97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know

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in 2005. Kim was also an early adopter of Ruby on Rails and is a Golden
Spike alumna of the Pragmatic Studio Ruby on Rails Training Course. In
addition, she is a member of the Northern Virginia Java Users Group and
Ruby Users Group.
Kim has experience with every aspect of the software engineering life cycle,
including requirements analysis, design, human/computer interface (HCI)
design, code development, and verification/validation. She has served as a
project manager, technical lead, and/or software engineer for over 30 web
applications for various commercial, nonprofit, and government clients.
These projects included basic websites, intranets, e-commerce applications,
content management systems, and complex web-based survey tools to cre-
ate customized surveys with full multilingual support.
Kathy MacDougall (Erie, Colorado, U.S.)
Kathy MacDougall is chief business architect at Zepheira, which provides
solutions to effectively integrate, navigate, and manage data across per-
sonal, group, and enterprise boundaries. As chief business architect, Kathy
is responsible for analyzing clients’ current business architecture and mak-
ing recommendations for improvements to ensure successful adoption of
new technology implementations.
Kathy has extensive experience leading enterprise-wide initiatives to help
companies evaluate, manage, and leverage their corporate data to increase
revenues and uncover new business intelligence. Successes during her
20-year tenure in this field include creating data-based and knowledge
management solutions for companies ranging from $500 million to $11 bil-
lion in size, including such names as General Electric and Sun Microsystems.
Since 2000, Kathy has been implementing solutions using semantic web
technologies. At Sun Microsystems, Kathy and her team led the first known
large-scale corporate implementation of semantic web technologies, which
provides the foundation for dynamic delivery of content from across the
organization. With the proper combination of technology and business
infrastructure in place, Sun was able to achieve an estimated cost avoid-
ance of $10M annually. Kathy and team were invited to provide their expert
perspective on the role of semantic web technologies in business solutions
at W3C’s Technical Plenary in 2003.
Kathy is a graduate of Colgate University and has extensive training in
processes improvement and effecting organizational change, including
background in Six Sigma methodologies.