Erica Lockheimer

https://www.behindthetech.org/erica-lockheimer he got into the tech industry—first, working for Good Technology, now, for LinkedIn—Erica never realized how social tech could be, both because of the relationships that she formed with her colleagues (“Every time I left a job, I cried because I loved the people!”) and because of the ways in which the work she did—at Good Technology, on communication devices; at LinkedIn, in social media—facilitated social interaction. Erica’s somewhat circuitous path to tech and her reliance on the support of loved ones likely accounts for the emphasis she places on mentoring and supporting other women engineers. “Things are there. They are real,” she says. “You have to be more persistent and find the right people.” Erica now accords a great deal of her time to helping others find “the right people”—twenty percent of her time at LinkedIn is devoted to its Women in Tech initiative. And her openness about her professional trials and triumphs is part of it. “It helps to remove the assumption that people are just better than you and have it all figured out,” Erica explains. “Rather, they are just like [you] and have similar thoughts and struggles.” user-activity based routing with a website #9900394