Director at Women Who Code - Silicon Valley
Led and managed the Silicon Valley Network to uphold our mission: Empower diverse women to excel in technology careers and reinforce our vision of a tech industry where diverse women and historically excluded people thrive at every level.
Developed leadership, career navigation, and technical programs.
Partnered with Silicon Valley companies and technical experts to plan, organize and host events for the global community. These included 12+ onsite events and over 200 virtual events focused on education, networking, leadership, career navigation, and recruiting for the organization.
Provided coaching and career advice. Surveys indicated people found this helpful for advancing their careers, and many of these individuals have secured great jobs in their area of expertise.
Provided an accepting environment where we learn, we thrive, we recharge, we celebrate wins, and we break barriers.
Built and grew network membership through outreach to our community, Meetup events, social media platforms.
Point of contact for the Global Leadership Director.
Technical Program Manager - Silicon Valley
Led an agile team of developers to design and build new features and products for our Chapter Tools Project at Women Who Code.
Defined and drove product vision and strategy, overseeing design and development of a portal used to facilitate the functionality of our organization
Partnered with engineering and business stakeholders to define achievable goals, define milestones, and assign tasks to teammates.
Created sprint timelines and forecasts, maintained the roadmap during development, and participated in retrospectives.
2024 Initiatives
Expand on-site events
We are expanding our on-site events to include more opportunities for building technical skills, navigating careers, developing leadership abilities, and networking.
Software Development Project
2023 Initiatives
Return to on-site events
We have been remote since March, 2020, and we're very excited to resume in-person events for our Silicon Valley network.
Connect with Silicon Valley company hosts to team with our network and bring engaging events to our members.
Grow Leadership
Mentor volunteers into leadership positions.
2021 to Present Initiatives
Software Development Project
We have been working on a software project since Q3 2020. We focus on providing a real software development environment. We have full product and engineering teams: Frontend, Backend, QA, UX Design, Product, and Project Management. This is a great way for members to gain more experience, learn new skills, contribute to a team, and network.
Attrition equals success! To date, 99 people have held roles on the project, of which at least 30 have been hired, changed jobs, or received a promotion related to working on the project. We love seeing team members take their next steps on their professional journey and as they leave the team, this allows for others to join. Onboarding to Women Who Code and our Chapter Tools project happens with every new member joining the project.
2020 Initiative
Launch a Software Development Project
We pitched an idea to launch a software development project that would provide a learning environment for women and diverse individuals to gain experience on real software and product teams, what we call our Chapter Tools project.
Built Product and Engineering teams: Product Management, Project Management, UX Design, Front-end Engineering, Back-end Enjineering, and QA Engineering.
Collaborated with teams to choose development a technical stack, platform, source control and product management tools.
2019 Initiative
Build Host Management Team
Formed the Host Management team. This team collaborates with tech companies in Silicon Valley to organize and host a variety of events.
