Extra Credit Notes
Kathyleen Beveridge:
Born in Vietnam, studied in Spain, moved to San Diego
Finance degree, MBA at USC
Finance major investment banker in Wells Fargo 1995-1996
After leaving finance industry joined technological industry
Joined Hp inc then Qualcomm and finally now works at Thermo Fisher scientific
All these companies want to make tech the world will benefit from.
Thermo fisher scientific is the world leader in serving science.
Kathyleen started her career life as a finance manager but she left that job to become more involved in engineering and computer science. Computer science helped Kathyleen discover her true calling in life and help develop something meaningful for the world.
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Kris Porter: software engineer
Studied in Livermore high school
Enroled at UCLA for electrical engineering degree
Learnt about communication sytems and electrical engineering
Networked infrastructural systems software
Finished graduate school -> became systems engineer at GPM -> joined NBC universal to work with communications software-> Intro to devops and transitioned to Qualcomm -> joined Twitter
Extra learning:
CCNA training
Machine learning
Python
Data structure algorithms and system design
Twitter university
Projects he worked on:
Starting media infrastructure for the 2012 olympic games
analytics infrastructure projects
Twitter project