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Welcome to My Career in Data—a new DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data and the tips, tricks, and advice they have for those looking to follow in their footsteps.
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Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Erin Woodward, Lead AI Architect, Cyclotron. At six years old, she dreamed of becoming an astronaut due to an aunt sending her items from space camps and watching the film of the same name. But being in the middle of the country left little opportunities for that path. Her advisor suggests...
Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Malcolm Hawker, Chief Data Officer, Profisee. At six years old, he dreamed of getting paid to build Lego for the rest of his life. While that didn't pan out, his winding career path through data and product management has been just as creative. After earning a business degree, he pursued a...
Welcome to the season finale of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Shannon Fuller, Lead Data Governance, Ahold Delhaize USA. At six years old, he dreamed of becoming a pilot. When he discovered he was colorblind, he shifted his interests to architecture, a passion fueled by his family's construction company where he worked summers as a teen. Tune in to hear ho...
Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Susan Ray, Associate Professor of English, Delaware County Community College. She never imagined she'd become invested in data as an English professor specializing in Victorian literature, but her crash course came when developing an accelerated learning program. There, data shaped everyth...
Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Ariel Utnik, CEO, Seemore Data. He never knew what he wanted to be at six years old, or even at twenty-six, and honestly admits he still doesn't know. What he does know, is that he loves climbing mountains, taking on challenges and learning from his mistakes. His career journey began almos...
Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Niruta Talwekar, Data Engineer at Meta. At six years old, she dreamed of becoming a university professor, like her father, inspired by the profound impact he made on his high school students' lives. Discover how she became the first engineer in her family during the big data boom, and why ...
Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Ronen Schwartz, CEO, K2view. His mother joked that he tried to manage his parents and sister from a very young age, but his real dream was to be an engineer and build something significant that hadn't been built before. This vision evolved into the belief that software would “eat everythin...
Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Shree Periakaruppan, Head of Data Engineering and Analytics at the American College of Radiology. At ten years old, she walked into her father’s office which was a data center for nuclear science, saw massive mainframe computers, and her destiny was sealed. From that moment, she pursued ev...
Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Muzna Jamil Mallal, Senior Data Consultant, Nike, As a child her dream of becoming a flight attendant for free travel did not work out, but coming from a family of scientists naturally led her towards the engineering and STEM fields. Particularly math, a subject she genuinely enjoyed while...
Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Daragh O Brien, CEO, Castlebridge, his parents used to joke that the perfect job for him would be “to tell people they're doing it [a task] wrong”. Finding a problem and solving it is what he loved to do. Through data management, a field that didn't really exist when he was growing up, ali...
Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Laura Clayton McDonnell, President of Corporates, Thomson Reuters, from childhood dreams of becoming an astronaut to witnessing her immigrant parents fight housing discrimination through the courts, Laura's path led her to law school to advocate for the voiceless. While specializing in cor...
Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Prateek Arora, Business Analyst, Non-Profit in Fintech & Retail, a playful six-year-old who saw studying as an afterthought to a data professional who discovered his career path by his calling through curiosity. With no knowledge that roles like 'business analyst' even existed, he foll...
Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Marcia Rhode, Leadership Coach, Marcia Rhode Coaching & Consulting Services, hear how she broke free from small town traditional expectations to forge her own path through an unexpected journey of discovery. A seemingly mundane volunteer opportunity to learn a computer system at a stat...
Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Stacy Bein, Principle Business Data Steward, Discover, from a six-year-old's dream of becoming a dental hygienist to mastering complex data challenges is a testament to following your strengths. After discovering biology wasn't her calling in college, she took a bold detour into business c...
Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Tim Alexander, Director of Technical Product Marketing, Yellowbrick Data, What started as a six-year-old's fascination with paleontology evolved into dreams of becoming a music industry power player. Armed with a business & technology degree and talent agency internships, he dove headf...
Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Monica Miller, Senior Product Manager, Starburst Data, she shares how a personal physical challenge first sparked her interest in audiology, and how a pivotal college internship completely shifted her trajectory from mechanical engineering to the dynamic world of data. Discover the unexpec...
Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Dia Adams, Enterprise Data/AI Strategist, TCG Incorporated , about her fascination in becoming a Supreme Court Justice as a child, later redirecting drive towards finance in high school, and ultimately discovering a passion for data and AI in university. Never miss an episode – subscribe t...
Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Christina Sandema-Sombe, CEO Christina Sandema-Sombe DBA LLC and Co-Founder & CDAIO Datum Cafe, about her aptitude for science in Zambia & focus to becoming a doctor but with the help of mentors altering her career path to becoming a leader of not one but two data centered compani...
Welcome back to an all-new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Jacqueline Paneque, Head of Data Literacy & Data Quality, TE Information Solutions , about how she went from loving arts & crafts as a child with data not even on her radar to becoming the leading person in her company to raise data literacy and quality. Never miss an episode – su...
Welcome back to an all-new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Eric Polet, Director of Product Marketing at Arcitecta, about how he went from not knowing the difference between a petabyte and terabyte into becoming the Director of Product Marketing for a premiere data management software company. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY w...
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