How I Got Here: Kenyon Kluge, Director of Electrical Engineering, Zero...
Kenyon Kluge jumped from a large IT company to a startup to combine his love of technology with his love of motorcycles, and now is the Director of Electrical Engineering at Zero Motorcycles, a Scotts...
View ArticleHow I Got Here: Nir Zuk, CTO, Palo Alto Networks
Nir Zuk, founder and CTO of Palo Alto Networks, is passionate about technology, and has little patience for large, slow-moving bureaucracies. He's founded small companies, seen them acquired by larger...
View ArticleHow I Got Here: Rick Treese, CTO, TheMarkets.com
Rick Treese, Chief Technology Officer at TheMarkets.com, didn't always know he would combine his interests in technology and finance. In high school at the well-known High School of Performing Arts, on...
View ArticleHow I Got Here: Harry Labana, CTO, Citrix Systems
Born into a culture with limited choices and high expectations, Harry Labana, CTO of Citrix Systems, found that the best way to succeed was to get away and find out who he really was. "Practice...
View ArticleHow I Got Here: Paul Okura, owner, CMIT Solutions of Southern Westchester County
Is there any such thing as job stability in the investment banking world any more? Was there ever? The nature of the business is that it is constantly changing and evolving -- so there is no stability,...
View ArticleHow I Got Here: Scott Archibald, Managing Director, Bender Consulting
Scott Archibald has been with both big and small companies, and had the enormous responsibility for the IT infrastructure on the first day of the merger between HP and Compaq. Today he works with a...
View ArticleHow I Got Here: Anne Marie Schar, Director of Technology, Mid-Peninsula High...
Anne Marie Schar went from being an English and History teacher, to being a network administrator. She found her current career path through a very unusual and lucky turn of events, first becoming a...
View ArticleHow I Got Here: Carol Carr, Director of Change Management, Direct Energy
Carol Carr, Director of Change Management at Direct Energy, knows the value of mentoring programs. Already having embarked on a solid career path with the Big Four accounting firms and then moving to...
View ArticleHow I Got Here: Venkat Rangan, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer,...
Venkat found success right out of the gate with some high-profile dotcom companies, and says that maintaining good connections with people throughout your career is the key to continuing advancement....
View ArticleHow I Got Here: Steven Savage, Project Manager, Powered By Gamespy
Steven Savage, armed with a fresh degree in psychology, got out of college and saw a struggling economy and went to work right away at Wendy's -- not the traditional career choice of a college grad,...
View ArticleHow I Got Here: Robert Reeves, Chief Architect, Application Release...
Not many dotcommers and technology executives can lay claim to working on the infamous Warped Tour, the well known annual music and extreme sports festival. And if that's not enough, BMC Software's...
View ArticleHow I Got Here: John Janakiraman, CTO, Skytap
From his hometown in Chennai, India, to school in the remote deserts of Rajasthan, to fast-paced sunny California, John Janakiraman has had a chance to see and experience some dramatically different...
View Article5 reasons IT pros should be paranoid
IT organizations have a lot on their plates, and keeping the data center humming is only part of the equation. Factor in the threats coming at IT from every direction, and you can see why IT pros have...
View ArticleIT job satisfaction in a rut
It's getting tough out there for IT employees facing long workdays, short tempers and limited career options.read more
View ArticleIs any job better than none?
Even for those of us who experienced the tough IT times of 2000, this year is different. In the wake of the overall economic challenges that started in late 2008, many of us in the IT profession find...
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