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What’s the importance of having more women like you in the work that you’re doing? Do you see women like you in the people you look up to? I do my best to pay it forward by mentoring others, particularly young women, and exposing them to technology. I’ve had a lot of great mentors over the years, both male and female, who have been a tremendous help to me. I am a Consulting Automation Engineer at Lexis Nexis in Raleigh, NC, and also the creator of Diva Chix, an online fashion game. I’m now a Technology guru and Master Inventor, holding 20 issued patents in the US and China. My professors at Tennessee State University saw my potential and mentored me beyond the class assignments. I took a computer programming course my freshman year and absolutely fell in love. My father insisted that I take at least one computer class because he knew this was an emerging space. I enrolled in college very unsure of what I wanted to do with my life. I didn’t know any technologists growing up, so that wasn’t something that was on my radar. The Tempest: Tell us about yourself, your origins with technology and mentorship, and how it has impacted your life.Īngie Jones: I never considered technology as a career path at all. The Tempest had the opportunity to speak to Jones about her career, motivation, and where she stands in the technology world. Most notably, Jones is the founder, owner, and operator of Diva Chix, which is “a platform where teenage girls and women learn to excel in technological areas as well as learn other key life lessons such as running a business, managing finances, and working as a team… all within the realm of a fashion game.” Jones has been featured in Ebony Magazine as one of the 30 young leaders under the age of 30, Women of Color magazine as a “Technology Rising Star”, and Triangle Times as a “mover and shaker in the technology industry”.

Angie Jones is a software engineer and inventor of more than 20 patents on innovations that include collaboration software, social networking, virtual worlds, smarter planet, and software development processes.