Book description
You’ll find interviews in this book with database administrators, database programmers, data architects, business intelligence professionals, and analytics professionals. Interviewees work across industry sectors ranging from healthcare and banking tofinance and transportation and beyond. Each chapter illuminates a successful professional at the top of their game, who shares what helped them get to the top, and what skills and attitudes combine to make them successful in their respective fields.
- Stand out as an outstanding professional in your area of data work by developing the right set of skills and attitudes that lead to success
- Avoid common mistakes and pitfalls, and recover from operational failures and bad technology decisions
- Understand current trends and best practices, and stay out in front as the field evolves
- Break into working with data through database administration, business intelligence, or any of the other career paths represented in this book
- Manage stress and develop a healthy work-life balance no matter which career path you decide upon
- Choose a suitable path for yourself from among the different career paths in working with data
Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Mindy Curnutt
- 2. Julie Smith
- 3. Kenneth Fisher
- 4. Andy Leonard
- 5. Jes Borland
- 6. Kevin Feasel
- 7. Ginger Grant
- 8. Vicky Harp
- 9. Kendra Little
- 10. Jason Brimhall
- 11. Tim Costello
- 12. Andy Mallon
- 13. Steph Locke
- 14. Jonathan Stewart
- 15. Joseph Sack
- 16. John Q. Martin
- 17. John Morehouse
- 18. Kathi Kellenberger
- 19. Argenis Fernandez
- 20. Kirsten Benzel
- 21. Tracy Boggiano
- 22. Dave Walden
- 23. Matt Gordon
- 24. Jimmy May
- 25. Drew Furgiuele
- 26. Marlon Ribunal
- 27. Joseph Fleming
- Back Matter
Product information
- Title: Data Professionals at Work
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2018
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781484239674
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