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KalamazooX 2015 recap

March 21, 2015 by Hilary

I put together my tweets and thoughts of KalamazooX 2015 on Storify here: https://storify.com/g33klady/kalamazoox-2015-recap

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Introversion, social anxiety, and conferences

January 18, 2015 by Hilary

Just a warning that this is gonna get pretty honest and open about my introversion and depression. I’ve touched a bit on my social anxiety before, but not like this. I’m an introvert. To some of you who’s only experience with me is on Twitter, this may come as a surprise. According to Meyers-Briggs, I’m …

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So much failure. So many lessons to learn.

January 4, 2015 by Hilary

As my CEO has said, it’s ok to fail as long as you learn from it. So I’m analyzing this gigantic failure to try to get as much knowledge from it as possible. I don’t want to fail this hard again… Let me start from the beginning of this wonderful lesson. I was asked to …

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Same place, new adventures

December 11, 2014 by Hilary

Note: I’m not going to address the “QA” terminology thing here – we call our software testers “QA” where I work, but this isn’t about that. Sorry – we can talk about it later 😀 On Tuesday, I started my first day in my new position as an “SQA Architect” at Quicken Loans – moving …

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Why user groups and networking are important

June 28, 2014 by Hilary

Starting a user group is probably the biggest challenge I’ve taken upon myself in a long time. Getting sponsorship and paying for it, finding a place to have it and an amazing speaker – that’s been the easy part. The hard part is creating that community. Getting people to understand that a few hours after …

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On being a (not so newbie) speaker

June 21, 2014 by Hilary

A few months ago, I received an email from someone that attended my very first conference talk, at QA or the Highway in February. They were from $Company, and lead a QA team there. They thought that my talk would be great for their team to hear, and asked that I come to speak to …

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Testers meet up in Detroit – let’s do this!

June 17, 2014 by Hilary

Hey all – let’s get this going. If you’re interested in speaking – either full session, leading a workshop, or doing a lightning talk, let me know. I’ll get started on the location, day and time. I’d like to do this monthly! W00t w00t let’s do this!   ETA: Here’s the meetup group! http://www.meetup.com/Motor-City-Software-Testers/

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Tester Drinkup in Columbus 6/15

June 4, 2014 by Hilary

Hi folks! I’ll be in Columbus speaking at Nationwide and Per Scholas on 6/16, but I’ll be getting into town 6/15 so let’s have a Testers Drinkup! Suggestions on a place? I’m staying in Dublin, so near there would be preferable… What: Testers Drinkup When: 6/15 8pm Where: some bar near Columbus, OH Why: to …

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2013 Year in Review

December 27, 2013 by Hilary

Last year I wrote up a post with my 2013 goals and resolutions. I wanted to review what I had actually done, so here we are! Achieve a better work/life balance. This will be the most difficult of all of my goals… With my new job, I think I’ve gotten this a bit more under …

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Care and Feeding of Needful Conference Goers

December 16, 2013 by Hilary

I’ve been asked a number of times by conference organizers for some help with feeding gluten free folks. So I decided to write up a few helpful tips – if you have any questions or need some consulting, let me know – I’m always happy to help make those with dietary restrictions enjoy conferences just …

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