Help reach underrepresented communities through the story of my journey as a black technologist.

A Black Journey in Tech

Dwight D. Jones Sr

Dwight Jones is a 35-year technical professional. A career top performer with a strong technical, program and service management background. Dwight has designed, managed, and supported server, network and telecommunication systems for companies such as WH Smith, Waterstones Booksellers, Bank of America, Norfolk Southern Railway and BellSouth Internet Services. For 19 years, Dwight has been a Microsoft employee starting as a network engineer with MSN Global Network Services (now Azure), then taking a customer facing role as a Senior Engagement Manger for Microsoft TV bringing AT&T (U-verse) to market. Later Dwight became a Service Engineering Manager for Microsoft Digital, where for the past 13 years he has been supporting many enterprise technologies including: Network Access Protection, IPsec, Radius, VPN and Certificate Services. In March 2014 Dwight began working with the End User Services Engineering, where he continued as a Senior Service Engineering Manager where he led tier 3 engineering support, Livesite and Problem Management processes for o365 technologies: Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Exchange for Microsoft's internal users. Dwight was recently promoted to Principal Program Manager where he leads the Employee Experience team responsible for proving to the world that Microsoft can support government programs safely and securely in the Azure Government Cloud. Over his career Dwight has received numerous commendation for thought leadership, outstanding delivery and above and beyond customer service.

There is an underrepresentation of blacks in technology also referred to as the digital divide. However, the truth of the matter is that Black people throughout history have always contributed to technical advancement. The problem I want to solve is that the numbers of Blacks in technical jobs today are despairingly low. I believe that this is in part due to the contributions of Black people in tech being obfuscated. When you cannot see yourself in a role, you make the assumption that there is not place in tech for me. As a result, Black people are largely missing out on the opportunity and benefit that working in high tech is providing to the world. Did you know that the VOIP technology that allows us to meet in Zoom or Teams calls, the Electek microphone in your computer and mobile device and the first digital cell phone were contributions by black inventors? I believe this message and many other similar stories including my own could be the genesis of an idea that could propel or encourage the next generation to their success in technology. Objective: My objective is to encourage anyone one, but more specifically the next generation of technologist particularly black and brown people by sharing my story.

I want my book to be a must read for anyone interested in technology. Particularly for high school and college students, or those looking for a career change. I want to speak to young people to share the story of blacks in technology I want to use the book as a catalyst for technology camps across the world for the underrepresented inner city high schools students and where there are trouble youth searching for a path

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