{"id":2484,"date":"2019-01-24T00:29:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T08:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10124\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2019-01-28T21:19:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T05:19:18","slug":"what-i-learned-along-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=2484","title":{"rendered":"What I learned along the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Come also to hear a report on new job openings at Amazon.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the February 2 <strong>Job Club,<\/strong> \u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">S<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">C<\/span><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">E<\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">N<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">D<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0board stalwart Steve Medina will share his\u00a0experience as an older, non-technical product manager navigating the job market in small and large tech companies, and working with many types of teams over his career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2485\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SteveMedina-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SteveMedina-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SteveMedina.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve is a product management and product marketing professional working in the technology industry for over two decades. He has led teams in the US and Asia to design, build and ship a wide range of products.<\/p>\n<p>As always, <span style=\"color: #339966;\">attendees on the spectrum will offer their experience and perspectives\u00a0throughout the program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Special thanks to the Autism Studies Department at SFSU for volunteers!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Who: <\/b>Adults on the autism spectrum, families, mentors and professionals all welcome. For more information, please contact: info@aascend.org<br \/>\n<strong>When:<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sat Feb 2, 10am \u2013 1pm<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Where: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Arc of SF<\/span> 1500 Howard St. @ 11th St. SF, CA 94103 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?q=1500+Howard+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA&amp;hl=en&amp;sll=37.269174,-119.306607&amp;sspn=11.81214,16.633301&amp;oq=1500+Howard+st&amp;hnear=1500+Howard+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94103&amp;t=m&amp;z=16\">map<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For more information about employment on the autism spectrum, join us at:<br \/>\n<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups\/5086843\">Spectrum Employment Community by AASCEND<\/a>\u00a0on LinkedIn<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Parking is usually available in the garage at 255 12th Street, with a reasonable flat rate for Saturdays. There is also metered street parking for $2.25\/hr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE:\u00a0Come also to hear a report on new job openings at Amazon. At the February 2 Job Club, \u00a0AASCEND \u00a0board stalwart Steve Medina will share his\u00a0experience as an older, non-technical product manager navigating the job market in small and large &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=2484\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}