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Integrate raises $3.4M and wins Space Force contract for management software

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Space Force to boost its program management software platform into a higher orbit. The newly announced seed funding round was led by Hyperplane, with participation from Riot Ventures, Ravelin Capital and John Capodilupo, former chief technology officer and co-founder of Whoop. million in funding and secured a $1.25

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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Sheldon’s other roles at the tech giant included principal lead program manager for Bing and principal engineering manager for Dynamics Applied Research, where he led a team of data scientists and engineers to build predictive systems for business applications.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Businesses are looking for tech pros with highly specialized skills, as they embrace digital transformation and increasingly rely on technology for core business. The average salary for IT management professionals has grown just over 8% since 2021. Average salary: US$139,683 Increase since 2021: 12.9%

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New Frontier Aerospace aims to zoom from hypersonic flight’s past into its future

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The chairman is Alex Tai , who previously served as Virgin Galactic’s chief operating officer. “The program plan there is to start in earnest bending hardware for that,” he said. “It would be about two years to an integrated ground test, and then the start of the flight test campaign.”

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO Business Intelligence

The demand for specialized skills has boosted salaries in cybersecurity, data, engineering, development, and program management. 1. IT management It’s no surprise that IT executive positions earn some of the highest average salaries, with Dice reporting an average yearly salary of $164,814 in 2022 — an 8.4%

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Startups to watch: 13 venture capitalists offer their picks for the next Pacific Northwest unicorns

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Quote : “They’ve executed really well on building low-cost consumer hardware devices with a strong onramp to consumer adoption of computer vision and subscription services.” ” Co-founder and CEO : Yun Zhang , former instock manager at Amazon. ” CEO : Tushar Garg , former program manager at Microsoft.

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Manny Vellon, 1960-2020: Towering figure in Seattle tech was an engineer at heart

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Manny Vellon was CTO of Seattle-based technology experience design firm Level 11. “Our Program Management team ate lunch together most days; it was an informal opportunity for the group to get to know each other outside of our separate projects and created a culture where we could all learn from each other.”