60 Seconds with WITS Virtual Summit Speaker — Nourma Bumgarner

Nourma Bumgarner is a Freelance Technologist. She is sharing her insights and experience as part of the WITS Virtual Summit panel, Give Back to Get More: Build Your Skills and Network by Volunteering.

Why is speaking at WITS important to you?

It’s important to me because I believe that bringing women together who share a passion for technology is key to supporting each other in a field where women have traditionally been underrepresented.

What or who inspires you?

I am inspired by people who use whatever resources are available to them to solve a problem. I am also inspired by any technical challenge that helps me grow.

Most useful article you’ve read in the last month

An article on JavaScript shorthand tricks was fun to walk through; It was exciting to get a clear understanding of code that I was trying to leverage.

Favorite thing you have learned or did during quarantine

I attended a virtual conference, All Things Open. As an outcome of the conference, I am now involved in contributing to an open source project.

When you were a kid what was your dream job?

I wanted to be a computer programmer. I’m not sure that I really understood what that meant, but it was what I wanted to do.

Tell us something about your session

I am participating on a panel that highlights how volunteering helps in building professions skills, gaining experience, and building a network.

What other sessions or speakers are you most excited to see?

The technology sessions: on robotics, drupal, UX; the sessions are a great mix of current and emerging technologies.

Register here to see Nourma and all the other amazing women in tech speaking at the WITS Virtual Summit.