Audrey Hammonds on Women in Tech, COBOL, and the #SQLFamily




Data Driven show

Summary: In this episode, Frank and Andy catch up with Audrey Hammonds, the other half of the Data Chix duo.<br> Links<br> Sponsor: Audible.com - Get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial!<br> Sponsor: Enterprise Data &amp; Analytics<br> Notable Quotes<br> Frank's cold/allergies (1:00)<br> Andy is now Enterprise Data &amp; Analytics' Chief Data Engineer (2:00)<br> Frank wants to be more like Buck Woody (3:00)<br> Innovative Architects (3:50)<br> Hurricane Irma disrupted Data Driven! (5:00)<br> Data Chix (5:20)<br> Palm Beach Tech Association (5:45)<br> Audrey lives at the beach (8:00)<br> Audrey escaped COBOL... (9:50)<br> ... and learned Oracle in the Air Force (12:00)<br> On COBOL... (13:00)<br> Audrey studied Bio-Medical Engineering in college (14:30)<br> On building toys for children with prosthetics... (15:15)<br> "I'm right here!" - Andy (17:20)<br> On Andy's phone calls... (17:35)<br> "I've been trapped in here with me for decades, and I am not impressed." (21:45)<br> On Women if Tech... (23:00)<br> Being a woman in IT... "It's a double-edged sword" (25:20)<br> Microsoft Flow (27:00)<br> "If you don't like learning, this is a terrible field..." - Frank (28:15)<br> We are constantly learning... (29:00)<br> Weaponized hacking (30:00)<br> Shoutout to the Frank and Andy show about Elon Musk (32:40)<br> Data is the new oil (33:30)<br> Audrey is putting PowerBI in SPACE! (36:00)<br> Movie reference: Hackers (39:30)<br> Book Reference: Wheel of Time (40:30)<br> Book Reference: Paradox Bound (41:15)<br> Book Reference: Ready Player One (42:00)<br> Sci-fi television reference: Stargate (44:00)<br> Sci-fi television reference: Battlestar Gallactica (44:30)<br> Back to school for Audrey! (45:30)<br> Randy Dyess' first sci-fi book: First Contact: Spider Wars: Book 1 (49:00)<br> Mark Russinovich's book: Zero Day (50:00)<br> "I don't always know what I'm doing." (53:00)<br> "Be ready to fail many, many, many, many times before you get it right." (54:00)<br> #SqlFamily shoutout (56:45)