How He Got Here: Software developer consultant (clients included Old Republic National Title Insurance Company and Life Time Fitness); technical trainer (clients included Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Gateway and Target); helpdesk IT support (University of Minnesota School of Law)
Mouthing Off:
MMS' greatest technical challenge: "Dealing with the constraints of the Web browser, especially for complex user-interface work and hardware access."
Toughest moment during MMS development: "Talking down the critics outside of Life Time Fitness who predicted failure."
MMS is important to Life Time Fitness because: "It facilitates the business strategy of high growth and product diversification and satisfies the need for an adaptive framework that accommodates change."
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
