Katy 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.
She is the Director, Business Process Architecture, for Sun Microsystems' CTO & Sun Labs organizations. She manages SEED - Sun Engineering Enrichment & Development - Sun's Engineering international mentoring program. Katy has worked for Sun since 1984 in Engineering, Marketing, Quality, Operations, Legal, and Sun Labs. She has worked as a Sigma Master Black Belt for CTO and Sun Labs since 2002.
Katy has a patent in electronic commerce (2000) and a defensive patent publication on the SEED process (2004) as well as two other patent applications. She and has published articles on Shakespeare, ecommerce, and process development. 1992-2004 she was a lecturer and reviewer for the University of California at Berkeley's Engineering-110 ("Venture Design: The Start-up Company") class. She is Deming-trained, and is a certified auditor for both ISO9000 and TickIT quality management systems. She was certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt in September 2002.
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 or managed include the
SDF - Software Development Framework (life cycle process), SAC/ARC - System Architecture Council and Architecture Review Committees, TAC - Technology Architecture Council, TAB - Sun's external Technology Advisory Board, SEED - the Sun Engineering Enrichment & Development world-wide mentoring program, Archivist - Sun Labs' document archiving and clearance system, the Global Product Engineering Cost Tool, the Productivity Project, and the External Awards project.
Her research interests include Process Architecture, Product Life Cycle Systems
Education:
* BA English 1979, University of California at Berkeley
Cover photo from the "Home Depot Willow Glen family purchases 30-ton caboose" Willow Glen Resident story of May 25, 2007 was one of four pictures on the Willow Glen Resident cover, December 28 (v.21 I - (Dec 28, 2007)
Panel Chair "Girl Geeks in High School – Technical Experiences of Future Inventors" Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, 17-20 October 2007 - (Oct 17, 2007)
Official Conference Blogger, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007 - (Oct 17, 2007)
Interview in: "Making IT Work for Women - Four women tell how they've survived and flourished in the IT culture." by Mary Brandel, August 06, 2007 (Computerworld) - (Aug 6, 2007)
Cover story: "Home Depot Willow Glen family purchases 30-ton caboose" (cover story), By Mayra Flores De Marcotte, May 25, 2007 Willow Glen Resident - (May 25, 2007)
