Meet Kayt

Registrar @ Turing

She's just this girl, y'know?

• Born in Virginia, grew up in Massachusetts & North Carolina
• Half English (mom), Half American (dad)
• Eldest of three - two younger brothers
• Taught myself to read at 3 1/2 and was precocious af in grade school
• Have degrees from North Carolina State University (BA, MA history) & Baylor University (MA museum studies)
• Started in the museum field but then pivoted to technical writing
• Have worked in the code school space for 7 years
• Current stats, 22 moves in 22 years

Who Am I?

It's Turing's Suburban London Office!

TL; DR

• INTJ, 'Architect'
• Living with Mental Illness (GAD, MDD, PTSD)
• Always trying to get the most out of my 'spoons'
• Enjoy defying convention
• Unrepentant band dork, history nerd, geek girl

The Quick Overview

A Kayt in the Wild

(me @ work)

Strengths

• Can be left unsupervised
• Enjoys data entry and fun with Excel
• Adaptable

Weaknesses

• Can get possessive of projects
• Often needs time to process
• People pleaser

Doing My Best Work

• Feedback is an area of opportunity for me
• Specific, Actionable & Kind
• Please don't say 'can we talk?' 'do you have a minute?'

Stressed? Me?

• I'll probably just tell you

Giving Feedback

• Clear goals, tasks & deadlines
• Space

Favo(u)rites*

Books:

• Nearly anything by Georgette Heyer
• The Blue Sword, Robin McKinley
• The World We Have Lost, Peter Laslett
• Ralph Tailor's Summer: A Scrivener, His City and the Plague, Keith Wrightson
• Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor
• Legendborn, Tracy Deonn

*current as of this writing

Favo(u)rites*

Movies:

• Persuasion (1996)
• Amadeus
• Hot Fuzz
• Clue
• Palm Springs

*current as of this writing

Favo(u)rites*

Activities:

• Wandering
• Looking at architecture
• Cross stitch
• Video games
• Writing
• Reading
• Playing with gadgets

*current as of this writing

Fun Facts

• I have sung at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center
• I've been published in an anthology of (then) recent research in museum studies
• I once sold an external hard drive to Clay Aiken