Women In Linux Podcast

#WomenInLinux CTO Series: Lee Jones, Clear Idea Labs

Lee Jones is the CTO and Co-Founder of Clear Idea Labs a lean startup focused custom software development company specializing in mobile and web based solutions. He is a recognized subject matter expert in mobile and web technology. His experience includes work for brands like, Microsoft, Motorola, Intel and Adobe.

Additional Info:

website: http://www.http://clearidea.us/

Denise W. Barreto is an entrepreneur, author and TEDx speaker with over 20 years of leadership and marketing experience across multiple industries. As founder and managing partner of Relationships Matter Now her firm serves businesses of all sizes, non-profit and government agencies who want to better leverage their relationships to grow their bottom line through strategic planning, HR system infrastructure, organizational and leader development and inclusion and diversity strategy.

In addition to her business, she is committed to serving her community currently serving on the Illinois Business Enterprise Program Council and the Evanston Parks and Recreation board.

Additional Links:

Website: www.relationshipmatternow.com
Twitter: @DeniseWBarreto

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/denisewbarreto
Facebook: www.facebook.com/relationshipsmatternow

Local Artist: A'Driane Nieves
Website: http://www.addyeb.com/shop
Instagram: @addyeb_art

Jerome Hardaway is the Executive Director of #VetsWhoCode a veteran operated 501c3 charitable non-profit dedicated to filling the wide chasm between technical expertise needed and available with early stage transitioning veterans and active duty military spouses through software development training and education.

His work has been featured in Huffington Post as well having been invited to the White House, DreamForce, and Facebook for his work with veterans.

Additional Links:

Website: http://www.vetswhocode.io/
Twitter: @VetsWhoCode

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeromehardaway
Twitter: @JeromeHardaway

Podcast: https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues

Lynn Langit creates big data and cloud architectures with AWS, Microsoft, Google, and OpenStack technologies. She also works with SQL Server, MongoDB, Google Big Query, Redis, Neo4j, and Hadoop.

Lynn is also the cofounder of Teaching Kids Programming, and has spoken on data and cloud technologies in many countries. She is an ACM Distinguished Speaker.

Please see additional links:

Twitter: @lynnlangit
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/SoCalDevGal
Slideshare: https://www.slideshare.net/lynnlangit
Github: https://github.com/lynnlangit/consulting
Blog: https://lynnlangit.com/

NonProfit: TeachingKidsProgramming.com

Subscription Courses
Lynda: https://www.lynda.com/Lynn-Langit/3308983-1.html
Pluralsite: https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/lynn-langit

Mike McGarr is the Engineering Manager for the Netflix Developer Productivity team. He is also a co-host of the Ship Show Podcast. He has been developing Java/JVM-based applications for most of his career and been known to dabble in other languages as well. He is passionate about building quality software through automation. Mike can frequently be found talking about Agile, Continuous Delivery,DevOps, or build and test automation. Prior to joining Netflix, Mike was the Director of EngineeringOps at Blackboard and the founder of the DC Continuous Delivery meetup.

Please see additional links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SonOfGarr
Blog: http://www.mikemcgarr.com
Github: https://github.com/jmcgarr

Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/jmcgarr/presentations
The Ship Show: http://theshipshow.com/

Netflix (Now Hiring): https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs

As the Community Manager for Taos, Julie spends the majority of her time attending tech conferences nationwide: speaking and developing relationships with technology professionals and businesses. Relationship builder extraordinaire she loves connecting the dots between people, business and technology to help foster community growth.

Julie's Links:

Twitter: @Julie_Gund
DevOpDays Boise: https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-boise/program/
Jag754 Gaming: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCemXlxP9AKX1Q8WijN6E5FA
Visit Boise: http://www.boise.org/

Taos Careers: http://www.taos.com/it-talent/opportunities/
Taos Twitter: @WeSolveTheHow

#WomenInLinux CTO Series: Yvette Pasqua, Meetup

Yvette is the CTO of Meetup. She leads the engineering team with a focus on continuous learning, innovation, and using data to launch software that brings people together around the world to do what matters to them. Her team’s work enables 27+ million members in over 180 countries to organize, build community, and meetup around the world.

Website: https://www.meetup.com
Now Hiring: https://www.meetup.com/jobs/
Women in Tech Internship: https://www.meetup.com/jobs/women-in-tech-internship-(summer-2017)-502997

#WomenInLinux CTO Series: Teddy Matheu, CEO/Co-Founder, Clear Idea Labs

Teddy has more than twenty five years of Information Technology (IT) experience, responsible for Clear Idea Lab's strategic direction. Prior to his role at Clear Idea, Teddy served as the founder of Guident, a big data analytics provider to the federal government.

Website: http://clearidea.us/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmatheu
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fmatheu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clearidea/

Rachel Chalmers VP of Marketing at Unitive and VC is on a mission to help companies around the world bring their hiring processes into alignment with their core values. She has over twenty years’ experience as a VC, technology industry analyst and journalist to apply to the problem.

Recommended Reading:
- Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors, Brad Feld
- Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City, Brad Feld
- Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur, Brad Feld
- Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist, Brad Feld

Rachel welcomes anyone to chat with an interest in entrepreneurship, software, hiring, the psychology of being a women in the tech industry or any of the topics discussed in this episode.

Twitter: @rachelchalmers

#WomenInLinux CTO Series: Eric Sites, Co-Founder & CTO of Meros.

Eric is a veteran CTO with over 20 years of experience in technology. Formerly CTO of ThreatTrack Security, he built large-scale DevOps systems processing petabytes of data daily. As CTO of Sunbelt Software, he and his team created some of the best-known brands in security, including VIPRE, CounterSpy, Ninja Email Security and many more.

Previously, he was the CTO for AskSam, where he built the world’s first XML database, and developed a next-generation free-form database for Windows. Eric attended Florida State University, where he majored in computer science and math.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericsites