60 Seconds with WITS West Speaker — Marnie Pflueger

Marnie is the Executive Director, Video IP Engineering & Research (VIPER) at Comcast. Her session is a panel discussion title “Responsibilities vs. Accomplishments”.

Why is speaking at WITS important to you?

I think it’s important to engage women in technology and grow the diverse workforce.

What inspires you?

I’m inspired by great leaders who cultivate successful high performing teams by charisma, strategic insight and innovation.

Most useful article you’ve read in the last month

The Best Teams Have These Five Things — Does Yours? By Erika Andersen, Founder/Partner, Proteus

When you were a kid what was your dream job?

A grade school teacher (later learned that tech jobs were also a passion and I could earn far more)

Quote about your session

There is a big difference between a responsibility and an accomplishment. A job responsibility describes a task, while an accomplishment describes how well you performed that task.