The life and ramblings of Canada's most innovative Technology leader
Is an MBA useful in tech? Let me preface this by stating that this post relates to SMB (small and medium-sized #business – including startups) and not at all in the Enterprise, as those are two completely different beasts. In
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If I had a million dollars – I’d be rich! (Would I???) What may seem like a very long time ago for many of the people reading this, there was a song by the Barenaked Ladies – If I had
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Are developers getting smarter or dumber? I personally didn’t start coding because it was a huge passion. I wanted to go down the road of building super cool things for NASA (or CSA – the Canadian Space Agency) and while
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Unicorns distract tech founders from the grave This week’s article will be much smaller and lighter to consume, it is merely a warning to all #founders and investors out there about #unicorns. Lee calculated that 1 in 1,538 software and
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The best decisions I’ve made in my career I have always had a bit of an edge, something super competitive in me that drove me to be better than my self of yesterday. It’s an unrelenting hunger that I use
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Learning (in tech) never stops In my quest to become a superstar in the tech world I feel like I stagnated at times, especially at learning in my early career (as evidenced in my posts regarding how Canada belongs at
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Gaining the experience to build data, ETL, ML and AI pipelines in the real world For years and years, I have been progressively building my way up to this. From the times early in my career where I was simply
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Canada should lead in the battle of intelligence platforms I have been the VP #Engineering and #CTO at Ficstar, a leading data extraction platform for nearly the past two years and in those times I have seen the need for
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