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 about the Arduino 101 at the Cleveland Medical Hackathon in 2016:
Many thanks to Eligible Blog for recording and producing this video!
Here is a growing list of my presentations, teaching and mentoring activities. Enjoy! 🙂
Speak, Teach, Mentor
Upcoming:
- Speak: try!Swift World, Workshop TBD
- Teach: Women Who Code, Denver: Open Source Workshop , to be rescheduled
2020:
- 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
- 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
