Town Hall Videos

On September 13th, we chatted with Danielle (Dani) Storlie, Senior Director of Design at Procore Technologies, a construction management software company. Dani has worked for more than a decade in software design, including at Sonos and Deloitte Digital, and consulted for early-stage startup and fortune 500 brands while at Deloitte such as Target, Amazon, and FoxSports.

Phase III starts August 23 and continues to October 23. We’ll review all the aspects of the program and how you can get the most from your last 2 months of our program.

As most teams have completed their Phase II work, we are entering a new phase of our program. We will talk about what we hope to accomplish in preparing you for successful job interviews, and scheduling 1:1 assessment meetings for everyone.

As we entered the ninth week of the Project Phase of our program, our 18th Town Hall featured two leaders in software at Sonos, Inc: Andrew Kwatinetz, Director of Software Product, and Eric Patey, Senior Director.

On July 12th, we spoke with Mike Coleman who works for Google Cloud as a developer advocate where he’s focused on helping to inspire people to do amazing things with Google Cloud’s technology.

On Monday June 28th, we invited Tony Wright, CEO, entrepreneur and UI/UX designer to speak at our Town Hall. Tony, CEO of Rescue Time, has a long career as an entrepreneur, founding numerous startups, including through the famed Y-Combinator startup incubator.

Join us for our 15th Town Hall meeting of the 2021 class of Reskill Americans. Join, Mike, Seyi, Juwon for an update on the program so far. We will be also taking questions, feedback and suggestions from participants.

On Monday, June 14th, we hosted our 14th Town Hall with Laurent Pierre, General Manager of Customer Experience, Engineering Support (CXP) for Microsoft Azure. Laurent shared his background, the positions that his department is hiring for, the opportunities for candidates that have nontraditional (non-tech) backgrounds, and advice for how to grow your career in tech.

On Monday, June 7th, as participants started the Project Phase (Phase II) of our program, we hosted our 13th Town Hall with SoftwareONE employees Nina Unger, Talent Acquisition Partner, and Bill Winans, Regional Director.

On Monday, May 24th, as participants started their 11th week of course instruction, we hosted our 12th Town Hall with guest speaker Kedasha Kerr, a Design Systems Engineer at a large insurance company.

On Monday, May 17th, as participants started their tenth week of course instruction, we hosted our 11th Town Hall with guest speaker Dev Nambi, Principal Data Engineer at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (@fredhutch).

On Monday, May 10th, as participants started their ninth week of course instruction, we hosted our 10th Town Hall with Eric Johnson, Director of Innovation at Bright Machines, which is an industrial automation start up that’s building the digital infrastructure for modern manufacturing.

On Monday, May 3rd, as participants started their eighth week of course instruction, we hosted our ninth Town Hall with Columbus Steward, a principal software engineer manager at Microsoft who was looking to hire a software developer to join his ten-person team.

On Monday, April 26th, as participants started their seventh week of course instruction, we hosted our eighth Town Hall with two software engineers who work in technology groups at BlackRock, Inc.

On Monday, April 19th as participants started their sixth week of course instruction, we hosted our seventh Town Hall with guest speaker Deborah Russell, from the Workforce Investment Council, a national governmental organization that provides people with job resources to help them enter the workforce.

On Monday, April 12th as nearly 1,000 participants started their fifth week of course instruction, we hosted our sixth Town Hall with guest speaker David Ortiz, CEO and Founder of SimWin Sports, which develops groundbreaking experiences at the intersection of fantasy sports, sports betting, and E-sports.

On Monday, April 5th, we hosted our fifth Town Hall which featured our guest speaker, Nick Curry, Head of Military Initiatives, Technical Apprenticeships, and Diversity Internships at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

On Monday, March 29th, we hosted our weekly fourth Town Hall for participants in our software development training program. Participants just completed their first week of learning about the program and so we dedicated the entire session to taking questions from them.

On Monday, March 22nd, we launched the first week of learning for our software development training program: participants made a decision about which track they would select, and began their journey installing their development environment and completing their first assignments.

On Monday, March 15th, we officially launched our software development training program: a week-long orientation where participants were introduced to the details of each track (Front-End, Back-end, Mobile, and User Experience & Design).

On Monday, March 8th, we hosted our very first Town Hall for our inaugural software development training program, with more than 400 participants following the Livestream on YouTube from around the country.