The Guiding Voice

In this episode #57, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla have interacted with another guest Dean

In his illustrious career spanning over 33 years, Dean played various global roles and has seen the technology bringing the world closer.

Dean Crutchfield is currently working as the Chief Information Officer with CDK Global. 

Before this, he worked as a VP & CIO at Zebra Technologies. 

Dean was with Dell for 14 years, during his tenure, it transformed itself to be a technology company with its innovative Just In Time methodology. 

Listen to Dean’s Insightful journey on:

• Dean’s Career background
• How CIO role evolved in the last 30 years?
• Things that Amaze Dean
• Day in a life of a Global CIO
• How someone can aspire to become a global executive?
• Dean’s experience interviewing Bill Gates(Founder of Microsoft)
• Rapid fire round(5 spot on questions)
• Tips for Students and Young professionals

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In this episode #56, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla have interacted with another guest Brenden

In addition to his day job, Brenden Kumarasamy is the Creator of MasterTalk, a YouTube channel that he started to help the world master the art of communication at large and public speaking in particular. As of now, this channel has over 5000 subscribers.

He coaches purpose driven entrepreneurs on how to master their message and share their ideas with the world.

Listen to Brenden’s Tips on:

• Brenden’s Career Journey
• Why there is Fear of Public Speaking (Glossophobia)
• Tips for overcoming the fear of Public Speaking
• How to master the art of Public Speaking
• Common observations while coaching Sr. Executives on Public Speaking
• Great communicators that inspired him
• Surprise Question to the hosts!!

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Brenden’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendenkumarasamy/

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In this episode #55, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla have interacted with another guest Bharat.

Bharat Bedi leads Global System Integrator Alliances for SolarWinds - World’s largest network monitoring IT Software company. 

He has spent the last 15 years driving businesses in tech roles through Inside Sales and Enterprise Sales for companies including Dell, IBM & Hewlett Packard Enterprise. 

Over the years, he has spoken in various panels about solving IT challenges, including his recent webinar at the CIO India forum. 

Listen to Bharat’s Insights on:

• Bharat’s career journey
• Views about Enterprise Infrastructure
• How Cloud aligns with Enterprise Infrastructure strategy
• How to dive deep in to Enterprise Infrastructure
• Careers Opportunities in Enterprise Infrastructure
• Tips for students & Young professionals to grow in careers

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In this episode #54, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla have interacted with another guest Dr. Sheelan.

A Leader, Mentor, Coach, and Career Management Advisor, Dr. Sheelan Misra has a keen interest in developing people in the areas of Leadership, Personal and Corporate Branding, and Entrepreneurship. She is leading the Department of Management Studies at New Horizon College of Engineering, Bangalore.

She is one of the few Master Trainers across India recognized by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. She is also associated with the National Entrepreneurship network as an advisor and mentoring budding entrepreneurs.

A Bachelor of Science from the University of Delhi, Master of Business Administration from Guru Jambheshwar University, Haryana, holds her doctorate degree from Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university in New Delhi in the area of International Marketing. 

Dr. Sheelan has been a topper of her MBA program and has been awarded a gold medal by the Governor of Haryana. 

Dr. Sheelan has a rich academic, research, and industry experience of more than18 years. She is an Accredited Management Teacher, accredited by AIMA, New Delhi, and also guiding 8 Ph.D. research scholars in the different disciplines of management.  

Listen to Sheelan’s lessons on:

• Her academic & career journey
• Transformational skills basics
• Importance of Transformational skills
• How academia & industry looks at the transformational skills?
• How students can build transformational skills?
• Importance of transformational skills in COVID scenario
• How Sheelan learnt transformational skills
• Tips for students and young professional to grow in their careers

Sheelan’s LinkedIn Profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheelan-misra-60513029/

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In this episode #53, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla have interacted with another guest Sagar.

Sagar Deshpande is currently working with a major global e-commerce giant, and is based out of Pune. Sagar spent 12 years in various roles in operations / tech support and implementation space with organizations like ADP, CDK Global. Out of which 5 years in various leadership roles.

