About
- Technical evangelist, community strategist & manager
- Author of technical articles, blogs, documentation, and marketing communications
- Product and project management for a wide variety of software applications
- QA team lead and management on 50-plus diverse product releases
- Over 15 years in the software industry in a wide variety of capacities
- Excellent oral and written communications skills in multiple languages
- Married, with a beautiful wife and child
- Awards: SAP Top Performer in 2005 and 2006; Top Talent (top 10%) in 2007; Team Professionalism Award; MVP Innovation Award
Short work bio …
Moya Watson has been working in the software industry in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1991. Since 2001 at SAP, she has been forging innovative approaches to communication of all kinds, from standard documentation to online Web 2.0 evangelism. She is currently a Technology Evangelist and Online Community Strategist in the BST Innovation Center, and enjoys fostering innovation — and the products thereof – via communities of all kinds within SAP.
Outside of SAP, Moya is passionate about the potential that online organizing brings to the causes of social justice and equality. She blogs at http://moyawatson.com/.
Recently in the media …
- Live Chicago public radio broadcast — Vocalo; June 11, 2009
Leanne and I are interviewed about Prop 8, our marriage, and our family, and get to “speak to the heart” of an undecided moderator (our bit starts at ~6:55) - ‘A Pale Victory’: S.F. Woman’s ‘08 Marriage Still Legal — But She Finds it Hard to Rejoice — SF Weekly, May 26, 2009
I’m interviewed about the day’s CA Supreme Court decision that upheld Prop 8 - Some Celebrate While Others Deplore Court Decision — NBC Bay Area; May 26, 2009
In which (at about 1 minute in) I openly state that “I wept” when I get the court decision - Tomasky talk: California votes on Prop 8 — guardian.co.uk; October 29, 2008
Leanne and I are interviewed on the upcoming Prop 8 vote by the Guardian’s Michael Tomasky. We were sitting at Cafe Flore for the interview, next to campaign HQ where I was volunteering. - Lesbian Couple Hopes Third ‘I Do’ Proves Charm — NPR; June 13, 2008
Melissa Block interviews us on “All Things Considered” about our wedding(s) and the upcoming Prop 8 vote. - Why This Baptist Minister Supports Marriage Equality — CLGS; February, 2004
Jim Lowder talks about hearing from us on our first wedding day, in February 2004 in San Francisco. Jim and his wife Jerene later married us, legally, in California in 2008.
Contact: moya /at/ moyawatson /dot/ com
photo credit: jim sugar
