Journey to Jupiter: Discover the Life You'll Create26 Kesä 2020

The Journey of a Free Spirit in Tech: Meet April Thompson

April Thompson currently works as a technical trainer and program manager on the Well-Architected Team at Amazon Web Services where she helps customers build better architectures in the cloud.

Her 15-year career has spanned various engineering, sales, marketing and consulting roles as well as independent work in tourism and training. She is also a Certified Life Coach and, in her spare time, enjoys helping early and mid-career professionals make career transitions within marketing and technology.

In this episode, April discusses:

Why she ultimately decided not to continue on with her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (hint: to thrive you must really enjoy spending time in a laboratory)
How a chance meeting at the National Society of Black Engineers conference introduced her to a career in software sales
Challenges she experienced when trying to explore non-technical roles in tech and advice on how you can prevent being stuck in a box
How earning an engineering degree prepares you for non-technical jobs
Her experience being a woman of color in tech and defining her own executive presence

Connect with April!

Resources to Learn More About Cloud Computing

AWS Academy (for students still in college) - https://aws.amazon.com/training/awsacademy/

AWS re/Start (for those unemployed or underemployed) - https://aws.amazon.com/training/restart/

AWS Tech-U (for recent graduates with less than 2 years of experience) - https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/AWS-techu

AWS Free Tier Account - https://aws.amazon.com/free/

AWS Labs - https://aws.amazon.com/training/self-paced-labs/

AWS Training - https://pages.awscloud.com/digital-learning-training-certification.html

A Community for Aspiring Tech Talent:

Tech Stack'd at https://www.techstackd.com/

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