“Don’t follow the sheep,” Garth Nel advises when asked what he’d tell young people pursuing a technical career. “Make sure you’re visible, drive change and engage with the business.” With info-tech being such an essential and evolving industry, Nel warns it’s no place for its practitioners to stand still. Nel sure hasn’t stayed stationary, beginning […]
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Neil Goodrich – M. Holland
He calls himself a problem solver, but after a friendly chat with Neil Goodrich, one gets the impression that the energetic man might be selling himself at least a little bit short. For the 42-year-old chief information officer at M. Holland may be more of an issues anticipator. And what value there is to anticipating—and […]
David DiLeo – Industrial Scientific
Canaries can be grateful to Industrial Scientific, the Pittsburgh company that long ago spared them the hazardous and involuntary duty of detecting toxic gases in coal mines. That gratitude can be shared by the countless men and women whose occupations carry them underground or anywhere else where the air might be tarnished by unhealthy and […]
Fernando Birman – Solvay
When someone talks of having achieved their professional dream—serious in voice and straight of face—the temptation is to scoff, if not outright sneer, at the claim’s absurdity. “What do they know that I don’t,” you might wonder, “and what makes them so special?” Sometimes, though, such satisfaction stems not from one’s vision being fulfilled, but […]
