Videos of Keynote Technology Speaker Wylie Blanchard - Business Technology Analyst - Chicago Illinois

Discussion with Traci Cox: The Value of Business Partnerships

Wylie Blanchard — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 11:01:00 +0000

I recently met with Traci Cox, President of Temple & Associates, on the value of business partnerships, managing partnership challenges and how partnerships enhance business opportunities.

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You can connect with Traci on Linkedin and by visiting Temple-IT.com.

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Discussion with Jason Patel: Moving from Individual Contributor to Business and Strategy Leader

Wylie Blanchard — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 06:48:00 +0000

I recently met with Jason Patel, the Chief Technology Officer for Ensighten, to discuss moving from being an individual contributor to overseeing, leading and guiding the work of others, new challenges that one faces and what he’s learned over his career.

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Discussion with Sean T. O’Kelly: Leveraging Technology for Revenue Growth

Wylie Blanchard — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 07:08:00 +0000

I recently met with Sean T. O’Kelly, Chief Technology Officer for Meetings & Events International (MEI), to explore how business leaders can utilize technology as a tool to drive customer and revenue growth.

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Regulatory Compliance in the United States.

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Discussion with Eric Livergood: Smart Technology Road Mapping

Wylie Blanchard — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 08:05:00 +0000

I recently met with Eric Livergood, Chief Technology Officer for LeafLogix Technologies, to discuss how smart technology is guiding Leaflogix, and the cannabis industry.

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Cannabis industry history in the United States.

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Discussion with Teneika Askew: Empowering Decision Making with Data Visualization

Wylie Blanchard — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 19:58:00 +0000

I recently met with Teneika Askew, Head of People Analytics at Mozilla, to discuss how to utilize data for effective visualization and creating data stories that enable decision-makers to take action.

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Tools include PowerQuery, PowerBI, Tableau, Google Data Studio and SAP Tools.
Though it is important to implement a new platform/solution, it is equally as important to inform and educate end-users on how to utilize the new platform or solution.
Every career/job has a data component – Do make an effort to learn how to utilize data as a skill. Doing so will enhance your skill-set and help you enhance your career.
College students should look into scholarship, internship and other opportunities offered by their university like the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and INROADS internships.
For those who are new to data visualizations, start with Microsoft Excel, work to graduate from a beginner Excel user to an advanced Excel user, then learn Microsoft Power BI and Tableau.
Microsoft currently offers free Power BI training, Tableau Prep & Tableau Desktop are not free unless you are a student, freeCodeCamp and SimpliLearn.

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Destroying the Glass Ceiling: Lotus Buckner panel discussion

Wylie Blanchard — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 17:24:00 +0000

I recently participated in Lotus Bucker’s #RealPeople #RealTalk – Virtual Roundtable on Destroying the Glass Ceiling.

In this discussion, we explored the challenges that prevent people from obtaining the career success that they’re working toward, the obstacles that are in place that lock people out of the sales cycle when working to close deals with their high-profile clients and what people and organizations can do to shatter through the glass ceiling so that they can find the career success that they are working toward.

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Here’s the pre-event message that I created leading up to the event.

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During the talk, I advised that people should read Shattering the Glass Ceiling: How to Break Through Without Breaking Down by Gia Suggs and Hayward Suggs.

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Discussion with Sanford Hess: Government Information Technology Management and Change

Wylie Blanchard — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:33:00 +0000

I recently met with Sanford Hess, IT Director for the City of Urbana, to discuss Government Information Technology Management, change within government IT, enhancing the relationship between people and government, career opportunities and more.

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The Tectonic Speed of Government is the website where Sanford shares his thoughts on Government, IT, Change, Government IT Change … and Movies.
Sanford recommends that aspiring technology professional consider Google IT Support Professional Certificate.

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Discussion with Susanne Tedrick: Developing a Game Plan to Thrive as Technology Evolves

Wylie Blanchard — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:17:00 +0000

I recently met with Susanne Tedrick, Cloud Solution Specialist, to learn how women of color can jump-start, transition to or further evolve their career in technology, her new book Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators, and how tech professionals can stay relevant in today’s rapidly evolving job market.

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You can get Susanne’s new book, Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators, by visiting WeBelongInTech.com.

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Discussion with Chris Hyde: Making a Difference with Data Analytics

Wylie Blanchard — Sat, 02 May 2020 10:18:00 +0000

I met with Chris Hyde, SQL Server BI and Data Science Consultant to learn about his career as a data professional and his journey into data science. In this interview Chris shares how data can make a difference in people’s lives, how there has been an increase use of statistics in data science and advice on how others can begin their career into data analytics.

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The best way to connect with Chris Hyde is on Twitter. He can also be found on Linkedin.
Chris Recommends the following books:
Learning R by Richard Cotton.
R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund.
Think Stats: Exploratory Data Analysis by Allen Downey.

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Discussion with Eric Schmuttenmaer: Executive Presence for Technical Professionals

Wylie Blanchard — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 16:28:57 +0000

I met with Eric Schmuttenmaer, Associate Vice President of Digital, Technology and Innovation at AMITA Health. In this interview Eric shared why it is important for technical professionals to build their executive presence.

Originally posted at www.GreatTechPros.com.

Excerpt from the Interview:

Wylie Blanchard: What tips do you have for individuals who are new in their career, transitioning in their career or just interested in building their executive presence? What tips do you have on how they can build their personal branding and their executive presence?

Eric Schmuttenmaer: The first one that comes to me is listening… It is a combination of listening and learning. So if you’re coming new into something,.. find the people that are in the area that you want to be in or that you want to improve upon and get notes on them. Find out where they have succeeded and replicate those in your world or, work to replicate those in the world and find out, more importantly, where they failed and why they failed… Learn where those common pitfalls are for where you want to be from individuals who are already there and then avoid those as much as you can. It’s not gonna be a hundred percent but do your best to do that. It takes a level of listening and slowly learning. You’re not going to boil the ocean but take those little key moments, those little tiny moments, of takeaways from other people’s lives.

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