Hire Tech
By Codeup
Hire TechJul 15, 2022
Season 2 Episode 7: Ramon Hubbell, Full Stack Developer at Cognizant
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Interested in launching your career in tech? Check out our program offerings here! --> https://codeup.com/programs/
Are you someone looking to hire entry-level technical talent in fields like Software Development, Web Development, Data Science, or Cloud Administration? Check out our hiring process here! --> https://codeup.com/hire-tech-talent/
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In a world where “entry-level” positions often require 3 years of experience, Jason sets out to discover what it’s like to break into and work in the modern tech industry. To hear various perspectives, he interviews both Codeup alumni and tech leaders who have been hired from Codeup. These stories show you the impact Codeup has on the tech world by empowering our community with real-life change.
Use the hashtags #hiretechpodcast or #gocodeup to interact with us on social media!
Season 2 Episode 6: Dirk Elmendorf, Founder at Jobward
Stay Connected With The Show & Codeup
Follow Codeup on Twitter to interact with us about the show --> https://twitter.com/gocodeup
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Interested in launching your career in tech? Check out our program offerings here! --> https://codeup.com/programs/
Are you someone looking to hire entry-level technical talent in fields like Software Development, Web Development, Data Science, or Cloud Administration? Check out our hiring process here! --> https://codeup.com/hire-tech-talent/
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In a world where “entry-level” positions often require 3 years of experience, Jason sets out to discover what it’s like to break into and work in the modern tech industry. To hear various perspectives, he interviews both Codeup alumni and tech leaders who have been hired from Codeup. These stories show you the impact Codeup has on the tech world by empowering our community with real-life change.
Use the hashtags #hiretechpodcast or #gocodeup to interact with us on social media!
Season 2 Episode 5: Carrington Jones, Software Engineer III at USAA
Stay Connected With The Show & Codeup
Follow Codeup on Twitter to interact with us about the show --> https://twitter.com/gocodeup
Follow our host Jason on Twitter to interact with him about the show --> https://twitter.com/jdstraughan
Interested in launching your career in tech? Check out our program offerings here! --> https://codeup.com/programs/
Are you someone looking to hire entry-level technical talent in fields like Software Development, Web Development, Data Science, or Cloud Administration? Check out our hiring process here! --> https://codeup.com/hire-tech-talent/
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In a world where “entry-level” positions often require 3 years of experience, Jason sets out to discover what it’s like to break into and work in the modern tech industry. To hear various perspectives, he interviews both Codeup alumni and tech leaders who have been hired from Codeup. These stories show you the impact Codeup has on the tech world by empowering our community with real-life change.
Use the hashtags #hiretechpodcast or #gocodeup to interact with us on social media!
Season 2 Episode 4: Mainak Bardhan, Digital Platform & Applied Intelligence Associate Director at Accenture Federal Services
Stay Connected With The Show & Codeup
Follow Codeup on Twitter to interact with us about the show --> https://twitter.com/gocodeup
Follow our host Jason on Twitter to interact with him about the show --> https://twitter.com/jdstraughan
Interested in launching your career in tech? Check out our program offerings here! --> https://codeup.com/programs/
Are you someone looking to hire entry-level technical talent in fields like Software Development, Web Development, Data Science, or Cloud Administration? Check out our hiring process here! --> https://codeup.com/hire-tech-talent/
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In a world where “entry-level” positions often require 3 years of experience, Jason sets out to discover what it’s like to break into and work in the modern tech industry. To hear various perspectives, he interviews both Codeup alumni and tech leaders who have been hired from Codeup. These stories show you the impact Codeup has on the tech world by empowering our community with real-life change.
Use the hashtags #hiretechpodcast or #gocodeup to interact with us on social media!
Season 2 Episode 3: Jeremy Brown, Technical Support Manager at Rackspace
Jason sits down with Jeremy Brown who is a Technical Support Manager at Rackspace. They talk all things tech, hiring, and of course Rackspace! Let us know what you think of every episode each week using the hashtag #hiretechpodcast on social media.
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Stay Connected With The Show & Codeup
Follow Codeup on Twitter to interact with us about the show --> https://twitter.com/gocodeup
Follow our host Jason on Twitter to interact with him about the show --> https://twitter.com/jdstraughan
Interested in launching your career in tech? Check out our program offerings here! --> https://codeup.com/programs/
Are you someone looking to hire entry-level technical talent in fields like Software Development, Web Development, Data Science, or Cloud Administration? Check out our hiring process here! --> https://codeup.com/hire-tech-talent/
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In a world where “entry-level” positions often require 3 years of experience, Jason sets out to discover what it’s like to break into and work in the modern tech industry. To hear various perspectives, he interviews both Codeup alumni and tech leaders who have been hired from Codeup. These stories show you the impact Codeup has on the tech world by empowering our community with real-life change.
Use the hashtags #hiretechpodcast or #gocodeup to interact with us on social media!
Season 2 Episode 2: Jeffery Roeder, Decision Science Analyst 1 at USAA
Jason sits down with Jeffery Roede who is a Decision Science Analyst 1 at USAA. Jeffery graduated with the Bayes Data Science cohort in January 2020. Learn about how Jeffery's story in today's episode!
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Stay Connected With The Show & Codeup
Follow Codeup on Twitter to interact with us about the show --> https://twitter.com/gocodeup
Follow our host Jason on Twitter to interact with him about the show --> https://twitter.com/jdstraughan
Interested in launching your career in tech? Check out our program offerings here! --> https://codeup.com/programs/
Are you someone looking to hire entry-level technical talent in fields like Software Development, Web Development, Data Science, or Cloud Administration? Check out our hiring process here! --> https://codeup.com/hire-tech-talent/
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In a world where “entry-level” positions often require 3 years of experience, Jason sets out to discover what it’s like to break into and work in the modern tech industry. To hear various perspectives, he interviews both Codeup alumni and tech leaders who have hired from Codeup. These stories show you the impact Codeup has on the tech world by empowering our community with real life change.
