Karen Bruner A Service Engineer at Yahoo! If anyone has ever told me there was something I couldn't do because I was female, I apparently wasn't listening.
The SoCal WIT chapter kicked off a new year of events on January 26 with the WIT Winter Bash 2012, a multi-media event with wine, cheese, sweets, a look back at last year’s events and a look forward at what’s coming up this year. Co-Presidents Natalia Vinnick and Michelle Ghoukasian gave a slideshow overview of [...]
Yahoo! has been hosting company-wide Hackdays two or three times a year now for several years, and while Yahoos in the Southern California offices were welcome to work on hacks, they didn’t have the support of an organized local event. That changed for Summer Hackday 2011. The SoCal chapter of Yahoo!’s Women in Tech group, [...]
Yahoo! Women In Tech played a major role in Yahoo! Career Week 2011. As the only Employee Resource Group (ERG) with an active chapter in Southern California, WIT organized the events in the Burbank and Santa Monica offices, which took place the week of March 21-25, with sponsorship and help from Human Resources – the [...]
Raymie Stata, Yahoo!’s Chief Technology Officer, visited the Burbank office on March 24 as part of Career Week 2011 to discuss “The Future of Technology at Yahoo!.” Armed with slides and enthusiasm, he presented his vision of pushing Yahoo! to “bet on technology” for tackling the difficult problems that require innovative and cutting-edge solutions. While [...]
As part of Career Week 2011, Susan Burnett, SVP of Talent & Organization Development, visited the Burbank office on March 22 to discuss “Navigating the Career Maze.” To help illustrate how careers can develop through a combination of planning and of chance, Susan interviewed Sarah Hughes, VP, Program Management for the Yahoo! & Microsoft Search [...]
