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Hi JavaScriptLA Orange County fans, We are pleased to announce our next meetup over at Zillow in Irvine.
For this talk we have the one and only Adrienne Tacke sharing some of the greatest stories of her current career journey. Accompanied by Annie Lau, Rana Ahmed and Tripp Meister from Zillow, We will be discussing diversity and inclusion and how to support women in tech.
The talk will start with short intros by our Zillow Panelists and a discussion on how to be an ally. What follows is a a talk about Adrienne’s career journey, roadblocks, how to effectively communicate with male colleagues from her hands on experience, how women in tech are seen.
Adrienne has agreed to share some of the most interesting stories of her career:
– Lessons learned in each position
– Ups and Downs of the journey
– Impostor Syndrome and how she dealt with it
Share experiences with:
– Effective communication with non-supportive male colleagues
– Speaking up at meetings, negotiations, and performance reviews
– Being proud of your achievements
– Being a woman in software engineering
Intro to Adrienne’s book Coding for Kids: Python
– Process writing it
– Book raffle
About the Presenter:
Adrienne Braganza Tacke is a Filipina software engineer and published author of the book Coding for Kids: Python. She takes great delight in solving complex problems and building awesome things, particularly with C# and JavaScript.
Most of all, she relishes the opportunity to teach anyone about code.
Links
Website: https://www.adrienne.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/adriennetacke
GitHub: https://github.com/adriennetacke
Instagram: https://instagram.com/adriennetacke/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriennetacke/
Or if you are into getting started with Python, here is a link to her Book:
https://www.amazon.com/Coding-Kids-Python-Awesome-Activities/dp/1641521759
Find out more about our past and upcoming meets at:
Vijay recently wrote a book on ES6, for anyone who’d like a guide to all the new syntax. You can get it for free if you are on Kindle Unlimited, and it’s $9.99 if you want to purchase it.
We also have a video course to go along with the book now available in a very SMALL & limited promotion, if you use the coupon code PREVIEW the course is $20.
https://hackbuddy.teachable.com/p/roadmap-to-es6/
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Location
Zillow
2600 Michelson Dr.
Suite 1100
Irvine, CA. 92612
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Please contact us at info@javascriptla.net if you would like to be our sponsor (provide drink, food, raffle gifts) in return for promotion / speaking time. You can also reach us on Slack for faster communications (please message @vijay or @marko).
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