Tamra M. Cronin

Tamra is a Silicon Valley veteran, from an era when consumer responsibility, safety, ethics and integrity mattered. She was tech engineer at PSI Modem, Global Village Modem, and Netcom Online Communications — the first consumer online services, which helped many "get online" and web browse for the very first time. You may have spoken with her or had your case escalated to her if you contacted either of the companies above.

After relocating to the Bay Area, as an office administrator, Tamra began creating automated apps to expedite redundant tasks and communicate schedules, inventory and customer data, including as a training coordinator at Cadence Design Systems. This led to her love of software engineering. Her Silicon Valley experiences include a variety of engineering, tech writing and office management roles, including at Lockheed-Martin, Applied Materials, LSI Logic and Netscape (web browser). Tamra joined Apple as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer, working directly with Anthony Parks, Jeff Williams, Vincent Lubet and other amazing Apple engineers who helped develop and release Apple's Open Transport/PPP software, which allowed many Apple users to dial out directly from their Mac to connect to the internet. Tamra then became a PalmPilot software quality assurance and release engineer, helping to release the PalmPilot 1.0, 2.0 and international versions, and she was the sole software tech engineer for the Expense app, working directly with its developer, the late Roman Babiak, to design, create and release the product.

Tamra relocated to the East Coast in 2000, working for a Rockefeller - Venrock.com investment, which opened her eyes to the lack of diversity in technology investments, leading her to become a fierce advocate for representation, marginalized and maligned workers, and inventors after inventing her own tech device and navigating the investment process as a woman of color.

Now retired, Tamra still speaks out on behalf of consumer safety, corporate ethics and responsibility, and marginalized and maligned workers, and speaks out against trademark exploitations for personal profit, while continuing to push for fairness, ethics and integrity in technology and innovation investments and employment.

Tamra was born and raised in New Orleans, and is a Native American, pre-slavery black American. She attended Loyola University (NOLA) and HBCU's Southern University (Go Jags! 💙💛 Beat Grambling!) She also spends her time speaking with women's and other support groups to share her experiences to create more empowerment among women of color, and in poor, marginalized and under-represented areas.