LIU007: From Track to Tech: Navigating Career Change with Resilience

About this episode

Ifeanyi Otuonye discusses his transition from a professional athlete to a Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services.

Ifeanyi Otuonye was a decorated track and field athlete at Kansas State and even competed professionally. Then he made the leap to a Technical Account Manager role at Amazon Web Services. Alexis and Kevin sit down with Ifeanyi to discuss the difficulties of that career change. Ifeanyi explains why he chose cloud engineering, what he ... Read more »

People in this episode

Hosts: Alexis, Kevin

Guest: Ifeanyi Otuonye

Topics covered

• career change
• cloud engineering
• resilience
• athletics
• technical account management

Keywords

• career change
• cloud engineering
• technical account manager
• athlete
• resilience

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon Web Services

Places: Kansas State

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