Decode the Career Path to VP of Engineering with Wade Chambers, CTO & SVP Engineering @ Grand Rounds

Posted Apr 01, 2019 | Views 912

# Career

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# Management

SPEAKER

Wade Chambers

CTO & SVP of Engineering @ Grand Rounds

Wade oversees all aspects of engineering and technology innovation at Grand Rounds. With more than 25 years of engineering leadership experience, he has deep technical domain expertise and a successful track record of scaling teams and leaders, market-defining technology innovations, and business growth for companies of all sizes including Twitter, TellApart, Yahoo, and Opsware.

Before Silicon Valley, Wade served in the military and the White House Situation Room.

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Before Silicon Valley, Wade served in the military and the White House Situation Room.

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SUMMARY

Wade Chambers, CTO & SVP of Engineering @ Grand Rounds links the principles, competencies, and the focus areas that help grow individual contributors into engineering managers, into amazing VPs of Engineering.

The Fast Track to VP of Engineering (VPE) - In Wade's experience, engineers like to understand cause and effect so they can focus on being efficient. As most engineering managers were engineers, the need for a causal impact persists in the new role. In his 25+ of years of experience, including being a VP of Engineering at both public and private companies, he's invested a lot of time to link principles, competencies, and the focus areas that help grow ICs into EMs into amazing VPEs. Wade presents some of these lessons learned the hard way in the hope they can accelerate your career and help you avoid the 'trial and error' approach that is so prevalent in today's market.

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