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Why this Oracle exec turned to academia to help climb the cloud career ladder

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That opened something of an academic floodgate and Alfred has continued picking up degrees as he has climbed higher on the career ladder, including an MBA from MIT and his current pursuit of a PhD in engineering management. In January 2018, Alfred became senior director of compute operations at Oracle in Bellevue, Wash., Oracle Photo).

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

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After two years as product manager for Zing at Azul Systems, she joined Cloudera in 2012 to help drive the future of distributed data processing through Cloudera''s Distribution of Hadoop. Hittle is a Level III, top-ranked, Acquisition Program Manager and Systems Planning Research, Development, and Engineering Professional.

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Cloud – Get on Board or be left Behind

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If you look at IT leaders 10 years ago you will see companies like IBM, Oracle, HP, and Motorola leading the Fortune 500. Today’s IT leaders are companies that are able to move quickly, fail fast, and leverage the cost savings and innovation the cloud offers. These companies include: Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook and others.

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Venture Out expands to help more people validate their startup ideas while still working at a day job

GeekWire

Venture Out expands: The Seattle-based organization that aims to help tech workers leave companies and create their own startups has added a new program called Moonlighter Lab. What it does: The lab charges $1,499 for an 8-week program designed to validate startup ideas from people who are still working at full-time day jobs.

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Attend the 6 Feb @Cloudera Federal Forum: For the Analyst, Data Scientist, #BigData Technologist in DC

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Matt Carroll – General Manager, 42Six, a CSC Company. Marshall – Deputy Program Manager, NSG Program Management Office, IT Service Directorate, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Sapan “Soup” Shah – Technical Director, 42Six a CSC Company. 10:00 AM Break.

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Product manager salary: Pay range factors, tips for making more

CIO Business Intelligence

When it comes to top tech companies, Glassdoor reports a similar range, as you can see in the table below. Stephanie White, director and head of product, technology, and professional at fintech recruiting company EC1, says that salaries for high-level product management professionals roughly match their tech peers.

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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

GeekWire

Prior to Amazon, Sharma co-founded LifeLemon, a consumer apparel e-commerce startup, led marketing at Flipkart, and was a developer at Oracle. Cyber threat intelligence company DomainTools named four new executives to its leadership team : • James Reynolds as chief technology officer. based IT services and support company.