Real Convos with Real Leaders

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Moderator:

• Chris Dovi – Executive Director & Chief Policy Advocate, CodeVA

Speakers:

• Dia Harris – Sr. Diversity Program Manager, Global Diversity & Inclusion, Amazon
• Alicia Waide – Software Developer, Catalyte
• Jyoti Wadhwa – Cyber & Digital Mission Leader, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Adeena Mignogna – Software Developer, Space Systems, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Key Questions:

1. What does a typical day look like in your occupation? What do you spend most of your time doing every day?
2. What is the day-to-day responsibilities that someone outside of your field might not know about?
3. What can you tell us about related occupations in your field?
4. What levels of education and training are required?
5. Once you complete the basic educational/training requirements for this occupation, are there other related occupations that a person would be qualified for?
6. Tell us how what they are learning in school now applies to your occupation.
7. What should their focus be as freshmen if this profession is their ultimate goal?

What They Do:

• Test programs or databases, correct errors, and make necessary modifications.
• Modify existing software to correct errors, allow it to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance.
• Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design system and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
• Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.

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