Technical Buisness Panel Notes; Extra Credit

Kathyleen Beveridge

Career and Journey

  • Wells Fargom Nikko Securities, 1995 - 1996 as investment advisor
    • Was a stock broker but went back to school and switched careers
  • First High Tech Job at HP in SD
  • Later became Qualcomm Senior Manager Sales Operations and Director of Global Sales
  • ThermoFischer - senior director of marketing
  • Major in biotech
  • Shes a voice of sales and customers
    • Predicts where demand is BEFORE customers place orders
  • She enjoys working with all folks. She has a special ability many don’t possess

    Education

  • MVA at USC
  • BS Finance, at Santa Clara University
  • Studied Abroad in Spain later

    Personal Enjoyment

  • Personal Quote: “my mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with passion, some compassion, some humor, and style”
  • Enjoys surfing
  • Glad she works at a company now that has a huge impact on people

    Her past company mission statements:

  • HP: Create technology that makes life better for everyone
  • Qualcomm: Inventing the tech everyone
    • Qualcomm chips were 99% of cell phones in the world
      • Everyday Qualcomm impacts a billion lives
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific: ENable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer
    • 100000 colleagues
    • 7000 R&D scientists/engineers
    • 1.5 Billion invested in R&D
    • 40B in revenue
  • All are similar because they utilize tech for good of the people and to help them

    Kris Poter

    Who he is:

  • Software developer - SRE, DevOps engineer, Infrastructure engineer
  • There were no CS classes when he started
  • First cs class was 2nd quarter of some year in college
  • Graduated in 2008

    Education

  • UCLA (Masters)
    • Fun fact: he failed his first CS class

      Personal Beliefs

  • It doesn’t matter what you like at this age, you can have a tech career later on

    Career

  • NBC Universal, Streaming media infrastructure
  • Twitter
    • Most of team was laid off
    • Remote workers like him got kicked out
  • Marketable skill
    • Research Project: internet of thing
    • Robot that deployed somewhere in world
      • Costa Rica: swings in the tree and give biological readings

        Learning Highlights

  • CCNA Training
  • Machine and Deep Learning
  • Python
  • Data Structures, Algorithms, Systems
  • Rest APIS in his job at twitter

    Interview Questions

    Agile Methodology

  • Technical perspective, different companies have their own version of agile, they use it depending on what they need
    • Qualcomm (150 engineers, interacted with each other, planned all of work for the quarter in a big meeting that last today)
  • Agile is important

    Business landscape can change : Sprints

  • Gone are the days where projects take 6 months
  • What can we do in shorter time periods?
  • Skillset is highly regarding