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For Hispanic Heritage Month, #LatinaGeeks is spotlighting some of the many incredible women working in technology-related fields today. Today’s honoree is our very own #LatinaGeeks Los Angeles Chapter President, Samantha Huerta.

#LatinaGeeks, a nonprofit focused on increasing the number of Latinas in technology-related careers, aims to expand its reach into more cities after seeing exponential growth over the last two years.

#LatinaGeeks is proud to partner with Intuit to present an enriching virtual opportunity for Latinas to learn financial management using QuickBooks. Join this interactive workshop where self-employed, small business owners and entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to learn the essentials of bookkeeping, accounting for business and payroll using QuickBooks from experts at Intuit. In this workshop, you will have the option to choose from 3 breakout rooms: Room #1: Beginner room “Ask Me Anything” – Intended for those who have never touched QuickBooks and would like to learn the fundamentals. Room #2: Intermediate “Industry Uses” – Intended for those who work in Service, Real Estate, Products (e-commerce) industries. Room #3: Advanced “Established User” – Intended for those who have a good grasp of QuickBooks and would like to dig deeper. *You will be prompted to select your choice breakout room once checking out with a ‘General Admission’ ticket. Each room will have a QuickBooks expert leading the discussion and walking you through use case examples and best practices. As an attendee to the workshop, you will also be entered into a raffle for a chance to win a QuickBooks online one-year subscription! As an entrepreneur or someone who wants to develop their business skills, understanding QuickBooks or becoming certified allows a wider range of career opportunities, working in the Gig economy and or supporting small businesses to large organizations. Take your business skills into your own hands and join us for this enriching and exciting workshop! Recommendations and requirements: Must register via Eventbrite registration page. All registered #LatinaGeeks attendees will receive an email before the event with the link to access the event. Platform: Microsoft Teams (download the app if accessing through a mobile device) Recommended browsers: For the best experience, please use one of these browsers: Edge, New Chromium Edge, Chrome or Firefox. Recommended (not required): Test-drive QBO No technology experience needed. ** Meet our instructors: Gene Austin QuickBooks Live Manager & CEO – Tax Strategies Group Gene is a manager at Intuit’s QuickBooks Live Bookkeeping division where he supervises a team of certified bookkeepers that provide bookkeeping services for several hundred small to medium businesses throughout the United States. Prior to joining Intuit in 2019, Gene spent over three decades in a variety role on Wall Street and Main Street, including as a corporate lender to Fortune 1000 companies, as a financial regulator with both the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and as a licensed financial and investment advisor assisting individuals and small business owners in underserved communities. Gene also currently operates a private practice, Tax Strategies Group that is passionate about transforming the fortunes of minority and women-owned small businesses and non-profits through the use of its bookkeeping, accounting, payroll and business advisory services. Pam Bingham QuickBooks Live Manager, EA, MAFM Pam Bingham manages a team on Intuits Expert Network; QBLive Bookkeepers. The team focuses on SMBs; small to mid-sized businesses, managing their financial data; providing expert support in preparation of tax time. Owner of PB Tax and Accounting Services, holds a Master of Accounting and Financial Management (MAFM). […]

In this webinar, the #LatinaGeeks community learned that moving to the cloud allows businesses to achieve the benefits of digital transformation. This webinar also provided attendees with a background and understanding of the Azure platform…

#LatinaGeeks is proud to partner with Cox Communications to delve into the valuable knowledge of Web App Services within Cloud Computing. This will be part two of a 2-part series containing a workshop with an interactive Q&A.    Learn how to build and host web application with Azure App Service! With Azure App Service you are able to use the programming language of your choice and not have to worry about managing the infrastructure (i.e. hardware/operating system) your application runs on. In this workshop you will gain an understanding of hosting a web application with Azure, learn how to create a web app via the Azure portal, and explore tools that can be used to create and deploy your code.  *This is an intermediate-level session. Instructor from Microsoft  Recommendations and requirements: Must register via Eventbrite registration page.  All registered #LatinaGeeks attendees will receive an email before the event to join the link on the browser to access the webcast.  Recommended browsers: For the best experience, please use one of these browsers:  Edge, New Chromium Edge, Chrome or Firefox.  Prepare Your Environment: Do this step ahead of time it should take you 15 mins at most.  Git preinstalled.  IDE: Visual Studio, VS Code, or any other you feel comfortable with.  Azure Portal Account (It’s free to sign-up and you receive credit do this step a day or two before workshop).  No technology experience needed.  Sponsor  Cox Communications  Twitter: @coxcalifornia   FB/IG: @coxcommunications  Future Sponsorships  Are you interested in sponsoring a future workshop event or webinar? Please contact Lala Castro at lala@latinageeks.org or complete our corporate sponsor form here.  Want to support our #LatinaGeeks mission? Become a volunteer or donate to one of our causes.  About #LatinaGeeks Our mission is to empower and inspire Latinas by sharing technical knowledge, business skills, and entrepreneurship resources through hands-on workshops and community events. 

Company: Qualcomm Incorporated Job Area: Interns Group, Interns Group > Interim Intern Job Overview: Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age – and this is where you come in. Before there were smartphones or smart cities, before autonomous cars or 360 virtual reality videos, there was our technology. Headquartered in San Diego, for over 30 years Qualcomm inventions have inspired others to make the impossible, possible. From 5G to artificial intelligence, from IoT to automotive and extended reality applications, Qualcomm is inventing the technologies of an intelligently connected future, spearheading research efforts for the next global wireless standard, and collaborating with industry leaders in the wireless value chain to make this future a commercial reality. Qualcomm has numerous internships available in our Information Technology department. As an IT intern, you will work with a team of IT professionals and engineers to develop, implement and maintain various technologies for the organization. With a degree in computer science, engineering, or information technology, you will be able to contribute to some of the projects below. Below are examples of roles and technologies that you may work on during your internship: Framework roll out and tool implementation System-level integration issues Design and Integrate new features Project and program documentation Data analysis Network security Vendor management Testing, developing, and/or modifying applications Project management Server/System administration Technologies: OS: Android, Linux, Windows, Chrome, Native Platforms (RIM) Microsoft office suite: SharePoint, Outlook, Skype, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Project, etc. Enterprise service management tools Cloud computing services, such as AWS Version control, operational programs, such at Git/GitHub, Splunk, or Syslog Firewalls, VPN technologies, and proxy services Frameworks: Hadoop, Ruby on Rails, Grails Web Development: HTML5, JavaScript, AJAX, PHP, Python Application Development: Android Studio, Java, Objective C, MySQL and/or NoSQL, JSON Education Requirements: In study towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field. Must be available for 3 months during Summer 2021 (May-September) with a graduation date of December 2021 or later Spend your summer working in the future. Working at Qualcomm may be the closest you’ll get to experiencing time travel. You wont just work in a lab or write lines of code. Our interns join world-class teams to help define and build what is next for mobility and the world. You’ll be paired with a mentor with visibility to your project and team, receive support from your manager and have access to the entire Qualcomm employee community to ensure your success. In addition to competitive pay and accrued vacation time, you will receive full relocation coverage and furnished housing accommodations for the duration of your internship Well make sure you have fun outside of work with weekend surf lessons & beach days, networking opportunities with Qualcomm executives and professionals, company-wide mentorship program platform, overnight hackathon, community […]

Cloud Computing is an imperative skill to learn in today’s tech industry. In fact, 90% of companies are on the cloud. Experts say 60% of workloads are running on a hosted cloud service in 2019.