Sr. Project Manager

Lauren Wood, Ph.D., has a successful record as a project manager. She started with markup-based document publishing and content management and has led teams working on consumer-level software products as well as incubator projects in hardware, software, and cloud computing. Her focus in each project is giving the client the solutions they need for the issues they face, drawing on her breadth of experience in both enterprise-level and small-scale projects.

Lauren has a well-deserved reputation for motivating teams to produce their best work, ensuring that the resulting product is effective and usable. Part of this is her understanding of the relevant technologies and her background in programming, document design, and web applications, and part to her insistence that the solution being developed meet the needs of the ultimate users.

• Thorough grounding in web-based business models, including technology trends, business process, people and management issues
• In-depth understanding of XML-based standards and their uses in publishing a range of types of information
• Broad understanding of modern web-based infrastructure technologies, their advantages and disadvantages
• Competent facilitator and organizer of technical committees