Leslie Chapman
As a distinguished engineer at Comcast, Leslie Chapman doesn’t have any direct reports.
“People often ask me if that means I have no influence,” she said.
But the experienced technologist does impact some of the corporation’s biggest tech decisions. She’s worked on the broadcast giant’s TV products for big and small screens, and she aims to be an “influencer” to those around her even when she’s not directly in charge of them. Thus, there are a few tactics she’s picked up about becoming an important and influential member of a technical team as an individual contributor — like starting with name recognition.
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