about me highlights
- 1987-1999: Developer relationship manager/Release manager for PC Client/Server software platform from IBM Personal Software Products and then Test manager for IBM's Interactive Media and PC Gaming Division
- 2001: Stumbled into technology teaching at Charlottesville Catholic School and then Mountaintop Montessori.
- 2012: Founded Tech-Girls with a mission to empower girls to imagine and achieve their future dreams in our tech-savvy world. Through trial and error,
- 2014:
- K-8 Computer Science Program Coordinator at St. Anne's-Belfield School helping the school go from no CS education to every K-8 student in the school doing CS integration projects.
- Founding board member of non-profit, Charlottesville Women in Tech and CWIT became the umbrella organization for Tech-Girls.
- Chair of the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council's Tech Tour through 2018.
- K-8 Computer Science Program Coordinator at St. Anne's-Belfield School helping the school go from no CS education to every K-8 student in the school doing CS integration projects.
- 2016:
- Co-founded the Spark Hackathon with Zach Minster, 9-12 CS Coordinator at St. Anne's-Belfield School.
- Space wrangler for the Web Literacy space at MozFest
- Co-founded the Spark Hackathon with Zach Minster, 9-12 CS Coordinator at St. Anne's-Belfield School.
- 2017: Co-founded the CS Institute with Zach Minster. This annual is an annual summer professional development experience for K-12 educators who want to start their journey into CS education.
- 2018: Joined the board of the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council
- 2019:
- Co-host of the podcast Once Upon a Tech with Sarah FitzHenry.
- Helped bring Charlottesville Computer Science Community ecosystem together
- Co-host of the podcast Once Upon a Tech with Sarah FitzHenry.
- 2020: Started as an Ed.D. student at the UVA School of Education and Human Development
