One woman's journey from a decade-long career as a hair stylist into a technology field, with active mentoring from women working in information technology and cybersecurity.
10 - First Steps in InfoSec & Cyber Security Architect with Craig Olsen
This is our 10th episode, wooo! Craig is a Cyber Security Architect at Liberty Mutual. He's been with Liberty Mutual for 15 years, and doing security for 12 of those years. Craig was also an adjunct professor at Southern New Hampshire University teaching information security. He's had A LOT of experience bringing new people into infosec, which makes him the perfect person to talk to at this point in Amber's journey. Craig and Jen demystify plenty of things for Amber about working fo...
9 Oct 2020
9 - Art Major to SDET with Pax Noyes
Pax has been in a QA role for about 6 years. She is a mother of 3 toddlers and majored in art in college. She doesn't consider herself a technical person by nature but worked her way up from the billing department at a web hosting company. Pax explains how she transitioned into tech from an art background, and has proven that there is certainly a place for creative thinkers in this world. Her self-directed journey is inspiring and motivating! This episode is a great follow up to epi...
18 Sept 2020
8 - Setting Boundaries & Web Development
Today we talk with Ronda Fisher who is an IT specialist for the US government, and has had her own web design and business branding agency for over 10 years. There is no question that her thorough understanding of back and front end makes her an invaluable web designer! In fact, she was selected for the 2020 Best of Layton award in the Information Technology category! Ronda shares excellent tips about setting boundaries and finding clients that are a good fit, this is applicable to ju...
14 Sept 2020
7 - Creativity Translates to Computers
A lot has been discovered and changed since the beginning of this project. Amber was originally interested in pursuing web development and after exploring more options has decided to follow Jen down the path towards cyber security! If you're a creative or current stylist, this is the episode for you with resources and what the journey has been like so far! If you're interested in making a career change, let us know! Supporting and encouraging others along this journey is hugely importan...
4 Sept 2020
6 - Key Logger Quiz & Systems Engineer with Michelle Ashby
Michelle is a Systems Engineer and has over 25 years experience in cyber security, infrastructure engineering, dev ops, and has lead many engineering teams. She loves and is fascinated by technology and has dabbled in many many areas. It turns out that Michelle's mom was a cosmetologist for over 25 years, and also ended up changing to a career in tech doing graphic design! Creativity transfers into many avenues including technology. We talk with Michelle about her start in tech, soc...
21 Aug 2020
5 - Over 10 Languages & Project Management with Lucretia May
Lucretia has been in IT for over 20 years. She is currently in a project management role over risk controls and compliance, codes over 10 languages, has been in health care, education, and utilities, and earned her Masters in Project Management and PMP certification! To sum it up, Lucretia is the whole package! Lucretia pointed out that stylists already are project managers, WOW. Who knew the skills you develop in running your own hair business are totally applicable to many other ind...
12 Aug 2020
4 What are These Words and Software Engineering
We talk with Ayla who is a software engineer for Recurison. She is on their data engineering team and spends a lot of time working on cloud infrastructure and building data services. Jen and Ayla help Amber understand a few new tech words - Dev Ops, Kubernetes, and JVM. Ayla mentions how helpful understanding cloud services is, and to always keep learning! You can learn more about Ayla on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/aylaykhan/ The web developer bootcamp on Udemy th...
11 Aug 2020
3 Chicken Linux and Pentesting
In Episode 3 Jen and Amber interview Holly Grace Williams. Holly has been in security for 13 years and is currently the technical director of Secarma, a cybersecurity consultancy firm specializing in penetration testing. She has a YouTube channel and blog about security, check them out! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo8a... Blog: https://gracefulsecurity.com/
26 Jun 2020
2 Here I Am, Two Years Later
Amber and Jen discuss some education and training options. Also, hipster moments. Minor correction -- the degree was a Masters in Computer Information Systems, not cybersecurity, and I swear Jen wasn't drinking. Good grief. University of Utah: Cybersecurity Bootcamp https://continue.utah.edu/proed/academy/certificate/cybersecurity-bootcamp University of Utah: Coding Bootcamp https://continue.utah.edu/proed/academy/certificate/web-coding-bootcamp
11 Jun 2020
1 Women in Tech Have Magic
Amber starts her journey towards tech and Jen commits to finding women in technology fields to talk to Amber about what they do and how they got there. Here are the links to the articles we discuss on this episode: National Science Foundation: By age 6, gender stereotypes can affect girls’ choices. https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=190924&WTFast Company: The gender gap in cybersecurity puts us all at risk for online crime. 5/30/2020 https://www.fastcompany.co...
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