One of the biggest influences in our
lies as we grow up is our mothers. They teach us manners, financial
responsibility, how-to care for others and our work ethic among many
of the other things that make us the person we grow up to be. So,
when a mother goes into business or politics it is only nature that
they will be a big influence in the area where they work.
Being a wife,
mother of 2 and running a household is impressive on its own but it
wasn't enough for Julie Larsen-Green. For the last 22 years Ms.
Larsen-Green has been a major influence on the way we use our
computers and play video games. As one of the top executives and
engineers at the Redmond-based company Ms. Larsen-Green has a hand in
the development of Windows operating systems, the Xbox gaming system,
Internet explorer and many of the quite a lot of the software we use
everyday.
Ms.
Larsen-Green was considered as one of the candidates
when they were searching for someone to take over the CEO position at
Microsoft. This year Ms. Larsen-Green was awarded the women
of vision award.
Suzan Delbane has
been one of the biggest influential people in the greater Seattle
area for almost 3 decades. As an executive at Microsoft in the 1990's
she hand a hand in many of the early version of Windows and Internet
explorer. After leaving Microsoft she went on to found her own
co1980mpany that was bought out by Amazon. She returned to Microsoft
in 2004 where she was a VP until 2008. Since leaving Microsoft for
the second time she has been a mover-and-shaker as a Washington
State Representative in district 1.
If you live in the
Seattle area and love chocolate then Jean Thompson is definitely one
of the big influences in your life. In the late 1980's and early
1990's Ms. Thompson was a big influence as a communication manager
at Microsoft. After leaving Microsoft she took 11 years off from the
business world to raise a family. She has since made a big splash in
the Seattle area with her company Seattle Chocolates.
In May of 2113 Ms.
Worthy co-founded and is the technical director of ADA Developers
Academy. The main focus of the academy is to get more women into
software development. Her influence on the Seattle area doesn't end
there as she is also the CEO of Brandworthy company.
Like many of our
influential mothers, Ms. Neagu worked at Microsoft. After leaving
Microsoft in 2005 she went on to co-found Formotus, Inc. where she
was the CTO. In 2009 her title changed when she became the company's
President and CEO.
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