Her Story
About Erica
I've been in technology for six and a half years, specializing in software release management. I've always been an inquisitive person, and technology really aligned with the fast-changing pace that excited me. When I was mapping out my future and looking at different career paths, my big thing was to find an intersection of what I liked and what I was good at, and something that was stable, and technology checked all of those boxes. My degree is actually in social psychology, not tech-influenced at all, but I got certification for full-stack web development from a prestigious technical college here to advance my skills and understand the coding languages so I can really connect with the engineers that I work with. Even though I didn't have that basis of a computer engineering degree like most people do, I feel like my social psychology skills actually help me to lead software releases and products that are intuitive and humanistic and future forward for accessibility for everyone. I've worked in really niche industries on the software end, and it's been kind of exciting. Because I've worked in these niche industries, there's not always representation there, so it was really important to me to not only find my own tribe, but also to empower other women that are in technology and need that community and that sisterhood. That's why I have my own community, Tech Women ATL, where we do community collaborations, wellness events for mental and physical health for women in corporate spaces, as well as educational workshops and panels. Right now, I'm really building that up and kind of just starting out with my founder's story. I'll be speaking at the City of Atlanta IT Conference in April, and I also have a technical podcast coming up where I'll be interviewed.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Erica
01What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
The best advice I could give is kind of twofold, and they're definitely things that I just took on early. It is to be the most inquisitive person in the room. Technology is forever evolving, and whatever ideas you have, whatever you're blocked on, it has already been built, and it is out there. The biggest skill that you can have in technology is research. I would also say it's very important, because technology is so broad, it's very important to do that inner work and highlight your transferable skills, and find what gets you excited and what you're passionate about. And really find how that intersects with different fields in technology. There are fields in technology everywhere. I mean, environmental tech, ed tech, healthcare tech. We have tons of women that are coming from the health field and are merging into technology, where they're actually building apps, their own apps, based on their healthcare experiences. So it's really beautiful right now to see this merge of women in technology in their incubator phase, where we're just building and growing and doing something impactful.
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