Yulia Ovchinnikova, Founder, Senior Marketing Consultant
Yulia Ovchinnikova
Founder

Yulia Ovchinnikova, PhD is an economic 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 woman elected to the Top Level Country Internet Domain .RU Council and the first woman elected as president of the Russian Foundation of Open Source Software. She started as a web-developer in 1995, and she lead web-development teams across all her following jobs, including publishing platform (IKS-Media), consulting (KPMG), a few startups (Rosa Lab and iTrend) and as a team lead she won the 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
Senior Advisor, Mentor

Dmitry Pavlov, tech entrepreneur and software engineer with 20+ years of experience in developing Enterprise Imaging IT systems. His software is installed in thousands of hospitals worldwide. Dmitry has designed, developed and 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 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.