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Upcoming Events for Computing Students
October 30, 2020
The Women in Computing (WIC) club is hosting a virtual talk with Eliza Ortiz from Dematic. Eliza has her undergraduate degree from the University of Utah in 2012. Eliza has worked for Dematic for almost 4 years. Dematic is a software design company based out of Atlanta, Georgia with more than 7,000 employees worldwide. Dematic has more than 6,000 systems installed specializing in low cost manual options to fully automated systems. You can hear more about Dematic and Eliza’s roles at the WIC virtual talk on Wednesday, November 4th from 6-8 p.m. on Zoom. More information and the Zoom link are on LakerLink.
GVSU Computing Club is hosting a virtual talk with Eric Maino from Microsoft. Eric is a GVSU alumni where he majored in Information Systems and graduated in 2005 with high honors. He worked as Student Ambassador to Microsoft while he was finishing his bachelor degree, which led him to working full-time at Microsoft after graduation. He has worked for Microsoft for just over 15 years and currently is the Principal Software Engineering Lead. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4th of 1975. Microsoft is a global technology company that designs, manufactures, supports, license and sells software, consumer electronics, and related technology services. Eric is the founder of the Eric Maino Community Technology Award here at GVSU. You should apply for his scholarship today. You can hear more about Eric’s journey from GVSU to Microsoft, how he travels around the world for work, and what is like to work for a tech giant like Microsoft on November 12th from 6-8 p.m. on Zoom. You can get more details including the Zoom link by emailing the GVSU Computing Club President, Justin Keller, at [email protected].