#718 The Secret to Empowering Employees & Embracing Serendipity with Mario Duarte, VP of Security at Snowflake
Today we’re talking to Mario Duarte, VP of Security at Snowflake. We discuss how to understand what motivates your employees and put them in roles that fit, why you should listen first before telling people how to do security better, and why remaining open to serendipity creates opportunities that structured planning alone may miss.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
For more about Snowflake, check out their website: https://www.snowflake.com/en/
In case you missed it, here's our episode with Beyond Identity - https://moderncto.io/jasson-casey/
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About Mario Duarte:
Mario Duarte is the Vice President of Security at Snowflake. Previously, they were the Director of Security at GoGrid from April 2012 to October 2014. Prior to that, they were a Sr. Security Analyst at UCSF from April 2011 to April 2012, and a Sr. Security Consultant at Dolby Laboratories from July 2010 to January 2011. Mario Duarte has also served as a Security Architect at Ross Stores, Inc. from May 2008 to July 2010, and as a PCI SOX Consultant at Bare Escentuals Beauty, Inc. from January 2007 to December 2008. Additionally, they were the Security & Privacy Manager at LifeMasters Supported SelfCare from January 2006 to December 2007, and the Security Manager at Moody's KMV from January 2001 to December 2005. Finally, Mario Duarte served as an Information Security Manager at XUMA from January 2000 to December 2001, and as a Security Engineer at Ernst & Young from January 1998 to December 2000.
Mario Duarte completed a Bachelor of Science in Applied Economics at the University of San Francisco.
About Snowflake:
Snowflake delivers the Data Cloud — a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake’s platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing. Join Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers already taking their businesses to new frontiers in the Data Cloud.