. The Dublin-born general manager of IBM Ireland doesn’t come from a tech-heavy background, but the skills she has picked up along what she described as “the windy road to IBM” made her the natural pick for the job when it opened up.
“I found myself coming out of sixth year and I had no plan. I was 16 years old, not sure what I was going to do,” she says. “I had no great ambitions, I didn’t know what I was going to do. I suppose back all those years ago, I didn’t understand the opportunities the world could bring.”A stint in secretarial college landed her a job as a receptionist in a small insurance brokerage in Dublin, where she was encouraged to go further.
It was also her introduction to IBM, who came in to implement a pensions system. Threadgold was the person dealing with the tech giant, and one move back to Dublin later, she joined IBM Ireland as a consultant. Potentially still in the UK, with her family. She married an Englishman, she says, and had been living there for some time before the opportunity to go back to Ireland again presented itself.
She has worked in a hybrid manner for years – she says IBM has a deep history of being flexible – and while some companies rush to get people back to the office, IBM is taking a more measured approach. For the sake of collaboration, there will need to be some coordination about who works what days, but it’s gentle encouragement at the moment.
“One of the things we really need to get better at is explaining to people, explaining to young children, what technology can do,” she says, recounting her experience at a recent school visit for STEM week. The topics were Formula One racing and what technology does there, explaining to them about wet tyres and the speed of taking off tyres, and how data can be used to predict the strategy in the moment.
Source: Tech Daily Report (techdailyreport.net)
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