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4 women in engineering discuss harassment, isolation and perseverence

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Women engineers often face workplace and career challenges that their male colleagues don’t because they remain a minority in the profession: Depending on how you count, women make up just 13% to 25% of engineering jobs. Fowler’s ordeal cast a spotlight on the harassment women engineers have to deal with in the workplace.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

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They point to statistics that highlight challenges in IT workforce recruitment and diversity. More specifically, Harrison says the program is meant to aid NCDIT in recruiting more diverse talent to its own ranks. I have no doubt we can staff up by going to Morgan, where there are students doing top-level software engineering.

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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

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But as he entered college to study electrical engineering and later launched a career in IT, that began to change. It’s one thing to recruit Black tech pros, but it’s another thing to foster an equitable environment where they feel comfortable coming to work each day. I’m the only Black kid. How did [I] not see it then?”

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What CIOs need to become better enablers of sustainability

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A question of time Thomas Kiessling, CTO with Siemens Smart Infrastructure, part of the German engineering and technology conglomerate that makes trains, electrical equipment, traffic control systems, and more, understands that time is running out. Software platforms will also play an essential role in an organization’s ESG maturity journey.

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Fast Forward Venture Studio to build African startups from idea to scale

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After exiting Jobberman, Awoyemi, the firm’s managing partner, was a senior technical product manager at Indeed. On the other hand, Omolara, its operating partner, has worked as country manager of Jumia’s fintech arm in Nigeria and was a senior program manager at Facebook.

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Gloria Lin thinks construction needs to ‘catch the wave of fintech’

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As an engineering program manager at Apple, Gloria Lin was part of a group that conceptualized and built initial prototypes for what is now Apple Pay. In general, Lin — who got a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University — admits that she “loves building fintech infrastructure at scale.”

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

Product Owners were recruited from the ranks of the existing Business Analysts and Project Managers. Less senior BAs became Product Managers, while those Project Managers who did not become part of the Product organization were either staffed outside of IT or coached out of the accompany.