Date: February 15, 2021

Time: 12:30pm-1:20pm

Location: Klaus (Bldg 153) Rm 1447

To join remotely: https://bluejeans.com/987636040

Speaker: Kendrick Treadwell

Speaker’s Title: Program Manager, Google

Speaker’s Affiliation: GT alumnus, 2010 B.S. EE

Speaker’s Work Location: Atlanta, GA

Abstract of Talk:
Kendrick Treadwell discovered his talent for planning and organizing as a student at Georgia Tech. He sought to create a career capitalizing on this skill in the tech industry without the need to be technical. In this seminar, Kendrick will share his journey from an Electrical Engineering student to a successful Program Manager at Google, while making a real-world impact and developing leadership skills as a driver of diversity and inclusion intiatives at the company.

Biographical Sketch of the Speaker:
Kendrick Treadwell manages the operations of a global team as a Program Manager for Google Developer Studio, an in-house creative agency that partners strategically with Google’s product areas (e.g., Android, Google Chrome, etc.) to create content and experiences to educate, inspire, and inform software developers around the world. Kendrick was most recently 1 of 9 alumni featured in the Georgia Tech College of Engineer’s fall 2020 Helluva Engineer magazine article “The Rising Stars of Engineering,” representing the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

In addition to his core role at Google, between 2016 and 2020 Kendrick served as Co-Lead of the Atlanta chapter of the Black Googler Network (BGN), one of Google’s Employee Resource Groups established to support Black employees and their allies by fostering success in the Black community internally at Google and externally in the communities Google serves. Kendrick is currently part of a team leading Google’s multimillion-dollar initiative to help improve the Black community’s access to education and economic opportunity in its developer ecosystem, and increase equity, representation, and inclusion across Google’s developer platforms. He also mentors a Georgia Tech student who has interned at Google over consecutive summers.

Kendrick has been employed at Google since 2015 and works out of the Atlanta office. Prior to his current role, he worked as a Program Manager for Google Fiber from 2015 - 2018 helping launch and operate the Google Fiber networks in Atlanta and Huntsville. He also worked as a Program Manager for Google Cloud’s global Professional Services Organization from 2018 - 2020.

Prior to Google, Kendrick worked at AT&T as a Project Manager in its Network Operations organization from 2012 - 2015. He interned at Microsoft in 2008 and graduated from Georgia Tech in 2010 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He earned a M.S. in Management from Wake Forest University in 2011. Kendrick became Project Management Professional (PMP) certified in 2016.