Career Insights 501

Director of Program Management w/ Dr. Amanda Martin


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Dr. Amanda Martin, or just Amanda as she prefers, drops

in this week and we discuss her careers as a teacher and director of program
management.

Conversation Outline:

00:30 Discussion on being called

Dr.

02:00 What does a doctorate in Computer Science look like – compared to a bachelor’s or master's?

05:09 Getting into tech after

obtaining her doctorate

05:50 Did you start in Computer

Science or navigate towards as moved towards your doctorate degree?

09:15 Amanda’s career in teaching

10:45 Issues/Problems in education

(K-12)

13:40 Humanizing people

14:25 Principal Burnout

16:00 Amanda’s career journey –

First professional job

17:35 Advice for students looking

to get into Astrophysics or software development

18:40 Amanda’s struggles as a

college student

20:30 Trust the process or choose

your own adventure – department support

 21:25 Doctorate  degree program = by design

 22:40 Career as Director of Program Management

– Linux Foundation | Opensource

27:25 Amanda’s thoughts on AI in will

affect her industry

29:10 What Dr. Loso wants to see

come out of AI (ChatGPT)

31:20 AI will change education

33:04 Amanda Martin

33:11 How was

teaching different in high school vs college?                                                                                         
- Demonstration of knowledge with the precipice   of AI

36:40 Full Circle

(Education) – What’s the motivation for students to go to school and learn
information

37:45 What does

what Amanda wants to leave the world with

38:55

Opensource

42:15 Linux

Foundation

46:30 Advice for

students on boot camps and alternative paths instead of college

 48:15 Career Highs and Lows

51:00 Amanda’s

thoughts on younger generations focus on real-world issues

53:22 Skills or

characteristics needed for people in software

55:28 Entry

level job titles to search for

56:55 Big

software development management

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