Director, Business Process Architecture at Sun Microsystems
San Francisco Bay Area
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Katy Dickinson’s Summary
Katy Dickinson is the Director of Business Process Architecture: CTO & Sun Labs organizations. Katy has worked for Sun since 1984 in Engineering, Marketing, Quality, Operations, Legal, Standards, Strategy, and Sun Labs. She has worked as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt for the 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. 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.
Major Sun-wide processes and programs designed or managed by Katy include:
--2000-now, SEED - the Sun Engineering Enrichment & Development worldwide mentoring program - see "Sun Mentoring: 1996-2009" published 28 Aug 2009 at URL http://research.sun.com/techrep/2009/abstract-185.html
and "SEED: Sun Engineering Enrichment & Development" Research Disclosure Database Number 482013, defensive publication in Research Disclosure, June 2004
--2002-now, TAB - CTO's Technology Advisory Board (external advisors)
--2004-2008, Global Product Engineering Cost Tool (patent pending)
--1999-2002, TAC - CTO's Technology Advisory Board (internal advisors)
--2000-2002, Archivist - the document archiving and clearance system for Sun Labs
--1999, Sun Standards - "Submitting Contributions to an SSO" Process
--1996-1999, Electronic Commerce - Software Downloads, (U.S. Patent 6167568, 26 December 2000)
--1994-1996, SunSoft Corporate Strategy (for SunSoft President)
--1988-1996, ARC - System Architecture Council and Architecture Review Committees
--1985-1996, SDF - Software Development Framework (product life cycle process)
Katy Dickinson’s Specialties:
Katy Dickinson creates then communicates measurably effective long-lasting corporate infrastructure and processes. Her specialty is acting as an effective change agent who resolves persistent and complex organizational problems.
