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- Current career position:
I will retire in July after a varied and enjoyable 25-year career
in Engineering and Computer Science. My latest assignment is as
a Systems Architect/Systems Engineer in the Broadband Switching
Concept Center at Lucent Technologies in Naperville, Illinois.
In this job, I've worked in a team of 17 people to plan the new
features that will be added to a hardware and software platform
that's just now being released. This platform is being used as
the basis for other groups in Lucent to build many other applications
- mostly for Wireless Telecommunications. My title is: Distinguished
Member of Technical Staff (DMTS).
- Education:
I have a B.S. in mathematics and an M.S. in computer science
from the University of Oklahoma. I've also taken 1-3 weeks of
technical classes each year at Lucent and attended and/or presented
papers at many conferences.
- The most exciting part of my career:
Our research into designing a future architecture for the Telecommunications
Network has influenced several Lucent products. One of the most
exciting parts of my job was applying that research in our "Forward
Looking Work" group. There I pulled together a small team of people
with a broad range of expertise, and we began to design a prototype
for a brand new product that uses some exciting leading edge technology.
Another great experience was serving as the co-chair of the Real-time
Committee at the Object Management Group (OMG). I worked with
some leading technical people from all over the world. We created
a "roadmap" of what needed to be done to improve the Common Object
Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), so that it could be used
in real-time, embedded computer systems. Over time, we created
standards for many of these capabilities. It's been rewarding
to watch lots of companies all over the world build and sell new
software products using those standards.
- The toughest barriers to overcome to arrive at my current
position:
I've had to work hard to learn to "sell" my ideas. One of my biggest
frustrations has been that it's often been difficult to get buy-in
to some of the new ideas I've proposed. People are often reluctant
to change what they've been doing to try out new things.
- Background info:
My husband and I have two adult daughters and a son-in-law.
I am a member of Women in Leadership at Lucent (WILL) and it's
Technical Women's Group. I am deputy director for Region H in
the National Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and I am a member
of the Strategic Planning Committee and a Past President of the
Chicago Section of SWE. I support the research and patient outreach
work of the Kidney Cancer Society. I sing in our church choir,
and I am president of their Questors Sunday School class. I enjoy
bridge, golf, travel, and theater.
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