Kathyleen Beveridge (Project Managements)

  • She has a finance degree, did MBA at USC
  • Moved to San Diego 2004
  • She was a investment banker at wells fargo after college (stoke broker)
  • Her first high tech career was in HP
  • She moved to San Diego and started working for Qualcomm
  • Overall she worked for 3 companies so far (Qualcomm, HP, and Thermo Fisher Scientific)

Company Mission Statements

  • “Create technology that makes better for everyone, everywhere” : HP
  • “Inventing the tech the world loves” : Qualcomm
  • Enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer: Thermo Fisher Scientific

Kris Porter (Developer Operation, Software Engineer - SRE, DevOps)

  • Attended Livermore High School alum
  • Enrolled at UCLA for Electrical Engineering (masters degree)
  • 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 Line

  • 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 - highlights

  • 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

Summary

Two colleagues of Mr Mort came by to discuss their lives and their previous work experiences. They discussed the importance of Comp Sci, and their descision relating to it.