Keynote Speakers Sponsored by IBM

The Intel Northwest Science Expo welcomes our keynote speakers.

Middle School Keynote: Martha Andrews

 Title: Software Engineer

 Group: IBM's Software Group

 Martha Andrews is a Software Engineer working in IBM's Software  Group. Throughout her career, she has worked with software that  helps other programmers create more software. Currently, she is  making software that teams will use to communicate and coordinate  work activities better. The software builds on the open-source Eclipse  project and is developed with open software practices.

In her career, Martha has helped customers as a Technical Support Engineer, found defects in products as a Test Engineer, and created new projects as a Software Engineer. She has one patent in automating the creation of software and earned a Bachelors of Science in Software Engineering Technology from Oregon Institute of Technology.

Keynote Presentation Details: Martha will talk about how software engineers use the scientific method in the work they do. She will ask the audience to help her solve a problem by following the steps and applying tools that software engineers use everyday.

High School Keynote: Alexis Bruemmer

 Title: Software Engineer

 Group: Open source Linux kernel development and support

 Alexis Bruemmer is a Software Engineer at IBM's Linux  Technology Center (LTC). In the brief time that Alexis has been at  IBM she has worked on several diverse and challenging  projects -  from hardware bring-up to operating system development. Most  notable were her efforts, in conjunction with  the Linux SCSI  community, developing and stabilizing an open  source version of a driver that supports the Adaptec 94xx SAS controller. Before her role as a Software Engineer Alexis interned at the Sandia National Lab's Center for Cyber Defenders where she developed various Internet security tools. Alexis graduated in 2005 as one of three valedictorians from The University of Pacific's School of Engineering and Computer Science with a BS in both Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering. At Pacific, Alexis was very active in many student clubs, including Society of Women Engineers (SWE). As a SWE member and eventual Pacific student section co-president she was presented with many opportunities, a combination of which lead to her current job.

Keynote Presentation Details: The keynote entitled "The Art of Climbing Totem Polls" will analyze the problem solving process and how it applies to life as well as engineering. Alexis' work with a virtual-reality project for a technical director for Industrial Light and Magic as well as the aic94xx driver will be used as real world examples.

Middle School Keynote Time: 2:00 - 2:45pm
High School Keynote Time: 4:00 - 5:00pm
Location: Hoffman Hall

Seating is limited to the first 400 people at each Keynote presentation.

updated March 1, 2007