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Engineering leader at Comcast, ceramic artist, knitter, and proud mama. Opinions are my own. She/Her

Philadelphia, PA
Joined March 2007
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Overheard: We're gonna have to retire the expression "avoid it like the plague" because it turns out humans do not do that.
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My two oldest kids (8 and 6) ask me to tell them an “interesting fact” every night at bedtime. Having now exhausted my own supply of memorized trivia as well as several random lists on the internet, I’m taking suggestions below…
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I'm back from a week at my mom's house and now I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I've been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that. As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵
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Know the difference. Inequality: unequal access to opportunities Equality: evenly distributed tools & assistance Equity: Custom tools that identify & address inequality Justice: Fixing the system to offer equal access to both tools & opportunities (eg. tackling systemic racism)
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We don’t know who needs to hear this, but writing letters can improve your day. ✨
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Restart your career through @Comcast’s Act Two program, a 6-month paid opportunity for experienced professionals returning to the workforce after taking time off for caregiving. View open roles and apply today: comca.st/32X5gL4
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female is an adjective and woman is a noun, so “females” is rarely appropriate. thank you for coming to my TED talk. – at Collingswood, NJ
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Go support your local running store. Without them, your running community including group runs and races wouldn't exist. #shopsmall #smallbuisnesssaturday #runspecialty
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I had an opportunity to talk about how we are using Machine Learning to help make Customer Experience the best product at @comcast. My team enables machine learning by operationalizing both the billions of streaming data events and model requests. #machinelearning #CX
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50 years ago, history was written at the Stonewall Inn when New York's LGBT community stood up, spoke out, and started a movement. In 2016 I was proud to designate it as a national monument—a reminder the arc of our history is an arc of progress as long as we keep pushing for it.
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Meet Chase. It’s kids like Chase that remind us why we’re passionate about making technology more inclusive and accessible. Watch how he’s using our products to be more independent. comca.st/2KqulaK
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Hi folks! My wife is working with the PA Dept of Ag on a software system to help promote local agriculture, and they are looking for some informational responses (not a formal proposal), especially from Agile software shops: emarketplace.state.pa.us/Sol… . Please RT for reach!
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As a furloughed scientist, I thought it worthwhile to use my PhD skills to look at evidence for the president’s claims of a national security crisis & whether his desire for a wall is an adequate justification for a government #shutdown that has cut off pay for 800,000 Americans.
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I'm hiring a VP of Architecture Transformation: jobs.comcast.com/job-179409-… …. Looking for a partner to help the company continue to learn and grow in its software practices. Very interested in attracting a diverse set of candidates. Please RT for reach!
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Software Engineering Managers: if you could spare a few minutes to fill out my survey about switching to management, it will help guide others looking to make the switch. Survey is here: goo.gl/forms/VVt8Wf9FNabIFaZ… Retweets for reach would be appreciated. Thank you!
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I am very excited to share that @comcast has open-sourced a technology I created called Trickster! We are looking for #DevOps engineers to help contribute to the project. teapaw.org/TricksterIO/status/979…
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Read women. Cite women. Credit women. Teach women. Publish women. Present women. Acknowledge women. Award women. Amplify women. Hire women. Support women. Promote women. Hear women. Believe women. Follow women. Pay women. Pay women. Pay women. #IWD2018
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Advice to new managers 1 earn trust by giving it 2 hire for EQ, train for IQ 3 eat lunch with your team 4 tell people their work matters 5 be a player-coach 6 feedback in private, praise in public 7 in victory, lead from back 8 in crisis, lead from front 9 walk around and help
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