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Interview with Isabel Nyo, Engineering Manager, Technologist, Writer, Speaker, Mother

May 8, 2018 Leave a Comment

Current role: Development Manager and Head of Front-end Engineering at eBay
Location: Sydney, Australia

What’s your background and how did you get into management?

I graduated with a bachelor and master of Computer Science from the University of Wollongong in Australia and worked in hands-on technical roles before becoming a manager.

My journey to management is not unusual but not one that I had anticipated or planned for.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Australia, engineering manager, WomenInTech

IF I ONLY KNEW… Never lower your bar in hiring! Never do that!

May 7, 2018 Leave a Comment

At one of my previous companies, I lowered my bar and made a bad hiring.  We were looking for a new team member and spent months interviewing. After some consideration, we decided to extend an offer to a candidate who was “almost there”.  I agreed with our panel that we could coach the person in the area they were not very strong. This turned out to be one of my biggest mistakes.

My team and I then had to spend the next 6 months to help the individual but ended up letting them go as they failed the improvement plan. 

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: #IfIOnlyKnew, engineering manager

New Engineering Management Interview Series “IF I ONLY KNEW…”

May 7, 2018 Leave a Comment

Today begins a new shorter interview series called “IF I ONLY KNEW”. It is just a single question about when you started your engineering management career what is ONE thing that would have helped the most to know.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: #IfIOnlyKnew

Interview with Anthony Mazzarella, Director, Core Engineering at BAMTECH Media

May 4, 2018 Leave a Comment

Location: Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Current Role: Director, Core Engineering, BAMTECH Media

What’s your background and how did you get into management?

I spent the first decade of my career chasing global scale challenges related to databases and distributed systems. In every position, my curiosity kept me deeply engaged with operations and infrastructure. Which lead me to BAMTECH Media – then MLB Advanced Media – as a software engineer helping a company achieve the ever-coveted “DevOps transformation.”

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Director

Interview with Mickey Mantle, Co-author:  Managing the Unmanageable and Founder/CEO Wanderful interactive storybooks

April 24, 2018 Leave a Comment

Where are you located?

Napa Valley, California. I recently moved to Napa after decades in Marin, just north of San Francisco.  My company has a small office in Las Vegas, but I work primarily out of my home office in Napa and travel to San Francisco, Silicon Valley, etc. as necessary for conferences, meetings, and consulting engagements.

What is your current role?

Founder and CEO of Wanderful, Inc. – we publish interactive storybook Apps for iOS and Android tablets and phones,

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: author, CEO

Interview with Dave Stachowiak, Host, Coaching for Leaders podcast

April 16, 2018 Leave a Comment

Current role: Host, Coaching for Leaders podcast
Location: Orange County, California

What is your background and how did you get into management?

I had the privilege of managing lots of part-time staff in college (poorly, I might add). I discovered early on that while I did not naturally manage well, I had a desire to get better in order to help others grow.

In my first full-time job,

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: podcast, Southern California

Interview with Chuck Groom, Director of Engineering at VTS

April 12, 2018 Leave a Comment

Location: New York City
Current role: Director of Engineering at VTS

What’s your background and how did you get into management?

I come from a software engineering background, but I’ve always had a passion for product and business. I’m a serial entrepreneur: I co-founded BillMonk in 2005 (tracks informal debt between friends, like roommates splitting bills; company was sold to Obopay) and the I co-founded Precision Polling in 2010 (self-serve IVR phone surveys;

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Director, New York City

Interview with Patrick Joyce, Director of Engineering at Stitch Fix

April 2, 2018 1 Comment

Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Current Role: Director of Engineering at Stitch Fix

What’s your background and how did you get into management?

I’m a programmer. I always liked computers and from the time I was a kid, I thought programming was just the coolest thing.

I went to school for comp sci, then got a job at a big defense contractor, because if you graduate with a comp sci degree in the DC area that’s just what you do.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Director, San Francisco

Interview with Ron Lichty, Consultant, Interim VP Engineering and Author

March 27, 2018 Leave a Comment

Location: San Francisco and Seattle
Current role: Consultant, making software development hum: interim VP engineering, VPE consultation to senior leaders, team practices assessment, agile and scrum training for leaders and teams, VPE / CTO / CIO / director of engineering coaching.

It was six years ago that I struck out on my own as a consultant to untangle the knots in software development, after 25 years doing pretty much the same as a manager,

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: San Francisco, Seattle

Interview with Sue Nallapeta, Sr. Director, Engineering/Acting Head of Engineering at Zoosk

March 21, 2018 Leave a Comment

Location: San Fransisco Bay Area
Current Role: Sr. Director, Engineering/Acting Head of Engineering

What’s your background and how did you get into management?

I started my career as a Software Engineer back in India and moved to the United States to get my Masters degree in Computer Science and AI/ML. I continued my career as an individual contributor for a few years in a small company which had a very flat structure.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: San Francisco, Senior Director, WomenInTech

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