(BIT) Blacks In Technology

#BITTechTalk ep. 51 Hackathons pt. 1

#BITTechTalk ep. 50 Founders Hour

#BITTechTalk ep. 49 University Edition

#BITTechTalk episode 48 Greg and Ayori speak with Rebecca and Maya, two young African American females who code and create.

#BITTechTalk ep. 47 How to raise a coder

In this episode of #BITTechTalk, Greg and Ayori welcome Maurice Cherry, a web developer and graphics designer, to the podcast to share his story of founding Revision Path the largest database of African American Designers. Maurice shares valuable tips on learning the fast developing skill of design, the tools you need, and his opinions on what drives inspiration. We had a really fun time getting to know Maurice and we encourage you to listen and follow him on twitter @revisionpath and @mauricecherryAdditionally BIT Tech Talk has begun our countdown to our 50th podcast which we’ve dubbed “The Road the 50”!This podcast is the first in our special series on the Road to 50 where we will do a deep dive into the topics of Perception, Participation and Visibility of African Americans in technolog

In this episode of #BITTechTalk, Greg and Ayori welcome Joshua Hoskins to the podcast to talk about his journey to becoming a salesforce.com consulting MVP. Joshua shares valuable tips on driving your career, taking risks, starting his own company, relationship management, life hacking, work-life balance and how to get a job offer while attending dreamforce. We even manage to get into the nitty gritty details of data modeling on cloud platforms! Tune in because won’t want to miss this podcast!About our guest:Joshua has been using computers since the age of 4 and began writing code in the 5th grade. By age 22 he was Director of IT. While being extremely passionate about Customer Relationship Management & Application Development he lives to build reliable, robust and scalable solutions just about anything you can think of.Joshua’s specialties are Force.com Development, Salesforce.com Customization/Implementation, Data / Solution Architecture, Cloud & On-Premise Integrations, Configuration Management, Project Management, Ruby on Rails, ASP, VBScript, System Administration, Relational Databases, Networking, Computer Telephony Integration Follow him on Twitter:@jhoskin

Another exciting episode of the Blacks In Technology podcast!!!In this second part of the TechWomen Emerging Leaders series, Greg and Ayori interview Djamila Douache of Algeria and Tonia Feghali of Lebanon. Both are participants of the 2013 TechWomen Emerging Leaders program and were hosted at salesforce.com. They join Greg and Ayori to share their program experiences and what they have learned about the importance of mentoring. They also give us tips on how to get the most out of your mentorship and what their future plans are once they return to their home countries.About our guest:Djamila Douache  (doo-wash) from Algeria, is an International Training Engineer with Eurl ZTE where she is responsible for providing tchnical training related to telecommunications equipment and theory and maintenance procedure to both university students and customers. Tonia Feghali (Lebanon) is a Business Analyst and E-Banking Senior Officer at Byblos Bank where she is responsible for delivering state of the art mobile and internet banking solutions.

In the first part of this two part episode Greg Greenlee and Ayori Selassie are joined by recent participants of the Tech Women Emerging Leaders program,Emma Marie Ndoringoma of Rwanda, andNathalie Tekam of Camaroon, for a very inspiring and informative discussion.The Tech Women program empowers, connects, and supports the next generation of women leaders in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from Africa and the Middle East by providing them the access and opportunity needed to advance their careers, pursue their dreams, and inspire women and girls in their communities. The Tech Women program pairs the women with female role models and mentors in Silicon Valley. The women are hosted by a participating company to network and learn from their mentors. Emma (hosted at Net Optics) and Nathalie (hosted at LinkedIn), both 2013 TechWomen Emerging Leaders share their insight and learnings on their journey from Rwanda and Camaroon to Silicon Valley.About the guest:Emma Marie Ndoringoma (Rwanda) is a Product Manager at Promelec where she ensures product efficiency and secures proper deployment of software and technology.Nathalie Tekam (Camaroon) is an Assistant Manager at Sersys, a Microsoft Partner IT consulting firm where she leads a team of six engineers and is in charge of various business areas such as software development, system administration and network infrastructure support.

In this episode of the Blacks In Technology podcast, Greg Greenlee and Ayori Selassie lead a spirited discussion with our guest, newly published author and technology translator Anjuan Simmons. We discuss Anjuan's new book "Minority Tech...Journaling Through Blackness and Technology". The book chronicles his experiences as an African American man in the technology sector using curated information from his blog.  Follow on Twitter: @anjua

In this episode of the Blacks In Technology podcast Sr. Vice President at ATT Xavier Williams joins Greg and Ayori for a discussion around career progression, mentors, sponsors, The Internet of Things, and pushing those with influence and power to engage in solutions around tech inclusion. You won't want to miss it!!!Follow us on Twitter:@blkintechnology@iayori

In this podcast episode Greg introduces and welcomes Ayori Selassie as the new co-host to the BIT podcasts as well as a new member of the BIT organization.Ayori discusses with Greg, her recent experience in attending the Google SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) class in Mountain View.Greg Greenlee and Ayori Selassie talk Distributed System Design, building systems that scale at Google and offer tips on how you can engage in the emerging field of Site Reliability EngineeringWe also touch on the importance of attending tech conferences and how attending can benefit your skill set and technology career. (This also gave us a segway into our next podcast!!!)Web sites mentioned:http://www.blacksintechnology.net(Blacks In Technology)http://www.bitdigest.net(BIT Tech Digest)http://www.highscalability.com(High Scalability)http://www.youtube.com/user/hangops/videos(Hang Ops youtube channel)http://www.lanyrd.com(Lanyrd)https://www.derbycon.com/(DerbyCon)https://tito.io/distill/2013?release_id=um9zjsmycfo(Distill)

This episode Greg sits down with Keith Townsend ofvirtualizedgeek.com. Keith is an expert in virtualization and cloud technology and we talk about SDN (Software Defined Networks), Network virtualization and the role both play in the future of the systems admin/engineer.Follow Keith on Twitter:@virtualizedgeek

This episode Greg sits down and talks with techie/educator William Jackson.  William is the founder of the the site http://myquesttoteach.wordpress.com.  He is a teacher and a frequent blogger and speaker. Follow William on Twitter: @wmjackso

In this episode Greg sits down with Daphne Larose, a software developer out of Lexington, KY.  Daphne is the founder of the Black Female Coders website a site that serves as an outlet for other black female coders to connect, share advice, experiences  and pearls of wisdom. In this episode we talk about some of Daphne's tech background, some of the challenges she faced while obtaining her Masters in Computer Science, her early influences and the future of Black Female Coders.  We touch on her present foray into the C programming language as well as some great advice for programming newbies, including books on algorithms and data structures and excellent sites for learning about programming. Websites mentioned in show: www.pythonchallenge.com www.projecteuler.com Books mentioned: Algorithm Design Manual Follow Daphne at: @blackfemcoders @lifeissweetgoo