Stephanie Kruger

program manager, Community Connector, and Product Management in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Stephanie Kruger

program manager, Community Connector, and Product Management in San Juan, Puerto Rico

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

I am a Sr. Project/Program Manager for a High Profile Telecommunication Company. As a project manager I work hands on with wireless technology, and wireline technology delivering on time complex projects.

As a program manager I build customer relationships and love making sure the customer are happy doing business with us. I manage about $12 million in revenue.

Currently I am learning to become a front end developer focusing on UX and shifting to Product Management for agile software development.

Community Work

Passionate about developing new streams of entrepreneurship in Puerto Rico I am part of the local Startup community and advocate of economic development and increased participation of business development.

Founder and host of Puerto Rico Women in Startups a Puerto Rico network that focuses to provide a open space for Puerto Rico women to share experiences, create relationships and invest in each other. Women Techover focuses on the increase participation of Women in technology fields and STEAM within the network.

Since February of 2014, I am the Co-Founder and Co-Captain for Code 4 Puerto Rico. Code 4 Puerto Rico, a Code for America Brigade in Puerto Rico, it is an international network of people committed to using their voices and hands, in collaboration with local governments, to make their cities better. We love Civic Hacking!

Hackathons

Co-hosted, organized and designed multiple Civic Hackathons 2013 to 2016. Co-organized the 2015 Puerto Rico Tech Summit Hackathon, and independent coding events. Co-organized and hosted the 2016 Puerto Rico Cuenta Hackathon with the US Census Bureau.

Public Speaking

2015 Tech Summit Community Track Speaker "Code 4 Puerto Rico impacting our citizens”

2015 TedX speaker at University of Sacred Heart - “civic hacking the world is your hands”

Honors

Recipient 2015 H3 Tech Conference: Community Builder Award.