Please join National Instruments and SWE for a Professional Development event on March 23rd, 2016 at 6 pm.
Members of the NI female leadership team will discuss the evolution of their careers over time, highlights and pitfalls of women in leadership, and will give advice and tips for women in technical fields.
Questions from the audience are encouraged.
About NI
NI provides powerful, flexible technology solutions that accelerate productivity and drive rapid innovation. From daily tasks to grand challenges, NI helps engineers and scientists overcome complexity to exceed even their own expectations. Customers in nearly every industry—from healthcare and automotive to consumer electronics and particle physics—use NI’s integrated hardware and software platform to improve our world.
Speaker Biographies
Stefanie Breyer
Vice President of R&D, Data Acquisition
As Vice President of R&D for Data Acquisition, Stefanie Breyer leads the continued advancement and development of NI DAQ products. She manages R&D teams focused on CompactDAQ, multifunction DAQ, VirtualBench, dynamic signal analyzers, and signal conditioning.
Since joining NI in 1995, Breyer has worked across R&D focusing primarily on data acquisition and vision. In addition, Breyer has led cross-departmental and cross-company initiatives and teams on people, processes, and technology.
Tamra Kerns
Vice President of Services
As Vice President of Services, Tamra Kerns leads the organizations responsible for maintenance services and support for NI’s broad product portfolio, as well as integration services to deliver NI-based turnkey solutions for top customers in conjunction with NI Alliance Partners.
Since joining NI in 1992, Kerns has held positions as both Director of Software Marketing and Director of Software Product Strategy where she worked closely with marketing, R&D, and customers to define and market new products and capabilities in the LabVIEW platform (including real-time and FPGA), several toolkits, and core features.
Shelley Gretlein
Director, Platform Software and Customer Education
As director of platform software and customer education, Shelley Gretlein is responsible for acquiring and retaining successful engineers and scientists with world-class software platform needs. She leads a dynamic team of engineers, marketing professionals, and learning experts to ensure each NI software user is successful and productive. In addition, Gretlein works with R&D leadership to define current and future generations of platform software.
Since joining NI in 2001 as an applications engineer, Gretlein has held multiple leadership positions including manager of ANSI C and .NET software products in the Technical Product Marketing Group. Gretlein was also an integral part of the Real-Time and Embedded Software team where she helped facilitate the launch of the LabVIEW FPGA Module. In addition, Gretlein was senior manager of the Software Business Group where she led the adoption of the NI software platform.
A representative from HR will be present to speak with those interested in employment with National Instruments.