Who We Are: Katy Dickinson

Chief Analyst, Software Development Trends, at Huawei Technologies

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 Chief Analyst, Software Development Trends, at Huawei Technologies, in Corporate R&D. Prior to joining Huawei Technologies Katy Dickinson was 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 began working for Sun since 1984 in Engineering, Marketing, Quality, Operations, Legal, and Sun Labs. She reported to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

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 designed and/or managed included 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.

Officers

  • Telle Whitney, – President and CEO
  • James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & COO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer, Vice President & Corporate Secretary

Corporate Counsel

  • Allison Spinner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Staff

Our Founder

Board of Trustees

  • Leah Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ramsburg Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, Board Chair
  • Francine Berman, Vice President of Research and Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Vice Chair
  • Robin Abrams, Investor
  • Anushka Anand, Ph.D Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director and COO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer, Vice President and Corporate Secretary
  • Mark Bregman, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Neustar
  • Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
  • Nancy E. Cooper, Retired, EVP and Chief Financial Officer, CA Technologies
  • Kelli Crane, Senior Vice President of Global Enterprise Information Solutions, LexisNexis
  • Nora Denzel, Senior Vice President, Big Data, Social Design and Marketing, Intuit
  • Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President of Knowledge, Google
  • Penny Herscher, President and CEO, firstRain
  • Kathy Hill, Senior Vice President, Development Strategy and Operations, Cisco Systems Inc.
  • Tracy S. Keogh, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, HP
  • Sarah Loos, Ph.D Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Brian Pawlowski, CTO and Senior Vice President, NetApp
  • Richard Rashid, Chief Research Officer, Microsoft
  • Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow and CTO, Intel
  • Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering, Facebook
  • Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund
  • William Wulf, Former President, National Academy of Engineering
  • Telle Whitney, President and CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
  • Margaret Ashida, Emerita (Term: 2003- 2009)
  • Linda Bernardi, Emerita (Term: 1996 -2006)
  • Wayne Johnson, Emeritus (Term: 2002-2008)
  • Maria Klawe, Emerita (Term: 1996-2011)
  • Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)

Individual and Organizations

Board of Advisors

  • Ann Redelfs, Redelfs LLC – Co-Chair of Advisory Board
  • Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM
  • Linda Apsley, Principal Group Program Manager, Xbox Live Services, Microsoft Corporation
  • Pamela Arya, Vice President of Intelligence Solutions, A-T Solutions
  • Nina Bhatti, Senior Principal Scientist, HP Labs
  • Gail Carmichael, PhD Student, Carleton University
  • Krista Claude, Head of Product and Content Technology, Thomson Reuters Core Legal
  • Anne Condon, Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
  • Katy Dickinson, Chief Analyst, Software Development Trends, Huawei Technologies
  • Catherine Didion, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering
  • Allan Fisher, Vice President, Laureate Education
  • Gilda Garreton, Principal Engineer, Oracle Labs/Oracle
  • Mark Guzdial, Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Anne Hardy, Vice President Developer Evangelism, SAP Labs
  • Robin Jeffries, Google
  • Allyson Kapin, Founder, Rad Campaign and Women Who Tech
  • Chandra Krintz, Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara
  • Cindy Lain, Software Engineering Manager, Cisco
  • Ellen Lapham, Entrepreneur and Designer, Innovation Ventures
  • Wei Lin, Senior Director, Engineering Consumer Business Unit, Symantec
  • Patty Lopez, Component Design Engineer, Intel
  • Karin Meyer, Intuit
  • Carol Muller, Senior Consultant, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; President, Blue Sky Consulting
  • Radha Nandkumar, Senior Research Scientist Director, ICARE – International and Campus Relations, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Sabina Nawaz, Nawaz Consulting, LLC
  • Elisa Camahort Page, Co-Founder and COO, BlogHer
  • Claudia Pearce, NSA
  • Tracy Prentiss
  • Mary Ramsey, Lockheed Martin
  • Nancy Ramsey, Author, The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century
  • Kathy Richardson, Consultant
  • Ruth Stergiou, Principal, Planning Dynamics, Inc.
  • Audrey Van Belleghem, Director, Office of the CTO, NetApp
  • Sheila Van Groningen, Vice President, Airborne ISR, Cyber Intelligence Division, Northrop Grumman Information Systems