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b'Curiosity, Focus, and Forging a Path.In this episode of The Outspoken Podcast, host Shana Cosgrove talks to Gerard Spivey, Senior Systems Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services. Gerard speaks in detail about Amazon\\u2019s interview process, giving us insight into their procedures and how he prepared himself. We also hear about Gerard\\u2019s time at Amazon and the types of work he\\u2019s taking on. Side hustles are a way of life for Gerard, and he speaks about his latest experiences managing his YouTube channel, Gerard\\u2019s Curious Tech. Lastly, Gerard talks about his time at NYLA and how he was able to bring his full self to work thanks to NYLA\\u2019s culture.QUOTES\\u201cI can do slow and steady, I can find my target audience, and then once I have that I can figure out what I want to parlay that into later.\\u201d - Gerard Spivey [25:59]\\u201c\\u2018I\\u2019m a Senior Director [at Intel], and I can do what I want\\u2019 is basically what he told me. He\\u2019s like \\u2018the company has a 3.0 thing, but for someone like you who actually knows what they\\u2019re talking about it\\u2019s not a problem.\\u2019 So I said, \\u2018Ooh this is my time, they\\u2019re letting me in\\u2019\\u201d - Gerard Spivey [42:07]\\u201cYou\\u2019re in a good spot in your career when you\\u2019re valued for the thing you\\u2019re going to do next versus the thing you did previously. What you\\u2019re going to do next is your competitive value - that is what you bring to the table.\\u201d - Gerard Spivey [48:27]\\xa0TIMESTAMPS\\xa0[00:04] Intro[01:31] Gerard\\u2019s Wedding Ceremony[02:32] Working at Amazon Web Services (AWS)[05:33] Amazon\\u2019s Interview Process[12:06] Gerard\\u2019s Experience with the Job Market[15:54] Working at Amazon[19:11] Starting a New Job During COVID[19:43] Side Hustles[23:21] Gerard\\u2019s YouTube Channel[31:08] Gerard\\u2019s Childhood[31:52] How Gerard Decided to Study Electrical Engineering[34:19] Choosing a College[45:13] Gerard\\u2019s Advice to his Younger Self[47:42] Favorite Books[50:57] Gerard\\u2019s Time at NYLA[55:36] OutroRESOURCEShttps://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ (Amazon EC2)https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ (Amazon EC2 Instance Types)https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/ (Amazon DynamoDB)https://sre.google/ (Site Reliability Engineering (SRE))https://www.c2stechs.com/ (Commercial Cloud Services (C2S))https://www.thebalancecareers.com/what-is-the-star-interview-response-technique-2061629 (STAR Interview Response Method)https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/exchange/email (Microsoft Exchange)https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/ (Microsoft Azure)https://www.synopsys.com/glossary/what-is-cicd.html (CI/CD)https://mlt.org/ (Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT))https://www.hbs.edu/ (Harvard Business School)https://a16z.com/ (Andreessen Horowitz)https://www.youtube.com/ (YouTube)https://www.nsbe.org/K-12/Programs/PCI-Programs (NSBE Pre-College Initiative Program)https://www.jhu.edu/ (Johns Hopkins University)https://www.abet.org/ (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET))https://www.ncat.edu/ (North Carolina A&T State University)https://www.morgan.edu/ (Morgan State University)https://howard.edu/ (Howard University)https://www.rit.edu/ (Rochester Institute of Technology)https://www.psu.edu/ (Penn State University)https://www.digitaltechnologieshub.edu.au/teach-and-assess/classroom-resources/topics/digital-systems/ (Digital Systems)https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/fpga/what-is-an-fpga.html (Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs))https://www.gwu.edu/ (The George Washington University)https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/homepage.html (Intel)https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/pci-express (PCI Express)https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/io/serial-ata/serial-ata-developer.html (Serial ATA (SATA))https://consortium.org/ (Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area)https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296 (Zero to One) by Peter Thiel and Blake Mastershttps://www.richdad.com/...'