Wendy Davis served on the Board of Directors for Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation for three years before joining the staff as Director of Marketing and Outreach. Upon graduating from Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA), with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Spanish, Wendy joined Shared Medical Systems, a healthcare information systems developer acquired by Oracle, as a software developer. From there she took her technical expertise and applied that knowledge as a Project Leader in Point-of-Sale Development for Pizza Hut and then as the Internet Product Manager for RCN Telecommunications where she wrote the business plan to build an ISP and develop RCN’s suite of Internet products. She was recruited back to YUM! Brands/Pizza Hut as a technical manager and then as an Ecommerce Project Manager where she managed the development of a VPN connecting over 2400 Pizza Hut restaurants with three national call centers, and the development of Internet ordering.
But her most important role is Mom to four children, two of whom, were born with moderate to profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and wife to Evan who suffered single-sided deafness about a decade ago taking the family to three of six with hearing loss. Her daughter, Dr. Caroline Davis, is now a board-certified Occupational Therapist with a professional working fluency in ASL. Her son, Clark, is a sophomore in Biomedical Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology who wants to develop technology to help people with disabilities. Wendy is also the Entertainment Chair for the Hearing Loss Association of America’s Pennsylvania Walk4Hearing which annually welcomes over 1000 attendees.