July 21, 2021 6:00PM The Mid-America Club

Bruce Montes is a lecturer at Loyola University Chicago. He teaches graduate and undergraduate technology and ethics courses for the Computer Science Department, The School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and the School of Communication.

As a senior IT leader, Bruce led technology projects, initiatives, and support for infrastructure services, application development, and academic technologies. While focusing on information technologies and education during his entire working career, Bruce experienced several transitions in roles, responsibilities, and leadership.

Constantly Moving

How do we thrive, rather than just survive, in a field of work that constantly pushes ahead in new directions? To try to answer that question this meeting opens our virtual floor where everyone can talk about questions such as how to stay relevant, adapting to change in technology and organizations, using social and professional networks, and when to make a total career change.

Meet Our Panel

Along with our moderator, Bruce Montes, we welcome prior speakers:

Maria Patterson, 2016. Originally an Astronomer, her research led to working with large scientific data in the cloud. Maria is a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, U.S. Department of Labor’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence and AI subject matter expert.

Jeff Solin, February 2021. Computer Science Teacher at Lane Tech High School Chicago, National Aspirations in Computing Award Winner. Jeff managed a large student Maker team creating the Community Area Map Project (CAMP), a follow up to the Chicago Flag Mosaic Project installed at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.

Nate Nichols, May 2021. Chief Scientist of Narrative Science, creators of “Lexio”. Nate talked about the current shortcomings of Business Intelligence dashboards and how Natural Language Processing provides the last mile of data understanding

Teri Grossheim, June 2021. Booz Allen Hamilton, United Airlines, DePaul University. Her talk covered the convergence of Digital Signal Processing and Cloud Technology, Teri has a background in companies and organizations of all sizes.

Join Us As We Consider Careers

In this talk, we look forward to your participation in this topic that affects all of us at some point in our lives.