1.Bruce Schneier
Internationally renowned security
technologist. Called a “security
guru” by The Economist. The
author of 13 books, including Data
and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to
Collect Your Data and Control
Your World.
“They should study with their passion. The way you have a
great career in technology, is you do what you’re passionate
about.There is so much demand, there so many opportunities,
there is so many options. Don’t study the thing they tell you to,
study what stimulates your passions. That’s where you will be
the happiest, that’s how you find the best work.”
2. Jeffrey Hicks
IT veteran with over 25 years of
experience, multi-year recipient
of the Microsoft MVP Award in
Windows PowerShell.
“I’m going to give them actually two little pieces
of advice. One is: turn around and share your
knowledge with the younger person, not only
because that’s the right thing to do but also in
the fact of trying to formulate your thoughts.
“Okay, how am I going to communicate or
share what I know?” You may realize, “Oh,
maybe I don’t know that as well as I should.
I need to go back and brush up.” You learn
a bit more in trying to teach someone, you
have no choice but to really learn it yourself.
That would be number one. The second is:
you just have to take this idea of using it
every day to the next level. You need to
be the person who is creating the DSC
configurations, and the PowerShell tools
that you’re using to monitor servers to
provide the forensic analysis if you’ve
been compromised.
You’ll need to learn new things like the
.NET framework. You’ll need to learn
some of the advanced. You need to start
thinking. Go to some of the secret hacker
conferences and learn the bad ways and
find ways, “Okay, how can I do that in
PowerShell?” Try to be more proactive.”
3. Wally Mead
Program Manager at Cireson,
Configuration Manager expert
& community evangelist.
“If they’re a young, new person, then they
probably got a lot of the skill set which is
mobile, because they live on their mobile
devices all day long and that’s the way the
world’s going, so they got a great start there.
But as far as the rest in Configuration
Manager space, it’s spending some time
with the solution. Again, whether it’s training,
or whether it’s attending a training class or
self-learning on the TechNet Virtual labs or
Microsoft Virtual Academy sessions that
they have out there.”
4. Sami Laiho
Leading Windows OS &
Security expert in the world,
Senior Technical Fellow,
MVP, Best speaker in all
TechEd’s 2014.
“First of all, you have to learn Windows
Internals.
Take Windows internals training. That’s the
core that you will then build on by maybe
getting good security training from some other
companies. So there’s a good base. Build on
the base, learn the basics. Remember it still
takes 100 people at Microsoft to know
everything about Windows, so if you believe
you know everything, forget that disbelief
and just learn more.”
5. Jennifer Minella
VP of Engineering & Security
Consultant. Mindfulness Evangelist
“It varies so much from company to company.
We were using some examples, and I’d asked
specifically my organization what were some
science-based things we could do to kind of
vet and get the right candidates in for what
we were looking for. She brought up some
good points because she said, “Take the IT
stuff out of it. Let’s talk about just the skill
set you need.” So the conversation was
really very specific to what skill set do
you need for that role or that company.
Because different company’s cultures
are different, the job descriptions are
different.”
6.Uma Gupta
Professor of Business at the
State University of New York.
Business and leadership consultant.
“I think the skills when you look at it, it runs
across industries, right? Somehow we have
made IT be something totally different from
every other industry. But there’s a lot of
common ground across industries. So, if I
were having this conversation with a retail
executive, what would they say? They would
say, “Women should speak up more. Women
should go after the really difficult strategic
projects, not to be quiet and to sit down and
wait to be asked”, right? To go out and to find
the right mentor. As I said, excellence is an
important thing. You have to be great at what
you do. You have to be willing to reach out,
you have to be willing to speak up.”
7.Bernard Layton
Stanton Chase Executive Recruiter
“I think they should get the educational
background which is key and get the
credential. They need to work to separate
themselves from just the staff level capabilities
and so ultimately good old fashioned hard work,
put hours in it, and learning through experience
and developing these experience.”
