#BITTechTalk by Blacks In Technology

#BITTechTalk episode 48 Greg and Ayori speak with Rebecca and Maya, two young African American females who code and create.

In this episode of #BITTechTalk, Greg and Ayori welcome Maurice Cherry, a web developer and graphics designer, to the podcast to share his story of founding Revision Path the largest database of African American Designers. Maurice shares valuable tips on learning the fast developing skill of design, the tools you need, and his opinions on what drives inspiration. We had a really fun time getting to know Maurice and we encourage you to listen and follow him on twitter @revisionpath and @mauricecherryAdditionally BIT Tech Talk has begun our countdown to our 50th podcast which we’ve dubbed “The Road the 50”!This podcast is the first in our special series on the Road to 50 where we will do a deep dive into the topics of Perception, Participation and Visibility of African Americans in technolog

In this episode of #BITTechTalk, Greg and Ayori welcome Joshua Hoskins to the podcast to talk about his journey to becoming a salesforce.com consulting MVP. Joshua shares valuable tips on driving your career, taking risks, starting his own company, relationship management, life hacking, work-life balance and how to get a job offer while attending dreamforce. We even manage to get into the nitty gritty details of data modeling on cloud platforms! Tune in because won’t want to miss this podcast!About our guest:Joshua has been using computers since the age of 4 and began writing code in the 5th grade. By age 22 he was Director of IT. While being extremely passionate about Customer Relationship Management & Application Development he lives to build reliable, robust and scalable solutions just about anything you can think of.Joshua’s specialties are Force.com Development, Salesforce.com Customization/Implementation, Data / Solution Architecture, Cloud & On-Premise Integrations, Configuration Management, Project Management, Ruby on Rails, ASP, VBScript, System Administration, Relational Databases, Networking, Computer Telephony Integration Follow him on Twitter:@jhoskin

Another exciting episode of the Blacks In Technology podcast!!!In this second part of the TechWomen Emerging Leaders series, Greg and Ayori interview Djamila Douache of Algeria and Tonia Feghali of Lebanon. Both are participants of the 2013 TechWomen Emerging Leaders program and were hosted at salesforce.com. They join Greg and Ayori to share their program experiences and what they have learned about the importance of mentoring. They also give us tips on how to get the most out of your mentorship and what their future plans are once they return to their home countries.About our guest:Djamila Douache  (doo-wash) from Algeria, is an International Training Engineer with Eurl ZTE where she is responsible for providing tchnical training related to telecommunications equipment and theory and maintenance procedure to both university students and customers. Tonia Feghali (Lebanon) is a Business Analyst and E-Banking Senior Officer at Byblos Bank where she is responsible for delivering state of the art mobile and internet banking solutions.

In the first part of this two part episode Greg Greenlee and Ayori Selassie are joined by recent participants of the Tech Women Emerging Leaders program,Emma Marie Ndoringoma of Rwanda, andNathalie Tekam of Camaroon, for a very inspiring and informative discussion.The Tech Women program empowers, connects, and supports the next generation of women leaders in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from Africa and the Middle East by providing them the access and opportunity needed to advance their careers, pursue their dreams, and inspire women and girls in their communities. The Tech Women program pairs the women with female role models and mentors in Silicon Valley. The women are hosted by a participating company to network and learn from their mentors. Emma (hosted at Net Optics) and Nathalie (hosted at LinkedIn), both 2013 TechWomen Emerging Leaders share their insight and learnings on their journey from Rwanda and Camaroon to Silicon Valley.About the guest:Emma Marie Ndoringoma (Rwanda) is a Product Manager at Promelec where she ensures product efficiency and secures proper deployment of software and technology.Nathalie Tekam (Camaroon) is an Assistant Manager at Sersys, a Microsoft Partner IT consulting firm where she leads a team of six engineers and is in charge of various business areas such as software development, system administration and network infrastructure support.