Miriam, a Software Engineer at Cision began her career as a furniture designer and later found herself entering the tech world. She discusses her positive experience and achievements as being part of the trans community in the tech industry, and surprising facts about what companies do/don’t offer to their trans staff.

Keith Nichols is a technology executive with 20+ years of leading U.S. and global commerce and SaaS platforms for major retailers like Sephora, Restoration Hardware, Jostens and SaaS platforms Zinio and Delivery Agent. Experience scaling onshore and offshore teams delivering complex projects for mobile, omni-channel commerce, DTC systems, API/ integrations, and data projects.

Expert at navigating turnaround and high-growth situations. Adept at establishing processes, procedures, audits & compliance as well as a business and technology strategy along with multi-year roadmaps to enable digitally transformations and growth in key areas of the business strategy.

To support LGBTQ+ History Month, we are speaking with people within the tech industry who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community to celebrate their successes, future goals and also ideas on how to improve inclusivity within the industry.

Katie Gleason, Web Designer at WP Engine wanted to channel her passion for helping people into a career that she enjoyed. Jessica Sutcliffe, Staffing Consultant at Coltech Global, sits down with Katey to have discussions around being self-taught, to how hiring processes can help to get more of the LGBTQ+ community into the industry, Katie provides great insight into the difficulties of starting out in the tech world, and how she has overcome them.

Patrick Waites sits down with Wes Jackson, Cheif Technology Officer at Three Wire

Our Co-Founder Patrick Waites recently had the great pleasure of hosting Mike Couvillion CTO of Kazoo on the #Austintechleaders podcast. In this conversation, we discussed Mike's 20 years of experience and the changes he has seen in that time.

His views on how organizations can best prepare themselves for success, and what he sees as the non-negotiables when building a team.

Mike was an excellent guest and gave some really great insights this is one that is not to be missed.

We recently hosted a webinar with Horus Patel CTO at Cera , Horus, along with Patrick Waites our Director, talk about Cera 's hypergrowth over the past few years and how Coltech helped support them with tech talent through this growth.

Coltech interview Award-Winning Technology Leader & Start-up Advisor, Chris Holland.