In the Enterprisers Project's recent article Cobol days and raised-floor nights: My first IT job, CIOs and CTOs reveal their very first IT assignments which ultimately led them to their current role as today’s top IT leaders. Mike Duensing, Skuid CTO and EVP of Engineering, shares about his first job as a software developer. Read the full article here.
When I was first starting my career, there were numerous times where I was asked ‘can you build this,’ or ‘can you do this.’ My answer was always yes, even if I had no experience with the problem to be solved. What I would then do was go to a bookstore and pick out a stack of books in the computer section (this was before the Internet) to educate myself on how to achieve the desired outcome. Following this, I would then go and build what was needed.
