FlexiLingo
Kellyn Gorman talks about building a career in tech : Databases, AI Advocacy, Mentoring, PDXWIT and more.
You can spend your whole career waiting to feel “ready,” or you can do what Kellen Gorman did: jump in, learn fast, and let results speak. Kellen is an engineer and advocate at Redgate Software with nearly three decades across databases, cloud, and AI, plus experience at Microsoft, Oracle, and Delphix. Her path into tech starts with a brutal curveball, recovering from five strokes and rebuilding her work life from the ground up, then turning the hardest, least popular tasks into standout opportunities. We get concrete about what career boldness looks like in practice: taking on the data...
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Hi there, my name is Mary Kill-Olea. Welcome to the Toobie Boulder podcast, providing career insights for the next generation of women in business and tech. Toobie Boulder was created out of my love for technology and marketing, my desire to
bring together like-minded women, and my hope to be a great role model and source of inspiration for my two girls and other young women like you. Encouraging you guys to show up and to be bolder and to know that anything you guys dream of, it's totally possible.
So sit back, relax, and enjoy the conversation. Thanks for tuning in. On this show, we talk about confidence, visibility, and building a meaningful career.
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