Amanda Deol Dhillon

Biography:

Aman (Amanda) Deol Dhillon is a dedicated Humanitarian and a Member of IEEE SIGHT. She is an experienced professional with over 14 years of accumulated expertise in her field. Amanda has successfully established herself in the marketplace by adopting a consultative approach to acquiring clients and has played a significant role in positioning her company as a leader in the market. Amanda is adept at effectively communicating the brand message and demonstrating thought leadership to enhance brand awareness. All the while, Amanda keeps focus on her devotion to inclusion and accessibility. From her early days with the IEEE SIGHT Group, is was clear she is a leader; she brings significant skills, insights, and experience to the IEEE Humanitarian Technologies community.
Recently, she embarked on a new journey at Valiantys following the acquisition of Addteq's consulting business. Throughout her career, Amanda has collaborated closely with organizations of various sizes, overcoming challenges and placing a special emphasis on software development. She was a Co-founder & SVP at her previous position where her focus was to build a great company culture via leadership roles and maximize the impact in the community. Aman has spent the last several years talking to companies of all shapes and sizes about the challenges of collaboration and building great software. Prior to Addteq, she spent 5 years working as a Clinical EMR Analyst for various hospitals, designing and building EMR applications. Recently, she was appointed as an Advisory Board Member for the Seton Hall University Stillman School of Business' Customer Experience program. From Aman's own upbringing and inspired by her husband's humble upbringing they both founded their own organization's impact brand Iris Foundation. Iris Foundation was to help provide scholarships to students who are capable of becoming engineers but, not privileged enough to pay for the school fees. She also enjoys being a Pledge 1% ambassador and supporter of Room 2 Read. When she's not working or speaking with clients and partners, she enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter, as well as cooking, and participating in Hot Yoga & Zumba. 

Amanda’s experience is as a global professional delivering software solutions for mid-Level to enterprise clients. Her work brings her from the United States to India, Singapore, and other international locations. Her work brought about an app for the visually impaired that provides accessibility and allows spreadsheets to be fully functional within various platforms. It offers flexible options for enabling collaboration in a private and secure manner for on-premise and cloud instances. Her goal is to keep the world working not only during the recent COVID-19 global pandemic, but beyond.

Something the COVID-19 pandemic brought to light was how the lack of web accessibility is affecting people with disabilities, especially those who use assistive technology. Organizations and government entities all over the world are beginning to understand the importance inclusion, and the importance of being compliant and providing accessible websites, tools, and apps. 

Amanda recognized the need for IEEE Standards in this area and working with the IEEE Dignity, Identity, Inclusion, Trust, and Agency (DIITA) organization, she established a new IEEE Standards PAR 2998: This recommended practice provides a consistent method to enable web content and web applications to be accessible for people with disabilities, including blindness and visual impairment by enabling text to speech, captioning of images and auto-detection of user accessibility limitations that may exist.