In this episode, we chat with certification manager Jamie Kantor about the certification program at InterSystems. Jamie explains why certification programs exist in the software industry, how InterSystems has evolved to build its certification exams, and why it matters to developers, partners, and customers of InterSystems.
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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT:
Derek Robinson 00:00:01 Welcome to Data Points, a podcast by InterSystems Learning Services. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast on your favorite podcast app, such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or Stitcher. You can do this by searching for Data Points and hitting that Subscribe button. My name is Derek Robinson, and on today's episode, I'll chat with Jamie Kantor, Certification Manager here at InterSystems, about the InterSystems Certification program.
Derek Robinson 00:00:39 Welcome to Episode Six of Data Points by InterSystems Learning Services. First and foremost, before we get started, we want to wish everyone well and good health as they deal with the impact of the global health crisis we're currently in. It's an unprecedented time for us, and it's difficult, but hopefully everyone can continue to practice social distancing and do their best to work remotely as much as possible to hopefully slow the spread of COVID-19 here in the U.S. and all across the world. So as a result of this pandemic, you might've guessed that we'll be doing a lot more remote interviews on Data Points for now. For the first several episodes, we had guests in person in the studio at our Cambridge, Massachusetts headquarters. For the foreseeable future, though, our guests will be joining the pod through the wonders of video conferencing technology, which our teams here at InterSystems have been using a lot more lately and really have helped us to be able to stay remote and stay efficient and working, for our clients and partners who need us more than ever at these times of global health crises. So today the guest that will be joining me remotely is Jamie Kantor. Jamie manages the Certification program here at InterSystems, which is a fairly new program that is likely to be particularly of interest to developers, customers, and partners that use InterSystems stack of technologies.
Derek Robinson 00:01:52 All right. And welcome to the podcast Jamie Kantor, Certification Manager here at InterSystems. Jamie, how's it going?
Jamie Kantor Hey, Derek, it's going pretty good.
Derek Robinson Cool. So, working remotely, this is the first podcast that we're doing on Data Points so far that I ever had remote guests joining me. Obviously with the global situation, that's something that's called for at this point. Jamie does work with me in the Cambridge office, but how are you doing adjusting to the remote life?
Jamie Kantor 00:02:16 Hey, it's pretty good. You know, a lot of the workers at InterSystems, we work from home pretty regularly, so it just means just more days at home, but I'm noticing that the company is kind of coming together and making sure we're all okay. So I think it's working fine right now.
Derek Robinson 00:02:30 Yeah, I think I've felt grateful. I know, being at a company like InterSystems so far, that's focused on helping our clients, but also making sure that, the team is safe and everybody's able to do their jobs effectively. And of course, for my team in Online Learning and kind of you, to an extent as well, it'd be, it almost be paradoxical if we couldn't work remotely being the Online Learning team, ri...
