Hair to Tech
Hair to Tech
Jen Stone and Amber Pearson
One woman's journey from a decade-long career as a hair stylist into a technology field, with active mentoring from women working in information technology and cybersecurity.
10 - First Steps in InfoSec & Cyber Security Architect with Craig Olsen
This is our 10th episode, wooo!Craig is a Cyber Security Architect at Liberty Mutual. He's been with Liberty Mutual for 15 years, and doing security for 12 of those years. Craig was also an adjunct professor at Southern New Hampshire University teaching...
Oct 30, 2020
59 min
9 - Art Major to SDET with Pax Noyes
Pax has been in a QA role for about 6 years. She is a mother of 3 toddlers and majored in art in college. She doesn't consider herself a technical person by nature but worked her way up from the billing department at a web hosting company. Pax explains...
Oct 9, 2020
35 min
8 - Setting Boundaries & Web Development
Today we talk with Ronda Fisher who is an IT specialist for the US government, and has had her own web design and business branding agency for over 10 years. There is no question that her thorough understanding of back and front end makes her an...
Sep 18, 2020
24 min
7 - Creativity Translates to Computers
A lot has been discovered and changed since the beginning of this project. Amber was originally interested in pursuing web development and after exploring more options has decided to follow Jen down the path towards cyber security! If you're a creative...
Sep 14, 2020
31 min
6 - Key Logger Quiz & Systems Engineer with Michelle Ashby
Michelle is a Systems Engineer and has over 25 years experience in cyber security, infrastructure engineering, dev ops, and has lead many engineering teams. She loves and is fascinated by technology and has dabbled in many many areas.It turns out that...
Sep 4, 2020
44 min
5 - Over 10 Languages & Project Management with Lucretia May
Lucretia has been in IT for over 20 years. She is currently in a project management role over risk controls and compliance,  codes over 10 languages, has been in health care, education, and utilities, and earned her Masters in Project Management and PMP...
Aug 21, 2020
31 min
4 What are These Words and Software Engineering
We talk with Ayla who is a software engineer for Recurison. She is on their data engineering team and spends a lot of time working on cloud infrastructure and building data services. Jen and Ayla help Amber understand a few new tech words - Dev Ops,...
Aug 12, 2020
25 min
3 Chicken Linux and Pentesting
In Episode 3 Jen and Amber interview Holly Grace Williams. Holly has been in security for 13 years and is currently the technical director of Secarma, a cybersecurity consultancy firm specializing in penetration testing. She has a YouTube channel and...
Aug 11, 2020
15 min
2 Here I Am, Two Years Later
Amber and Jen discuss some education and training options. Also, hipster moments.Minor correction -- the degree was a Masters in Computer Information Systems, not cybersecurity, and I swear Jen wasn't drinking. Good grief.University of Utah:...
Jun 26, 2020
36 min
1 Women in Tech Have Magic
Amber starts her journey towards tech and Jen commits to finding women in technology fields to talk to Amber about what they do and how they got there. Here are the links to the articles we discuss on this episode:National Science Foundation: By age 6,...
Jun 11, 2020
30 min