Andrew Cook talks with Dave Rael about being a paramedic, becoming a software developer, community engagement, and learning
Andrew Cook is a software developer and Paramedic with years of experience in the Microsoft Stack including ASP.Net, MVC Framework, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SQL Server, Redis Cache, VSTS, C#, HTML, and CSS. He's a Xamarin Certified Developer and a Udacity Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree Graduate.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Andrew Cook
- - Andrew's paramedic career and leveraging free time to learn software development
- - How Andrew got started with creating software
- - Andrew's experience with JavaScript
- - Andrew's community involvement
- - The mystique of conference and user group speakers
- - Andrew's story of failure - demonstrations that didn't work
- - How Andrew stays current with what he needs to know
- - Andrew's success story - completions of becoming a paramedic, giving quality presentations
- - Andrew's book recommendation
- - The need to push back
- - Andrew's experience with using influence to find a creative solution to getting a patient to a hospital
- - Andrew's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Andrew
Resources:
Andrew's book recommendation:
Andrew's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Create projects to learn
- Get involved with your community
- Treat everyone as a customer - Understand that we're all people and be as helpful as you can be