Building Your Personal Brand With Andrea Javor and Michael Hedgpeth
Posted on Wednesday, Mar 23, 2016
Show Notes
Empathy is CI For The Soul by David Shackelford
Community Stuff
Upcoming conferences
- DevOpsDays Rockies April 21st - 22nd - ADO listeners, save 10% off regular price with the discount code ADO2016
- DevOpsDays Atlanta April 26-27 - ADO listeneres, save 20% off regular price with discount code ADO2016
- DevOpsDays Seattle May 12-13 - ADO listeners, get 15% off with the discount code ADO2016
Open CFPs
- DOD Vancouver and MSP CFP and Abstractions open until March 31
- DOD Washington DC open until April 15
- DOD Salt Lake City open until April 19
- DOD Amsterdam open until May 30
- CFP for That Conference Opens March 1- 31
Check Outs
Andrea
- Maker’s Mark whisky
- How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination by Sally Hogshead
- Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business by Danny Meyer
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo
Michael
- Branding Pays - a great book about personal branding
- Mr Money Mustache - frugality
- You Need a Budget - budgeting
Trevor
- Venture Brothers Season 6
- WMF 5.0 RTM again
- Hangops Slack
Matt
- How Google Works
- Visual Studio Code
- The Newsroom on HBO GO, Amazon Prime
- Someone tell me how to use OmniGraffle (future checkout?)
Guests
Andrea Javor
In her role as Sr. Director of Global Digital & Media Strategy at Beam Suntory, Andrea Javor is responsible for the organization’s global media practice. Her focus at BSI is to invest media dollars for the greatest contribution to short term sales, as well as long term brand equity, stewarding media investments across paid, owned, and earned media channels. Andrea’s team is also responsible for the Consumer Care function, responding to consumer inquiries coming in through multiple digital channels as well as bringing social media thought-leadership to the organization in the form of content creation, response strategies, and process improvements. Her team is also focused on global media analytics, using a combination of data sources to provide actionable tracking data and insights to the organization in near real time. Beam Suntory’s roster of brands include: Jim Beam, Maker’s Mark, Hibiki, Yamazaki, Courvoisier, Sauza, Hornitos, and Midori.
Michael Hedgpeth
Michael is a Software Architect at NCR working to introduce devops into their Hospitality organization. Change in large organizations require a lot of political skill, and Michael has learned through trial and error what works and what doesn’t. When pure technical skill wouldn’t suffice, Michael has had to discover the power of his personal brand both internally and externally in order to reach his company’s goals and his own goals.
Hosts
Matt Stratton (he/him)
Matty Stratton is the Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, a well-known member of the DevOps community, and a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.
Matty has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.
He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke.
