This year's winners drive strategy and innovation in top-tier IT departments. Click through for photos of each honoree, as well as interesting personal tidbits like their first job, best career advice and the title they'd like to hold someday.
If Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates had not asked Steve Ballmer to join his start-up software company as employee number 24 in 1980, the now infamous Ballmer would probably have made a career out of selling car insurance.
According to new research from LinkedIn, volunteering is just as beneficial to your career as it is to those you help. That's why it has rolled out a new profile section, "Volunteer Experience and Causes," to help you highlight how you've contributed to your community.
Pieter Poll is Chief Technology Officer at Qwest Communications International Inc. in Denver, which serves business customers nationally and residential customers in 14 western states with telephone, high-speed Internet and DirecTV services. The company is also serving as an agent for Verizon Wireless services. Poll talked about his career and the directions Qwest is taking.
The recession has altered the career track for many ambitious finance and accounting professionals. Some took more junior roles in finance after losing their old positions. Others, unable to find a suitable replacement post, ventured into fields outside the finance world.
Online career development community Gild recently compared Indian programmers' math, logic, software development and communication skills with those of American programmers.
The issue of piracy may be making headlines this month, but Roger Hawkes, director of corporate security for Global Industries Ltd., has been fighting piracy and trying to stop the problem for most of his career.
Cole Hanson's career goal is to become an information security executive. Currently, he serves as a high-level information security professional with the U.S. Army. In February, Hanson, who is also a reservist with a rank of Lieutenant, will start a new job with the Marine Corps as the technology integration officer and deputy for its Communications Directorate. In this new position he will act as a project manager and oversee a major network infrastructure replacement.
The pickings are slim in the job market and the time line of interviewing and then hiring new people is slow. But there are positions available in the security field, according to three veteran security recruiters that we spoke with recently. If you're looking for a change in your career, or are simply looking to get back to work, there is simply no room for anything less than the best impression these days.
Chances are, if you've survived a round of layoffs in your career, you've probably experienced a pang of longing for lost colleagues, a lack of motivation and a decrease in productivity. According to a report by The Conference Board, an independent membership organization, such reactions can be described as "survivor's syndrome."
Aaron E. Walsh's career path isn't strewn with traditional milestones. Since the age of 18, when he was hired as a computer equipment operator at Boston College, where he now teaches, Walsh has been pretty single-minded about one thing: bolstering education through the innovative use of virtual reality technology.
Your online popularity might be as valuable to your career as a post-grad education. A recent job posting on Best Buy’s Web site prefers candidates with a graduate degree and at least 250 followers on Twitter
Social media is taking up more and more of our time, both at home and work. Many enterprises have even started to treat social media tools as mission-critical, meaning that if you don't start mastering them, your lack of knowledge could impede your career.
In January, Kevin Kelly wrote an essay entitled "Better Than Free" that explained which concepts held value on the Internet. This generated a lot of interest, mostly around the question of how best to make money out of these concepts. As a career security guy, I found myself wondering how on earth my field will respond -- how does security need to adapt to support business models based on these values? When we're used to locking everything down, how do we respond when people start calling for openness?
ORLANDO -- At a security conference in Orlando Tuesday, Col. Oliver North mocked the plight of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, caught up in a prostitution-ring scandal that may end his political career.
Having delivered hundreds, perhaps thousands, of live product demonstrations during his career at Microsoft, Bill Gates has experienced his share of on-stage gaffes.
When meeting someone new and describing my background in this industry I often say "I've seen the best of times, I've seen the worst of times and most of what falls in between." I've been recruiting in Information Security long enough to have experienced the heady times of the dot.com boom and the dark days that followed after it all came crashing down. I've also been here as the industry has grown and evolved-sometimes as a result of and sometimes in spite of significant difficulties. This evolution leads
Young people are compromising their career prospects and opening the door to online fraud by posting personal information on social networking sites without thinking about the consequences, a U.K. privacy watchdog warned Friday.
Early in his career, when he was working as a programming manager at a financial services firm, Earl A. Pace Jr. went to a computer conference in Arizona where there were 200 attendees -- 199 white people and him. Well aware of the opportunities in the exploding industry, he decided that ratio needed to change. That decision led to the founding, in 1975, of Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA), a national organization that now has more than 50 chapters and aims to provide what it calls "a pathway from t
Here’s one story that shows how certifications can boost a person’s career. Cisco got me in touch with Michael Crocker, a six-year human resources specialist who, feeling uninspired in his “paper-driven” job decided to take networking classes part-time and is now enjoying a shift lead position working on the Navy Marines Corps Intranet (NMCI) project.