Name: Vivek Mehra
Title/Employer: Managing Director, Global Financial Services & Insurance/Keane, Inc.
Age: 38
Education: Graduate certificate in administration and management; MS computer science; MS physics
Tenure in IT industry:15 years
First ever tech job: Consultant
What's been your best job and why?
Current, ability to influence company and client IT strategies.
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What do you think is the number one non-IT skill IT professionals need today?
Communication by far.
What do you credit your career success to?
Education, mentoring.
What are the top 3 skills a high-level IT manager needs today?
People skills, communication skills, presentation/persuasion skills.
What's your favorite IT resource site and why?
Cnet.com.
What is the best career advice you've ever received?
The best way to ensure career growth is to demonstrate how your company profits from your work.
What's the top advice you'd give to a new IT staffer?
Don't feel limited by the definition of your current role, look for possibilities to innovate
What would you advise someone looking to find the type of role you currently have?
You need a fundamental understanding of how and why IT/IT services are purchased and employed today; softer issues of why technologies work/don't work.
What is the one career decision you would change if you could?
None.
If you had the choice to jump into any other job, tech or non-tech, what would it be?
A CIO role.
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