WIE Leadership Panel Discussion: "Igniting Your Passion For Work As A Leader"
The goal of the Leadership panel Discussion is to ignite Leaders' passion to lead at work and in voluntary organizations. The objective of the Panel Discussion is to groom members and potential members to lead effectively in leadership roles in the organization and in voluntary organizations. The confirmed panelists will be an inclusion of both male and females. Panelist are IEEE 2020 President Elect: Susan 'Kathy' Land, Mary Ellen Randall: President Ascot Technologies Honourable Fayval Williams, MP and Minister of Science Energy and technology in Jamaica, Dr. Paul Aiken: Former Dean University of the West Indies Mona Faculty of Engineering and CEO of Mona Tech, Jamaica. The proposed audience will be from Academia, Corporate, Government, Young Professional and students from University and High Schools.
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- Date: 06 Nov 2019
- Time: 10:00 PM UTC to 12:00 AM UTC
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- Lecture Theatre 50,
- University of Technology, Jamaica
- Kingston, Kingston
- Jamaica
- Building: Shared Facility Building
- Room Number: Lecture Theatre 50
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- Co-sponsored by Sharlene Brown
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Susan "Kathy" Land of IEEE President Elect 2020
Igniting Your Passion For Work As A Leader
Leadership Panel Discussion
Biography:
As a Program Manager for a United States Federal Government agency. Ms. Land is the 2020 IEEE President Elect and has served three terms on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Board of Directors. She served as a member of the IEEE-USA Board of Directors (2013, 2016), as a member of Region 3 Executive Committee (2016, 2017), was President of the IEEE Computer Society in 2009. She has more than 25 years of industry experience in the application of software engineering methodologies, the management of information systems, and leadership of software development teams.
Ms. Land is an IEEE Fellow and is the author or co-author of a number of texts, papers, webinars all supporting sound software engineering principles and practical application of software process methodologies.
Mary Ellen Randall of Ascot Technologies Inc.
Igniting Your Passion For Work As A Leader
Leadership Panel Discussion
Biography:
Mary Ellen Randall is founder and CEO of Ascot Technologies, Inc., a company which develops application software for cell phones, wireless devices and the web, including iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Palm and Windows Mobile. Previously, Ms. Randall spent 22 years with IBM, including an international assignment in Montreal, Canada. Ms. Randall held a variety of management and technical positions in software development, hardware development, digital video, client/server services, system test, new product introduction, and routinely managed projects on an international scale.
Ms. Randall is a Fellow of IEEE, past Vice President of Member and Geographic Activities-2017, Chairs the IEEE-USA MOVE program, previously served as IEEE Director 2014-2015,2017 chaired the IEEE-USA Awards Board, served as IEEE Region 3 Awards and Recognition Chair, IEEE Region 3 Women In Engineering (world-wide) Committee Chair(2005-2006), IEEE Women In Engineering Committee Member (2007-2009), Board Chair for the Women’s Institute, IEEE Eastern NC Section Chair (2004) and past President of the Businessand Professional Women of Raleigh.
She was named one of 25 top Women In Business in 2005 in the Research Triangle of North Carolina by the Triangle Business Journal and an Impact 100 Leader by Business Leader Magazine in 2003. Ms. Randall has a BA in Mathematics and an MS in Computer Science from Binghamton University.
Specialties: management if enterprise software development including mobile. Project Management. Software and Hardware Development. Software/Hardware Integration.