Are your tech teams ready to conquer the new year? Listen in to Part II of our Diversify & Disrupt series: Building Effective Tech Teams in 2021. In this 'Ask Me Anything' session, award-winning tech leaders Dr. Anita Jindal, Senior Director at VMware, and Jessica Sweeney, VP of Product at FINEOS, share their best leadership and management advice.
Prior to VMware, as Engineering leader at NetApp, she led strategy and execution of Active IQ product. Anita’s team developed data science, microservices, and API platforms using Big Data (Hadoop) and cloud technologies. Anita held various engineering leadership positions at Oracle and Sun. She worked as Resident Research Associate at Argonne National Lab, researching application of parallel computing to deduction systems, an area of AI. Anita has multiple software patents and publications. She holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
As a leader, Jessica has left a notable impact not only by navigating FINEOS through product transformation but on the industry as a whole by extending her expertise to the larger product transformation but on the industry as a whole by extending her expertise to the larger product community. Jessica’s impact is felt through her commitment to driving a culture of growth, empowerment, and innovation. Jessica won the 2020 Best Tech Manager Timmy Award in the Bay Area.