Lucy Alexander is a 2019 Boston College graduate who now works in the Cyber Security arm of a multinational software business. Early in her college experience, she sensed a massive shift toward technology in the early stages of finance recruiting and changed her major to Computer Science. Lucy started from scratch in her junior year of college but found that the opportunities for computer science majors extend far beyond back-end coding. For example, her early experiences and interests were related to pseudocode, which is more related to designing the steps in an algorithm versus technical back-end coding. After an internship with an IT Consulting Firm after her junior year and a few years on the job, she has mastered how to leverage her strong communication and interpersonal skills with her knowledge of computers. 

Lucy is now a Customer Experience team co-leader and has taken her expertise globally. Lucy has spoken in New York, London, and Berlin at conferences about the Future of Customer Engagement with Cyber Security Products. We have a fascinating conversation on why brands and individuals have started to care more about data privacy, how the rules and regulations differ in the United States vs. Europe, and the shift from Cyber Security as a cost to a value driver.

Lucy has also had a speedy and impressive trajectory in her career as a result of her personal professionalism. Lucy talks about the abundance of opportunities in the Cyber Security business, even for people with little computer science background. More importantly, she talks about how she has always aggressively advocated for herself and is unafraid to ask to be paid more. Salary transparency is a conversation that is becoming more mainstream, and Lucy gives excellent insight into things to think about when evaluating your own value in the workplace.