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Navigating Career Choices: Finding the Courage to Make Difficult Decisions

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Career changes are rewarding and terrifying, but like most things in life, there is little reward without risk. Finding the courage to take a chance is hard, but overcoming the fear of change can result in amazing opportunities and remarkable work experience. I began my career in government service with the CIA – completing impactful tours in R&D, applied research, and counterterrorism. I had an awesome job and was on an upwards trajectory supporting a high-impact mission, with a great team and effective management. I was doing something I loved, something I was good at, and making a difference. Ten...

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Part 3 in our Novetta Nexus International Women’s Day blog series, BE AUTHENTIC.

State of the Art Text Classification with ULMFiT

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Novetta’s own Matt Teschke will be speaking at ODSC East – Boston in the session, “State of the Art Text Classification with ULMFiT” in room #103 at 5:15 PM on May 2. The rise of the internet has led to a faster flow of information, where news posted to a relatively obscure blog can be shared on social media and reach national publications within hours. The volume of information is such that humans alone cannot filter out noise, identify important new viewpoints, and determine how messaging trends are changing over time. At Novetta, we are constantly evaluating advances in deep...

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Work Mom – And Other Things You Would Never Call a Man

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I teach a Novetta “Intro to Python” class, and one evening as we were wrapping up, the students and I got into a discussion about my teaching style compared to the other instructor, who was a man. “Will is more matter-of-fact,” a student said, “And your style is more nurturing.” The student meant no harm with his comment, but I took issue with the term nurturing. I associated that word with someone who was soft, a pushover who couldn’t make tough decisions. I think of myself as a technical leader, someone who works to find an answer for every challenge...

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Part 2 in our Novetta Nexus International Women’s Day blog series, BE AUTHENTIC.

Introverts as Leaders

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Someone recently asked me how I became a leader, and I honestly didn’t have a good answer. I’m a reluctant leader, at best, so this isn’t a path that I intentionally forged. I had always envisioned leaders as very vivacious, outgoing and commanding of an audience ~ but that’s just not me. I’ve had a few decades to practice the outward roles of being a leader, but when balanced against my preconceptions of how a leader should behave, I’ve always felt like I fell short. It’s taken many years of introspection and affirmation, but I’ve come to realize that my...

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Novetta Nexus is proud to launch Part 1 of our International Women’s Day blog series, BE AUTHENTIC.

Novetta PyShops – Your Monthly Slice of Py

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Novettans like a challenge. Sometimes, that means learning something entirely new. Other times, it means we’re brushing up on our skills. One of the ways we do this is through our PyShops, a series of workshops aimed at teaching people with technological backgrounds, or people with no technological experience, how to use Python. When asked what Python is, Dave Roberts, Computer Scientist at Novetta, told me the programming language “places a heavy emphasis on human readability and usability…it’s super friendly for beginners, but is also extraordinarily powerful.” Python can be found in everything from streaming services to popular video games....

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Meet Us, Hear Us, Play with Us at ShmooCon 2019

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An annual east coast hacker convention, ShmooCon creates a rather interesting atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software and hardware solutions, and open discussions on critical infosec issues. We look forward to exchanging brilliant, brain-melting ideas with other security professionals and adding to Shmoo Group’s razor-sharp sense of sarcasm, cybersecurity, and threat hunting. At this year’s ShmooCon there may be less moose than ever, but there is definitely MORE Novetta! Hear from our experts in our two speaking sessions, swing by our booth to see a Novetta Cyber Analytics demo, play CTF, and check out open positions because we are...

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Surviving Advent of Code

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Once again, my night’s sleep was interrupted by an insistent alarm. I sat up in a brief moment of panicked confusion and tried to make sense of what was going on. Had the Metadata Registry’s web server crashed again, requiring a midnight trip to the office? Was there an infant in the house in need of a night feed? It took a few more seconds before I reached clarity — I was up at this ungodly hour on a weekday intentionally, for Day 17 of Advent of Code. Created by Eric Wastl, Advent of Code is a series of programming...

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Life as a Novetta Newb

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Being a young adult is hard. After spending sixteen years (usually even more than that) in school, and four or five years waiting tables or folding clothes, the transition to a real job is a lot like a waterslide. You don’t really know what the splash at the end of the pool is going to be like, and you can’t tell how close you are to it, but it’s coming. You know those waterslides that end with a giant funnel, and it dumps you into a pool? That’s a lot like starting your first career job. The transition between a...

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6 Secrets to Success from Female Leaders

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There are numerous conversations about the lack of women in the technology industry and the factors stacked against them. With National Women’s History month coming to an end and the relaunch of our Women in Novetta (WiN) program this quarter, we sat down with a few of our female leaders to celebrate their successes and identify lessons learned along the way. Our goal was to highlight actionable advice that would be helpful for other women on their career journey. 1) Build Meaningful Relationships Everything comes down to relationships – relationships with your customers, partners, employees, peers, supervisor, and with others...

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Build a Career You’re Proud of: Q&A with Tiffanny Gates

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We work in a time where women make up 59% of the US labor force and earn 60% of all undergraduate and graduate degrees. However, women only hold 4.6% of CEO positions in Fortune 500 companies, 9% of management positions in the information technology field, and 0% of CEO positions in the financial services, healthcare and social industries. Those numbers don’t add up to me either… I’m proud to work for a company that defies those statistics with leaders encouraging an alternative narrative. We’re midway through our first quarter with our newly appointed President and CEO, Tiffanny Gates. Tiffanny’s resume...

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