Ladies in Know-how: Marsha Bennett

Liquid Net’s Help Methods Administrator on what most pursuits her about tech, her greatest profession classes, and the longer term for girls in tech.

Born and raised in Mason County, Michigan, Marsha Bennett grew up on a peaceable river close to Lake Michigan. A lot of her childhood was spent fishing and taking lengthy walks within the woods. Know-how didn’t play a lot of a task in Bennett’s childhood, and she or he developed an appreciation for the homesteading way of life from her grandparents. The love of nature she grew as a child is ongoing—Bennett’s favourite pastimes embody gardening on a heat day, adopted by fishing in a quiet stream. She can also be studying the concertina and the restore and restoration of concertinas and accordions.

Bennett’s introduction to computer systems began with chemistry simulation packages whereas finding out chemical expertise at Lansing Group Faculty, which led to an internet program on the College of Phoenix centered on Software program Engineering and Administration Data Methods. She has now labored in tech for the previous 13 years.

Now at Liquid Net, Bennett works as a Help Methods Administrator. “My position within the firm is to supply server assist for patrons with Home windows Servers, Microsoft Energetic Listing-related merchandise, and VMware assist,” she says. “This features a position in implementing, managing, and troubleshooting these merchandise so prospects can deal with their enterprise wants, reasonably than fear concerning the pc facet of issues.”

Bennett’s favourite half about working in a expertise firm is interacting with the various personalities and skillsets of each co-workers and prospects, however she additionally loves that tech is an ever-evolving trade. “Working in expertise is thrilling,” she says. “There’s all the time one thing hidden across the nook displaying simply how a lot there may be nonetheless to be taught. Studying in expertise is rarely actually over, and every week, every day, there’s something new to be taught to maintain it attention-grabbing.”

A profession spotlight for Bennett thus far is to have the chance to work at Liquid Net. “I like working at an award-winning firm that continues to develop and enhance its choices to prospects,” she says. “The chance I’ve needed to advance from a Home windows Help Technician to a Help Methods Administrator has allowed my ability set to develop past what I imagined after I was employed 4 years in the past.”

Some profession classes Bennett takes to coronary heart are that one ought to keep away from procrastination and have short-term targets and long-term targets to stay up for persevering with. “My work type is all the time to push somewhat more durable, all the time go the additional mile. If I’ve a motto, it will be to have a piece ethic others can mannequin and to assist enhance others up.” As well as, she is regularly making an attempt to enhance. “I all the time attempt to have a number of targets to attain every day, even when they’re small targets,” she says. Lastly, Bennet is impressed by the wonderful lecturers all through her life and studying.

Bennett believes the way forward for ladies in tech predicts a time the place there aren’t boundaries, and every particular person won’t be judged by gender. Her recommendation to ladies simply beginning in tech is to take all kinds of lessons—music, artwork, historical past, math, and science. “Become involved. Be part of golf equipment,” she says. “And skim!”

She needs younger ladies to know that the expertise area has a number of pleasure and may be very rewarding. “Tech expands one’s view, empowers one to be taught extra, and the journey by no means actually ends,” she says. “It’s an journey that leads so far as one is keen to take it.”