Presentation for Women Who Code Dallas

1. How I am surviving being
bought out by Google
KATHLEEN WEAVER

2. ISIS -> Softcard
 Hired as a Windows Phone Developer
 Immediately put to work as Dev/QA
Responsibility was to get Windows
Phone App to Market
 Shifted to Android
 Company sold to Google

3. Beginning Career
 Graduated from University of Southern
Mississippi
Computer Science
Air Force ROTC
 Mississippi Chemical
 Texas Instruments

4. Teaching
Texas Instruments Teaching Fellow
Why?
Save Marriage
Biological clock
Stayed too long

5. Bootcamp
Spent months reconnecting to the
technology world
Asked Systers what to do:
Several job suggestions including
what I do
Online Freelancing

6. Failures
 Any of the freelance websites – competition too
fierce and populated by scam artists
 Contract programming – need a precise skill set
 Recruiters and HR can’t figure out where to put
me

7. Wyzant Tutoring
General computer
Web Design
Computer Science
Very frustrating

8. Good news
 Retire pay in February, insurance
coverage in January
 Currently have insurance with husband

9. Johns Hopkins University
Teaching 3-12 grade
Web Design
Computer Science - Java