With over 10 years of experience on the Salesforce platform, Sarah Khalid leads developmental and architectural projects as the Salesforce Technical Architect role for MedPro Group while supporting other developers as a community leader. 

Al Chen is a Solutions Architect for Coda with the primary responsibilities of helping users and enterprise companies build tools to streamline data, learn about the solutions Coda provides and become empowered to improve upon their existing workflows.

Dahlia’s routine varies drastically, with no two days alike! She reports to Russell Newman (Lead Engineer for Vehicle Engineering) and works alongside colleague Kamran (Mechanical Design Engineer.) Dahlia’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to, designing structural components, prototyping parts, writing and debugging flight test instrumentation code, communicating with vendors and suppliers on parts she’s designed and preparing and analyzing flight test data. At Ampaire, Dahlia and her team work towards pioneering innovations in electric flight, and given the small but highly efficient staff, she has crucial responsibilities across everything involved with their planes.

Cory founded Ampaire Inc. to lead the industry towards electrifying aviation. In his founding role and as the Chief Technology Officer, Cory routinely communicates with suppliers, potential customers and people in various countries interested in his work. He leads technical growth within Ampaire, develops company patents and performs extensive R&D efforts. 

As a Brand Executive for Wieden + Kennedy’s Nike account, Anthony is responsible for managing all internal and external communication between his own team and clients including creative, production, business affairs, traffic and media. He also manages and produces campaign deliverables of broadcast spots, digital and social content and quick-strike executions while facilitating the completion of all project concepts. 

While looking at the Brand Executive role, an all-encompassing description is a point guard. As an advocate for the internal teams and the external client, the brand executive “controls the ball,” orchestrating the dynamic and tempo for what goes in, what goes on and what goes out. With collaborative input from the team, the brand executive is then responsible for facilitating productive conversations between all parties involved and contributing to endgame project efforts. The person in this role builds strong relationships to establish trust, while delivering quality work with the team’s reputation attached. A brand executive discovers the root of problems and vocalizes solutions to move forward, all towards the best overall project outcome.

As a Component Engineer, Tyrone helps qualify EEE (electrical, electronic, and electromechanical) devices by developing qualification plans, creating and revising component specifications, reviewing reports, and evaluating board-approved qualifications. In addition, Tyrone could focus on leveraging failure mechanisms and screening and qualification tests to analyze passive and interconnect devices to help complete the NSPAR, which stands for Non-Standard Part Approval Request, to determine part usage. Fostering relationships is a vital part of the job as well where Tyrone will partner with supply chain leaders that interface with suppliers and subcontractors as well as providing strategic counsel and advice to part designers.

However, Tyrone is a big believer in the notion that his full-time job is not the only aspect of his identity—what matters to Tyrone is his character and his integrity and how it relates to helping lift others up. That’s where his motivational persona, Mr. Positive Vibes, came to fruition. Tyrone started it on a whim to help spread the positive vibes he internalized to help lead others to their greatness and is exploring speaking opportunities as they arise.

A big part of leading those to their greatness is empowering people in ways to recognize their skills and interests, ditch the imposter syndrome and create a sense of community—enter the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). Tyrone’s membership to this organization helped him open doors he never thought would have been opened and land opportunities that led him to his full-time job at Boeing today.

In the spirit of “paying-it-forward,” Tyrone is still involved with the organization today as NSBE’s Region VI Professionals Chair-Elect and a Boeing NBSE Recruitment Lead for Southern California.

As the Chief Digital Officer for BlockChainDriven, Art focuses on educating clients across vast industries such as Accounting, Healthcare, Logistics and Cyber Security, on the solutions their technology can provide and how companies can position themselves in the blockchain space. He also manages the marketing efforts and branding direction at BlockchainDriven while facilitating ongoing media and conference planning to highlight the company’s blockchain projects and the developing technology. 

Art values the know-how of digital marketing to be one of the most beneficial skills to master right now. Digital marketing utilizes the digital space to sell, develop new concepts, enter new markets, connect with people and educate the public. 

Thinking is different now. Communication to consumers is unique but still siloed to knowing how to get there via marketing.

Greg Wiseman utilizes his extensive research and development experience to analyze challenges and come up with solutions for established and up-and-coming food and beverage companies. He specializes in product development, commercialization, intellectual property strategy and product management.