IT Project Specialist
My birth country is Malaysia. I followed my parents to Japan and we stayed there for 4 plus years. Later, we moved to the Washington D.C./Virginia area for another 4 years. Ultimately, I ended up in San Francisco, where my heart has remained.
While in the Bay Area, most of my studies have been computer related which qualified me for an Information Technology position with Hewlett-Packard Company. My interest and passion for working in an IT environment has not strayed since. When Agilent Technologies spun-off from HP in 1999, I became a technical member of Agilent IT in the Network and Communications Group providing intranet web development support and information strategy solutions for the group’s global teams. Coming from an enterprise environment to a “small business-like” environment at Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, the challenges as the IT Project Specialist are just as demanding and the rewards more visibly obvious.
After experiencing my first Grace Hopper Celebration (2007) in Orlando, Florida, I am awed by the impact that this institute has made to women in technology. The different programs that are available through ABIWT are unparalleled. The dedication by all (staff and volunteers alike) is the key to the success of this institute and I’m happy to be a part of it.
Officers
- Telle Whitney, - President and CEO
- Catherine S. Kirkman, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati - General Counsel
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund - Treasurer
- Cindy Goral, VP of Operations
Staff
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO
- Cindy Goral, VP of Operations
- Jody Mahoney, VP of Business Development
- Jerri Barrett, Director of Marketing
- Alexandra Krasne, Development & Industry Partner Manager
- Deanna Kosaraju, Director of Programs
- BJ Wishinsky, Communities Program Manager
- Caroline Simard, Director of Research
- Kim McLeod, Program Associate
- Rachelle Siskin, Program Associate
- Kathy Gee, IT Project Specialist
- Amy Clark, Office Manager/Executive Assistant
Our Founder
Board of Trustees
- Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College - Board Chair
- Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund - Vice-Chair
- Margaret Ashida, Director, Talent - IBM Software Group
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund
- Francine Berman, Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego and Fellow, ACM
- Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
- Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Research and Systems Engineering, Google
- Penny Herscher, President & CEO, firstRain
- Kathy Hill, Senior VP Ethernet and Wireless Systems Technology Group, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Wayne Johnson, Vice President, University Relations, Hewlett-Packard
- Richard Rashid, Senior VP and VP Research, Microsoft
- Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow & CTO, Intel
- Cheryl Shavers, Former Undersecretary of Technology, Clinton Administration, & CEO of Global Smarts, Inc.
- Telle Whitney, President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
- William Wulf, Ph.D., Former President, National Academy of Engineering
- Linda Bernardi, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
- Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
Individual and Organizations
Board of Advisors
- Carole Dulong, Google - Co-Chair
- Allan Fisher, Vice President, Laureate Education - Co-Chair
- Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM
- Pamela Arya, Executive Director, Applied Minds, Inc.
- Nina Bhatti, Principle Scientist, HP Labs
- Katy Dickinson, Director, Business Process Architecture, Sun Microsystems
- Catherine Didion, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
- Penny Eckert, Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University
- Moira Gunn, MogoTech Media, Tech Nation
- Robin Jeffries, Google
- Ellen Lapham, Entrepreneur & Designer, Innovation Ventures
- Carol Muller, President and CEO, MentorNet
- Rebecca Norlander, Technical Assistant to the Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation
- Nancy Ramsey, Author, The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century
- Ann Redelfs, Redelfs LLC
- Kathy Richardson, Consultant
- Ruth Stergiou, Principal, Planning Dynamics, Inc.
- Sarah Revi Sterling,Student, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Janice Stockard, Visiting Professor, Mills College
