The only person who is truly responsible for your career advancement is you. From the kinds of projects you take on to the way you interact with your peers and partners, the decisions you make every day have the most impact on your ability to make professional progress. In this talk, we'll provide real-world examples that demonstrate how to own your career: exhibiting technical leadership, identifying impactful projects, building trust, and delivering results.
John works on software and other tech to power Amazon's physical fulfillment, logistics and material handling operations. In particular he enjoys the challenge of resource optimization, automation, robotics, computer vision and other intersections of virtual and physical worlds. John has worked on many different aspects of Amazon over the past 18 years.