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Interview: Uchechi Kalu Jacobson
From the course: Web Career Clinic
Interview: Uchechi Kalu Jacobson
- [Voiceover] Hi I'm Lauren Bacon and welcome to this weeks edition of the Web Career Clinic where I explore how to build a career you love making good stuff on the web. Today I'm delighted to speak with Uchechi Kalu Jacobson the CEO of Linking Arts a New Orleans based web and mobile consultancy, as well as the cofounder and CEO of Wedocracy which is a virtual wedding planner for couples and guests. She is a web developer, a UX designer, a content strategist, and a poet. Uchechi welcome to the Web Career Clinic. - Thank you, thank you so much for having me. - [Voiceover] So you have worn a lot of hats, and you still do. You head up two businesses and you have a very broad skill set, so can you tell me a little bit about how you got into this industry and how you found your niche? - Yes. So I always say when people ask that poetry led me to technology. It might not seem like an obvious segway, but for me, if I give you some of the back stories, my career as a poet was a natural…
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Interview: Uchechi Kalu Jacobson25m 10s
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