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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

GeekWire

T-Mobile Photo). — T-Mobile appointed former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Director Letitia Long to its board. Amazon Web Services’ VP of Solution Architecture and Training & Certification Rudy Valdez has departed, according to a report by The Information. Letitia Long. (T-Mobile Seattle-based Snap!

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PGA of America swings for the public cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

That’s just one major drive under way by the nonprofit golf association, which is also delivering myriad tournaments and events, special services, and classes to its 28,000 members, a roster including celebrities, national golf pros, golf coaches, amateur players, and people who work in the golf industry, says PGA of America CTO Kevin Scott.

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How this virtual event startup rebounded from a near-shutdown to an acquisition amid the pandemic

GeekWire

Founded in 2008, the Seattle-based company traditionally makes mobile apps for conferences and events. That caught the attention of Community Brands , a software provider that helps associations, nonprofits, K-12 schools and faith-based groups manage events, memberships, fundraising, and more. (Pathable Photo).

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Salesforce certification guide: Roles, paths, exams, cost, training, requirements

CIO Business Intelligence

The Salesforce Certified Identity and Access Management credential demonstrates a candidate’s knowledge, skills and capabilities at assessing identity architecture and designing secure, high-performance access management solutions on Customer 360.

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

“Today, automakers are having a hard time getting their customers to buy informatics systems because they only can do 10% of what a mobile phone can do,” said Rudi Streif, who leads the Automotive Grade Linux workgroup for the Linux Foundation. “It doesn’t enable the radio to interface to the user.

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Longtime UX leader Karen Clark Cole on staying present and learning to tell good fear from bad

GeekWire

Cole took an intensive, year-long course in IT and began working in what was then called information architecture. Outside of work, Cole is the founder of Girls Can Do , a nonprofit that hosts events akin to “TED Talks for girls,” particularly girls from racially diverse and low-income families.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation, a public sector organization responsible for providing valuations for more than 5 million properties in Ontario, runs its core property valuation engine 5,000 percent faster at one-tenth the cost by using AWS versus legacy IT architecture.

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