Karen Tegan Padir
Karen Tegan Padir is the president of the Application Development and Deployment Business Unit at Progress, reporting to President and Chief Executive Officer Phil Pead. Padir, a 20-year software industry veteran, is responsible for the strategy and growth of Progress application development assets including Telerik, Modulus, Rollbase and the Pacific Platform.
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National Cyber Security Awareness Month – Some Things to Think About
It doesn’t take much convincing to get IT people – and developers – to think about cyber security. However, just in case, the US Department of Homeland Security has declared October “Cyber Security Awareness Month.” While the event’s focus is very broad – from consumers and even children on up, this...
Change is VERY Good
Change is good. It’s a mantra that people repeat all the time but not always with much sense of conviction. In our corner of the world, though, change is constant and exciting. It’s what we do! It isn’t’ just change for the sake of change -- it is about being a learning and adaptive...
The Happiest Place on Earth Just Got Happier
Orlando and Progress! From October 6-8 it’s going to be a great combination, with plenty of magic -- not necessarily the ‘Disney’ kind but guaranteed to be worth your time. By that I mean the great chemistry that happens when you get hundreds of Progress users and customers together with Progress...
Happy Mother’s Day – to Mothers, (and Their Children)
Whether you are a man or a woman, you probably owe a lot to your mother. Mothers can be an incredibly formative presence. My own mother was a math teacher and encouraged me every step of the way – leading almost directly to the career path I have chosen.
Today, as a mother myself, I can only hope...
Boston Strong
Here in Boston, as we come up on the one year anniversary of the terror bombing at the Boston Marathon that killed three and injured 264, there’s a lot of talk about what went wrong and what to do to forestall or prevent such tragedies in the future. And there’s a lot of talk about being Boston...
Olympic Musing
After all kinds of handwringing over social and political attitudes in Russia – and handwringing, too, about the state of the billions of dollars in new facilities at Sochi, the Winter Olympics are finally underway.
I’m hoping that the more dire concerns related to facilities and security prove...
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