If you want to be an IT professional, the things you learn at school probably aren't enough. Here are some of my tips on the important tech skills you should know. I presented this at Y4IT 2012, held at UP Diliman.

1. Technology Trends
And Your Career

2. Who am I?
• CEO & Co-Founder
Orange & Bronze Software Labs
• Technology Director
Philippine Software Industry Association
• Industry Representative
CHED Technical Committee for Computer Science
• Co-Founder
Association of Filipino Java Developers
(PinoyJUG)

3. It's a great time to be in IT
especially in the Philippines

4. Ave. Industry Growth: 27%
compared to global 12%

5. 2011 Performance*
$993 million
37% growth
50,000 employed
*not including in-house software development

6. US Software Industry Growth
$Billions
600
500
400
300
Internet of Things
200
100
Social Networking
0
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
market outside
US is now larger
and growing
Personal Computers World Wide Web Mobile
even faster
Mainframes

7. Types of Work

Application Maintenance

Quality Assurance

System Development
– Enterprise, Web & Mobile

Business Analysis / Project Management

Systems Administration & Support

User Experience / User Interface Design

Embedded Programming

Game Development

8. Top Industry Problem – Talent
Prevailing myth that IT is over-subscribed
Decreasing enrollment in IT courses, esp.
Computer Science
Most schools do not teach employable skills

9. The Good News...
Everything you need to learn is on the internet

10. Programming Lanuages

11. Programming Languages

12. Don't Drag & Drop!

13. Write Readable Code!
3-second rule
Short methods/classes
Clear naming
Single responsibility
Separation of concerns
No duplicate code!

14. Recommended Reading (Java)

15. Operating Systems

16. Operating Systems

17. Linux – most popular server OS
~70% server market share
- easier remote administration, historically better
stability, few viruses, less patching & rebooting,
better use of hardware resources, abundance of
open source applications and tools...
- Certifications: LPI, Red Hat

18. Command Line, not Point-and Click
almost all servers today are managed remotely

19. UX/UI Analysis & Design

20. UX/UI Analysis & Design

21. Beyond Aesthetics...

22. Usability Testing
UX professionals actively
seek feedback from
users to improve
usability

23. Technical Skills...
- W3C-compliant HTML
- Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)
- Javascript
- Content Management Systems (CMS)

25. What is
Agile Software Development?
Development

26. Whatever it is, it pays a lot!

27. The Agile Manifesto
Individuals and interactions over
processes and tools
Working software over
comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over
contract negotiation
Responding to change over
following a plan

28. Agile – Software development philosophy
meant to simplify and humanize software
development, leading to improved productivity
and customer satisfaction.
Covers low-level coding practices, high-level
project-management, values, culture, and
everything in between.

29. Specific Methodologies
- Scrum
- Extreme Programming (XP)
- Kanban
- Lean
- more...

30. Some Practices
- Test-Driven Development
- Short Iterations (“Sprints”)
- Cross-Functional Teams
- Continuous Integration
- Retrospectives

31. What is

32. Vision
To create a Filipino technology company admired
by the world.

33. Vision
Contribute to rebuilding the Filipino technology
community.

34. Systems Design & Development

35. Training & Coaching

36. Other Activities
• Start-up incubation
• Sponsorship of
technology events
and organizations
• Industry-Academe
Linkage
– Conducting
teacher training
– Advising CHED,
TESDA and
PSITE
• Scholarships

37. Partners

38. First Philippine company to use
and teach Agile

39. First and still the only SpringSource partner
in Southeast Asia – East Asia region

40. Tiger Awards 2011
Kuala Lumpur
most productive
investment in
workforce; from staff
training to social
responsibility

41. Employment & Internship
- Best developer training program in the
country
- Highest engineering standards
- Excellent trainers and mentors
- Challenging projects
- Technopreneurship programs

42. careers@orangeandbronze.com
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