High Tech Employees Seminar
CompSci and Business Panel
- Kathyleen Beveridge (Project Managements)
- Kris Porter (Developer Operations)
- Questions after presentation
- Summary
Kathyleen Beveridge (Project Managements)
- Did her MBA at USC
- Her first job out of college was being an investment banker at Wells Fargo
- Her first high tech job was at HP and she realized this is what she wanted to do
- She moved to San Diego and started working for Qualcomm
- Worked for 3 companies so far (Qualcomm, HP, and Thermo Fisher Scientific)
Company Mission Statements
- HP - “Create technology that makes better for everyone, everywhere”
- Qualcomm - “Inventing the tech the world loves”
- Thermo Fisher Scientific - Enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer
- ALL of these mission statements involve developing tech to help the people
Kris Porter (Developer Operations)
- Enrolled at UCLA for Electrical Engineering (masters degree)
- He gailed his first computer science class, got a C in the next
- Now he is working with technical side of things despite this
- This shows that perseverance can be one of the most useful qualities in this high tech
- Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cal State LA (Communications Systems)
Research
- Center for Embedded Networked Sensors(NIMS)
- Introduced the linux Operating System, Software Development Life Cycle
Time Frame
- 2010 - Systems Engineer at a Start up, GPM (Email marketing automation)
- NBC Universal, Streaming media Infastructures
- 2014 intro to DevOps, transition to Qualcomm
- 2021 Working at Twitter
Continuous Learning
- CCNA training
- Machine Learning and Deep Learning (Qualcomm)
- PYthon (Udemy)
- Data structures Algorithms
- System Design for Interviews
- Twitter University
Some Projects he worked on
- Streaming media Infastructure for the 2012 Olympic Games
- Analytics infastructure projects (locationSmart, Qualcomm)
- Twitter Projects (new Data Center Deployments)
Questions after presentation
- Continuous learning, learning how to learn. Learning new coding languages
- Being Adaptive, listening and understanding, and translating it towards the technology solving the requirements