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WITI Women | Nora Denzel

WITI Women Survey Questions and Responses:

1. What was your first job in technology?

If you mean any type of technology, my very first job was as the audio/visual person in junior high and high school. I repaired film strips, ran the movie projectors, and did any technology-related tasks that were needed in the class room. My first paying job involving computers was when I was a programmer for IBM during college.

2. Who has been your most significant mentor? Why?
That is a hard question. I try to learn something from everyone I meet or work with. I've been very lucky in that I've worked with scores of very smart people who were willing to impart their wisdom to me. One particular vice president at IBM, where I spent 13 years of my career, was instrumental in teaching me about business and running large organizations.

3. What has been your greatest challenge and what strategies did you use to overcome obstacles?
In my professional life, my greatest challenge has been to chart a career path where there haven't been a lot of role models to follow. My strategy has been to try to keep each choice in line with my long-term career goals. I found this strategy minimized the impacts of any single decision that I felt may have been the wrong one at the time.

Nora Denzel 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?

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