Welcome to The IT Girl’s Guides

I first met Ani at Microsoft Tech Ed in Boston last summer. We were introduced at the Wiley Publishing exhibit booth, and later I ran into her at the Women in Technology Luncheon. She was the first person who made the initiative to ask the speaker a question when the Q&A session started. I was immediately impressed with her passion and excitement for technology and for women in technology.

When The IT Girls Guides team started brainstorming and discussing title ideas and authors for this fabulous new series, I couldn’t help but think to contact Ani B! Ani came to the US in 1989 as an Armenian refugee from Iran. She holds an MBA and an MS in Information Systems and currently works as a Senior Identity Manager for Microsoft Corporation. Before her career with Microsoft, she was a consultant on .NET Development, SQL Server, and many other technologies.

Ani is very active in the local developer community and has presented at numerous user groups in Denver and Jacksonville. She enjoys snowboarding, skydiving, mountain biking, yoga, and she is learning to scuba dive and climb. She is the author of our upcoming The IT Girl’s Guide to Becoming an Excel Diva, and is very excited to “help women and girls realize their fullest potential,” and she wants them to better “understand how easy this IT stuff can be!” The book is due out in October. For those IT Girls who need to fine tune your Excel skills, this conversational, helpful, and entertaining book is written just for you!

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