CircuitSwan

Nicole Schwartz (a.k.a. CircuitSwan) speaks about DevSecOps, Agile, Diversity & Inclusion, and Women in Technology.

She is currently the Product Manager for GitLab's Secure Composition Analysis team, the deputy Chief Operating Officer in charge of Pre-Event Planning for The Diana Initiative and one of the organizers for the SkyTalks village at DEF CON.

She was formerly a Scrum Master and Agile Coach for GEICO, Technical Product Manager at Rackspace for the Rackspace Public Cloud Control Panel (2011-2017), owner of The Devotea USA tea company, member of the board for Hacksburg (a local non-profit makerspace), and teacher for Let's Code Blacksburg and Hacksburg.

She holds a Master of Science in Information Technology from Clarkson University.

Her former handle was AmazonV.

Upcoming Events:

• • Epic Nerd Camp

  • AOIR

  • AnitaB Grace Hopper Celebration GHC

  • BSides Edmonton

Most active projects

• https://www.dianainitiative.org/ Deputy Chief Operating Officer in charge of Pre-Event Planning - Staff

• https://circuitswanandrenderman.com Wedding - you are invited

• http://hackersummercamp.guide/

• Tips for running an event or conference - https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/111BDPHFr7pY9PM8jz8PU-RHnvEen6ls5

  • start here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/12OCiiWRVf6r08SuI3T4Djm98GwkfzlvhjYNpS225x3M/edit

• Common Links

  • Death and Digital Death https://sites.google.com/site/amazonv/on-death?authuser=0

  • CFP tips https://sites.google.com/site/amazonv/conference-call-for-papers-cfp-tips?authuser=0

  • First time speaker tips https://sites.google.com/site/amazonv/first-time-speaker?authuser=0

  • First conference tips https://sites.google.com/site/amazonv/first-conference?authuser=0

    • yolo phone https://sites.google.com/site/amazonv/first-conference/yolo-phone?authuser=0

  • http://github.com/nicoleschwartz

    • Food https://github.com/NicoleSchwartz/Food

    • Homebrew https://github.com/NicoleSchwartz/HomeBrewing

    • Learning to code / hack https://github.com/NicoleSchwartz/Learning-to-code-resources

  • https://gitlab.com/CircuitSwan/Resource-Links

  • Product Management Resources

• Reading on Diversity

  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XOC3xy-gdy4HWrnRQdFG6c__BSiyckzCe9FDEieJVp4/edit

  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lth7gPfg2LA8ICVFlvYphq6kLSeMSf6iEXZ1T16ah1Y/edit#gid=0

Need to restart projects

• Tea blog https://amazonv.blogspot.com/

• About my getting Canadian Permanent Residency https://amazonv.dreamwidth.org/tag/permanent+residency

• Burnout https://amazonv.dreamwidth.org/tag/burnout

Communities

• Run Hacker Cons Slack - One Slack, with one channel per conference with the goal to reduce slacks (it's not helping/working)

• WAN-Party Discord (Women and Non-Binary)

• ACNH Techies Discord

Currently on hold projects

• Hacker Foodies dinners

• Hacker Swan events

• https://hackerconticketexchange.com #HackerConTicketExchange