Karen Lopez

Current

• Member at AITP Standards of Conduct and Ethics Committee
• Member at AITP Legislative and Regulatory Affairs 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

Recommended

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Connections

487 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• Follow me on Twitter
• My Blog

Karen Lopez’s Summary

I have more than 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 (3 years 3 months)

• Member

  AITP Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Committee

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — Present (9 years 7 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 (16 years 4 months)

  Clients:
  
  - BJ's Warehouse Club
  - Nike
  - H&M
  - The Forzani Group (National Sports, SportChek, Coast Mountain Sports, etc.)
  - Shop.org
  - Les Schwab
  - Embarcadero Technologies
  - Double G Gas Services
  - Hollywood Entertainment/Hollywood Video/Game Crazy
  - Boscov's Department Stores
  - LL Bean
  - Canadian Tire
  - Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment
  - Ontario Land and Resource Cluster (Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Ministry of Natural Resources)
  - H&R Block Financial 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

• Community Manager, InfoAdvisors Discussion Groups

  InfoAdvisors, Inc.

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1990 — Present (19 years 7 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
• Follow me on Twitter
• My Blog

Karen Lopez’s Groups:

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

•    InfoAdvisors Members
•    Women 2.0
•    The Enterprise Architecture Network
•    Global Program and Project Networking Group (9400+)
•    Semantic technologies
•    Retail India Group
•    Purdue Alumni
•    Retail IT Network
•    DAMA International
•    AMS_Alumni
•    Certified Project, Program & Portfolio Managers
•    Hispanic IT
•    Retailers Industry Management Group: Merchandising, Finance, Supply Chain, E-commerce, IT Technology
•    Energy & Utilities Network
•    Alpha Phi Omega Networking
•    Canadian Information Processing Society
•    Database Developers and Architects Group
•    ACT-POS POINT OF SALE
•    Data Architecture Professionals
•    Retail Industry Professionals Worldwide
•    aitp - No matter how sophisticated the technology, it still takes people!
•    Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity (non-official)
•    Data Geeks
•    Data Governance & Stewardship
•    Retail Technology Exchange
•    Shop.org Members
•    PMI Greater Toronto Information Systems Local Interest Group
•    Purdue Univeristy - Computer and Information Technology (CIT, CPT)
•    Semantic Universe
•    Retail Business Intelligence
•    Public Sector Consultants in Ontario
•    Women in Retail Leadership
•    Enterprise Data World
•    Sentences ADBMS
•    Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS)
•    Morgan Kaufmann
•    ABPMP Global - Association BPM Professionals (Official Group)
•    Retail Think Tank
•    SOA Modeling

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.

ACM Senior Member (since 2009)

Karen Lopez’s Contact Settings

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