Growing up, I didn't know many females to look up to in the Information technology industry. Even now, the IT field is still seen as a man's world sparsely populated with female innovators which explains why in my department in school there are fewer female students than males. Hence I am making it my aim to educate girls, ladies women and whoever reading this out there that ladies too have a part to play in this field. To achieve that we need mentors and that is what this feature will be addressing. Female mentors in the IT field that have played an important role in that field.
Today, our focus is on a Chinese innovator known as Zhou Qunfei.
Who is she?
From an early age she was a poor girl who grew up with a blind father and without a mother from the time she was 5. She became a migrant worker in Shenzhen at age 15, working in companies close to Shenzhen University so that she could take part time courses. She took a lot of classes and eventually got certified for accounting, computer operations and customs processing.
She got a job working for a firm making watch parts and when the business folded up, she started her own business in 1993. It was in 2001 though that she got her first big break making mobile phone screens for a big company called TLC coporation.
What is she known for?
Although this name is not quite familiar but she might just be the reason you are scrolling so easily on your android or Apple device. In 2003, she founded the company Lens Technology. Lens Technology is a company that makes touch-screens. Lens Technology supplies touch-screens to leading electronics makers like Apple, Huawei and Samsung Electronics. The new Apple watches are said to use her company's glass and sapphire crystal screens
In 2015, she was known as the most richest woman in China worth about 10 billion dollars. Now she's currently worth6.4 billion dollars.
Her biggest regret?
Not learning English.
So next time you hold your android or Apple device in your hands scrolling through whatever, have in mind that she, Zhou Qunfei might just be part of the whole team that put made that device function for your use.
Did you like that article? Should the series be a regular feature of this blog? Let us know through your comments.
Who is she?
From an early age she was a poor girl who grew up with a blind father and without a mother from the time she was 5. She became a migrant worker in Shenzhen at age 15, working in companies close to Shenzhen University so that she could take part time courses. She took a lot of classes and eventually got certified for accounting, computer operations and customs processing.
She got a job working for a firm making watch parts and when the business folded up, she started her own business in 1993. It was in 2001 though that she got her first big break making mobile phone screens for a big company called TLC coporation.
What is she known for?
Although this name is not quite familiar but she might just be the reason you are scrolling so easily on your android or Apple device. In 2003, she founded the company Lens Technology. Lens Technology is a company that makes touch-screens. Lens Technology supplies touch-screens to leading electronics makers like Apple, Huawei and Samsung Electronics. The new Apple watches are said to use her company's glass and sapphire crystal screens
In 2015, she was known as the most richest woman in China worth about 10 billion dollars. Now she's currently worth6.4 billion dollars.
Her biggest regret?
Not learning English.
So next time you hold your android or Apple device in your hands scrolling through whatever, have in mind that she, Zhou Qunfei might just be part of the whole team that put made that device function for your use.
Did you like that article? Should the series be a regular feature of this blog? Let us know through your comments.
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