My Technology Career Path | Joshua Feinberg of SP Home Run

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Wondering about the technology career path of Joshua Feinberg of SP Home Run?

A few weeks back, a reporter asked me to share how I get started in tech for a career-advice-related article. So in case you have the same question, here's some insight into my technology career path.

I'm a digital transformation go-to-market content strategist for mid-market and enterprise IaaS, SaaS, FinTech, and co-founder of SP Home Run. And I am 28x certified by HubSpot Academy, including in Inbound Marketing, Content Marketing, Digital Advertising, Email Marketing, Social Media Marketing, and Sales Enablement.

I'm a former Microsoft Corporation content provider for and an advisor to the Small Business Server (SBS) product teams and small business channel partner teams in Redmond, Washington. I've led marketing for a venture-based B2B SaaS company that's applying AI in the accounting and enterprise finance space.

With a deep specialization in the SaaS, cloud services, data center, and hosting industries, I've presented educational sessions at MSP EXPO/IT EXPO, HostingCon, Data Center World, and DatacenterDynamics.

== How I got started in tech ==

I began my career marketing and selling higher education PC hardware and software solutions for IBM Academic Information Systems (ACIS) and supported high-leverage co-marketing campaigns.

I was 17 at the time, my freshman year at Rutgers. IBM/Manpower was looking for an engineering or computer science major that was at least a sophomore. I was an economics major and the youngest of four students hired.

Before that, starting around age 10, because my mom was in education and my dad was in accounting/finance, we had various PCs at home.

In the 1980s, Radio Shack and Texas Instruments invested in community outreach on the heels of more rapid advances in Apple's and IBM's personal computer/microcomputer business.

I remember visiting the local Radio Shack computer classroom multiple times on class trips.

My mom and dad sometimes had loaner computers at home from their workplaces.

And we had a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, which hooked up to the TV and stored data on cassette tapes. Then we had an Apple II compatible computer, which proved to be a lemon.

== My first introduction to line-of-business office productivity software ==

By the time I was in high school, we had got an IBM PC/XT compatible system with a hard drive, green monitor, and dot matrix printer. This is when I first learned word processing and spreadsheets -- and was the key to jump-starting my interest in the commercial side of IT.

In high school, I worked at a collection agency with a mainframe and one PC from the company that eventually became known as Dell. My freshman year at Rutgers, our Economics 101 professor got us learning Lotus 1-2-3, which led to a great summer job at a large insurance company. (That was the summer I figured out I didn't want to be an accountant.)

== First significant steps forward as an author, copywriting, and content strategist for IT managed services, software, and infrastructure ==

Fast-forward to the late 1990s: As a former Microsoft content provider for and advisor to the Small Business Server (SBS) product and channel partner teams in Redmond, I wrote the groundbreaking book Building Profitable Solutions with Microsoft Small Business Server and bi-weekly VAP Voice online columns that helped shape Microsoft's partner and product marketing strategy, and ultimately the managed services business model. Much of the content I created was also localized and translated into over a dozen languages for a global audience of over 500,000.

Nearly every career opportunity that I've had was one degree of separation away from my early exposure to technology.

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