Women In Technology Spotlight

This episode features two women who met while working at A1 Telekom and became friends. Ivana Ovcaric Analytics Lead in Marketing Automation @A1 Telekom Austria's biggest service provider and Darya Bululukova who has since moved from A1 to work as a Cloud Solution Architect at Wien IT.

Meet Eva-Maria Hempe, Director Enterprise at @VMware. Eva-Maria's path to IT seems a given when you hear her talk about her childhood: she slept next to a dot matrix printer (bonus points if you know what that is ), got her own computer at age 6, bought her first computer at 16 with money she earned babysitting, and programmed websites for her father's friend's company. One might assume that her i...

In this episode of my Women in Technology Spotlight, you'll meet Rebecca Fox, who works as an Associate Solutions Engineer in the UK. Rebecca came to VMware after 18 years in the Army, where she worked in Signals for 10 years until she had done all the best assignments, and then another 8 years in the Nurse Corps, though she quickly realized that wasn't her calling. Rebecca's path to IT is a very...

Christelle Vinot works as a Senior Solutions Engineer but has also successfully started her own company, "Hearthy Matcha", which sells organic Japanese tea (matcha tea). Her company strives to be CO2 neutral and give back to the environment by planting trees for the tea it sells. Christelle is from Paris, France and moved to the UK (London) about 8 years ago to learn English and get out of her com...

Meet Naomi Betz, who's an Enterprise Account Manager @ VMware in Germany. As an Account Manager, she works at the intersection of technology and business. Naomi is at home in both worlds, having studied both business administration and computer science. Although Naomi is still at the beginning of her career, she's already worked for some of the big companies like Microsoft. As an Enterprise Accoun...

This Week's Woman in IT is Adela Mehic-Dzanic Female Tech Leader, Moderator of "Making It In Austria" and Head of Connectivity Service Providers @MAVOCO AG Adela's story is fascinating and shows what's possible with the right attitude and passion. After graduating from the university in Sarajevo, she came to Vienna from Bosnia a few years ago with her husband. With determination and a can-do menta...

In this episode, I talk to Margot Mückstein about her life and how, after studying journalism and also psychology, dabbling with biochemistry, electrical engineering and journalism, she eventually ended up as a data scientist and started her own company with her brother at the age of 32. Her company, Cloudomation, now has 9 employees working to develop a solution that enables software automation a...

In this episode, I speak with Hilda Edimo. She is an Associate Solution Engineer in the Core Business Unit @Vmware based in Paris. She is an alumnus of the VMware New Graduate Program. She tells me that this program advanced her career by 10 to 15 years!! Hilda was born in France and partly grew up in Cameroon in a family where there was an emphasis on getting a good education to get ahead in life...

In this episode, I speak with Christine Hensel who is Director of Systems Engineering Germany @Vmware. - This is interview is in German for a change, Christine started out as a Systems Engineer herself and has a deep understanding of what is required to be successful in this role As one of VMware's hiring managers, she loves the company culture, the EPIC2 values and makes sure to hire for attitude...

n this episode I speak with Tina Krogull - Technical Account Manager @Vmware based in Germany! Technical Account Managers have close relationships with VMware's customers and help them make the best use of the technology they own. They advise them on how to best achieve their goals with the technology they purchased. Tina who loves being part of the VMware family describes her job as being a conci...

In the first episode of this series I had the opportunity to talk with Sarah Swatman Senior Director - EUC Specialist Solution Engineers EMEA @Vmware Sarah is based in the UK and manages a team of Solution Engineers across the EMEA region