WITI Women Survey Questions and Responses:
1. What was your first job in technology?
My first job in technology was in a co-operative job placed through UC
Berkeley as a software engineer writing an insurance application in
Fortran.
2. Who has been your most significant mentor? Why?
Laurie, an engineering manager that I worked for many years ago, has
been my most significant mentor. She taught me to manage with fairness
and to uphold high standards. She modeled "doing the right thing," even
in the hardest of circumstances. She realized the potential in me and
nurtured it often. She taught me to always keep my sense of humor.
3. What has been your greatest challenge and what strategies did you use to overcome
obstacles?
Working full-time in a challenging career while raising 4 children has
been my greatest challenge. My strategy has been 3-pronged:
- to
create a strong partnership with my husband,
- to create a great team
with my kids and
- to ask for help.
In creating partnerships and teams
at home, I have recognized the similarities between the two and have
been able to apply similar strategies and techniques.
Linda Drumright answers these questions:
1. What was your first job in technology?
2. Who has been your most significant mentor? Why?
3. What has been your greatest challenge and what strategies
did you use to overcome obstacles?
4. Who has been the most influential person in your life?
Why?
5. What lessons have you learned that would be valuable to
women beginning their careers in technology?
6. What new technology do you believe will have the most positive
impact on the world in the next 20 years? The most negative impact?
On the lighter side:
1. If you could have dinner with any 2 people (living or not),
who would they be?
2. What was the last book you read? What books do you love to recommend?
3. If you couldn't do what you are doing now, what profession would you choose?
4. What is your definition of success?
