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

GeekWire

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

GeekWire

More context: Seattle has become a global epicenter for tech talent , but many of the top engineers, data scientists, program managers and others are at working big companies such as Amazon or Microsoft, or one of the 130-plus engineering outposts in the region — Facebook, Google, Salesforce, Oracle, and more have large offices.

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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. It can and should start with all the components of an organization’s program management framework, overlaid with its agile software development methodology and then add the principles of DevOps.

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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. 11:00 AM Government Panel. Moderated by LTG (R) Richard Zahner. Noon Morning Wrap Up. 12:15 PM Lunch.

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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. She previously was a program manager at Life Science Washington and has her PhD in molecular physiology and biophysics from Vanderbilt University. Saykara Photo).

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Some companies have an army of directors of product who perform the role of a PM and get the comp of an associate product manager. PMs (or wannabe PMs) should also be looking at technical program manager and chief of staff roles.”