Switching from QE to Product Security with Dwayne Thomas

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Think of making the switch from your current role to cybersecurity? In this episode, Dwayne Thomas, a Cyber Security Consultant at Mentor$chip shares his journey from QE to Security. Discover how to enter the most in-demand field in the software industry and learn more about bug bounty programs, presenting security topics for Toastmasters, searching job sites, informational interviews, meet-ups, and obtaining a CISSP certificate and more. Listen up!

About Dwayne Thomas

Dwayne Thomas

Dwayne Thomas currently is a Cyber Security Consultant at Mentor$chip. He is a quick study, information security professional with over 3 years of information security under his belt. It helps that Dwayne's been in the software quality field for 8 years. Once upon a time, Dwayne taught middle school math in NYC. Slowly he's figuring out our tech equation and the little things each of us can do to simplify diversity in the tech industry.

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LinkedIn: dwaynemthomas

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