Eva Reid is the Owner of Eva Reid Consulting, where she provides professional life and career coaching to women in STEM and other fields where they are underrepresented. She is also the IT Data Manager at the DC Department of Health. With over 25 years of experience in information technology, project management, and training, Eva has been recognized for the caliber and creativity of her work as a technical workshop presenter and facilitator in professional, corporate, and government settings. She provides leadership and oversight for the DC Area Women in GIS Group and the DC Government Women in Technology Group. Eva is also the Chapter Coordinator for the international organization of Women in GIS.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
- How Amazon utilized a GIS (geographic information system) to construct its headquarters
- Eva Reid shares key considerations for building infrastructure
- The role of contact tracing in public health and policy
- Protecting privacy during GIS data collection
- Eva’s mission to build community through datasets and networking
- How Eva transitioned from in-person consulting to virtual
- COVID’s impact on women’s work-life balance in the tech space
In this episode…
During public safety concerns, health crises, or industrialization, officials employ a GIS (geographic information system) to collect and analyze data. So, how is this data utilized, and what are some ways executives can safeguard it to protect citizens?
Government officials collect data to track diseases, assess geographic regions for infrastructure, and analyze crime patterns. When conducting contact tracing or population analyses, IT expert and consultant Eva Reid emphasizes the importance of organizational collaboration. This includes assisting other organizations in data collection, developing training programs to ensure public safety, and anonymizing datasets to maintain privacy. By networking and connecting to solve widespread issues, leaders can build and sustain a thriving community.
Join Rolando Rosas and Dave Kelly in this episode of What The Teck?, as they sit down with Eva Reid, Owner of Eva Reid Consulting, to talk about connecting with the community using data and technology. Eva shares key considerations for building infrastructure, the role of contact tracing in public health and policy, and how to protect privacy during GIS data collection.
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- Dave Kelly on LinkedIn
- Global Teck Worldwide
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- Eva Reid on LinkedIn
- Eva Reid Consulting
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Episode Transcript
Intro 0:00
Welcome to the What The Teck? podcast where we talk about business and Office Technology, and put our 20 years of expertise to discussing trends and issues impacting the workplace.
Rolando Rosas 0:16
And welcome to another stream of What The Teck?, I’m your host, Rolando. And let’s get this right over here and one of the magic squares
Dave Kelly 0:24
gotta have that right by now. And we look at the opposite side, or at least that’s how it used to be
Rolando Rosas 0:30
up, man is that I’m right handed. Others monitors on this side. So I have a tendency to look over here, because it’s gotten my notes for today. And I want to go this way. But I know you’re,
Dave Kelly 0:42
and I want to do the exact same thing, because the way that it is on my screen here, Rolando, I am so excited for this episode. And for our guests today. Happy Tuesday, happy Tuesday, you
Rolando Rosas 0:53
and to everybody that’s joining us today. We today as we’re taping this today is April, the 13th. If you haven’t filed your taxes, I believe that the IRS has given us an extension, I think another month, so don’t get too stressed out about that today, if you haven’t done it, you have a couple of more days than beyond the 15th. I’m also excited today because we have somebody that I actually went to college with that I still know and, you know, actually doesn’t live too far away from where I’m from where I live, and you know, most people like they’ll spread out all over the place and in different parts of the world. So I’m kind of excited to have her up close and in virtual person versus you know, I’d love to have it in meeting and maybe in the office where we’re doing it together. But hey, I That’s okay, I’ll take it. So it plus I wanted to say do you think you’ve been through the cold slog of hard winters? Even I have been through Minnesota winters, which are probably as tough as you get, in some cases worse than being in Alaska. And I’m sure she could testify to that.
Dave Kelly 2:01
Yeah, I’ve been out there in the wintertime. And yeah, that’s no joke.
Rolando Rosas 2:05
It is no joke, having snow up to here sometimes. In going six months of it. So anyways, so yes, so by now we are talking about Eva Reid, who is going to join us here in a little bit. We are talking building community, Dave with data and how that comes together. And everybody’s talking, especially with our current times that we’re in with COVID community, community, community community. And that means a lots of different people. And so Eva’s the type of person that can help us from a technology perspective, from a data perspective know how some of that starting to coalesce, you know, I specifically wanted maybe she could give us some insight into like the Amazon site selection. Now we know that the two places selected, we’re only minutes away from Jeff Bezos house. odd coincidence, or not,
Dave Kelly 2:57
you know, I, I really enjoyed exploring this particular subject. Because I mean, I know that people don’t flip coins when they’re making these multimillion dollar, sometimes dollar decisions. And it’s nice to have someone that’s, you know, that participates in gathering this data, and giving it to the folks so that they can use it to make the right decisions. So right, very, very cool. Hey, why don’t we get into the trivia question? I’m totally looking forward to this one, because I heard I heard that we’re gonna get thrown off on this one. So all
Rolando Rosas 3:31
right, I’m gonna throw this one already in the gang put together for us today. All right. So let’s go to the trivia. You want me to read it. You want to read it?
