NEW EPISODE – Tech Talk with Scott Roth, CEO at LegitScript On this episode, we introduce our new co-host Jerry Gaube! Jerry is a talented Client Solutions Manager at ProFocus working with companies to solve their tech talent challenges. We are thrilled to have Scott...
ProFocus Opens a Branch in Utah! We’re excited to announce that ProFocus is opening an office in Salt Lake City! Over the years, ProFocus has had the pleasure of building substantial relationships throughout the Silicon Slopes market. As our clients continue to grow...
Though the great resignation is still going strong amongst older millennials in tech, aged 30-45 years old, job postings in Portland have decreased 6% from Q3 to Q4 in 2021. In Oregon overall, postings decreased by 8%. Why are they quitting in the first place?...
Featured Guest – Mark Farley, VP of IT at Thermo Fisher Scientific In this episode, John interviews Mark Farley, Vice President of Information Technology at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Thermo Fisher Scientific is a world leader in serving science, with annual...
Philip Lilly Memorial Scholarship Winner – Angela Pawlowski Congratulations to our 1st Philip Lilly Memorial Scholarship Winner, Angela Pawlowski! Angela demonstrated a clear commitment to leading with compassion, breaking down barriers, and improving...
In October, ProFocus hosted a discussion of Portland based technology leaders. This was a roundtable discussion. John Boone, the President of ProFocus Technology, moderated the discussion. The leaders in attendance offered various advice, best practices, and lessons...
In today’s market, technical leaders sometimes have two (if not more) full-time jobs. They must manage their teams, keep projects on track, and maintain all other day-to-day responsibilities. They also must attract, hire, and recruit top talent. Making these strategic...
If you’re moving to Portland, you might be wondering which neighborhood to live in. You should first know the genius of the city’s layout, which is split into 4 primary areas: NW, NE, SW, and SE. They are divided by the Willamette River (going north and south) and...
There’s lots of buzz about agile — as well as plenty of misconceptions about what agile is and isn’t. Agile offers a variety of benefits, from a better final product to improved collaboration, which has led many organizations to adopt an agile approach. But seeing...
Every so often, software development goes through major disruptive changes. The introduction of object-oriented programming was a major paradigm shift in the way a computer programmer breaks down project requirements into distinct islands of code referred to as...
If you backed me into a corner and asked me what’s the toughest and most challenging kind of software development I’ve ever experienced, I’d have to say hands down, it’s the world of enterprise software development. To be clear, enterprise development is all about...
How should a software developer measure their success? When I was younger and starting out in my professional software development career, I used to think it was how much code I sling. Like Clint Eastwood in “A Fistful of Dollars”, I liked to pretend I was a...