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Hello. My name is Rashada.

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I’m an enterprise account manager at Amazon Web Services based here in London.

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I work with our customers to advise them on cloud technology,

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and the best solutions to solve their business problems.

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I engage with a range of people in the organisation,

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from the senior executives, to those who are developing the technology

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to produce great results for their organisation.

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I also talk with those who are thinking about ideas, and possibly in marketing

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or in sales, about how they can solve their business problems with technology.

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So what is cloud computing?

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Cloud computing allows you to have access to IT resources on demand.

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So that’s whenever you want to access them.

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From not a physical device, but from an online platform.

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So some of the challenges

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that I help my customers to solve, for example, could be forecasting.

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How do my customers know what are the best products

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to put in particular stores at the right time?

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So I could talk to them, for example, about Amazon Forecast,

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which is a tool that helps our customers use AI,

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which is artificial intelligence, and machine learning models

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to build tools to find out which products are the best fit

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for a particular store in a particular region.

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For me, that’s a really exciting thing to do.

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I completed my A-levels in pure maths,

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English and human biology, and I absolutely hated college.

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I’ve got to say, I didn’t enjoy it at all, and I think that was probably reflected in my results,

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So I didn’t do quite too well at A-levels.

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But I did manage to secure a place at university,

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and I was fortunate enough to read law, so I read law at university,

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because I wanted to actually to be a lawyer.

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But I was always interested in how things worked and the way technology worked.

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So one of my options at university, while doing law,

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was to take a minor in business studies and technology.

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So that’s what I did, and that’s really what gave me the insight

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into what a career in technology was all about.

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So I’ve had a number of different roles in a number of different organisations.

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I did my first year in Amsterdam.

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I came back to the UK I then had a series of different roles and I was promoted

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to a global business development manager, whilst working for that same company.

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I looked after our global clients.

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It’s really important that I listen to my customers’ needs and what they are asking for.

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I also make sure I really ask questions.

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It’s really important to be inquisitive, and to find out things that you wouldn’t ordinarily get to know.

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My advice would be to try everything and to fail quickly, and make a decision quickly.

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So if you fail, if you try something, and you don’t like it

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It’s not a failure. You just know you don’t like it, move on.

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If you don’t ever get the results that you want in something,

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try again and go for it anyway, because you never know

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where you’re going to end up.

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I am absolutely proud to say that that has absolutely helped me in my career today.