SENIOR CONSULTANT, COACH, EDUCATOR AND TRAINER

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Future design, systems design, program design, organization and team design, education design, governance, leadership and management development, innovation, entrepreneurship, software engineering practices, information systems management, technology adoption

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Founder & CEO, The Find->It Company, Seattle, WA

• Director, Technical Services, Recreational Equipment, Inc., Kent, WA

• Founder and Partner, Community Technology Center, Hilo, HI

• Chief Information Officer, Cascadia Community College, Bothell, WA

• Various management positions, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA

• Systems Analyst, Tenneco, Houston, Tx., and Bakersfield CA

• Programmer,  California State University, Bakersfield, CA

RELATED EXPERIENCE

• Nominated as a Board of Trustee candidate for Puget Consumers Cooperative

• Candidate Evaluator, Municipal League of King County

• Board Member, Factoria Medical Clinic, Group Health Cooperative

• Precinct Committee Officer, 5th District, Republican Party

• Member, Future Directions Committee, St. Luke’s Lutheran Church

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor, Seattle Pacific University

• Adjunct Professor, Antioch University Seattle

• Adjunct Professor, University of Washington

• Adjunct Professor, Chapman College

• Adjunct Professor, Bakersfield Community College

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

▪ Leading Change and Innovation: Promoting Business Risk Assessment and Solutions to the CEO, INTERFACE 2004, Seattle, WA.
▪ Four Doors to the Customer Experience, ALEX 2004, Retail Industry Association Annual Leaders Exchange, Dallas, TX. 
▪ A Conversation about Leading, Following, and Service in a Complex, Interdependent World.  Presentation to Girl Scouts Eastside Totem, 2004.
▪ Innovation and Partnership.  Presentation to HP/Logicalis CIO/CTO Roundtable, 2004.
▪ Innovation and Technology Adoption.  Presentation to Oracle CIO/CTO Roundtable, 2003.
▪ September 2, 2014: The Possible Future a Woman, Presentation made to Women in Technology International, August, 2002.
▪ The Language of Leadership.  Presentation to the CEO Roundtable, Woods Creek Consulting, 2001.
▪ Does the Queen Have Magical Powers: Systems, Change, and Leadership.  Paper presented at the 6th International Conference of the UK Systems Society, Lincoln, England, 1999.
▪ Thinking Inside the Box.  Boeing Manager Magazine, 1998.
▪ Double Boxes and Hard Lines: Structural Coordination Mechanisms for Competence-Based Competition.  Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Competence-Based Management, Oslo, Norway, 1998.
▪ Managing Change, Providence Health Care System, Everett, WA, 1997.
▪ Developing Communication Skills for Leaders: A Theory-Research-Practice Approach to Curriculum Development, Seattle University, 1992.
▪ Environmental Data Management Systems.  Paper presented at the 15th Annual Aerospace and Defense Conference Proceedings, Institute of Industrial Engineers, Seattle, WA, 1992.

MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES

▪ Academy of Management (AOM)
▪ American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
▪ Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
▪ Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
▪ Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN)
▪ Organization Development Forum (ODF)
▪ Pacific Northwest Organization Development Network (PNODN)
▪ Project Management Institute (PMI)
▪ United Kingdom Systems Society (UKSS)

EDUCATION and CERTIFICATIONS

▪ Ed.D., Educational Leadership, Seattle University
▪ M.S., Software Engineering, Seattle University
▪ M.B.A., Organizational Behavior, Cal State Bakersfield
▪ B.S., Computer Science, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
▪ Certified Trainer, The Organization Workshop,™ Power and Systems, Inc.
▪ Certified Toast Master (CTM), Toastmasters.