Elevator Pitch
In your technical career, you will often find yourself searching for what to learn next.
In this session, I will show you a role-playing game strategy I use to help you plan a winning future!
Come learn how to successfully plan your tech career!
Description
Intro
Working in the Tech industry for over 20 years there is one thing that I have committed to, keep learning!
If you want to grow your career you have to grow your knowledge and push yourself.
The challenge we often face is what do I learn next?
What should I learn for my job now and the job I want in five years?
Building your professional skills is like building up a character in a Role-Playing Game!
Every RPG has unique roles that are able to improve their skills using talent trees. Your career is no different!
Start in any role and expand your skills and even change your role over time.
RPG Roles & Talent Trees of Tech knowledge
The roles and talent trees I cover are universal to everyone in the technology industry.
We all start out in different roles and have different aspirations.
Role Assessment
We identify what you already know and fill out your talent trees.
This is how you will see what your current role is and how far along you may be.
Build Your Plan
Now that you know where you are we will walk through how to build out your learning plan!
Then you start to plan your future in a smart and efficient way that will maximize the knowledge you gain.
Notes
In my career, I have worked in almost every role in IT. I started as a developer and then served as the manager of a developer team. Later I moved into the role as the manager of Business and Test Analysts where I helped formalize those roles into a company. During this time I also oversaw the Vendor Manager job family we created. Later I moved into a position where I was responsible for IT project estimations and long term resource planning. During my time as a manager, I work on preparing our process and implementing audit controls for SAS 70, SSAE 16 audits. Most recently I have been in an Applications and Cloud Architect roles.