Susanne is fiercely committed to increasing the
participation of women and people of color in STEM
professions. Susanne is the author of the critically
acclaimed Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for
Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of
Technology Innovators for publisher John Wiley & Sons
(2020) and performs community service work for a
number of non-profits, including serving as Vice-Chair of
the Advancing Tech Talent and Diversity Executive
Council for CompTIA and coalition member for
NPower’s Command Shift initiative.

Susanne is the winner of CompTIA’s 2020 Diversity
Technology Leader Spotlight Award, for her advocacy
for increased diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech
industry. Susanne is also the host of Wiley’s “Diversity in
Tech” webinar series

She is an infrastructure specialist for Azure,
Microsoft’s cloud computing platform. In her work,
Susanne helps her clients in their efforts to migrate and
optimize their IT infrastructures to cloud environments.
Previously, she worked as a technical specialist for IBM
Cloud