IT Career Energizer

GUEST BIO: Fernando Cejas is a Developer Advocate at IBM having previously worked at SoundCloud and at Tuenti.  Over the past decade, Fernando has mainly worked as a Core Engineer and Tech Lead focused on Mobile Development.   Fernando describes himself as a nerdy geek and a strong believer of sharing, which he does by speaking at conferences, participating in communities and through his blog.   E...

GUEST BIO: Jono is a digital strategist, marketing technologist and full-stack developer who currently manages special projects at Yoast.  He has nearly twenty years' of experience in web development, SEO, analytics, brand and campaign strategy and much more.   Jono has worked with startups, agencies and international brands to fix websites, implement growth strategies, prepare for the future and...

GUEST BIO: Jasmine Greenaway is a Cloud Developer Advocate for Microsoft.  She has been working as a .NET developer since late 2009 which has given her the opportunity to travel the world and make use of Visual Studio's extensibility framework in an open source environment.  Jasmine also teaches at a local community college and co-organises BrooklynJS. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's...

GUEST BIO: Keith is currently a member of the Platform Team at Okta working on Identity and Authentication APIs. Previously he was an early Developer Evangelist at Twilio and before that he worked on the Ultimate Geek Question at the Library of Congress.  Keith's underlying goal is to get good technology into the hands of good people to do great things. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's...

GUEST BIO: Matt Raible is a Developer Advocate at Okta and a Web Architect for Raible Designs, striving to find the best solutions for developing web applications.  He also writes a lot of technical blog posts on the Okta Developer Blog as well as articles for InfoQ.  Matt is a fan and developer of the JHipster project and he develops and maintains the JHipster Mini-Book and the Ionic JHipster Mod...

GUEST BIO: Joe is a Front End Engineer for Digital Air Strike in Scottsdale, Arizona.  Before his current role, Joe had worked as a Digital Marketing Manager while he continued to learn how to code in the evenings and at weekends.  Joe also creates video tutorials for egghead.io and helps to run a local meetup called Desert GraphQL. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's show is Joe Previte....

GUEST BIO: Julie Lerman is a Microsoft Regional director, Docker Captain and a long-time Microsoft MVP who now counts her years as a coder in decades.  She makes her living as a coach and consultant to software teams around the world. You can find Julie presenting on Entity Framework, Domain Driven Design and other topics at user groups and conferences around the world. Julie blogs at thedatafarm....

GUEST BIO: Lauren Lee is a Technical Product Manager at Go Daddy where she gets to evangelize a platform team that optimizes the engineering process for developers.  Lauren helps teams to adopt a framework that makes prioritizing Machine Learning, experimentation, personalization and mobile-first development simple. EPISODE DESCRIPTION:         Phil's guest on today's show is Lauren Lee. Lauren st...

GUEST BIO: Ali Spittel is a self-taught software engineer who has the job of teaching other people how to code at General Assembly DC's Web Development Immersive program.  Before that she was a software engineer at Optimus.  Ali also blogs about code and her life as a developer. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Ali Spittel is Phil's guest on today's show. In Jan 2019, she became a Software Engineer and Develo...

GUEST BIO: Chris has worked as a lead developer on some of the largest web projects and is currently a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft.  He is also the author of several JavaScript books and the Developer Evangelism book as well as being a regular presenter at conferences. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's show is Chris Heilmann.  Over the years, has worked as an HTML and web develo...

GUEST BIO: Jennifer Bland is a Senior Software Engineer, Speaker, Author, host and Google Developers Expert.  She is on the leadership team for Women Who Code Atlanta and she runs the websites in5days.tech and codeprep.io which provide technical training on JavaScript topics.  Jennifer is also the host of the CodePrep podcast. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Jennifer Bland is Phil's guest on today's show. Sh...

GUEST BIO: Jen Bunk is a career coach for tech managers, helping them to upgrade their teams, careers, paychecks and lives. Jen is also the host of the People Stack podcast, where she interviews authors, coaches and leaders of tech companies from around the world. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's show is Jen Bunk. Her path into the world of IT was a long one. She started out working in...

