SVForum Engineering Leadership Event: Building Sustainable Teams October 20, 2011

Trust everybody but cut the cards- Secrets to Building Sustainable Teams
Speaker: Will Read, Director of Engineering, Stageit Corp.

Talk Description: Software engineers in the Bay Area have their choice of jobs, and leaving one company for another is often a very lucrative move. It can be challenging to make new hires without having worry about turnover too. In this talk, I will show you how to create an environment that provides intrinsic value to its developers. I will also share what it means to be part of a team instead of a collection of individuals occupying the same physical space. In the end, it will all come down to making the right hires and setting the tone for a place that is safe to be honest and creative.

About The Speaker: Will leads the company's developers who code and maintain the systems behind the StageIt platform. Prior joining StageIt, Will worked at Pivotal Labs, a consultancy known for its high-quality software development practices. While at Pivotal, Will helped match the physical and digital music inventories for BestBuy, provide personalized "Who To Follow" suggestions to users for Twitter, and deliver real-time, localized, personalized deals to users on desktop and mobile devices for Groupon. He began his career working for various start-ups including Jobvite, a leading job referral web service. Will holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Purdue University.

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Official Website: http://www.svforum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Calendar.eventDetail&eventID=13965