The Iron Yard Archives - Business RadioX ®

Five Inspiring Women Working In Technology – Business RadioX

October 21, 2014 by angishields

We’ve had the amazing opportunity to interview a lot of women working in technology about technology in Atlanta, and about being women in a male-dominated field. Here’s a list of a few of you should give a listen to.

1. Erica Stanley with Women Who Code, (@WWCAtl)

Erica Stanley (@ericastanley) has is a software architect and consultant, and has worked for with big name industry leaders such as Turner Broadcasting, Myspace, Facebook, Oracle and Boeing. She’s been a leader at four startup companies, two of which were acquired by Fortune 100 companies. Stanley cofounded the Atlanta network of Women Who Code, where she uses her 15 years of experience to help other women in technology with their careers.

Listen to the interview here.

2. Sarah Lodato with The Iron Yard ,(@TheIronYard)

Sarah Lodato (@sarahbethlodato) is the Campus Director for The Iron Yard in Atlanta. She has years of business management experience, having founded two businesses prior to coming to The Iron Yard, and, though her tasks lean more towards management, she also has skills in WordPress, HTML, CSS, graphic design, and copywriting.

Listen to the interview here.

3. Erica Baity of TechieChic

Erica Baity, a former software engineer and data architect , used her 13 years of technology experience to found TechieChic. TechieChic’s mission is to even out the gender disparities in the tech field by education and staffing women in technology companies.

Listen to the interview here.

4. Allyson Eman of Venture Atlanta

Allyson Eman is the Executive Director for Venture Atlanta. She has a broad and expansive background in marketing, with over 20 years of experience in marketing, sales, and communications.

Listen to the interview here.

5. Vicky Sleight with GSMA

Vicky Sleight has been the Senior Director of Member Services at the GSMA since 2008, and is responsible for growing membership within the mobile ecosystem and leading membership communications and operations for a community of 20,500 industry executives. She is also the driving force behind the GSMA Connected Women program: an initiative which aims to highlight the opportunities available to women in the mobile industry at all levels, as well as increase the number of women in senior management positions.

Listen to the interview here.

Cynthia Morneweck and Steven Walker with Great Parents Academy, Sarah Lodato and John Saddington with The Iron Yard, and Phillip Hardin with YouScience

May 14, 2014 by angishields

Start-Opia

Cynthia Morneweck and Steven Walker with Great Parents Academy, Sarah Lodato and John Saddington with The Iron Yard, and Phillip Hardin with YouScience

00:00 /

Cynthia Morneweck / Great Parents Academy

Cynthia oversees the overall strategic and operational responsibility of the three core areas of the company: Learning, Technology and Business. She provides leadership and coordination to the senior management team and is on the Board of Directors keeping them abreast of strategies progress and challenges.

Prior to GPA, Cynthia worked for PointClear Solutions, a consulting firm in the healthcare vertical. She was the Director of Operations for the UX practice. She also worked for Northrup Grumman as a Lead UX practitioner on a CDC contract. Before that she worked for the CTO of Georgia Institute of Technology as a UX practitioner promoting and helping the IT team produce a more user-centered approach to building applications.

Even though her roles have changed over the years, her love of User Experience stays with her. She applies the core principles of the discipline (HCI) to all aspects of her life. “I can’t turn it off. Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t. I breathe it. It has served me well.”

Cynthia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Psychology from Smith College as well as a Masters of Science in Human Computer Interaction (Computer Science) from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Along with her GPA responsibilities, Cynthia is a wife and mother (daughter and son).

Steven Walker / Great Parents Academy

Steven is responsible for developing strategic partnerships and relationships to foster community growth with corporate child sponsors, charitable foundations, parent associations and education organizations.

Prior to joining GPA, Steven served as the CEO of a charter high school that focused on career academies and a STEM curriculum. He served on a subcommittee to advance STEM education for the state of GA and he currently serves on the education committees and board of trustees for two independent schools in Atlanta. Steven has over 22 years of experience in operations, finance and business strategy where he ran a multi-national information technology training and consulting company and oversaw the operations and financial controls of two restaurants as a franchisee and two mega-fitness centers in Atlanta and in District Heights, MD.

Before pursuing his entrepreneurial passions, Steven structured and executed investment-banking transactions for Bank of America, formerly NationsBank, in the corporate finance and private placements groups.

