Meet The Staff

Yulia Ovchinnikova

Founder

She's wonderful. And very professional.

Yulia Ovchinnikova, PhD is a growth & business development professional, tech entrepreneur and strategist, a thought leader, educator, consultant, and a community manager, primarily working with the technology and Internet industry. Yulia helps to build the Hudson Valley tech community by participating with and contributing to many local organizations including, the HVTM (1500+ members), the Google Developer Group HV (700+), running HV Startups business workshops (400+) and founding local Coding MeetUP (300+). She is a key-connector for Hudson Valley tech entrepreneurs and a recognized leader of the tech community.

Yulia was the first women elected to the Top Level Country Internet Domain .RU Council and the first women elected as president of the Russian Foundation of Open Source Software. She starts as web-developer in 1995, and she was leading web-development teams across all her following jobs, including publishing platform (IKS-Media), consulting (KPMG), few startups (Rosa Lab and iTrend), As a team lead she won a Google Hackathon’s audience award in 2015.

She holds a PhD in Economics from Russian Academy of Science and an MA in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science from Moscow State Technical University of Electronics & Mathematics.

Dmitry Pavlov

Senior Advisor, Mentor

Dmitry Pavlov, tech entrepreneur and software engineer with 20+ year of experience in developing Enterprise Imaging IT systems. His software installed in thousands of hospitals worldwide. Dmitry desinged, developed, deployed software from small applications to large scale IT systems. In 2000 he joined a tech startup Dynamic Imaging where he designed and led the product that was rated #1 in the industry for multiple years. Later the company was acquired by GE Healthcare.

Since then he worked at different positions with GE Healthcare Digital, developing and deploying IT systems for hospitals worldwide.

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl
OS: Windows, Linux, Solaris
Databases: SQL – MySQL, MS SQL, Sybase, Oracle, Informix
Author of 3 US patents
Dmitry has MSc in Electrical Engineering from Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering & Electronics, and Innovation and design training course at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.

Shannah White

Web Master, Mentor

Shannah is an active Website Developer supporting local businesses in the Hudson Valley from local professionals and craftsmen to web agencies and mid-size businesses. She began her journey into World Wide Web technologies in 1998. She is versed in HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and Photoshop. In Content Management Systems, she has fallen in love with Drupal, but also has experience in WordPress, Zen Cart, Shopify, and Squarespace. She has written a custom ecommerce CMS from scratch, and maintains other custom CMSs for some of her client base.

In addition to her technical skills, Shannah has always been passionate about understanding the human experience and achieving clear and kind communication in all manner of relationships. This passion has found satisfaction both in marketing and in teaching. Shannah has found increasing pleasure in analyzing the user experience aspect of website development, and how best to design for optimum honest and effective communication of a business' message to its niche market. She finds teaching at OpenHub rewarding because she enjoys empowering people to gain important skills for their personal business goals and livelihoods.