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The Women in Technology SIG invites you to our 5th annual Women in Technology luncheon and panel discussion held during the PASS Community Summit.
Women in Technology: Reaching Our Goals
Thursday September 20
11:45 am – 1:30 pm
Four Seasons Ballroom 4
Colorado Convention Center
Whether we aspire to be a Vice-President, Senior DBA or Independent Consultant, each of us must take ownership of our professional development and career growth in today's working world.
How do you choose your goals? How do you achieve them? How important is networking to getting what you want?
The Women in Technology SIG invites you to a panel discussion with women who are in successful hi-tech careers.
Join us and learn how these women have gotten to where they are today. Learn what has been most effective for them and hear their advice on what pitfalls to avoid.
The event will include discussion from the audience. Please come and share your questions, perspectives and experiences. Lunch will be served.
Any Summit attendee interested in participating is welcome to attend. The event is open to women and men.
Our panelists will include:
Sharon Dooley. Sharon has worked with SQL Server since its first release. Her major areas of specialization are database design and performance tuning, though she also does a lot of administration. She has a consulting practice and teaches and writes courses for Learning Tree International, where she is SQL Server Curriculum Manager. Ms. Dooley is the author of SQL Server 7.0 Essential Reference (New Riders) and the lead author of Professional SQL Server 6.5 Administration (Wrox. Sharon is an active member of PASS (The Professional Organization for SQL Server) and has presented at numerous conferences. She was named a Microsoft MVP in 2001 and was an MVP for SQL Server until 2004. In her spare time, she enjoys being bossed around by her three cats.
Lara Rubbelke. Lara is a Service Line Leader with Digineer in Minneapolis, MN, where she consults on architecting, implementing and improving SQL Server solutions. Her expertise involves both OLTP and OLAP systems, ETL, and the Business Intelligence lifecycle. She is an active leader of the local PASS chapter and brings her passion for SQL Server to the community through technical presentations at local, regional and national conferences and user groups and webcasts. Lara has recently authored a whitepaper for Microsoft detailing SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition features and was a contributing author of "Expert SQL Server 2005 Development". Lara has recently been awarded Microsoft MVP for SQL Server.
Andrea Schneider. Andrea has been with Microsoft since July of 2004. In her three years at Microsoft she has worked on marketing for Microsoft's management servers business (MOM and SMS) before moving over to work on the SQL team prior to the SQL 2005 launch. Andrea focuses her energy on the SQL breadth business driving trial and awareness among IT Pros and developer, on LAR and Distributor channel marketing, and on planning the US SQL Server 2008 Launch, part of the Microsoft US 2008 Launch Wave. Prior to joining the US BMO, Andrea spent her time studying for her undergraduate business degree with concentrations in management and marketing from the University of Pennsylvania.
Buffy Ransom. Buffy is the Senior Director of Global Customer Support for Oracle’s JDEdwards EnterpriseOne. Buffy brings over 15 years of experience in the areas customer support, technology, process re-engineering, training and business. She has held senior management positions at JDEdwards and PeopleSoft managing EnterpriseOne Applications, Tools and Technologies and most recently PeopleSoft World. In these capacities, she was responsible for technology and support operations in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Buffy is currently the Denver Chapter President of Alliance of Technology and Women, www.atwinternational.org.
Previous to JDEdwards, she worked with Texaco, Inc. and Star Enterprise in IT support and systems architect positions. She has a Masters of Science Degree from Colorado State University in Computer Information Systems and a Bachelors of Science Degree from Colorado State University in Business Administration.
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