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Women in Tech, Interview with Deborah Wheeler, Chief Information Security Officer at Ally Financial
Deborah Wheeler is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Ally Financial. She’s in charge of establishing policy and programs to support the security of electronic customer and company information. The most difficult part of her job, but also the most rewarding, is educating employees and customers on information security and privacy — a challenge…
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Women in Tech, Interview with Kate Snyder, Principal Strategist & Owner of Piper & Gold Public Relations
Kate Snyder is the principal strategist and owner of Piper & Gold Public Relations, a boutique PR agency in Michigan. She and her team work with organizations like government agencies, nonprofits and small businesses to help them figure out how to connect with people. Technology is a huge component in this — technology allows people…
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STEM Events for Week of April 7, 2014
STEM events for Women happening this week of April 7, 2014…. Tuesday, April 8 – Saturday, April 12 2014 Surgical Education Week (Chicago, IL) Wednesday, April 9 Kick-Off for Detroit Women’s Tech Mentoring Group! (Detroit, MI) Wed 6:30 coding! (and hangout afterwards) (Ann Arbor, MI) Thursday, April 10 Fireside Chat with John Butman (Cambridge, MA)…
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Women in Tech, Interview with Jessica Kirkpatrick, Director of Data Science at InstaEDU
Jessica Kirkpatrick is the Director of Data Science for an education tech company called InstaEDU. InstaEDU offers on-demand, online tutoring for high school and college students. She helps people in her company make decisions and improve the experience for their students and tutors by analyzing the data that is collected through their website. Jessica has…
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Women in STEM Roundup – Week of March 24, 2014
Here’s the Women in STEM articles this week of March 24, 2014…
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Women in STEM Roundup – Week of March 17, 2014
Here’s the Women in STEM articles this week of March 17, 2014…
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STEM Events for Week of March 17, 2014
STEM events for Women happening this week of March 17, 2014… Tuesday, March 18 Influencing without Authority (Cambridge, MA) Wednesday, March 19 Girls Are IT (Dearborn, MI) Saturday, March 22 – Sunday, March 23 How to Build a Website: HTML & CSS for Beginners (2-Day Workshop) (Detroit, MI)
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Women in Tech, Interview with Jillian Winn, Co-Founder and Partner of Signing Saavy
Jillian Winn runs her own online business, Signing Savvy, which is a visual dictionary and learning resource for sign language. SigningSavvy.com had 2.26 Million unique visitors in 2013 and has had 7.3+ Million unique visitors since launching in 2009. Jillian has a Masters in Digital Media, Art and Technology and with a background in user…
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Women in Tech, Interview with Sarah Frisk, Software Developer & Comic Artist
It doesn’t have to be all work and no play in the world of STEM. Sarah Frisk is a software developer by day and a comic artist by night. She shares her story about how she keeps up with both, how she became a software developer and advice for others interested in a similar career…