Activity

Podcasts, awards, communities and other works Jessica has been involved in.

Awards and Certificates

  • Microsoft Most Valuable Professional - Developer Technologies (2019 - present)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (2020 - 2023)
  • Finalist - Team Leader Award Category - FDM EVERYWOMAN AWARDS (2020)
  • CODEFIRST:Girls Ones To Watch (2018)
  • Winner of the Rising Star Category Women In IT Awards (2018)
  • Shortlisted for the WeAreTechWomen TechWomen50 Awards (2018)

    • Founder

  • Director and Co-Founder of DDD East Midlands (2019 - present)
  • Women In Tech, Nottingham (2015 -2017)

    • Volunteering

    Organisations

  • .NET Foundation Board Member (2022 - present)
  • .NET Nomination Committee (2020 - present)
  • Chair of .NET Foundation Membership Committee (2022 - present)
  • .NET Foundation Membership Committee (2019 - present)

    • Master of Ceremonies

    Dev Around the Sun (2020)

    Co-presented between talks with Jonathan Mills for 3 hours of Dev Around The Sun. this was a conference-come-telethon to raise money for Direct Reliefs Corona Virus Fund.

    Conference Crew

  • NDC Oslo - Norway (2017)
  • NDC London - UK (2017)

    • Event Organisation

    Meetups

  • The Tech Community wellbeing check-in (2023 - present)
  • .NET Nottingham Meetup (2020 - present)
  • Women In Tech, Nottingham (2015 - 2017)

    • Conference Organisation

  • DDD East Midlands Conference (2018 - present)

    • Agenda And Organisation Committees

  • NDC London Agenda Committee (2019 - present)
  • ProgNET (2019)

    • Other Event Organisation

  • Organised for members from Women In Tech Nottingham to take part in the local hackathon Hack24. (2017)
  • To celebrate International Women's Day and raise money for Code Club East Midlands, I arranged a cinema screening of Hidden Figures for the local community (2016)

    • Speaking Engagements

    Conferences

  • NDC London - UK - Controlling Wildfires While Only Getting Singed. (2020)
  • ProgNet London - UK - Introducing a Culture of Monitoring (2019)
  • New Adventures Conference - UK - The Future is Cross-functional (2019)
  • NDC Porto - UK - A Practical Guide To Dashboarding (2019)
  • NDC Copenhagen - UK - A Practical Guide To Dashboarding (2019)
  • NDC London - UK - A Practical Guide To Dashboarding (2019)
  • London .NET User Group - UK - A Practical Guide To Dashboarding (2018)
  • NDC Sydney - Australia - Creating & Maintaining Impactful Dashboards (2018)
  • NDC Minnesota - USA - Creating & Maintaining Impactful Dashboards (2018)
  • WXG - UK - Creating & Maintaining Impactful Dashboards (2018)
  • NDC London - UK - Who needs Dashboards? (2018)
  • Dot York - UK - Who needs Dashboards? (2018)
  • WITConf, University of Birmingham - UK - Be A Great Engineer (2015)

    • Meetups

  • .NET SouthWest - UK - Learning Leadership (2021)
  • Notts TechFast - UK - A .NET Christmas Carol (2020)
  • Notts TechFast - UK - Speaking In A Virtual World (2020)
  • .NET Oxford - UK - Systems Are Like A Jigsaw Puzzle (2020)
  • School Of Code - UK - Tripping Through Technology (2020)
  • Notts Dev Workshop - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2020)
  • Tech Fast - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2020)
  • Derby Developers - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2020)
  • NottJS - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2020)
  • Digital Lincoln - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2019)
  • Notts IoT - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2019)
  • Women In Tech Nottingham - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2019)
  • HACKSOC - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2018)
  • Dot Net Notts - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2018)
  • Derbyshire Dot Net - UK - How to Talk Really, Really Good (2018)
  • Hull Devs - UK - Who needs Dashboards? (2018)

    • Panel Discussions

  • MVPs Summit Imposter Syndrome: Panel (2023)
  • MVPs talking to Microsoft Employees about community: Panel (2022)
  • Led MVP Summit Code of Conduct Discussion Panel (2022)
  • Community Day - Session 4: MVP Programme + Community Panel (2022)
  • The Cloud Skills Show - Series 1 Episode 2 - Languages & Frameworks (2020)
  • The Cloud Skills Show - Series 2 Episode 2 - Hacktoberfest! (2020)
  • The Cloud Skills Show - Series 2 Episode 2 -.NET (2020)
  • ProgNET - UK - Have I Got .NET For You (comedy) (2019)
  • Trent Uni - UK - Women In STEM for International Women's Day (2018)
  • Lincs Tech Week - UK - The Future of Technology (2018)

    • Podcasts / Webcasts

  • Cloud Conversations Episode 49: Allyship, mentoring, & organising a conferences (2022)
  • Unhandled Exception Episode 32: Technical Leadership (2022)
  • Unhandled Exception Episode 6: The DDD Conferences (2020)
  • Side Hustle Success Podcast (2020)
  • .Net Rocks (2018)
  • Side Hustle Success Podcast (2018)

    • Outreach

    Mentoring

    Outside of work I mentor anywhere between 2 - 4 people. This normally consists of once a month coaching sessions but can be more or less regular depending on need

    Supporting Second Year Projects for The University of Nottingham (2018 - 2020)

    I project managed second-year projects for The University Of Nottingham. This involved coming up with the projects, coordinating with the university, organising workshops, managing the mentors of the project, making sure the work was on track and that both the company and students were getting the most out of the experience.

    Q&A Sessions & advocacy for School Of Code (2019 - present)

    School Of Code has been running since 2019 and for all cohorts of students I have ran an "untweetable truth" Q&A session. I am a huge supporter of this initiative and am very vocal about it on all social media.

    Careers Fairs at Local Secondary Schools (2017 - 2018)

    I have ran stalls at a couple of careers fairs promoting the local tech community and jobs to secondary school students.

    Publications

  • Featured in The Guardian Graduate Section (2018)