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Liz's work combines: Numbers, Technology, and Problem Solving
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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Here's the path I took:
High School
Southeast Raleigh High School
Bachelor's Degree
English Language and Literature, General
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Graduate Degree
Business Administration and Management, General
University of Scranton
Here's the path I recommend for someone who wants to be an Information Technology Project Managers:
High School
Bachelor's Degree: English Language and Literature, General
Graduate Degree: Business Administration and Management, General
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Life & Career Milestones
I've taken a lot of twists and turns
1.
9th grade loner in the computer lab, taught myself HTML.
2.
10th and 11th grade, got Novell CNA and Cisco CCNA, fell in love with networking, tech internships.
3.
Dropped Electrical Engineering for English (and was a death metal deejay).
4.
Worked at Medicaid, taught to use scroll mouse, ran back to tech sector.
5.
Tested ringtones (not as fun as you'd think) and games (fun).
6.
Tried music marketing (not fun) and project management (fun).
7.
Became a customer service delivery manager (fun) solving crazy problems (really fun).
8.
Joined MSFT in Skype for Business Operations and love every minute of it!
Defining Moments
How I responded to discouragement
THE NOISE
Messages from Society in general:
You should be an engineer instead.
How I responded:
It's not an either or; you can be technical without having a technical title and not technical with a technical title. It's really arbitrary as to what your title is.
Experiences and challenges that shaped me
I was physically and emotionally abused by an ex and eventually convinced him to leave. Whatever you need to do to leave, do it. It will not get better until you leave and then the future gets really bright.