Fri Jan 25, 11:00 AM - Fri Jan 25, 1:00 PM

General Assembly San Francisco

225 Bush Street (East Entrance), San Francisco, CA 94104

Community: San Francisco

Description

Career Advice You Can't Google Whether they're spearheading key projects or managing teams, our panelists are engineering leaders making important product and team decisions every day. Join us to hear candid advice and tips on how to continue to progress in your career.

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Career Advice You Can't Google
Whether they're spearheading key projects or managing teams, our panelists are engineering leaders making important product and team decisions every day. Join us to hear candid advice and tips on how to continue to progress in your career. How did our panelists transition into leadership positions? Were there pivotal moments that got them to that next step? Now that they're in leadership positions in engineering, what are some important lessons they've learned?
Panelists and attendees will get the opportunity to network after the discussion. Coffee and breakfast are on the house!

Panelists include:

Wendy Zenone - Senior Security Engineer, Netflix
Michelle Grover - VP of Engineering, SAP
Emma Utstrand - Engineering Manager, Anaplan 
Nupur Goyal - Staff Software Engineer, Slack
Erica Johnson - Co-Founder and Head of Product, Modern Health

Agenda:

Breakfast & Networking 8:00 am-8:30 am
Panel + Q&A: 8:30 am-9:30 am
Free Time with Panelists and Attendees:9:30 am-10: 00 am

Attendees can submit specific questions for panelists upon registering. 
Who is this event for? The session is intended to be of particular use for software engineers and web developers. 
Meet our Panelists
Wendy Zenone, Senior Security Engineer, Netflix: Wendy is a Senior Security Engineer at Netflix. Her path to learning how to code went full speed when she was accepted and graduated from Hackbright Academy. Prior to Hackbright, Wendy worked in PR, Ads and Marketing at companies such as Facebook, Social Radius, and WhiteHat Security. Since graduating from Hackbright Academy, Wendy went on to work as an Application Security Engineer at Lending Club and then on to her current position, helping to secure the shows you love, at Netflix.
Michelle Grover, VP of Engineering, SAP: Michelle started in technology in 1995 as a Systems Support Engineer by accident.  She was originally in college for Physics and Structural Engineering but during the summer she took on temporary work as the receptionist at AirTouch Paging (which became Verizon). At the end of her 90 days as a temp, she was offered a permanent position as a Systems Support Engineer.   She started with TripIt in October 2014 and is responsible for the Tripit

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