Kathyleen Beveridge : Speaker 1

About Me

  • Immigrated to United States of America in 1980
  • Lived in San Jose and Studied in Spain
  • Attended USC and Santa Clara: MBA and Finance
  • Mission Statement: Not only to survive but to thrive with passion, compassion, humor, and style.

Career

  • Worked for 3 Main Companies
    • HP : Create Technology that makes life better for everyone, every where
    • Qualcomm : Inventing the tech the world loves
    • Thermo Fisher Scientific : Enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, safer
      • Benefit Others and Society

Roles and Journey

  • Investment Banking
  • Program Manager
  • Purchasing Manager
  • Managing of Business Planning
  • Senior Director of Marketing Sales

Kris Porter

About Me

  • Spend majority of time in California
  • Attended UCLA and Calstate LA for Electrical Engineering
  • Graduated during Stock Market Crash of 2008
  • Worked for Startup (2010)
  • NBC Universal, Streaming Media Infrastructure (2012)
  • Transitioned to DevOps role and transferred to Qualcomm (2014)
  • Working at Twitter (2021 - Present)

Research

  • Center for Embedded Networked Senors
  • Networked Infomechanical Systems (NIMS)
  • Introduced to the Linux Operating System & Software Development

Highlights

  • CCNA Training
  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning
  • Python
  • Data Structures, Algorithms,

Projects

  • Streaming Media Infrastructure for 2012 Olympic Games
  • Analytics Infrastructure Projects (LocationSmart, Qualcomm)
  • Twitter Projects
    • New DataCenter Deployment
    • Migrating HomeTimeline to GraphQL

Class Questions / Discussion

  • How have you utilized or worked with Agile Methodology?

    • Differs slightly by Company
    • Qualcomm specifically had a group of 150 Engineers
    • Interacted through large scale discussions
    • Used roadmaps and flowcharts to coordinate with other engineers

  • What is the greatest skill a engineer or someone hoping for a career in tech should have?

    • Perseverance and the drive or passion to learn
    • Adapt and learn from your mistakes

  • How would learning to code help in other sectors?

    • Coding can teach skills and methods you can use to tackle other problems. For example, looking at things methodically and structurally to find the answer to certain problems.