Terri’S BIO
Dr. Sage leads teams responsible for driving technology strategy and execution, from architectural and stack decisions to the vision, technology roadmap, schedules, delivery plans, budgets, and professional development. Her role encompasses building the next generation of visualization and analytics platforms—highly engaging, interactive, evidence-centered by design, infused with enabling technologies, and engineered for scale. Dr. Sage received her Doctorate degree in Organization Management from Capella, Minneapolis, MN; her Master's degree in Systems Engineering, and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. She brings over 30 years of progressive software development and team leadership experience in a variety of roles, industries and companies, such as Raytheon, SAIC, Informix, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Analytic Partners and most recently 1010data.
WITH GROUPS CREATING PROGRAMS TO ENCOURAGE FEMALES TO CONSIDER STEM, WHAT IS THE BIGGEST BARRIER TO ENTRY THAT IS STILL PREVALENT TODAY?
In my opinion, the biggest barrier to entry that women face is stereotyping at an early age, undermining the confidence of girls in science, technology, engineering, and math abilities. These early stereotypes shape career ambitions and girls opt out of STEM courses.
WHAT IS YOUR PROUDEST MOMENT/ACCOMPLISHMENT?
Proudest moment has been to have a positive impact on a young man from a low-income family and his decision to attend college, the first in his family to graduate from college with an engineering degree.