Cynthia V. Marcello, DM is a tech solopreneur, software applications developer, data scientist, and business management consultant with 25 years of experience working with small-to-medium businesses, corporations, government, and educational agencies. She has developed data-driven applications for the Department of Defense (logistics), and numerous custom software applications (front-end and back-end) for operations and enterprise materials handling processes of corporations, and order-entry and production systems for online retailers. She also provides custom training in technology using her own curriculum. She is the founder and host of Data-Driven Divas, an online community designed to support women small business owners and managers seeking to enhance their data-driven decision-making skills. She has been a full-time professor of computer science for the past 14 years and currently teaches courses online part time.

A classic systems thinker and researcher of human and systems behaviors, Cynthia strives to empower others to understand the systems that impact the daily experience, so that technology can be aligned with and implemented, in a manner that is congruent with the business architecture and use cases of interest.

She holds a Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership with a specialization in Information Systems and Technology, a Master of Business Administration with a specialization in E-Business, and a Master of Science in Psychology with a specialization in Industrial-Organizational Psychology.

Software: R Studio, R Shiny, R Markdown, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Apache Netbeans, Tableau, PowerBI, PSPP, SPSS, NVivo, Pentaho, Anaconda

Programming Languages: R, Python, C++, C#, SQL (DDL and DML), Java

Specialty Skills: Database design, development and procedural administration, data analytics, business intelligence, machine learning, statistical analysis, and artificial intelligence model development.

David Czechowski has been a High School Technology Educator in the Hudson Valley for 15 years introducing and launching students into tech careers. He has had the opportunity to train teachers across the country and contribute to authoring the New York State Education Department's recent Computer Science and Digital Fluency Learning Standards for all K-12 students. Locally, he is a leader in the Mid-Hudson Valley Computer Science Teachers Association.

John Sturman has been working in and around software for more than 20 years as a technical writer, instructor, and project manager. He is a ScrumAlliance Certified Scrum Master and has used his knowledge to train his students in a variety of courses.

John has been teaching a popular project-based Computer Science course at RPI for more than 20 years to juniors, seniors and graduate students. John has also been teaching programming in a variety of settings including online and in-person classes to all ages, from elementary school to college-level to adults looking to change their career paths or just learn new technical skills.

As a life-long learner, John has never shied away from trying and learning new technologies and loves to share his learning process with everyone. John lives on an old dairy farm in the Catskills and keeps honeybees. When he is not playing with his computer (or his ukulele), he is often found skiing or boating. He is known by "Stay Calm and Play Ukulele!" - it means you can play ukulele together!

As a Software Engineer, who is also skilled in Frontend UX UI development as well as Backend development, Judith uses the most cutting edge front end technologies to create responsive web and mobile applications that perform optimally across all devices and in all browsers. Angular, React, Ionic, PHP, Node.js, Bootstrap, JavaScript HTML and CSS. She worked in agency environments, enterprise situations and with start-ups. She contributed to advertising campaigns, company websites, dashboards, ecommerce applications and various digital asset needs. utilizing HTML/HTML5, CSS (SASS, LESS, SCSS), Javascript, web services Ajax, REST and other resources.

"Experience with these tools is highly valuable; but I have learned that my foundation in programming has given me the skills I need to adapt to new software and new ideas in the technical and digital environment which changes every day.”