WITI Women Survey Questions and Responses:

1. What was your first job in technology?
I was a software engineer for Datagraf, where I developed low-level data communications software and device drivers.

2. Who has been your most significant mentor? Why?
Jim Crow, my boss from Datagraf, taught me all I needed to know about programming.

3. What has been your greatest challenge and what strategies did you use to overcome obstacles?
Surviving the Computer Science department at UT. I simply told myself that I could do it and refused to give up. I also ignored the counselors who told me I was taking on too difficult a course load.

Becky Cavanaugh answers these questions:
1. What was your first job in technology?
2. Who has been your most significant mentor? Why?
3. What has been your greatest challenge and what strategies did you use to overcome obstacles?
4. Who has been the most influential person in your life? Why?
5. What lessons have you learned that would be valuable to women beginning their careers in technology?
6. What new technology do you believe will have the most positive impact on the world in the next 20 years? The most negative impact?

On the lighter side:
1. If you could have dinner with any 2 people (living or not), who would they be?
2. What was the last book you read? What books do you love to recommend?
3. If you couldn't do what you are doing now, what profession would you choose?
4. What is your definition of success?