Career Profile: VP Of Interactive Technology, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.

What's been your best job and why?
My current job. The ability to work with cutting edge technologies with a large and vocal worldwide consumer base

What do you think is the number one non-IT skill IT professionals need today?
Project management.

What do you credit your career success to?
A mentor and personal drive.

What are the top three skills a high-level IT manager needs today?
Communication skills, project management skills and architecture skills

What's your favorite IT resource site and why?
News.com as it keeps me up to date on the current happenings in the industry

What is the best career advice you've ever received?
Listen carefully to everyone.

What's the top advice you'd give to a new IT staffer?
Learn from others; technical debates are good but dictatorships are bad as they cause poor morale and lack of overall learning and advancement.

What would you advise someone looking to find the type of role you currently have?
Concentrate on how the technology affects the business and don't do things for technology sake alone

What is the one career decision you would change if you could?
I would have stayed at AOL for another two years.

If you had the choice to jump into any other job, tech or non-tech, what would it be?
Working as an NFL referee as its good exercise and you work once a week, 20 weeks per year.