He is Six Sigma GB Certified & ITIL Certified. Sagar has Advanced Bronze Communicator Certified in Toastmasters

PG Program in Business Analytics and Business Intelligence, from University of Austin Texas.

Sagar’s Insights:

• Sagar’s career journey
• Service Delivery in General Terms
• Growth path in Service Delivery roles
• How Service Delivery is different from Engineering and R&D
• Are Engineers paid more than Service Delivery/Operations roles?
• Who should get in to Service Delivery & Operations?
• Tips for students & Young professionals to grow in careers

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#servicedelivery, #operations, #customerservice, #customerexcellence, #ops, #itil, #technologies,  #careerguidance, #mentorship, #careerpath, #progression, #management, #leadership, #crisis, #job, #midcareer, #youngprofessionals, #careergraph, #TGV, #theguidingvoice

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In this episode #52, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla have interacted with another guest Prabhakar Reddy.

Prabhakar Reddy is a Product Manager at one of the top Innovative MNC Company on Automotive, Industrial & Connected Technologies. 

He has overall 18 years of industry experience in the Automotive domain including 7 years of International experiences on a variety of leadership roles ranging from Project Management, Quality, Technology, and Automation topics. 

Every time there is a crisis in the world, Prabhakar successfully navigated & excelled, be it during the crisis - Be it 2000 tech bubble, the 2008 financial crisis and 2020 coronavirus crash compare in 2000, 2008 or now in 2020.Coming to his education, He received his Bachelor degree in Electronic & Communication from Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, Bangalore University

 He has passion to learn new languages, he speaks 6 different languages including one foreign Language (German)

 He has started his career in core technical topics on Software development for the premium German Car´s in the area of Driving Assistance. Shaped his career with different roles like Project Leader, Group Manager, Program Manager, & Product Manager.

Prabhakar’s Thoughts:

• Prabhakar’s career journey
• Prabhakar’s career journey
• Technological changes and their impact on businesses
• How to keep oneself up to date and staying relevant
• Significance of soft skills in Global work environment
• Work life Balance
• Tips for students & Young professionals to grow in careers

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#product, #productmanager, #productmgmt, #technologies, #techevolution,  #careerguidance, #mentorship, #careerpath, #progression, #management, #leadership, #crisis, #job, #midcareer, #youngprofessionals, #careergraph, #TGV, #theguidingvoice

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In this episode #51, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla have interacted with another guest Kiran.

Kiran Gudimetla is currently in the role of Chief of Staff for Global IT CIO in cognizant. 

Kiran has over 17 years rich technology leadership experience delivering data and digital transformation programs. 

He has broad industry domain knowledge leading programs across Order to remittance  and post sales service business functions. 

Kiran is also a subject matter expert on GDPR and led the GDPR compliance program for his organisation by implementing IT solutions. 

He is a proud alumni of GE’s ITLP program

Kiran’s Insights:

• Kiran’s career journey
• Responsibilities of CoS – Chief of Staff Role
• Who can play the role of a CoS?
• Why CoS has become significant?
• What after CoS role?
• Kiran’s culinary skills and Instagram followership
• Tips for students & Young professionals to grow in their careers

Kiran’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirangudimetla/

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#cos, #chiefofstaff, #coo, #CXO,#CIO,  #careerguidance, #mentorship, #careerpath, #progression, #management, #leadership, #crisis, #job, #midcareer, #youngprofessionals, #careergraph, #TGV, #theguidingvoice

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In this episode #50, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla have interacted with another guest Pankaj.

A technical leader with over 13 years of IT experience, Pankaj Mishra has expertise in Customer Relationship Management, Global Service Delivery, Risk Management, Account Strategy, Team building & Innovation.

Pankaj has experience in various facets of the industry starting from development, application & maintenance support, IT infrastructure support to Delivery, IT strategy, transition management, people management, stakeholder management, program, and account management, 

He has Proven record of identifying and executing areas for innovation and automation

IT Operations, Cloud Managed Services, Analytics services

He is passionate about  inspiring, educating, coaching, mentoring, leading, and empowering teams across geographies

Pankaj’s advise:

• Pankaj’s career journey
• Basics of Cloud computing
• Myths of Cloud computing
• IaaS, PaaS, SaaS definitions with examples
• How to choose among AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud etc.
• Challenges in Cloud computing
• Tips for students & Young professionals to grow in their careers

Pankaj’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pankaj-mishra-5b8a7220/

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In this episode #49, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla have interacted with another guest Rohit.

