(Narrative Bio below)
Information Management/Information Technology Consultant
to information intensive organizations, providing
Strategy, Policy, Design, Implementation, Problem Solving
Advisor/Interim CIO to start-ups
Lawyer
Visiting Fellow at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab,
Decentralized Information Group
Founding Chair of the new AI, Robotics, & Law committee
of the American Bar Association
Senior Advisor to Federal and State agencies
on technology and technology policy
Former MIT Sloan Fellow in Innovation and Global Leadership
Former CIO of a post-9/11 federal task force handling large scale data
Former officer of Morgan Guaranty Trust
responsible for new technologies and processes
Former Assistant Dean & Adjunct Professor,
University of Arizona College of Law
Member of NY, DC, and Arizona bars
Bio
In recent years, K has been an independent consultant, advising or providing interim leadership to corporations, government, start-ups, and a project building new web technologies at MIT.
Early in her career, K was on the design team for a new IBM outsourced services and storage business; an officer of Morgan Guaranty Trust managing data centers and special technical projects; she then became a trial attorney and in-house legal advisor. K returned to her technology roots when she became inception CIO of the first post-9/11 task force created by President Bush, served as the interim chief operations executive for the reorganization of FBI Intelligence infrastructure, and represented the Department of Homeland Security in high level negotiations to set the requirements for interoperability of federal data systems.
She has built and managed staff, budgets, data centers (hardware, software, and communications), facilities, and other operational assets. K has evaluated thousands of vendors, for the features, performance, and usability of their products; quality of their work, financials, and leadership. As an attorney, K has handled employment, liability, and business cases; she also spent one year advising an FBI office on the day-to-day handling of criminal investigations.
Integrating her business, technology, operations, and law skills, K has produced results for organizations with sophisticated needs. K directed the fast-track build of a $75 million state of the art data facility, directing more than 400 employees and contractors, negotiating a 17% reduction in vendor pricing, and using pc blade technology that produced an 80% reduction in key future costs. In another role, she had matrix management authority over more than 1,000 employees and formulated and justified a $1+ Billion operational budget for that world-wide organization. She has managed risks through the construction of secure, distributed, physical, and virtual facilities, establishing appropriate backup and recovery strategies and continuity of operations plans and policies, as well as deploying risk models and algorithms for internal audit and assessing external customers.
She has led the design and implementation of many software applications including those to integrate legacy and commercial data; to disambiguate individual identities including multiple transliterations of names and addresses; to data mine large repositories for patterns or specific facts, and to produce visualizations of data too voluminous for individuals to otherwise comprehend. She has led projects involving global collection and distribution of information.
K is a high energy individual, having attained both her MBA and JD through fulltime day programs while continuing to work fulltime. At MIT, she was the first Sloan Fellow to simultaneously be awarded a 100% research appointment. While studying management of technology, she wrote about real-time analysis of employee emails for compliance; as a law student, she authored an in-depth paper on the loss of confidentiality caused by data integration.
Willing to travel extensively, K has a facility for learning basic words and phrases in any language. Most recently, she has done so in Turkish, Chinese, Khmer, and Lao.