Dave Kelly 3:38
You know, I want to read this one. I want to see what what they did to us here. So two truths and allies. So two of these statements are true. The other is fake. So we did one of these a couple of weeks ago, and I believe I got it wrong. And you know what, I need to redeem myself on this one. All right. Let’s see. Let’s see if you could do it. All right. So two truths and a lie. There’s an island within a lake on an island within a lake on an island. I wish you were the one that was reading this, but I think I did a good job on that was there. Alright, number two, the entire world’s population can fit into the state of Texas.
Rolando Rosas 4:19
Oh, Texas sounds. That’s a big, big, big state. But I don’t know. It sounds almost like interesting
Dave Kelly 4:26
too, right? Well, hey, you think about the population, that dense population in places like DC, Boston and Philly who knows? Maybe maybe but the whole world. And number three again, I wish you were reading this coupla Khan was the most famous Silk Road trader slash Explorer. So what do you know about the Silk Road Rolando?
Rolando Rosas 4:49
I know that there was silk on the road trading post, and I know that it wasn’t called the Silk Road. Way back in the day it was More more recent phenomenon, I believe in the 1800s. Yeah, when that term was coined, it was called something else. And I know that there was more than one Silk Roads. Well, so there’s there’s the famous Silk Road, but there’s different branches and stuff along the road, the road, the Silk Road. So that’s what I know about Silk Road.
Dave Kelly 5:20
So two truths and a lie we’ll get the answer at the end of the show.
Rolando Rosas 5:25
All right. All right. Well, Dave, thanks for dropping some knowledge. And we’ll find out at the end. So let’s, let’s introduce our guest, Eva, Eva Reid. She is a currently she is in senior Information Technology Specialist with the government of DC, but she has her own consulting practice, ER Consulting, LLC. She does workshops, employee training, she’s does coaching. She’s a phenomenal person. Like I said, before I went to school with her and she’s much smarter than I was, I believe she got better, better, much better grades than I did. She’s she’s presented at variety of professional conferences, both in the public and private sector. And she knows how to get people together in a room and talk about coordinating and building communities. So without further ado, let’s bring on Eva Reid.
Eva Reid 6:24
Hello, how are you girl? It’s okay, reading works to plan or whatever.
Rolando Rosas 6:34
How’s it going today? Where are you checking in from today? Eva,
Eva Reid 6:36
I am here in my home and Alexandria, Virginia. And kind of loving the telework life honestly.
Rolando Rosas 6:44
Yeah. Better than showing up to the office.
Eva Reid 6:48
Yeah, so there are good things and bad things about teleworking. Obviously, I’m protecting myself and staying safe. So that’s a good thing. I don’t have to listen to anybody else’s stuff in the office. I don’t have nobody. I’m posting them eating or anything like that. The downside is I don’t get to see people very often, again, we’re staying safe. We are, you know, not visiting with people. And that’s hard.
Rolando Rosas 7:24
A lot of zooming team, whatever. Zooming a lot. What, just curious. Are you one of those that would say yeah, I have some fatigue? Or you’re like over it and you’re ready for person to person contact? Or where’s your current head and in that whole space?
Eva Reid 7:43
So I definitely have fatigue? I think everyone does. I don’t think that’s something that I would be surprised if anyone could say that they don’t have it. For me, though. The zoom is kind of enough for now. I think the overriding factor for me is just I don’t want anyone to get sick. I don’t want to get sick. I’m
Rolando Rosas 8:09
sure don’t I that I’ve I feel you and the same. So.
Eva Reid 8:15
So yeah, I think there’s fatigue, I think everyone’s feeling some sort of fatigue. I know I work with people that really would like to get back to the office, because they work better in that environment. Um, you know, we’re all doing what we can to make it the most like the office that it is. And so I think one of the good things is that we’re, you know, people are meeting online and actually turning on the cameras occasionally. And, you know, so we’re doing the best we can really and I, you know, I’ll do it as long as I have to, I guess.
Rolando Rosas 8:52
As long as we have to.
Eva Reid 8:54
I would like one day in the office just one day at the office, like every couple of weeks just to you know, be with people
Rolando Rosas 9:01
mingle. Yeah. Well, speaking of the office, there is a place that’s actually not far from you that went up just recently, Amazon’s HQ2, which I want to ask you about, but before we get to that, I want to play a clip already. Do we have that clip? Ready? Oh, yes. No, it’s easy. It’s fun. It’s your it’s nothing like we’re not back in Mac, doing a pop quiz, right? The pop quiz. So go ahead and roll that Ori.
Guest Speaker 1 9:34
bids from across the continent and a lot of hype. So Amazon did what it knows best crunched the numbers.
Guest Speaker 2 9:41
We had lots of data, both data from external sources data that we had gathered, and data from the responses that the locations gave to us
Guest Speaker 1 9:50
on workforce transportation, education. We knew it was gonna be very competitive in Crystal City, Matthew Kelly, CEO of real estate investment trust JBG Smith. saw Amazon as a catalyst for his firm’s plans to develop the millions of square feet of office space it owns,
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