Ada Lovelace Day: celebrating women in technology

To celebrate Ada Lovelace day, today, March 24, bloggers around the globe are celebrating by publishing posts about women in technology they admire.

I mulled this over for a long time, and I just couldn’t choose. So, I’m going to list off several women and how they have inspired me.

• Jennifer Baird of Accuri Cytometers and Sonetics Ultrasound. She models clear, effective leadership and has been hard at work creating local jobs and growing an international company here in Ann Arbor. More on Jen in an article on “Rebranding Michigan” on MLive.
  
• Helene Gidley, PMP of HSG Consulting, LLC. She is clear, thoughtful, organized, and direct. A leader and teacher of project management process. She’s also the founder of Agile Groupies on Ning.
• Lisamarie Babik, PMP of Menlo Innovations. She is has a strong, commanding presence, brooks no incompetence, and gets things DONE.

Apparently, Ada Lovelace was an early computer programmer – from the early 1800s…

• Ada’s biography
• More on the project at FindingAda.com