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Iron Yard Tech Talent

Javascript Star Makes Language Come to Life On & Off Screen

Mallerie Shirley is a Javascript junkie after completing The Iron Yard's front-end immersive. Shirley brings pages to user perfection on-screen and sign language to life off-screen. This visual virtuoso is ready to create something stellar from a blank slate and tackle life in the tech terrain. What program

Jocelyne Williams on Motivating Millennials Toward Leadership

Jocelyne Williams on Motivating Millennials Toward Leadership

As a senior business analyst and upcoming panelist of Innovative Leadership at General Assembly, Jocelyne Williams thrives in connecting developers and business users in perfect harmony. A mover and shaker for female empowerment, diversity, and inclusion, Williams is setting the standard of a motivating millennial trailblazer. We recently caught up

B2C Consumer Show in Atlanta

Hey, June. The Consumer Show Makes it Better!

It's June, which means Switchyards Downtown Club is hosting their monthly pitch event, The Consumer Show. If you missed last month's event, check out the recap, photos, and a bad-ass video. See the who's who of the upcoming 5 companies presenting their business plans

When it Comes to UX, Gerald Willis Knows What He's Talking About

When it Comes to UX, Gerald Willis Knows What He's Talking About

Gerald Willis is a graphic designer turned user experience wizard with thanks to General Assembly's UX Immersive Program. When he's not perfecting his clickable user prototypes, you can find him hitting up Atlanta meetups or perusing Rosenfeld Media e-books. No company size is too big or

Former SEAL on the Special Forces Needed for Entrepreneurship

Former SEAL on the Special Forces Needed for Entrepreneurship

Todd Ehrlich sees serial entrepreneurship through a sunny-side view, which, he says, aids his ongoing success with Triserv, Kill Cliff, and his more recent venture, BAM Worldwide. “People always accuse me of being too optimistic, which I am, but there's no other way for me to be,” Ehrlich

Mallory Brewer | Multilinguist in Code and Conversation

Mallory Brewer | Multilinguist in Code and Conversation

Mallory Brewer is ready to take her tech skills and slide into a career in web development. A lover of languages, she can converse in four tongues and code within two, JavaScript and Ruby. An improviser, Brewer is also quick on her feet (literally, y'all, she's

Zookazam Makes Classrooms Splash with Augmented Reality

Zookazam Makes Classrooms Splash with Augmented Reality

Imagine opening up an app and unlocking a world filled with animals as small as an ant to Jurassic-era giants like a Tyrannosaurus rex. The techies and visual artists behind Zookazam put their left and right brainpower together to create an educational technology platform that engages school-aged children using augmented