Cloud evangelist
Teresa Carlson, global head of Amazon Web Services' public sector practice, waxes lyrical about government-run cloud services, and is out to build a Women in Tech movement.
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ONE interesting aspect of technology usage and understanding in this millennium is that it has outgrown the late 1990s' stereotype of something that only smart but nerdy folks, wearing big black glasses and perhaps having questionable personal hygiene, were immersed in. The typical popular culture (via Hollywood) typecast of the IT expert was invariably male, a bit of a social outcast and very geeky in both language and mannerisms.
Fast forward today and tech has become mainstream and all manner of interesting (but still brainy) people of both genders are practitioners and leaders in the field. A good example is Teresa Carlson, the Worldwide Public Sector vice- president of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The immaculately dressed Ms Carlson, who is trained as a speech and language pathologist, has built up AWS' global public sector practice from scratch, talking with governments across the world and listening to their requirements and often retooling AWS' own work processes in order to provide the necessary services.
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