Richard Paterson - Building your personal skillset
Details
How do we decide what to learn to keep ourselves relevant and to progress our careers? It's easy to jump between a different set of current tools and technologies, but how do we ensure we don't just scratch the surface?
Richard Paterson will be presenting a talk on how to effectively build our personal skillset throughout our careers. We will also be hosting an ever-popular and valuable Lean Coffee afterwards.
As always, thanks to our sponsors and hosts Zonal!
Plan of Attack!
18:00 - Doors open and networking
18:45 - Introductions
19:00 - Richard Paterson - Building a Personal Skillset
19:45 - Lean Coffee
20:30 - Finish
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Richard Paterson - Building a Personal Skillset
Synopsis
As your career progresses, it can be easy to neglect your skillset. With so much going on, and so much change, it is too easy to be borne along by the current, picking up pieces of skills, but never approaching mastery.
As the workplace changes, our job role can no longer define the boundaries of our abilities. We need to mindfully widen our skillset in support of our own goals and the needs of our team.
In this talk I'll provide, using a real world example, a set of tenets by which you can approach the acquisition of skills throughout your career.
Who is Richard Paterson?
Richard is Head of Testing and Application Security at SAS R&D Scotland. He considers himself a designer, leader and maker in addition to being a tester.
Richard has been a tester for over twenty years, initially working in Defence and more recently in Law Enforcement / Intelligence and Data Management. Richard has built up a multi-talented test organisation within SAS R&D Scotland over the last ten years. His approach to test leadership is to support and enable his testing function, constantly looking for and championing new ideas and approaches.
Richard helps run the Ministry of Testing Meetup in Glasgow, occasionally blogs at http://rcpaterson.co.uk/blog and Tweets
@rocketbootkid
Richard Paterson - Building your personal skillset