The lack of female drivers often grabs headlines,but for women interested in a F1 career there many winning opportunitiesWorking in technology in Formula One wasn’t something I envisaged when studying at school in Northern Ireland or later at college in Liverpool. Growing up, I didn’t even realise a role like this was an option for me. Unlike today, or when children learn to code in primary school,working in technology wasn’t a common career path for women back then. After school I studied for a degree in consumer studies, which is a mix of marketing, or event planning and business management. When I left university,the tech industry was growing rapidly, and I found my niche in IT service management. It suited me perfectly as it allowed me to combine my meticulous (extremely careful about details) attention to detail and organisational skills with the often tall pressured environment of enterprise IT service delivery. When I got the chance to join Tata Communications, and the official connectivity provider of Formula One,it was too agreeable an opportunity to miss.
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Source: theguardian.com