Steve Cooper

Behavioral Best Practices for Launching a Tech Career

Sep 26, 2022 | Career Building

The desire to switch careers can result in the combination of so many human emotions: frustration, excitement, anxiety, and, most importantly, motivation. Most of us at one point or another ponder...

What Every Employer Keeps Doing Wrong

Jun 29, 2022 | Career Building

Businesses spend lots of money upgrading technology, streamlining their operations, and making the workplace great. Over decades, these investments have radically improved these areas to the point they’re unrecognizable from the...

Streamlining Developer On-boarding with Containerization

May 03, 2022 | Career Building

Anyone who has worked in technology for even a short period of time has heard these words: “but it worked on my machine.” One of the more painful experiences for an...

Top Work from Home Apps for Staying Productive

Oct 20, 2021 | Career Building

Remember when working from home was the sparkly unicorn of workplace perks, reserved for the favored few? The pandemic levelled the playing field as most of us headed home, laptop in...

Student Voices: Git Into it – An Overview of Git

Sep 15, 2021 | Career Building

Version control is at the core of every software project; to efficiently develop in a team, you must be able to work asynchronously and avoid stepping on each other’s toes. Additionally,...

Why Your Developers Are Leaving

Sep 09, 2021 | Career Building

“Big Chief’s gotta move on.” This is a family saying in our house, and we don’t really know why. When it’s time to leave or switch activities, we use this phrase...

The ELITE Grant’s Impact on Region 2 Employers

Jun 10, 2021 | Career Building

The Experiential Learning in Tech Employment (ELITE) Grant has launched as Virginia’s first ever work-based learning grant for mentored software developers. These two inaugural projects engage student engineers from Virginia Tech...

Does Your Team Have a Ban on Learning?

Feb 17, 2021 | Career Building

The quote landed with a thud. “On our project, we don’t want anyone learning on the job.” Someone said this to me in a meeting, and I couldn’t get it out...

Bogus or Real? Top Reasons Companies Say They Don’t Have a Thriving Internship Program

Nov 16, 2020 | Career Building

Debunking fake news is everyone’s favorite 2020 hobby. Today’s fake news? The top three reasons we hear from companies for why they don’t have a thriving, year-round IT internship program: 1)...

Code is NOT the Most Important Output of Your Software Development Team… Here’s Why

Oct 26, 2020 | Career Building

The job title “software developer” could not be more straightforward. The output is software, or code, and, if this is your job title, you probably have the impression that you’re measured...

What We Learned by Making Our Internship Remote

Aug 17, 2020 | Career Building

The COVID-19 global pandemic forced businesses all over the world to quickly adapt their daily operations to be more remote-friendly. Unfortunately, many businesses also decided to cancel their summer internship programs...

A Most Opportune Moment: Whose Careers Are Damaged Most by Remote Work?

Jul 23, 2020 | Career Building

I was 22 years old and my stomach churned as I approached the Arthur Andersen Consulting headquarters in Washington, DC, on a steamy June morning. I was reporting for work on...