Your career path: Explore and learn from different career journeys
Join the NSW Emerging Professional Committee (EPC) for in-person panel event listening and learning about five different career path journeys from expert panellists
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Have you recently started your professional career or are about to graduate? Are you seeking a source of practical support and career advice?
ACS NSW Emerging Professional Committee (EPC) delivers dedicated events for you - offering interactive advice and insights from expert keynote speakers and professional mentors - where you can ask questions, network, and build out your professional profile and skills to stand out and accelerate your career."
Join ACS NSW Emerging Professional Committee (EPC) as we host a panel event listening and learning about five different career path journeys from expert panelists (see Bios for more details), as they share their motivations and the benefits of their chosen career path and then breaking-out into dedicated Q&A sessions for a further deep-dive.
Career path journeys to be explored for growing your career:
- Role Stayer: Explores a specific business area at the same company
- Role Hopper: Explores multiple different roles at the same company
- Job Hopper: Explores multiple different companies
- Contractor: Explores multiple different companies providing their business service
- Entrepreneur: Build their own company(s)
- 5:30pm - Registration, networking & refreshments
- 6:00pm - Welcome & panellist introductions
- 6:10pm - Career path panel discussion
- 6:40pm - Career path breakout sessions with Q&A
- 7:05pm - Summary of learnings from breakout sessions
- 7:15pm - Networking & refreshments
- 7:30pm - Event concludes
Speakers
Prior to his role at GoFundraise, Srini spent a decade at Honeywell Limited, where he made significant contributions as a leading Software Engineer and cloud architect. His innovative solutions and strategic insights played a pivotal role in driving the company's technological advancements.
Beyond his professional endeavors, Srini is deeply committed to social causes. As a director at the Sri Om Foundation, he channels his passion for helping others by supporting aged individuals of South Asian backgrounds in Sydney. Through his involvement with the foundation, Srini demonstrates his dedication to making a positive impact on the lives of those in need.
Srini holds a Bachelor of Engineering with a major in Computer Systems from the University of Technology, Sydney, providing him with a solid foundation for his successful career in the technology industry. His blend of technical expertise and humanitarian spirit continues to drive meaningful change in both the corporate and charitable sectors
Robert Estherby is a bit of a jack-of-all-trades! He's been an Accounts Clerk, Network Engineer, a Technical Lead, worked to ensure that viewers around the globe saw the Sydney New Year's fireworks, and now he's sharing his tech skills with ABC's Internal Audit department. But what has allowed Robert to have a flexible career is his ability to communicate with colleagues and have those tough conversations. He firmly believes in the importance of building soft skills to have a fulfilling technological career.
Robert Estherby is a previous national convener of Emerging Professionals (Young IT) at the ACS and a previous ACS NSW Branch Executive and National Congress member.
Chris is a technology coach and advisor helping technology teams drive business success. He has a particular focus on helping startups realise their vision and new CTOs flourish in their roles. He also supports executives & boards with strategic technology advice, and engineering teams with training, mentoring and consulting in architecture, quality, domain-driven design and test driven development.
He is the technical co-founder of https://www.inloop.com.au, home of Australian Fintech success stories https://www.flexischools.com.au and https://www.lanternpay.com (recently acquired by NAB).
He is a regular meetup & conference speaker (NDC, KanDDDinsky, Serverless Days ANZ) and to support teams using Domain-Driven Design, he recently launched https://contextive.tech & co-founded the DDD Australia meetup.
Molly is a people person who has a passion for technology and how it influences our everyday lives. She is currently the VP of People for RecordPoint, responsible for driving people strategy across culture, recruitment, onboarding, learning & development and everyday RecordPoint life. Molly is passionate about helping tech start-ups grow, scale, and maintain their culture and collaboration throughout the process.
Molly focuses on building capable, engaged, adaptive and diverse teams through the development of early career programs, skill mobility, and the implementation of data-driven recruitment practices. She regularly speaks on topics including diversity in business, women in tech, scaling culture, and emerging talent.
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