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Tech Moves: Seattle startups hire new execs; board shuffles at Adaptive and Porch

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It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019. Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. He previously worked as CTO and information officer at customer loyalty company cxLoyalty. Portland, Ore.-based

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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

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Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. He previously worked at Nike, Symantec and The Regence Group.

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Tech Moves: Former Amazon VP Brad Porter joins Scale AI as CTO; UW names new Communication Leadership director; and more

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Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes. Robert Matthews (Swiftwater Group Photo).

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CIOs in transition: 5 tips for landing your next IT leadership job

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How you manage your time, emotions, and priorities during the transition impacts the opportunities, odds of getting offers, and your psyche. What are key activities to focus on and skills to develop that can help you land a new, exciting role faster? What does networking mean, and what activities lead to opportunities?

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Tech Moves: Ada Developers Academy bolsters board; Tune CEO steps down following acquisition; AWS execs promoted

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— Seattle-based Ada Developers Academy, a non-profit, tuition free coding school for women and gender-diverse adults, added four new board members in its quest to expand its impact on the tech industry: Clockwise from top left: Jeffrey Spector, Michele Broderick, Melina Garcia and Justin Beals. Ada Developers Academy Photos).

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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Ryan Downing, CIO of enterprise business solutions at Principal Financial Group, saw how this challenge impacted his organization. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. growth rate, which resulted in about 117,000 net new hires.) Last year saw a 1.2%

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

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A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Raise hired Mike Cartwright as vice president of e-commerce. Read the story. Gopuff Photos).