I enjoy learning new technologies and sharing what I’ve learned with others! You will often find me undertaking side projects on my own initiative, speaking and teaching on technologies I’ve learned at local meetups and conferences, and at workshops for beginning programmers and under-represented groups in tech. As a woman in tech, I’ve experienced a lot of challenges in my career, many of them systemic. Because of this, I’ve been giving back to organizations that support women and girls in technology, and hope to be a part of the change that I see taking place now with a drive for inclusion and diversity. By showing up and being present, I hope to provide a safe space for under-represented groups to learn and be a part of the tech world. After attending the women’s breakfast at WWDC in 2018, where the topic was, “describe yourself in 6 words”, I think the 6 words that describe me (for now, this is a work in progress 😉 ), are:
Helping Others Find A Safe Space
Contact me to discuss how I can help your org provide a safe space for under-represented groups in tech!
Video of the talk I gave on the benefits of being a polyglot at 360iDev in 2020:
As of 2023, I’m making a change to this page. This page used to be Speak, Teach, Mentor. In addition to those roles, I have increasingly been taking on more leadership activities and roles as well, both at work and as a volunteer in tech communities such as Women Who Code. Also, teaching and mentoring have a lot in common, so I will combine those into “Teach”.
So, from now on, this will be my growing list of speaking, teaching, and leading activities. Enjoy! 🙂
Speak, Teach, Lead
Upcoming:
- Speak: Swift TO conference, Make Porting Custom SwiftUI Design Elements Easy With Swift Packages
- Speak: Women Who Code Mobile Web Dev Summit, Easily Apply Custom Designs to Multiple SwiftUI Projects
2023:
- Speak: Deep Dish Swift conference, Make Porting Custom SwiftUI Design Elements Easy With Swift Packages, tweet1 , tweet2, tweet3, tweet4
- Speak: Speaker Highlight, Deep Dish Swift podcast, tweet
- Lead: Women Who Code Connect Empower conference, hosted slack watch party, tweet
2022:
- Lead: Mobile DevOps Summit, hosted slack watch party, tweet
- Speak: Women Who Code Mobile event, Halloween Meet and Greet, co-host, tweet
- Speak: 360iDev talk: When You Can’t Go All In on SwiftUI, Build a Hybrid App Instead!, slides, video
- Speak: Cincinnati Cocoaheads meetup: When You Can’t Go All In on SwiftUI, Build a Hybrid App Instead! , video
- Speak: Facilitated several Cincinnati Cocoaheads meetup sessions: session on Core Data, session on interaction diagrams, session on user story mapping
- Speak: Women Who Code CONNECT Recharge 2022 talk: Steer Your Career on Your Terms with the Right Side Project , slides , tweet , video
- Speak: Twitter Spaces podcast: Pre-show chat for the Women Who Code CONNECT Recharge conference, recording
- Speak: Women Who Code podcast: The Importance and Benefits of Volunteering , tweet , blog post
- Speak: Moderating workshop for SwiftUI Study Group Series , 1st session
- Speak: Moderating talk on “An Argument for Mobile Native Development”, presentation screenshot
- Speak: Moderating discussion on self-care for Women Who Code Mobile, promotion, group picture
- Speak: Hosting game night for Women Who Code Mobile, leading a round of Gartic Phone
2021:
- Speak: CFP reviewer and moderator for Women Who Code Connect Forward conference, talk moderated
- Speak: DevCommunity Summit, October 1, 2021, The Search is Over! Quickly Build a Searchable List Filter Using SwiftUI , code, slides , video, feedback from attendee
- Teach: Women Who Code CFP Speaker Series, Putting Together a Conference Talk: A How To Guide, video, slides, feedback from attendee
- Speak: CFP reviewer and moderator for Women Who Code Connect Reimagine conference, talk moderated 1, talk moderated 2, talk moderated 3
- Speak: Your Ultimate Guide for Submitting a CFP , video , panel photo
- Mentor: Hosting lightning talk meetups for Women Who Code Mobile , including mentoring speakers individually, meetup 1, meetup 2
2020:
- Speak: Women Who Code Connect, True or False: Enums Manage State Better Than Booleans , demo project , video
- Teach: try!Swift World, Contribute to Your First Open Source SwiftUI Project Today! , project link
- Speak: 360iDev, Level Up Your Life and Career by Becoming a (Human and Programming Language) Polyglot , video
- Speak: DC iOS Meetup, Safely Unwrapping Optionals is Really NOT Optional, video
- Speak: Big Girl Money Live Podcast: Personality and the Workplace, Apple Podcast, Google Play Music, Spotify
- Speak: Using Storytelling to Deliver Compelling Presentations, to Onramp apprentices (iOS Pandora cohort)
- Teach: Women Who Code, Mobile Track: Open Source Workshop , video , slides , blog post
2019:
- Mentor: Women Who Code Interview Workshop: As a mock interviewer, worked through algorithm coding problems together and provided feedback to interviewees, solution to coding problems in Swift
- Speak: Women Who Code lightning talk panel for Denver Startup Week: Surviving Code Demo Fails , slides , video
- Mentor: 360iDev: Mentored a first time 360iDev (iOS Conference) Speaker
- Mentor: LadyCoders 2019: Advising mentees and providing support as they worked on developing their career plans
2018:
- Speak: 360iDev, Denver: Is Native iOS Dev Always Best? , slides, video
- Speak: Denver Cocoaheads, Is Native iOS Dev Always Best?
