Heba Shakshuki

General Info

The Top Three Things I Would Like to Learn or Experience During my Mentorship

1. Advance my technical skills and knowledge in business processes and workflows, data analysis tools and techniques for better decision making.
2. Improve my leadership skills and master the use of project management tools for Information Technology projects.
3. Enhance my interpersonal skills to be more inspiring and innovative to be more influencer to make change in my home country and help in improving my community.

Mentorship Characteristic

• Attend company-wide meetings and/or team meetings
• Focus on leadership skills building
• Have exposure to specialized industry techniques

Ideal Company Type

I am interested in company that provides cloud computing, Virtualization technology and cloud SaaS solutions related to data protection. I would like to mentorship in one of the largest leading companies in this era; to enhance my technical skill in this field, get chance to understand their business processes. Workflows, date analysis tools, how they treat their employees to be more creative, marketing strategy that they are following, how they are empowering their brand, and how they enhance customer services and offer for them the flexibility in choosing the solutions and applications they need as they growth.

What are three adjectives that best describe you in the work place?

1. Active
2. Ambitious
3. Reliable

What impact will your mentorship have on your career and professional path?

The mentorship will enhance my career as it will help developing my communication, presentation and technical skills. This program will be huge opportunity to get a chance to work in mentorship projects as it will connect me with professional mentors in world leading companies and meet experienced women with different backgrounds and cultures to exchange together our experiences and gain new perspective, also attending technical sessions and workshops presented by the technology leaders, learning new tools to become a better entrepreneur. This experience will open for me endless opportunities in my career to achieve my professional goals.

After participating in the TechWomen program, how will you leverage your mentorship experience to make an impact in your home country?

My main goal after the program is trying to contribute to the development of my country, participation in this program will enrich my experience, improve my innovation, technology knowledge perspective and vision, also will enhance my leadership skills so I will be ready to inspire. I will share all that with my colleagues and my community by organizing workshops in the Libyan universities and through social media networks groups. Also encourage and support young women to pursue careers in technical fields, also to never stop dreaming, not be afraid of trying to boost their self-esteem through getting the right education.

Work History

Years of Full-time Work Experience

7

Primary Professional Focus

• IT systems and/or data analysis
• Technical project and program manager
• Technical sales

Education History