of 7