Rohit Gupta is a Technical Trainer, who holds a Master’s degree in Informatics, from the University of Delhi, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Science, from the University of Delhi. 

He is also C# Corner MVP (Most Valuable professional), Author, Speaker.

Rohit is deeply interested in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Python.

His aim Is to make World’s First Human-Like Humanoid.

Rohit believes in the statement “bonding between Machines and Humans will make this world a better place.

Listen to Rohit’s lessons on:

• Basics of Computer Vision and its relation to AI, DS & ML
• How computers can SEE?
• How image processing is different from Computer Vision?
• Preprocessing and post processing of Computer Vision
• Why is it necessary for a machine to see & detect correctly J
• How can one start learning Computer Vision
• Commonly used Computer Vision libraries
• Current limitations & Future of Computer vision

Here are the resources shared by Rohit:

1. NPTEL
2. Website: https://nptel.ac.in/
3. Computer Vision: https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106/105/106105216/

1. Krish Naik
2. Complete OpenCV: https://bit.ly/3k80jXy
3. YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/krishnaik06

1. OpenCV
2. Downloadable tutorials: https://docs.opencv.org/
3. PDF Documentation: https://docs.opencv.org/2.4/opencv2refman.pdf
4. Online Tutorials: https://docs.opencv.org/master/d6/d00/tutorial_py_root.html
5. Official OpenCV Courses: https://opencv.org/courses/

1. Sentdex
2. YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/sentdex
3. Computer Vision Playlist: https://bit.ly/31eDwBO
4. Website: https://nnfs.io/

1. Computer Vision:
2. C# Corner: https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/topics/computer-vision
3. Coursera Nanodegree: https://bit.ly/348k6Ax
4. TEDx: https://bit.ly/3lX0NQD
5. Udacity Free Resources: https://bit.ly/3o2k6Kb
6. Stanford Resources: https://bit.ly/3lYZosR
7. Robofied: https://www.instagram.com/robofied/?hl=en
8. neuralnet.ai: https://www.instagram.com/neuralnet.ai/?hl=en
9. Pytorch: https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/transfer_learning_tutorial.html

1. PyImageSearch
2. Website: https://www.pyimagesearch.com
3. YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3j8jxLa
4. Courses: https://www.pyimagesearch.com/books-and-courses/
5. OpenCV Tutorials: https://www.pyimagesearch.com/category/opencv/

1. Machine Learning India
2. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mlindia/
3. Website: https://linktr.ee/mlindia
4. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ml_india_
5. Instagram: https://instagram.com/ml.india
6. Telegram: https://t.me/machinelearning24x7

1. Rohit Gupta
2. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohit-gupta-ai/
3. Twitter: https://twitter.com/RohitGuptaAI
4. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rohitgupta161093/
5. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rohit.gupta.33633
6. Gmail: [email protected]f. Telegram: https://t.me/rohit_gupta_ai
7. C# Corner Profile: https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/members/rohit-gupta95

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In this episode #48, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla have interacted with another guest Nagapriya.

 Nagapriya Prakash has been working in the corporate world for more than 20  years now. For the last 4 years, she’s been associated with Codelathe Technologies, in the capacity of QA Engg..

Her extensive experience lies in associating herself with various Business domains, Corporate Cultures and with dealing with people . 

Outside of work, she loves to spend time with her 15 year old daughter, zentangle, dance  and come up quirky design ideas at home.

Listen to Nagapriya’s thoughts on:

• Her 21+ years of career journey and three phases
• Toughest step taken by her consciously
• One thing that she enjoyed in career journey
• What kept her going
• Sudhakar’s vision on #TGV (The Guiding Voice) podcast series
• Naveen’s SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats)
• Tips for students and young professional to grow in their careers

Nagapriya’s LinkedIn Profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nagapriya-prakash-50a2434/

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