IT Career Energizer
IT Career Energizer is a weekly podcast hosted by technology consultant Phil Burgess. If you’re looking to advance your career in tech, learn from over 300 industry professionals and experts about their career experiences and career development advice. Listen in to add to your skillset and invest in your own tech career success.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 369
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Find A Problem To Solve and Then Decide On The Technology To Solve It with Eric Meyer
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My guest on today’s show is an internationally recognized author, speaker, blogger and sometimes teacher and consultant. He has been working with the web since late 1993 and is recognized…
Learn to Empathize with Your Customers and Broaden your Worldview by Exploring New Tech with Dion Hinchcliffe
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My guest on today’s show is currently a VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research. He is a recognized industry expert on a variety of topics including digital transformation, soci…
Become Involved in Making Things Better in Your Community with James Montemagno
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My guest on today’s show is a Principal Program Manager for Mobile Developer Tools at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005 working in a wide range of industries including ga…
Learn to Broaden Your Horizons and Become a Good Communicator with Reid Evans
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My guest on today’s show is a functional programming advocate. He has worked in the IT industry for more than 15 years in a variety of roles including software support, development lead, …
Learn How to Build a Firm Foundation for Your Career with Ted M Young
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My guest on today’s show has been creating software for several decades. He has trained developers around the world, led eXtreme programming projects for the US government and eBay, and i…
Get Organized and Step Out of Your Comfort Zone to Become a More Successful IT Professional with Ian Miell
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My guest on today’s show has worked in IT for over twenty years after failing to become a writer and divides his career into three parts. The first third was spent building applications f…
Explore New Tech, Help Others and Have Fun in Your Career with Fran Buontempo
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Fran Buontempo is editor of the ACCU’s (Association of C and C++ Users) Overload magazine. Fran has been programming in C++ for over a decade and also knows C# and Python. Fran has also …
Learn How To See The Big Picture and Be Ready To Pivot with Mike Pfeiffer
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My guest on today’s show is the founder of Cloudskills.io, a technical advisor, author and a mentor for people ramping up on cloud technologies. He has worked for tech giants Microsoft an…
Engage in Continual Learning to Advance your IT Career with Michal Spacek
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Michal Spacek is a developer who builds breaks and tests web applications. He has a specific interest in web application security and likes to pass on his knowledge and experience to othe…
Always Be Willing to Try Something New to Become a Better IT Professional with Sarah Withee
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Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, public speaker, teacher and mentor, and hardware and robot tinkerer. She has a passion for technology and has had ever since she wrote her fi…
Stop Chasing Shiny Things and Learn to Focus on Your Career with Dave Mosher
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Dave is a Software Developer who has been building web applications since using HTML tables for layout started to go out of style. A background in classical design and computer systems te…
Learn How to Push Through Your Fears to Become a Better IT Professional with Charity Majors
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Charity is CEO at honeycomb.io. She is a former systems engineer and manager at Facebook, Parse and Linden Lab always seeming to end up responsible for databases. Charity is also the co-…
Find Out How to Become Good at Self-Learning and Make Yourself More Marketable with Jessica Ivins
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Jessica Ivins is a user experience (UX) designer and faculty member at Center Centre, the UX design school in Chattanooga, TN, where she prepares students to be industry-ready, junior UX d…
Learn to Explore and Not be Afraid to Ask the Dumb Questions with Ryan Levick
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Ryan Levick is a developer advocate working in Berlin. Ryan joined Microsoft as a result of its acquisition of Wunderlist in 2015. Ryan has spent his career building apps on both the ser…
Work on Your Executive Presence from Day One to Progress your IT Career Quickly with Melissa Perri
Melissa Perri is a Product Management coach and consultant, and founder & CEO of Produx Labs.
She has trained organizations and teams on Product Management best practices and has spoken at more tha…
Learn Not to be Afraid of Doing Things Differently with Maaret Pyhajarvi
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Maaret Pyhajarvi is an Engineering Manager for F-Secure leading a team while continuing with hands-on testing and programming.
In 2016, Maaret was awarded Most Influential Agile Testing …
You Must Listen and Understand Before Building Solutions with Beau Simensen
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Beau is a technology Strategy Consultant and has been a professional polyglot programmer since 1998. He hosts Astrocasts and is co-host of That Podcast. Beau is an active open-sourcer, c…
Learn to Say Yes to the Right Career Opportunities with Nader Dabit
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Nader Dabit is a Developer Advocate for Amazon Web Services. He specializes in helping teams to build and implement cross-platform applications more efficiently. Nader is also author of…
Use Networking to Broaden Your Horizons and Ask Plenty of Questions with Rhia Dixon
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Rhia is a software engineer for a data-driven tech company where she creates backend software applications using C#, .NET, Python, AWS and a variety of other tech.
Rhia is an active memb…
Be Open to Opportunity and Beware of Career Burn Out with Kyle Shevlin
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Kyle Shevlin is a front end web developer and software engineer who specializes in JavaScript and React.
Kyle is also host of the Second Career Devs podcast where he talks to guests who …