Tech Career Profiles:
Highlights from New Mexico

Tech Career Videos

A growing collection of locally-made video interviews with New Mexico Technology professionals
(many made by area students and aspiring media professionals)

"The computer systems design and related services industry is among the economy's largest and fastest sources of employment growth. Tech jobs are unlikely to go out of demand any time soon. As technology continues to fluctuate and grow, tech jobs continue to have a strong position in the job market."

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Jeff Teague
Meow Wolf
Tech Maintenance Lead
Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Dr. Hunter McDaniel
UbiQD
Founder and CEO
Los Alamos, New Mexico

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Karen Paramanadam
SunPower
Business Manager
Los Alamos, New Mexico

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Dennis Branch
A Sound Look
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Dennis Branch is a Coder and Network Specialist in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at A Sound Look, an integrated Technology and Networking company in Santa Fe, New Mexico,  This informal interview is available online as part of the Community Learning Network's New Mexico Career Profiles project.

www.asoundlook.com 

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Krieg Benally
Cultivating Coders
Software Developer
New Mexico

​Krieg Benally from Dine' Nation (Navajo Nation)
shares his story of becoming a software developer
​and training and working with Cultivating Coders.

www.cultivatecoders.com

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EMR Bear
Jay Galvan Heneghan
Santa Fe, New Mexico

EMR_Bear is a healthcare software service provider in Santa Fe, New Mexico, formed by a team with expertise in community mental health, systems-based behavioral health services, healthcare management systems, healthcare billing, information technology, and business project management.
 
Jay Galvan Heneghan, one of the co-founders of EMR-Bear, met with us recently to share her story as part or the regional TechHire initiative and our growing Technology ecosystem in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico.  This informal interview is available online as part of the Community Learning Network's New Mexico Career Profiles project.

www.emrbear.com 

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EMR Bear
Andres Paglayan
Software Developer
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Andres Paglayan is a software developer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and co-founder of EMR_Bear, ​a healthcare software service provider in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 
 This informal interview is available online as part of the Community Learning Network's New Mexico Career Profiles project.

www.emrbear.com 

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Jessica Guzman
EMR Bear
Tech Support Specialist
Santa Fe, New Mexico

www.emrbear.com 

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Wylan Werth
EMR Bear
Software Developer
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Wylan Werth is a software developer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at EMR Bear,
​a healthcare software service provider in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
 This informal interview is available online as part of the Community Learning Network's New Mexico Career Profiles project.

www.emrbear.com 

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Harmonix Technologies
Jack Vigil
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Originally born in Penasco, New Mexico, Jack Vigil started an IT company building highly sophisticated IT networks for complex systems including educational, governmental, civic, and business organizations. He founded the company on the principle of customer service and attention to detail.Harmonix Technologies has been  a “Debt-Free” Company without any outstanding business loans or liabilities.as of 2007 and ended 2007 with over $3.5 million dollars in gross profit and increasing 400% of revenue in just over 2 years of business. 2008 was even better with just under $5 million in sales and services.
www.harmonixtechnologies.com
Jack attended Northern New Mexico Community College and obtained his degree in Electronics Engineering and has since been certified in various networking protocol, programming languages, and database applications. By the age of 23, he was one of the youngest Minority Vice Presidents in the United States. In the summer of 2005, Vigil fulfilled his aspirations of establishing a technology business and founded Harmonix Technologies, Inc. as a small consulting firm grossing about $250,000 in the first year of business working primarily with New Mexico’s school districts. Jack was the only employee during the first year of business and has since grown the organization. In 2008, Jack was honored to receive an award as the Young Entrepreneur of the Year in New Mexico, Arizona, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. In union with his own professional accomplishments, Harmonix Technologies was ranked the #1 Service Provider for E-rate Funding in 2007, and has received multiple recognitions and awards locally and nationally. Vigil is a member of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, and is a dedicated family man who enjoys studying history’s greatest leaders. He strives to master the skill of meditation and contributes a great deal of his success to his late Grandfather, John.

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SportXast
Molly Cermicek
Albuquerque, New Mexico

SportXast is a free and exciting new way to catch and watch game highlights using your smartphone. Follow the action, hit the button, see the best plays. A free app that makes it easy for fans, parents and athletes to capture and share highlights. With SportXast, never miss a great play.

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UbiQD
Dr Hunter McDaniel PhD
Los Alamos, New Mexico

Taking advantage of a business opportunity; that's how Dr. Hunter McDaniel PhD characterizes his leap into the Quantum Dot business. Hunter, a Post-Doc from Los Alamos National Laboratory tells us about Quantum Dots and why he started his company, UbiQD, to manufacturing them.

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Dine' (Navajo) Engineer
Sandra
Dinetah (Navajo Nation)

Enjoy a message from Sandra, a Navajo Engineer.

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Alia Lubers
Ph.D. 
Chief Engineer Pajarito Powder
​LLC

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​Amy Halloran 
Senior Manager – Renewable Energy Technologies 
Sandia National Laboratories

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Christina Salas
Ph.D. Assistant Professor – Biomedical Engineering University of New Mexico

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Melanie Moses
Ph.D. Professor 
Computer Science University of New Mexico

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Renay Moya 
Vice President of IT Staffing NM
Robert Half Technology

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Jennifer Nevarez
Executive Director NM TechWorks 
Community Learning Network

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Janette Frigo 
R&D Engineer 
Los Alamos National Labs

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Paige Prescott 
Executive Director & Co-Founder 
Computer Science Alliance

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Laura Monroe 
Ph.D. 
Senior Research Scientist – Computer Science 
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Join our video bank!
Create and submit a short Tech ​Career video interview
for possible inclusion in this Video Bank.
Here are some guiding questions to include:

1. Who are you and what do you do?
​2. How did you get started?
3. What kinds of things do you do in a day?
4. What do you like about it?
5. Show us where you work?
6. What would you tell young people about life?