Hilda Soto:
CLASS OF 1987
Maryvale High SchoolClass of 1987
Phoenix, AZ
Hilda's Story
Life
It's hard to believe it's been 20 years since graduation! I went to Glendale Community College and ASU after high school. I received a BSE in Computer Systems Engineering, an MS in Information Management, and an MBA.
I've lived in Arizona, Idaho, and California. I now live in beautiful San Diego, CA.
I married Juan Don Lucas Ruiz, who I met at ASU, in 2002. We had our wedding reception at the Phoenix Zoo. It was a lot of fun!
We have two beautiful children. Noah Benjamin is now 14 years old, Maritza Karyme is 11 years old. I'm still in shock that *I* now have a child in high school. :D
I still love to travel. I travel quite a bit for work, including trips to Europe, ASIA, and throughout North America. I spent a month backpacking from London to Istanbul (Santorini Island, Greece was my favorite spot) my first year in grad school. I liked it so much I spent a month backpacking from Melbourne to Cairns, Australia during my second year. I received my basic scuba diver certification in Mexico and my advance diver certification in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
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My travel has dropped since I had kids (although Noah went on his first business trip at a tender age of 10 weeks!) although we did make it to Madrid and Paris to celebrate Noah's first birthday. Now we typically vacation in Florida. :D We love to "cruise" with ~12 trips in the Caribbean, Bahamas, Mexico, Alaska, South/Central America. and Mediterranean. We spent a month in Europe this summer - including a 10-day cruise around the Mediterranean. We really enjoyed visiting so many beautiful and historic places.
I started off my professional work experience at Intel in various engineering capacities. I spent ~17 years at Hewlett Packard Company in everything from IT to Marketing. I worked for Sony Playstation for ~1.5 years - but wasn't into gaming... so went to UHG/Optum to work on Natural Language Processing / AI products. After 2 years, a prior manager convinced me to join her at Mozilla as a Staff Engineering Program & Portfolio Manager for the Firefox products on the Android Operating System. It's great to be a part of the team keeping the Internet safe and free for everyone.
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