Action And Ambition

Welcome to another episode of Action & Ambition with your host, Andrew Medal. Heather Terenzio is the founder and CEO of Techtonic, the premier partner for custom software development that changes how tech talent is sourced, trained, and hired. After being unable to shake the feeling that something big was missing from the tech industry diversity. Terenzio decided to be a part of the solution, launching Techtonic’s Software Development Apprenticeship Program in 2016. You’re going to love this episode. Let’s get to it! Who is Heather, and what is she about? (0:23) She is the founder of TechTonic, which is based in Boulder, Colorado. They are a software development company that has been around for 15 years. Five years ago, they started an apprenticeship program to train people from different backgrounds on how to be software developers.  Heather says they struggle with diversity quite a bit because everybody has a different definition of what diversity means for them personally. They started originally wit