In a recent episode of the First Person podcast we met with Stephen Kaufman, who has spent 25 years architecting solutions on behalf of Microsoft. Stephen told us that his defining characteristic is curiosity, and how his first memory was of taking things apart and putting them back together, more or less successfully. He explained how that led him to a hobby in computers which in turn led him to a computer science degree. He chose to major in both marketing and computers, because for him success is in solving problems with technology, for people.
In this conversation and article we look at how successful technology solutions involved understanding the people involved and the problem to be solved, and then applying technology based on hands on experience and testing. As Stephen told us: “I am a technologist. I love solving problems. I love using technology to match with business problems and find solutions.”
You can view our interview here, listen to it here, or watch in the box below:
This story originally appeared on Computerworld
