Notes to transfer into markdown:

Kathyleen Beveridge

  • Born in Vietnam :D
  • She didn’t have the traditional education like most people
    • Undergrad at Santa Clara
    • NBA at USC (not traditional since she waited to get NBA)
    • Studied abroad in Spain
  • Maya angelou: my mission in life is not nearly to survive, but to thrive, and share my passion
  • She worked at 3 companies for a long time
    • Create technology that makes life better for everyone everywhere
    • She like working with people like us to make an impact on the world A priority is doing something that the world wants What she did in her companies had a macro impact on the world She is senior director of marketing and sales and works closely with the R&D director

Finance degree Maya Angelou poet First job = Investment banker w Wells Fargo (didn’t enjoy it) Switched careers to high tech First tech job was at HP Took six months off and worked at Qualcomm Works at Thermo Fisher Scientific (25,000 employees upping to 125,000) < she is senior director of marketing and sales Similarities in mission statements= tech for good of the people, use tech to help people Loves high tech because she loves the impact (global/macro effect) in producing products for people in the world Her role: senior director of marketing and commercial sales= works with rnd director (stage gates = voice of customers) People in her team work w the “scrum master” and uses “scrum process/team” (frontend/backend/etc) to create plan and promote products

HP: “Create technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere”

Qualcomm: “Inventing tech the world loves”

Thermo Fisher Scientific: “Enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer”

Kris Porter: Software engineer (SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure) <- not writing code all day

  • UCLA for Elecrtrical Engineering
  • Failed first computer science (stay motivated and don’t have to know where in tech degree you want)

  • Masters degree in electrical engineering from cal state LA

  • Got job at start up GPM (email marketing automation which was like DevOps)
  • Worked at NBC Universal (streaming media infrastructure)

Data structures/algorithms/Python/etc very important and used a lot rest API slowly moving to Graph QL at Twitter Data scientists = analyze customer demand/use (also non-technical role)

Learning the Linux operating system is a marketing skill He started doing Dev Ops stuff, meaning he deployed his software

Focused on Communication Systems and Computer Networks (Cs 31) Failed…

  • POV if you feel like you’re bad a comp sci = KEEP SLAYING

  • Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Cal State LA
  • Researched networked sensors (robot swings between trees and scans/takes data on environment) < deployed in Costa Rica jungle ^Learned about Linux here
  • Was introduced to Qualcolmm in 2014 (Mr. Mort. hired him :0)
  • Worked for Twitter (#workedforElonsince2021)
    • Twitter timeline = API that goes to twitter database and retrieves info from many users)
    • Twitter trains new employees for three weeks ^ Twitter used to use all rest APIS but now moving to GraphQL
  • He continues to learn (doesn’t get bored in industry)
    • ^ you don’t have to follow one path, you can learn in many different areas
  • Streaming Media Infrastructure for 2012 Olympic Games.

Center for Embedded Networked Centers Networked Info Mechanical Systems (NIMS) Twitter Projects New DataCenter Deployment Migrating HomeTimeline to GraphQL

Questions:

How is Agile Methodology Used in Real Life Companies?

  • Planned in a group with other engineers to coordinate in Agile Methodology
  • Short sprints

  • The concept of agile is important because they did projects in a span of 6-12 months

  • When you see a company shuffle = look for new jobs DON’T WAIT Qualcomm uses GitLab = repositories cost money = analyzed download levels to predict when to archive/delete repositories Kathyleen uses databases and data science to predict sales, weather (wine harvest), etc. Non-technical roles = recommending clients to buy certain things/do things

Most Important skill to have in the tech industry?

KRIS:

Continuous Learning Learn multiple programming languages “Learn how to learn” = always be ready to learn more

Don’t be super concerned about things you read on the news (resiliance) The only risk is not learning

KATHY:

  • Be adaptive
  • Career paths won’t always be a straight line
  • Best technicians: listen and solve technical requirements (can explain in non-technical terms)
  • Something they had to Learn:
  • To be adaptive
  • Be able to pass code tests (code has to work)

Work/life balance:

  • Some companies are great with work hours
  • Some have a lot of hours/deadlines
  • If you have outside hobbies/necessities = set boundaries

Coding = critical thinking

  • Allows for problem solving
  • Dissecting issues or building solutions

Most important qualities in tech industry:

  • continuous learning (learning how to learn)
  • resilience (don’t fear stuff in the news)
    • go for it (even if in job for short period of time = still learning and gaining skills)
  • good listener (in normal terms) and then translate into tech