S2 Ep 008 Data Dream Team: On the Path to Chief Data Officer with Justin Swenson

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Justin Swenson, Product Technical Lead at Sub-Zero Group, speaks with Jesse Anderson on his plans to grow in his career. Justin outlines the path that he is on, to become a Chief Data Officer — enhancing his role of coach and mentor and bolstering his knowledge of people management, culture, technologies and processes, that will underpin and enable his team, now and for always. This isn’t just ambition for its own sake; Justin is passionate and has a desire to learn and be great, so that he can coach and manage others to be their best selves and succeed. He offers practical examples of how data functions within Sub-Zero and insights to what works, needs changing, and challenges him to consistently push the envelope.

Mentioned in today’s episode:

• Building Today’s Data Team
• It’s the Manager from Gallup

Justin’s recommended follows:

• Shane Parrish, Farnam Street
• Andre Albuquerque – Product / Product Management
• Stefan Wolpers – Agile / Scrum
• Eric Weber – Data / Data Science
• Sam McAfee – Product / Product Management
• Maarten Dalmijn – Agile / Scrum
• Jeff Gothelf – Product / Product Management
• Kanchan Tewary
• Thibaut Collette
• Lori Lu
• Steve Jones
• Prukalpa
• Towards Data Science
• Databand.ai
• Be Data Driven
• Strategy for the Rest of Us
• Slalom Data & AI
• Better Programming
• CRAP Talks
• Select Star

• More about our host, Jesse Anderson
• Read the transcript of this episode
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• Find book recommendations and more resources for data professionals at https://dreamteam.soda.io
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