Carrie Goetz, principal/CTO of StrategITcom, personifies over 35 years of global experience designing, running, and auditing IT departments and data centers in addition to working with intelligent building infrastructures. Fostering women in Tech, StrategITcom is founded with a charter to ensure 50% of employees are women and 50% of all partner referrals will go to women-owned enterprises of all ethnicities. She is an international keynote speaker, published in 69 countries in over 250 publications. She holds an honorary doctorate in Mission Critical Operations, MBA, RCDD/NTS, CNID, CDCP, CSM-Agile, and AWS CCP and is a 2^nd degree Master Infrastructure Mason with over 40 certifications throughout her career. Goetz is on the WiMCO national education committee, Data Center Institute board of advisors, Mission Critical Advisory Board, and CNet Technical Curriculum advisory board. She’s also the vice chairwoman and liaison for STEM for AATCU and a member of 7x24 Exchange Intl., AFCOM, WIMCO, and BICSI. She currently holds one telecommunications patent and has submitted two others.

In addition to this laundry list of industry involvement, Goetz also volunteers her time to serve of the technical advisory board for Mission Critical. Watch this video to find out why.