Workshop: Career Advancement for IT Professionals

Join Tech in Motion Philadelphia for our first ever Career Workshop. Featuring expert insight from industry experts, as well as Tech in Motion’s founding agencies Jobspring Partners and Workbridge Associates, this night is aimed to provide career advice and insights for anyone ready to elevate their careers to the next level. Beyond that, as always there will be ample opportunities to network amongst local technologists, so have your business cards on hand!

Whether you are new or experienced in the technology field and are wishing to take your career to the next level, this event is for you. With 4 different sessions being held throughout the evening you are bound to leave the event with advice and inspiration from our various experts.

Interested in learning more about any of the breakout sessions? We have the event schedule of the night’s break-out-sessions listed below.

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6:00 PM – Event kicks off with open networking
6:30-6:45 PM – Opening presentation remarks
7:00-7:30 PM – Breakout Session A

1. The Changing Landscape of Virtualization with Jordan Roth

2. Acing your Next Interview

7:45-8:15 PM – Breakout Session B

1. Building your UI/UX Portfolio with Chuck White

2. Women in Tech: A Candid Conversation led by Gloria Bell

Please note, while this event is free to attend assess to above sessions is limited to space availability and sign ups are now closed

A little more on our industry experts of the night:

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Chuck White is currently working through his own company, Battery Creative on a range of experience design projects. He was formerly a Senior Creative Director within Comcast’s Experience Design Team working on a range of Xfinity experiences from cross-platform entertainment applications to responsive sales and marketing web sites. Prior to Comcast, Chuck started his career in user experience at Burton Snowboards as Brand Manager, which included the overall strategy, content, and design of Burton’s web sites and other marketing communications.

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Gloria Bell brings 30+ years of successful business operations, communications, event management, and entrepreneurial experience, to her roles as Co-Founder and Operations Director of The Women In Tech Summit (http://womenintechsummit.net/) and as the Marketing Advisor for TechGirlz (http://www.techgirlz.org/).

In addition to these roles, Gloria provides social media consulting services to businesses and non-profits. She is a frequent speaker on a multitude of social media and women in technology topics, as well as being an Adjunct Professor of Social Media Strategy at Drexel University. Between her current roles and her corporate career,

Gloria founded Red Stapler Consulting which provided process and operations consulting and social media strategy to businesses and technology startups.

Gloria has also shared her experience and expertise as a volunteer organizer of PodCamp Philly, PodCamp East and Content Camp; as an instructor for GirlDevelopIt; and as a mentor for Lean Startup Machine and Startup Weekend.

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Jordan Roth is an industry leader in all things VMware. Jordan's passion for virtualization started in 2006, with the release of VMware GSX. Since then he has been at the forefront of architectural design and integration for small business, finance, healthcare and classified/unclassified federal, state and local governments. Jordan currently works as the Platform Engineering Manager at the City of Philadelphia's Office of Innovation and Technology (OIT). Previous to that he was Lead Subject Matter Expert for Certification at VMware and the Cloud Services Team Leader for Dell. Jordan holds VMware VCIX-DCV, VCAP6-CMA Design and VCP6-NV certifications, was awarded VMware vExpert status for 2017, is the technical editor of VMware's Official VCP6-DCV Certification Book and is the author of http://www.thecloudjar.com (http://www.thecloudjar.com/).

A special thanks to our event partners:

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Deep Eddy Vodka (http://www.deepeddyvodka.com/) | @DeepEddyVodka (https://twitter.com/deepeddyvodka)

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Today we have more than 90 locations and are still growing! No matter what your cookie needs - - from late night study breaks, sending gifts to a college kid far from home, anniversary gifts, birthday gifts, just-because gifts or group orders for your next event or meeting... Insomnia Cookies are available when you need them most with most of our locations delivering from 10am-3am, daily.

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