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Dallas SWE FY19 Leadership – Call for Nominations

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FY18 Leadership Team

It’s that time of year again: we are gearing up to elect a new team of Dallas SWE Leaders! SWE is a great place to learn new leadership skills, give back to your community, and build a network of engineering professionals and friends! Per our section bylaws, elected officers must be voting members of Dallas SWE in good standing with the Society.

Officers are expected to attend monthly 1-hour executive council meetings, usually conference calls on a weekday evening. The schedule for the year is agreed-upon by officers each year. At the start of each fiscal year, a day-long officer transition meeting is held to share lessons learned from outgoing officers to incoming officers and bring everyone up to speed on Dallas SWE happenings. We have a wealth of experience to help you succeed in your leadership role and won’t leave you hanging!

See an important message from our FY18 Nominating Committee below!

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Dallas SWE is currently seeking nominations for officers to serve for FY19, beginning July 1, 2018.

There are 7 positions available and self nominations are highly encouraged! We need nominations for the following 1-year term positions: President, Executive Vice President, Vice President of Membership, Vice President of Outreach, and Secretary. There are also 2 positions opening for our Investment Committee which are 3-year terms. Formal responsibilities can be found in our section bylaws. You can also view practical descriptions and estimated time commitments of our assigned activities on our website here. Please e-mail any questions to shelleylstracener@gmail.com.

Please e-mail nominations to shelleylstracener@gmail.com by  Friday, April 6th at 11:59pm.

Thank you!
Dallas SWE FY19 Nominating Committee
Shelley Stracener(Chair), Amber Scheurer, Thi Dao

Please read below the cut for open position descriptions.

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Event Recap: Social Hour – Union Bear

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Thanks to everyone who made it to our social hour at Union Bear on February 22nd. It was a successful turnout with many new and familiar faces, despite the heavy rain and gloomy weather. Our Dallas SWE members checked out Plano’s first brewery at The Boardwalk. We kicked back and enjoyed elevated food and drink pairings while networking and socializing among great company. If you missed this event, please check out upcoming professional development and social events on our calendar!

Thanks to Thi Dao for organizing!

“Equal Means Equal” Documentary Film Screening

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SMU’s Women and LGBT Center and the American Association of University Women (Farmers Branch Carrollton)
will host a screening of the 2016 documentary film, Equal Means Equal, directed and narrated by
Kamala Lopez. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion. We’ve been invited to attend the screening in support of the movement to have the Equal Rights Amendment ratified in 38 states so that it can become an amendment to the Constitution. Please join us!

When: Thursday, March 29th, 7:00pm – 9:30pm

Where: SMU Hughes-Trigg Student Center, 3140 Dyer St, Dallas, TX 75205

Directions and Parking: https://www.smu.edu/AboutSMU/Maps/

There is no Eventbrite registration for this. Just come on out if you are interested. See you there!

March 15 Professional Development Meeting

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Join Dallas SWE for our March Professional Development Event

As tech women, salary negotiation is an essential skill, but negotiating isn’t always so easy. Imposter syndrome, fear, and unconscious bias are real adversaries that can get in your way to a successful negotiation and earning what you deserve. The good news is that negotiation is a skill that can be learned. Come learn how Founder of DevelopHer, Lauren Hasson, tripled her base salary in less than two years by grounding herself in data and asking critical questions to uncover key leverage points and ultimately learned to negotiate with confidence.

About the Speaker: Lauren Hasson is the Founder of DevelopHer, a career development platform for tech women by tech women, and a practicing software engineer at a prominent Bay Area fintech company where she’s building their iOS SDK and working in information security. Her work has been featured in Apple keynotes, she was one of 100 top innovators invited to attend the UK G8 Innovation and Decide Now Act Summits with the United Nation’s technology council, and she’s won multiple, high-profile hackathons. She holds a degree from Duke where she completed a triple major with honors in electrical engineering, computer science, and economics in just four years. As the Founder of DevelopHer, she’s a champion for tech women and a mentor to fellow female engineers which is why she founded DevelopHer – to help tech women develop and advance their careers. Her podcast, The DevelopHer Show, is now available at www.DevelopHer.com and features leading tech women speaking candidly about their careers and lessons learned.

This meeting is open to all (men and women, SWE members and non-members alike), and children are also welcome (use your discretion, child care is not provided). Food will be available for purchase by the individual.

When: Thursday, March 15, 2018 6:00-8:00pm

Where: Coffee House Cafe, 6150 Frankford Rd, Dallas, TX 75252

Cost: FREE to SWE Members (as are all SWE Advance Learning Webinars!), $5 for non-members and guests

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Event Recap: College to Careers Conference

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On Saturday February 24, Dallas SWE, NSBE DFW, and SHPE DFW invited 60 students from Dallas / Fort Worth area colleges and universities to enjoy a free day of professional development speakers, a panel of representatives from all three organizations, and get their resume reviewed by working professionals. While the rainy weather impacted our student attendance rate, the folks who did show up enjoyed learning about how to overcome obstacles, personal branding, entrepreneurship, emotional intelligence, and how to make the most of their early career years! We find our partnerships with NSBE and SHPE to be very valuable and the students appreciate seeing us work together to affect common goals.

Thanks to our amazing volunteers and speakers: stay tuned for information on next year’s event!

Call for FY18 Nominating Committee Members

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As we enter the latter portion of our fiscal year, it’s time to assemble our Nominating Committee to help prepare the FY19 Officer Ballot. This is an important but time-limited service to our section and to SWE that has only a few requirements per our bylaws:

  1. You must be a a voting member of the Society and not be a candidate in the FY19 Officer election.
  2. Starting toward the end of March, the Committee shall evaluate nominations and present at least one candidate for each office to be included on the ballot. For FY19 we will be electing a President, Executive Vice President, VP of Membership, VP of Outreach, Secretary, and two members of our Investment Committee to serve terms starting July 1, 2018. Our current Treasurer’s 2-year term continues through June 30, 2019, and the Section Representative position is no longer necessary due to the dissolution of Regions vote that occurred at the WE17 Senate meeting.
  3. The above work must conclude and the candidate slate be presented to the section by April 15.
  4. The Nomination Committee shall present the ballot to the section and serve as tellers of the election, presenting the results at the end of voting.

We are looking for members to serve on the SWE Dallas nominating committee for FY 19 positions.  Each member must not be running for any of the open positions to serve on the committee. If you are interested in serving in this capacity, please contact contact Uche Maple@ uchea@hotmail.com by March 9, 2018. Thanks for giving back to Dallas SWE!

If you are interested in running for any of the elected positions listed above, stay tuned for FY19 Officers call for interest and check out our Officer Role Description document.

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