The IT Director Who Wrote 113+ Books
For 33 years I worked in enterprise technology, twenty of them running IT at Trader Joe's. Then I wrote 113+ books. Nobody predicts that line, and the pivot is the story. A crooked career is the book.
Tag: IT Career
I spent 33 years in enterprise IT, from operator to director, and the industry rewrote itself several times along the way. These articles cover IT careers: growth paths, survival through change, and turning decades of technical work into lasting authority.
CareersDo IT Certifications Still Move Your Career in 2026?
IT certifications still move careers in 2026, but which ones and why has shifted. The catch is a certificate only helps when it maps to a real skill and role.
FoundersThe Memoir of a Career That Spanned Mainframes to AI
If your career ran the whole arc of modern computing, mainframes to cloud to AI, you watched the world get rebuilt and helped build it, a once-in-history story, and the people who can tell it are retiring now. I came…
IT CareerShort Biography of Richard Lowe
The long version of the story: the house, the fire, the machines, Claudia, the camera, and the books. Everything that led to The Writing King.
Book CoachingThe Importance of Education: How Mine Built a 40-Year Career and a Writing Business
I built a pretend computer out of paper clips in kindergarten, already obsessed with how systems fit together. That obsession drove four decades of choices, from running tech for a $16 billion company to publishing 113+ books. Here is how…
For Executives & ProfessionalsDaniel Holguin: Leadership Lessons From a Cancer Survivor and Former Police Officer
Daniel Holguin Sr. joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to share leadership lessons forged through surviving cancer, serving as a police officer from 1993 to 2001, and learning to lead very different people as individuals instead of by…
Enterprise ITHow 20 Years at Trader Joe’s Enriched My Writing Career
How twenty years at Trader Joe's built the foundation for my writing.
IT CareerWhy I Left a Stable Job After 20 Years
Why I left twenty years of security to build a ghostwriting business.
Career StoryFrom IT Leader to Storyteller: The Boss Certified Insane and the Gig Economy Playbook | Dissecting Popular IT Nerds, Episode 220
The October 26, 2023 episode: the first disk defragmenter, SCADA still running on VAX/VMS, 1980s phone-card fraud profiling, phone phreaks, the boss with an insanity certificate and the armed-guard firing day, John Shields and Dan Bane, customer-free digital transformation, the…
CareersSixto Bernal on Why Security Is Sales and How to Break Into the Field
Cybersecurity leader Sixto Bernal on treating security as part of sales and building a career on business awareness.
CareersErik Boemanns on Breaking Into Cybersecurity and Networking on LinkedIn
Cybersecurity leader Erik Boemanns on entering the field, networking on LinkedIn, referrals, and interview skills.
IT CareerHow I Got Into the Computer Field
In 1979 a nineteen-year-old with no plan walked into a computer store and walked out with a direction that became a 33-year career.