WITI Women Survey Questions and Responses:
1. What was your first job in technology?
My first job in technology was as a product manager in AT&T Computer Systems. Although we did not have the right model for the business, the experience gained by working with the designers and developers at Bell Labs is a great asset in my career.
2. Who has been your most significant mentor? Why?
My best friend who encouraged me to go college at night while I worked full-time. Without her encouragement and example, I would probably had not taken my BS and later my MBA and graduated with honors.
3. What has been your greatest challenge and what strategies did you use to overcome obstacles?
My greatest challenge was being new to technology and overcoming a few people's perceptions about what a young woman, Hispanic and with an accent was supposed to know or understand about technology. As a strategy, I just learned more than the doubters!
Loida Rosario 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?