Windsornative Lillian Reaume is back home with advice from tech giant Amazon for up and coming professionals
People interested in the tech sector are being told they need to be mobile.
One of the speakers at the WeTech Alliance-Chamber of Commerce technology showcase at the Caboto Club earlier this week was Windsor-native Lillian Reaume.
She is now Director of Human Resources at Amazon.
Reaume says the community is far different than when she was a business graduate from the University of Windsor.
"In fact I'm just surprised overall for tech," says Reaume. "The Windsor I left is not the Windsor I see today, this has been hugely inspiring, the interest is inspiring. It's been a change, it's been amazing."
Reaume says she needed to be mobile for her own objectives.
"I knew I couldn't pursure my career goals here. I knew I had to leave to companies that had bigger jobs and that was the sad part, because I didn't really want to leave and then I came back and then I left again because I knew my career was going to plateau if I stayed," says Reaume.
The panel also included IBM Vice President Cognitive Solutions Debbie Landers and GM global Manager Partner Relations Daphne Jacobs Zargar.
Reaume is a graduate of Kennedy High School and earned an MBA at the University of Windsor in 2000.