Who We Are: Katy Dickinson

Director, Business Process Architecture CTO and Sun Labs at Sun Microsystems

Katy-DickinsonKaty Dickinson creates then communicates measurably effective long-lasting corporate infrastructure and processes. Her specialty is acting as a change agent to resolve persistent and complex organizational problems.
Katy Dickinson is the Director, Business Process Architecture: CTO & Sun Labs organizations. She served as a Master Black Belt 2002-2004 and was formally certified as a Black Belt in September 2002. Katy has worked for Sun since 1984 in Engineering, Marketing, Quality, Operations, Legal, and Sun Labs. She now reports to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). She has the unusual distinction of having been promoted from Sun Job Grade 1 through Director without leaving Sun.

She has a patent in electronic commerce, defensive patent publications on the SEED and Archivist processes, and has published articles on Shakespeare, ecommerce, and process development. Since 1992, Katy Dickinson has been an instructor each semester for U.C. Berkeley Engineering-110 (”Venture Design: The Start-up Company”). She is Deming-trained, and is a certified auditor for both ISO9000 and TickIT quality management systems. She was graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a BA in English with high honors and distinction. Her thesis was on King Lear. She is a PADI-certified Advanced Open Water Diver.

Sun-wide processes which Katy has designed and/or managed include the SDF - Software Development Framework, SAC/ARC - System Architecture Council and Architecture Review Committees, TAC - Technology Architecture Council, the document archiving and clearance system for Sun Labs (”The Archivist”), SEED - the Sun Engineering Enrichment & Development program, and the Global Product Engineering Cost Tool.

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  • William Wulf, Ph.D., Former President, National Academy of Engineering, Board Chair
  • Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund - Vice-Chair
  • Margaret Ashida, Director, Diversity and Workforce Programs - IBM Software Group
  • James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund - Treasurer & Vice President
  • 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
  • Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College
  • 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
  • Linda Bernardi, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
  • Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)

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