When asked her advice for women who are just starting out their careers in STEM, she said, “Your view of the world is so valuable and needed - be outspoken and don’t let society silence you!” “And we need women in STEM to bring different perspectives and solutions to the world.”

“The mirror effect is really important - if you don’t see or know something, it doesn’t exist for you,” she said. Iglesias believes that a snowball effect will occur as more women and girls see themselves represented in technology careers. While the typical market for these solutions may have been for surveyors, part of her task is making these solutions more accessible and user-friendly - especially for non-experts. Today, she is a Senior Product Manager on Leica Geosystems’ Mobile Mapping System team, where she gets to satisfy her curiosity by understanding market needs and user problems and converting them into software features that improve the customer experience. “Slowly I realised this could be something I would like to do!” “I had a teacher who would let us explore our curiosity by having us build electric circuits or hydraulic systems,” said Iglesias. Iglesias’s interest in science began while she was in high school in Madrid, Spain. This week, we’d like to highlight some of our employees who are working behind the scenes to bridge the gap between reality and the digital world.Īmanda Iglesias, Senior Product Engineer, Mobile Mapping Systems

Through the visualisation of the physical world in a digital format, stakeholders in industries such as architecture, engineering and manufacturing can access accurate data for design, planning and production processes, for example. Reality capture enables the digital capture of the physical world, from distance measurements (point A to point B) to attributes of physical world objects (e.g., auto parts) to the creation of entire physical world environments in 3D (e.g., the complete infrastructure of a city). This blog series showcases just a small selection of the many women at Hexagon who are making history and leaving their mark on our company and industry. At Hexagon, we believe in celebrating and acknowledging the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

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