The Customer Services, Open Data and Small and Family Business Department (CDSB) has five trailblazing women on their team onboarded as UNIQ You Advisors, sharing their industry expertise and career journeys with high school girls. Through this partnership, CDSB and UNIQ You are showcasing the diverse and exciting opportunities available in the digital and technology sectors.
Read below to learn about these incredible women!
Katherine Hall
From an Event Assistant, to Strategic Change Manager, Katherine manages internal communications and guides the organisation through significant workplace changes.
Katherine’s role focuses on the ‘people’ side of change. It helps to ensure projects achieve their goals by preparing, equipping and supporting teams and individuals to adopt new ways of working.
Jessica Milschus
From taking a gap year to a Strategic Change Manager. When technology changes, Jessica makes sure people change with it.
The three key goals of a Jessica’s role are to:
1. Make sure staff know why the business is implementing this new system
2. What they need to learn or do to be able to use it
3. Finally, support them when they are using the new system even if it is difficult at first, to keep going and work through the problems
Jenny Whittaker
From an Admin Assistant to Project Manager, Jenny now manages software development projects, from concept to going live.
Jenny ensures project team members such as software architects, engineers, developers, business analysts, testers know what they need to be doing each day. She also helps solve any issues or ‘blockers’ preventing the project team from progressing their individual tasks.
Brooke Tooze
From a competitive dancer to a Data Scientist, Brooke now creates stories from data to enable better decision-making.
A Data Scientist is someone who works to make sense out of data to better understand the world around us. Brooke sits between data and people, relaying whatever information is in the data in a way that people can understand.
Natasha Page
From a Sales Assistant to Data Analytics Consultant, Natasha answers questions that people have about their data.
Natasha’s day might involve talking to clients or internal colleagues to work out exactly the question that needs answering, carrying out analysis, writing reports to explain what the data is saying, or presenting findings back to colleagues or clients.