Advancing Your Tech Career: A Handbook

You just graduated from college, where you worked very hard to acquire a technical degree, be it information technology, biology, physics, engineering, or something else. You may also now be entering the workforce with significant debt. A recent estimate made by the government suggests that the average debt for graduating students today is nearly ＄30,000. This is a huge burden given a slowly growing economy and wage stagnation. Your first priority is finding a decent paying job that can lead to a financially successful career. None of the courses you took prepared you for a career in industrial R&D. Such a course simply does not exist. Wouldn't an easy-to-read handbook to help you launch and advance your tech career be nice? Well, this is it.

Dr. Di Biase is the president of Premier Insights, LLC an innovation practices consultancy and is a Vistage Chair qualified to advise CEOs through Peer Advisory Boards. Previously, Dr. Di Biase served as the Chief Scientific Officer of Elevance Renewable Sciences a high technology specialty chemicals company and as the Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at JohnsonDiversey Inc. In this role, he was responsible for leading the innovation effort within the research and development division. Dr. Di Biase also served as interim Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Previous to joining JohnsonDiversey Dr. Di Biase spent 26 years at the Lubrizol Corporation where he held various positions including VP- Research, Development, and Engineering. Dr. Di Biase is also a past member of the Board of Trustees for the Mt. Union College and the Industrial Research Institute and sits on the Science Advisory Board for The Pennsylvania State University. He has served as chairman of The Lubrizol Foundation Scholarship Committee, Chairman of the Northeastern Ohio Section of the American Chemical Society, Board member of the Cleveland Area Research Directors (CARD) and in The Boy Scouts of America where he served in a variety of posts. Dr. Di Biase has been honored by The Pennsylvania State University College of Science with its 2007 Distinguished Alumni Award. He is also an adjunct professor at Benedictine University and guest lecturer on entrepreneurship and innovation at the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University.