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Hello, I'm Ellen Sundra.

I'm the vice president of global systems engineering at Fourskout Technologies. Well, I always gravitated toward technical toys.

I was the one that asked for the mechanical robot and then promptly took it apart to see how it worked.

So I migrated in that direction when I was younger.

When I went to school and in college,

I found that I migrated towards the math classes just purely because I had better grades in math than I did in English.

So before I knew it, I was halfway on to a computer science degree,

and then I was off and running.

Music science degree, and then I was off and running. When I graduated college, it was in the early 90s, so there wasn't a lot of options that I was aware of at the time.

I started as a tech assistant in an architectural firm, just doing a little bit of

programming and helping them with their computer systems. Shortly after that, Windows 95 was

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