- Teach: Denver RailsBridge, iOS workshop: Assisted at Install workshop, Updated Curriculum in preparation to teach Beginner iOS workshop; Workshop cancelled due to low student attendance
- Teach: Girl Develop It! 5 year anniversary party: Taught an informal drop-in origami workshop at fundraising party, which raised scholarship money for 48 under-rep students to take programming classes through GDI
- Teach: Denver RailsBridge, Beginner JavaScript workshop: Teaching Assistant, Update Curriculum
- Speak: DU Coding Bootcamp: online tech panel
2017:
- Teach: Denver RailsBridge, Beginner iOS workshop: Teacher, Update Curriculum
- Teach: Kendrick Lake fishing: informal fishing clinic for women and allies
- Speak: Women in Robotics & Girl Develop It meetup: Getting Started With The Arduino Uno, presentation slides , Github repo
- Speak: New York Academy of Science’s Next Scholars: online tech panel
- Speak: DU Coding Bootcamp: in-person tech panel
- Mentor: FemmeHacks: Mentor teams at IoT hackathon
- Mentor: New York Academy of Science’s NextScholars: mentored female Columbia University student studying Computer Science, online for a year
2016:
- Teach: BeMyApp: Articles on Controlling IoT System with Website and Mobile App: video, github repo
- Speak, Teach: US Young Maker Competition: blog post, project tutorial, present project at competition
- Speak, Mentor teams at hackathon: Cleveland Medical Hackathon: video of presentation
- Speak: Intel Innovator Conference: Save the Water Pipes! IoT presentation
- Speak: Colorado IoT meetup: Save the Water Pipes! IoT presentation
- Speak: IoT With The Best online conference: Building Enterprise IoT Projects Iteratively , presentation slides
- Speak: Denver SwiftHeads: Writing a Software Program for a Job Application
- Speak: Denver Dev Day: Writing a Software Program for a Job Application
- Speak: Boulder iOS meetup: Controlling LED Lights With an iOS Mobile App
- Speak: Women Who Code: IoT Hardware and Mobile Projects with Vui Nguyen
- Teach: Instructables tutorial: Setting up a Stepper Motor on an Intel Edison Board
2015 and Earlier:
- Speak, Teach, Mentor: Titan (Appcelerator Titanium Evangelist) of the month: email commendation, webpage , Mobile Manifesto video, award for Mobile Manifesto video
- Speak, Teach, Mentor: Denver / Boulder Titanium Meetup: Active 2011-2014, Organizer, Frequent Speaker, Workshop Leader
- Teach: developed and taught custom curriculum to paying clients on Titanium, a cross platform mobile development technology, 2012-2013
- Teach: 6 Ways to Use A JavaScript Hashmap: JavaScript tutorial
- Mentor: Titanium Team Produces Parking App : hackathon mentor and team lead
- Speak: Denver Droids: So You Have an App Idea
- Speak, Mentor: Denver Public Libraries DevCamp: mentor to middle and high school students for week long programming camp
- Mentor: First Robotics: mentored Aurora Central High School students in programming a robot for the First Robotics competition in Denver 2007-2008