Tim Rayburn
Vice President of Consulting at Improving
Plano, Texas, United States
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Tim Rayburn is a Vice President of Consulting with Improving Enterprises, a software and project management consulting company in Dallas, TX. He is a passionate advocate of apprenticeship and mentorship in corporate environments. He has been awarded the Microsoft MVP in recognition of his expertise and community leadership 11 times. He is also a conference organizer, an author, and can be found speaking across the nation on agile processes, software design, and career management. He lives in the North Dallas area with his amazing wife Kate and their loyal dogs Dresden and Radagast.
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Help Your Teams Avoid Burnout And Apathy
We work in a fast paced, constantly growing, high demand industry that is known for creating burnout and apathy for teams who constantly live under this emotional pressure. Tropes like “people quit managers not jobs” aren’t enough to guide us to real solutions. Over the last 13 years I’ve helped growing a company from 40 employees to 1,500 employees and regular winner of Best Places to Work awards. To avoid the pitfalls we must balance two critical areas, engaging minds and engaging hearts. Come learn how to use Autonomy, Mastery, and Achievement to engage minds, and balance that with Purpose and Appreciation to engage hearts.
Build the Industry we want and need
The IT industry has significant challenges around DEI, and and there is no single answer to all of them. Even though hiring practices can be revamped to address some of this, there’s much more that all of us can do, regardless of our role, to move the needle in creating a more diverse, inclusive and ultimately unified workplace. Come learn some of the proven practices that even less senior team members can implement to help build the industry that we both want and need. In our discussion, we will talk about the significance of direct and intentional mentorship in bridging multi-generational gaps between different demographics in our society, various interviewing practices, the value of alternative IT education and many other techniques which will allow each one of us to do our part to personally shape our industry for the better now.
Measure Twice, Code Once – A Guide To Performance Measurement in .NET
Highly performant code is important, all the more so in our modern cloud-centric pay-per-cpu costing model. But given the ever-evolving nature of our industry, if the new coolness also efficient or just cool? I’ve been developing software as a consultant for over 20 years, focused on large distributed systems, and that has led me to some very clear opinions about where and how to measure performance, what trade-offs are worth it, and which are not. In this session you’ll learn what tools I use to evaluate performance, the areas of an application to focus on for performance, and how each of these interact with cloud-based hosting strategies of today.
Growing Skills Through Deliberate Practice
For over 50 years, based on the work of K. Anders Ericsson and many others, we have been developing the science of Expertise. Popularized recently by Malcolm Gladwell, the concept of the 10,000-hour rule has begun an oft repeated statement meant to drive us all on to new levels of performance. But despite 5 decades of research, and 15 years since Gladwell's Outliers was published, very few of us truly understand how to use deliberate practice to grow and develop new skills. I've spent over 2 decades speaking, coaching and mentoring technologists in the advancement of their careers. Careers in a field which moves faster, and changes more often, than any other on the planet. What then is the difference between those who fail and leave the industry, those who keep up with the industry, and those who grow so fast that they shock those around them? The use of deliberate practice is the start, but we must focus on the details. Come learn how Conation, Cadence, Challenges, and Coaches are the secret ingredients which can turn repetition into growth.
Tulsa Developers Association
Measure Twice, Code Once – A Guide To Performance Measurement in .NET
North Houston .NET User Group
Measure Twice, Code Once – A Guide To Performance Measurement in .NET
2023 Data.SQL.Saturday.LA Sessionize Event
Denver Dev Day | Spring 2023 Sessionize Event
DevOpsDays Austin 2023 Sessionize Event
DevOpsDays Denver
Help Your Teams Avoid Burnout And Apathy
North Dallas Developer's Group
Using MassTransit and Kafka
PrairieDevCon Calgary
Help Your Teams Avoid Burnout And Apathy
Little Rock Tech Fest 2022 Sessionize Event
Houston DevOpsDays
Help Your Teams Avoid Burnout And Apathy
Data Saturday Atlanta Sessionize Event
Atlanta Developers' Conference 2022 Sessionize Event
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