kathleen forden

career experience:

director of product development – scrummaster – strategic internet advisor – project manager – technical project manager – product manager – programmer – marketing manager – organizational development consultant – ecommerce director – business owner- serial entrepreneur

dream jobs:

innovation advisor (emerging technology) – social entrepreneur

keywords:

hard working – intelligent – fast – producer of ideas – futurist – mother – daughter – wife – strong values – lover of life

whom am i:

• since i was a young child I always felt that my purpose in this life was and is to be a catalyst

• someone who pushes the boundaries set by “standard thinking” = thinking that is based on a partial perspective of what is reality

• my mission has been to be a “spark” to many of the people i have encountered who have not yet fulfilled their dreams

• i am a person who

* discovers the full 360 degrees of an item
* can spot trends within technology and society
* makes connections
* creates ideas
* creates and implements plans to bring them to life
* fixes problems

• i think on different levels (so I have been told) than the average person, as I can visualize in multiple dimensions and explain it in two

• i love the internet and am passionate about emerging technologies

my proudest moments (to date):

• dreaming up and coding my first software application with three coders overseas when I was 19

• working with the NFL and the Super Bowl XXX Host community being the technology representative for 3,000 of the world’s media

• meeting and presenting the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, with a Peace Initiative for One Day of Peace sponsored by UNESCO

• delivering my son and raising a fine, honorable, intelligent, young man

my life line:

1979 – Started my first business
1980 – Dismantled and rebuilt my first IBM XT PC
1981 – Started college courses while in high school
1983 – Worked in the medical field full-time while attending college full-time
1985 – Decided my chosen path of becoming an attorney was not the correct one
1985 – Started my second business
1988 – Started my third business
1989 – Worked with various organizations creating organizational process and technology solutions
1991 – Helped set up the RI Free Net with members of the IEEE
1994 – Created my first website and put out my shingle to build sites for others
1997 – Guest speaker for International Association regarding Travel and Tourism’s Internet Future
1998 – Started my fourth business
1999 – Achieved goal of having an award winning development and design company
2000 – Survived the Internet bubble by going smaller and more specialized with core group of long standing clients (with company until 2010)
2003 – Launched first of three ECommerce sites still actively selling today
2009 – Worked with Apollo Group as Web Producer for Phoenix.edu
2010 – Sold ECommerce sites to private corporation
2011 – Accepted position with WebPT as Product Manager

those I’ve learn from:

Cliff Stoll – “Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighborhood, my community. Author of the ” The Cuckoo’s Egg”

Linda Stone – ” The Internet is a place that embraces humanity and serendipity and supports rich social interaction, as well as recreation, information, and productivity.”

David Gelernter – Professor of computer science at Yale, chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies, contributing editor at the Weekly Standard and member of the National Council of the Arts.

Tim Berners Lee – Invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread

touch base:

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