Use the hashtags #hiretechpodcast or #gocodeup to interact with us on social media!
Season 2 Episode 1: Justin Hoffman | Head of Data Analytics at Victory Capital
Thank you so much for listening to our podcast! In Season 2 you can expect a longer season, more guests, more hiring partners, and just downright tech industry fun.
Thank you to our guest Justin Hoffman for joining us on today's episode!
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Stay Connected With The Show & Codeup
- Follow Codeup on Twitter to interact with us about the show --> https://twitter.com/gocodeup
- Follow our host Jason on Twitter to interact with him about the show --> https://twitter.com/jdstraughan
- Interested in launching your career in tech? Check out our program offerings here! --> https://codeup.com/programs/
- Are you someone looking to hire entry-level technical talent in fields like Software Development, Web Development, Data Science, or Cloud Administration? Check out our hiring process here! --> https://codeup.com/hire-tech-talent/
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In a world where “entry-level” positions often require 3 years of experience, Jason sets out to discover what it’s like to break into and work in the modern tech industry. To hear various perspectives, he interviews both Codeup alumni and tech leaders who have hired from Codeup. These stories show you the impact Codeup has on the tech world by empowering our community with real life change.
Use the hashtags #hiretechpodcast or #gocodeup to interact with us on social media!
Episode 9: AWS Arrives at Codeup | Jeremy Price, AWS Trainer at Codeup *SPECIAL EPISODE*
We recently announced that we are in collaboration with AWS as an Official Training Partner! Jason sits down with Jeremy Price, our Technical Trainer at Codeup who teaches our AWS course offerings.
Episode 8: Norrick McGee, Eric Escalante, & Michael Moran | Data / Machine Learning Engineers at Quickpath
What does a former math and physics tutor, a former banker, and a former lawyer all have in common? They graduated from Codeup's Data Science program and all currently work at Quickpath! In our season one finale - Jason sits down with Norrick McGee, Eric Escalante, and Michael Moran from Quickpath located here in San Antonio. They chat about their tech careers and how QuickPath has played a role as a hiring partner for Codeup over the years.
Thank you all so much for your support of this podcast over these last several months! Be assured that Season 2 will return in 2022. Follow us on Twitter for more info on Season 2 as it becomes available. Follow Codeup on Twitter to interact with us about the Podcast --> Click Here
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Learn more about Quickpath by visiting their website here.
Guests:
Host:
CEO and Co-Founder of Codeup
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Sponsorships: off for this episode
Episode 7: Alex Melton | CEO of Wyrmix
What if a company had access to a team of Disney Imagineers to market their new product launch? That's just one aspect of the company Wyrmix! Wyrmix is a cross-disciplinary product design firm that leverages partnerships to create physical and digital products, connected experiences, and interactive environments. Jason sits down with their CEO Alex Melton this week on our latest episode!
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Learn more about Wyrmix by visiting their website here.
Guest:
Alex Melton, CEO
Host:
Jason Straughan
CEO and Co-Founder of Codeup
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Episode 6: Gregory M. Lawler, MBA, FLMI Commander, USN Retired | VP and CIO of GPM Life
Jason sits down with Gregory M. Lawler who is the current Vice President and CIO of GPM Life. They have a great conversation about the "best way" to onboard entry level tech talent. As Gregory points out, the Life Insurance industry often needs re-works of a lot of their programs. You will learn how some of our very own Codeup Alumna are directly impacting positive change for GPM Life every single day. This episode is a must listen!
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Learn more about GOM Life by visiting their website here.
Guest:
Gregory M. Lawler, MBA, FLMI
Commander, USN Retired
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Host:
Jason Straughan
CEO and Co-Founder of Codeup
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Episode 5: Michael DeFelice | Co-Founder and CTO at Cyber Fortress
Jason sits down with Michael DeFelice, Co-Founder and CTO of Cyber Fortress this week on episode 5 of Hire Tech!
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Michael DeFelice is a Data Scientist, Developer, and Systems Architect with over 15 years experience and a love for testing new ideas, developing talent, and building things that could move the world.
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Have feedback for the podcast? Interact with us on Twitter! Send us a DM or interact with the latest Tweet about the newest episode to let us know what you think!
Episode 4: Bryan Walsh | Lead Software Developer at GPS LLC
Bryan Walsh sits down with Jason this week to talk about life at Codeup, life after Codeup, and talks about this concept we call "drinking from the fire hydrant". Tune in to learn what that phrase means in this weeks episode!
Visit codeup.com/podcast for all things Hire Tech!
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Episode 3: Kris Connolly | Technical Trainer at the Codeup Cloud Academy
The Codeup Cloud Academy is new to Codeup! Jason sits down with Technical Trainer Kris Connolly to discuss his technical career journey and what it's like to teach at the Codeup Cloud Academy.
Episode 2: Alexandra Hamner | Jr. Implementation Engineer at SearchSpring
What is SearchSpring? What is a Jr. Implementation Engineer actually do? Dive into this episode to find out! Thanks to our friends at SearchSpring for letting us borrow Alexandra for a bit!
Episode 1: Ryan Smith | Software Developer III at USAA
Welcome to Hire Tech! A podcast about hiring entry level technical talent for your teams. Join us on this premiere episode as our CEO Jason Straughan interviews Ryan Smith, a Codeup graduate of December 2019. Learn all about Ryan's story and what it was like to go from working in the military, to attending Codeup, and his tech career journey after graduating.