Encouraging Women in STEM
Sarah is Technical Director of Strategic Projects at Mavice, LLC, where she is responsible for technical delivery of key strategic projects with clients for simple, powerful, custom software that solves complex, overwhelmingly massive data, asset and content management problems. She provides thought leadership and architecture direction of technical strategy. Sarah has a B.S.E. in Computer Engineering with a concentration in Software Engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MBA in Strategy and Marketing from The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Sarah was excited about science and engineering at a young age and she has worked to share that excitement, especially with disadvantaged persons, since she was in college. Joining SWE (Society of Women Engineers) in college, and volunteering for various outreach activities for elementary students and high schoolers, Sarah extended her outreach activities during her professional career as a Communications Co-Lead on the SWE national Outreach Committee. She has produced a podcast, Lady Paragons, that spotlighted the stories of women in STEM. She has been Scholarship Chair for SWE-Detroit and has served on the SWENext Programs Committee for SWE national. She has reviewed scholarships for SWE National, as well as National Engineers Week FutureCity Competition and has judged for US Nationals of the Invention Convention and the Metro Detroit Science & Engineering Fair. Sarah is currently VP of Professional Development for SWE-Detroit.