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Tania Gutierrez is a Licensed Vet Technician, Fear Free Certified Professional, Cooperative Care Trainer and AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator working in a Specialty hospital and starting a new specialty department - Rehab and canine fitness.

Her experience across exotic medicine, Zoo medicine, ICU, emergency, neurology, internal medicine, oncology, and surgery, she has learned little tricks that make complicated care easier. Her space is made for busy pet parents who want trusted support, families navigating chronic illness or recovery, and future vet nurses who deserve to learn without drowning in flashcards.

Her focus is to make caring for your pet less stressful, less confusing, and much more manageable.

You can contact Tania on IG: @taniavet.tech. Tania shared the following resources for those interested in becoming a Veteran Technician:

1. Books Recommendations

2. Free Resources

3. Vet Tech 101 Courses

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Amanda Haverkamp is a Senior Program Manager at Amazon, where she has spent nearly nine years leading large-scale operational programs that have eliminated billions of dollars in preventable costs across North America's fulfillment network.

She currently leads Cross-Mile Continuous Improvement, a program that equips Amazon leaders with the Lean and continuous improvement tools needed to drive world-class operational performance.

Prior to that, Amanda built and led Amazon's NA Quality concessions and damage reduction programs from the ground up. With a team of just three program managers, she identified $4 billion in opportunity costs and delivered $1.4 billion in verified savings over four years — work that directly improved the experience of hundreds of millions of Amazon customers.

Before Amazon, Amanda served as Director of Operational Excellence at M&I Electric, where she owned engineering, quality, and program management for a $100 million business. She holds a Bachelor of Science in General Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Indiana University Southeast.

Amanda's impact extends beyond the P&L. When she joined Amazon, she was the only woman on a team of 30. Within three years, the team reached 40% women — with 90% of those women personally mentored or identified by Amanda. She has mentored over 100 people throughout her career, with more than 35% earning promotions during their time working with her. She sponsored several women's organizations at Amazon, the Black Employee Network (BEN), a sustainability affinity group, and served as the manager of a DEI Program Management team for five years, creating employee-led groups that reached over 2,000 people. Amanda is a passionate advocate for workplaces where every person is free to be themselves.

You can connect with Amanda by reaching out to her on Linkedin here. Amanda shared the following resources for women who may be interested in becoming an Engineer:

1. Book Recommendation: “Emotional Intelligence 2.0” by Dr. Travis Bradberry and Dr. Jean Greaves.

2. Six Sigma Program

3. ASQ Program

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Alexis Robinson is a Principal Product Manager for Amazon in the DC area and Adjunct Professor for California State, San Bernadino, and her alma mater, University of Maryland.

For the past 15 years, she has served buyers of the cloud, retail sellers, policy makers, compliance organizations, engineering leaders, and security teams by developing and implementing security strategies, collaborating for thought leadership, solving problems, building products, and conducting cybersecurity, engineering, and financial assessments. She co-hosts the Resilience By Design Podcast on youtube with Dr. Cynthia Sutherland and has described it as a Podcast where Cybersecurity tech and mental health collide. appollonia-chronicles.com/ She graduated with double Bachelors of Science degrees in Accounting and Information Systems from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at University of Maryland, College Park and an Executive Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the Quantic Program. She has worked at several companies including CGI Federal and Ernst & Young before finding her way to Amazon. She is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a Project Management Professional (PMP).

You can connect with Alexis by reaching out to her on Linkedin here. Check out her YouTube channel, Resilience by Design Podcast. Check out the below resources if you are interested in a career in Tech product management:

1. Book Recommendation: “Inspire-How to Create Tech Products Customers Love” by Marty Cagan.

2. Learn the Software Development Lifecycle

3. Business Course Recommendations: Statistics and Strategic Leadership

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