Steven holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Duke University and an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Along with his GPA responsibilities, Steven’s other duties are as a husband and father (daughter and son).

Sarah Lodato / The Iron Yard

John Saddington / The Iron Yard

A serial entrepreneur, John is a graduate of Georgia Tech and has two Master degrees from Dallas Seminary. He’s been an engineer and executive in the Fortune 50 as well as leading his own bootstrapped and venture-funded startups. He currently is a Partner and Chief Strategy Officer at The Iron Yard, a technology accelerator, incubator, and code school. He also continues to work on his iOS app Pressgram and his OS X app, Desk PM.

Phillip Hardin / YouScience

An experienced technology CEO, Philip Hardin has spent his career building technology products to solve complex industry issues. Now Mr. Hardin is tackling two of the most pressing issues of today – education and employment –with YouScience and its product Latitude®. Prior to YouScience, Mr. Hardin joined a start-up in Atlanta in 1995 focused on technology innovation in healthcare where he stayed for 17 years until the company was $1.3 Billion in revenues. He served in various executive capacities at Healtheon, WebMD and Emdeon before it was sold to the Blackstone Group. Mr. Hardin received a B.S. in accounting from the University of Georgia and received an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Kris Maher with One Ring Networks, Lee Farabaugh with PointClear Solutions, and Sarah Lodato with The Iron Yard

March 27, 2014 by angishields

Atlanta Tech Leaders

Kris Maher with One Ring Networks, Lee Farabaugh with PointClear Solutions, and Sarah Lodato with The Iron Yard

00:00 /

Kris Maher/One Ring Networks

With over a decade of industry experience, Kris Maher is the trailblazer behind One Ring Networks and its responsive, customer-focused culture. Maher heads the field and channel sales company-wide and leads sales teams for all of One Ring Networks fiber and fixed wireless customers in Atlanta, Dallas and Fort Worth. He is a member of the Atlanta Promise Neighborhood Initiative and loves spending his time outside of the office with his family and dog, Ivy. When Kris isn’t helping businesses stay connected, he can be found enjoying the great outdoors skiing, golfing, and searching for the next great golfer to help bring home the win at the annual customer golf tournament.

Kris holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management and Marketing from Canisius College in Buffalo, NY.

Lee Farabaugh/PointClear Solutions

Lee Farabaugh is a senior user experience research and design expert, having worked in user experience in healthcare for the past 8 years. She has worked on projects in a variety of healthcare domains, from public health and life sciences to consumer- and provider-facing healthcare applications. As Chief Experience Office at PointClear Solutions, she currently leads the User Experience, Clinical Insight, Business Analysis, and Project Management teams.

Before becoming a founding partner of PointClear in 2006, she was a usability engineer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA. Lee is a member of the adjunct faculty of University of Alabama’s School of Health Professions, teaching Masters level students in the Health Informatics program about user experience in healthcare information technology. She also serves on the HIMSS EHR Usability Task Force.

Lee holds a Master of Health Informatics from University of Alabama at Birmingham, a Master of Human-Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech, and a Bachelor of Arts from Wake Forest University.

Sarah Lodato/The Iron Yard

The Iron Yard exists to create exceptional value for people and their ideas through code education, startup accelerators and coworking spaces.

Through our broad, deep and growing network of teachers, programmers, designers, entrepreneurs, investors, employers and coworking spaces, we have developed a thriving community where serendipity happens en masse.

We are people-centric.

We put our students, teams, investors and supporters first in all of our decision making. Our success is entirely dependent on their success.

Our challenge is immense.

The world has huge problems that need to be solved, many of which technology is perfectly suited to address. Companies around the globe are answering this call, but anyone with boots on the ground can feel the acute shortage of talent needed to rise to the occasion. That gap is widening right now, and over the next decade the shortfall will affect industries, economies, businesses and individuals as they fight to add value in a digital world.

The Iron Yard is a solution at that juncture of supply, demand, business and a broken education system.

We are committed to training the highest-quality developers and startups in the world, both in skill and in character. Our mission is to find people who want to pursue the craft and life-long adventure of technology, teach them the tools of the trade, and then release them into the world with the drive and capability to make a difference. We believe that passionate, talented people who love what they do will create great families, jobs, companies and solutions to the world’s problems.