GUEST BIO: Antonio Leiva is an experienced software engineer, trainer and speaker who specializes in Android development.  Antonio is also the author of the book "Kotlin for Android Developers". EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's show is Antonio Leiva.  He started his IT career as a software developer. Fairly quickly he focused on Android development. When JetBrains released their Java r...

GUEST BIO: Dr. Sue Black is an award-winning Computer Scientist, Technology Evangelist and Digital Skills Expert.  She is a professor in the department of Computer Science at Durham University, a government advisor, thought leader, writer and public speaker. Sue was awarded an OBE for services to technology in the 2016 Queen's New Year's Honours list. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's s...

GUEST BIO: Shannon is an Application Developer at Lifion by ADP.  However before she became a full-time Application Developer Shannon was an actress. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Shannon Kendall is Phil's guest on today's I.T. Career Energizer show. She has taken an unusual path into the world of IT. Prior to becoming an Application Developer, 7 years ago, she was an actress. She is currently working at L...

GUEST BIO: Anne-Marie is a software tester, trainer and coach with a reputation of excellence and passion for the craft of software testing.  An electronic engineer by trade, software testing chose her when she started testing protocols against European standards. Anne-Marie has developed software testing courses and lectured at the University of Technology, Sydney. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's gue...

GUEST BIO: Nina Zakharenko is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, focusing on Python. Before joining Microsoft, she was a Software Engineer with over a decade of experience writing software for companies like Reddit, Meetup, and HBO. In her spare time, she enjoys snowboarding, hiking, and tinkering with wearable electronics from her home base in Portland, OR. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: My gu...

GUEST BIO: Ian Massingham is a Technical Evangelist at Amazon Web Services and has been working with cloud computing technologies since 2008.  Ian has around 20 years' experience in the IT industry, covering operations and engineering within hosting, telecommunications and cloud service providers.  Ian has a particular interest in the development of Connected Device and IoT applications. EPISODE D...

GUEST BIO: Kristina Balaam is a security intelligence engineer at Lookout where she reverse engineers mobile malware. Prior to Lookout, she worked as an application security engineer at Shopify focusing mostly on Android mobile security and is currently pursuing an MSc. in Information Security Engineering. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's show is Kristina Balaam. Currently she is worki...

GUEST BIO: Brian Okken is a lead software engineer for Rohde & Schwarz.  He is also the author of "Python Testing with pytest" from Pragmatic, host of the "Test & Code" Podcast and Co-host of the "Python Bytes" Podcast and has spoken at PNSQC and PyCon US. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: My guest on today's show is Brian Okken. He is currently the lead software engineer for Rohde & Schwarz. His background is...

GUEST BIO: Asim Hussain is a developer, trainer, published author and conference speaker. He has worked for companies including the European Space Agency, Google and others. In January, he became Microsoft's EMEA Lead for Regional Developer Advocacy. Asim is also Director of CodeCraft TV, providing online content, courses and training on JavaScript, Angular and general Web Development. EPISODE DES...

GUEST BIO: Charlie Gerard is a Software Developer at ThoughtWorks in Sydney.  She is passionate about Creative Technologies, Creative Coding, Hardware and the Internet of Things. Charlie is also a mentor at General Assembly, building projects using Arduino and other devices and writes tutorials to share what she has learned. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's show is Charlie Gerard. For...

GUEST BIO: Scott Tolinski is a Senior Web Developer for Team Detroit and formerly a web applications developer for The University of Michigan. Additionally Scott is a freelance web designer and developer, and provides private training and consultancy on various web topics.  Scott is also co-creator of Level Up Tutorials, providing free training to developers looking to learn something new. EPISODE...

GUEST BIO: Sonia Cuff helps companies to change business processes to successfully adopt new technologies the right way and to achieve great business results.  Sonia has been awarded Most Valuable Professional by Microsoft in multiple categories and is also an online writer, trainer and speaker. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil's guest on today's show is Sonia Cuff. Sonia has been working in the IT indus...

GUEST BIO:           Pamela is an astronomer, writer and science communicator focused on using new media to engage people in learning and doing science.  Her most well-known project is Astronomy Cast, a podcast that she co-hosts with Fraser Cain. She is also part of numerous science programs on Twitch.tv and has made appearances on a variety of television shows including The Universe and Strange E...