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Susan de la Vergne

Core Competencies:

• Technical Presentations

• Business Communication

• Emotional Intelligence

Susan de la Vergne worked in software development, software quality control and technology management for 25 years, a career she prepared for early in life by majoring in English and Theatre in college. Susan brings her interesting and unusual combination of education and experience to engineers and tech professionals who want to become better communicators—whether it’s learning how to prepare and deliver presentations people remember and act on, or how to write efficient, energized (!) business deliverables. Using real-world examples, humor, well-researched “best practices,” and stories from her own experience, Susan shares immediately usable techniques in her classes.

Susan was an Information Technology Director for PacifiCorp, a regulated electric utility company in Portland, Oregon. Prior to that, she was an I.T. Director for Kroger, where she also served as Project Director, Director of I.T. Governance, and Software Testing Manager. She has worked in technology management for Wells Fargo Bank, as well as for start-up companies in Atlanta and Portland, and the University of Southern California’s Computing Center in Los Angeles.

Today, Susan speaks, consults, teaches and manages her own company. Among her corporate clients are Southern Company, NASA, Qualcomm, Siltronic, M Financial, and the Project Management Institute. She has also taught at Oregon State University and Portland State University. (At PSU, she was the only English major on the faculty of their College of Engineering!)

She is the author of two books—You CAN'T Manage Time and Norwegian Aloha: The Making of a Sugar Cane Engineer—as well numerous articles that have appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Today’s Engineer, SPIE Journal, Perdido: Leadership with a Conscience, The Oregonian and The Journal of the Quality Assurance Institute among others. She is also a professional member of the National Speakers Association.
 

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