Karen Lopez

Current

• Member at AITP Standards of Conduct and Ethics Committee
• Member at AITP Legislative Committee
• Owner, Sr. Methodologist, Project Manager, Data Architect at InfoAdvisors

• Community Manager, InfoAdvisors Discussion Groups at InfoAdvisors, Inc.

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Past

• Director of Professional Standards at Canadian Information Processing Society
• Sr. Methodologist at Pacific Information Management
• Sr. Information Engineer at CACI

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Education

• Purdue University

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Company

Karen Lopez’s Summary

I have twenty years of experience helping large organizations manage large, multi-project information technology programs.

I really love my work and enjoy networking with others who have experiences to share.

I also available as a spokesperson for Information Technology issues.

Karen Lopez’s Specialties:

Project Management, Information Management, IT Methods and Methodologies, Information Privacy, ARTS Data Model, Data Modeling, Process Modeling. Industries; Retail, Energy, Health, Government, Defense.

Karen Lopez’s Experience

• Member

  AITP Standards of Conduct and Ethics Committee

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2006 — Present (2 years 6 months)

• Member

  AITP Legislative Committee

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — Present (8 years 10 months)

  As a member of the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP), I help draft position statements on pending and existing legislation related to the use and abuse of technology.

• Owner, Sr. Methodologist, Project Manager, Data Architect

  InfoAdvisors

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 1993 — Present (15 years 7 months)

  Added value to the information resources of the following organizations:
  
  - BJ's Warehouse Club
  - Nike, Inc.
  - The Forzani Group (National Sports, SportChek, Coast Mountain Sports, etc.)
  - Shop.org
  - Les Schwab Warehouse Center
  - Embarcadero Technologies
  - Double G Gas Services
  - Hollywood Entertainment/Hollywood Video/Game Crazy
  - Boscov's Department Stores
  - LL Bean
  - Canadian Tire
  - Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment
  - H&R Block Finanical Services
  - National Retail Federation / Association Of Retail Technology Standards
  - Enbridge Consumers Gas
  - Union Gas
  - Centra Gas
  - U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines
  - U.S. Defense Logistics Agency
  - U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative
  - U.S. Executive Branch
  - Santa Clara County
  
  Several years of project management on development, package implementation, and infrastructure deployment projects.
  
  Several years of IT methodolgoy tailoring and deployment.

• Community Manager, InfoAdvisors Discussion Groups

  InfoAdvisors, Inc.

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1990 — Present (18 years 10 months)

  Moderator of the InfoAdvisors Discussion Groups:
  
  - Data Modeling & Data Management
  - CASEwise Users
  - DB/Artisan Users
  - ER/Studio Users
  - ERwin Users
  - Visible Analyst Users
  - Rational Data Architect
  - PowerDesigner
  
  There are over 5,000 subscribers to these discussion lists. We accept job opening postings for a fee.

Additional Information

Karen Lopez’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Company

Karen Lopez’s Groups:

CIPS, ACM, AITP, IEEE CS, PMI, DAMA, IRMAC, ARTS

•    PMI Information Systems SIG (ISSIG) 6300+
•    Purdue Alumni
•    DAMA International
•    AMS_Alumni
•    Project Management Institute Group - 5,000+ Members
•    Canadian Information Processing Society
•    aitp - The Network of IT Professionals

Karen Lopez’s Honors:

2006 Gary Hadford Professional Achievement Award, Canadian Information Processing Society. Recipients are recognized by their peers for their integrity and expertise, for their outstanding achievements in fields related to information technology and for their high degree of competence in their field.

Karen Lopez’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch