Kimberly Kusumoto

Kimberly Kusumoto is a Technical Project Manager with 20 years experience working in the public, private and U.S. government technology sector. Upon graduating with a B.A. in Economics in 1993, Kim took on a Junior Accountant position for a U.S. Government contracting company in D.C. After being approached by a technical recruiter, she was excited to start a new career path working as an assistant to a Technical Project Manager for a UNIX hardware and support contract at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Kim's daily duties was mostly project management duties for the project - budget management, status reports, administrative team tasks. At that time, Kim was not familiar with terms such as hardware, Unix, World Wide Web but after reading UNIX 101, DNS etc books, practicing script writing/admin task with a Sun UNIX login, using HotDog101 HTML software and using WWW Mosaic (pre Netscape). This was the beginning of Kim's technology road map. When the 2 year contract ended, Kim would have been reassigned to another project, however, she took on a challenging opportunity at a small private company as a UNIX ERP server/application administrator plus other desktop support duties. The company, knowing that Kim was very green, sent her to AIX Admin and BAAN ERP training. She supported 40 users , printers and WYSE terminals and co-supported a Windows NT 3.0 email and file server. Kim's next adventure found her in the consulting world as a Development Server Room Administrator for a Supply/Demand Planning software company as the 'back-up queen" for various UNIX flavor servers, Windows NT 4.0 and even a legacy OS2 server. She also attended the various NT 4.0 Certification classes and assembled/installed software for PC desktops. Introducing how to use the Mouse to the Mainframe developers was an interesting training class. Kim's next assignment was a Test Lab Manager for a new I.R.S. remittance platform project. Being the Test Lab Manager was part of the QA Development Team, this was Kim's introduction to Software Development life cycle. Performing configuration management, defect management and managing the code deployments for testing was a new skill set to add to her resume. This opened the door to another Test Lab Manager position at the NASD (FINRA) managing a pre-prod certification testing lab and eventually building out and managing a 2000 sq foot Y2K test lab. Next stop on the road map brought Kim to a major credit card issuer, managing enterprise call center platforms of up to 10k users and revenue generating data projects. 7 years later Kim found a new opportunity to work at a major, international Health publishing company which she focused project management and new knowledge with clinical and pharma smart content ( linked data, taxonomies), content management, search, ecommerce and managing projects transforming from print to electronic and web to mobile. Kim was also part of the Agile Transformation SOE team at that company as the role of scrum Master for one of the first Agile teams and later scrum of scrums.  Next, Kim joined the Project Delivery team at a small Health Advocacy company, a subsidiary of a major communications company. Her title is Project Portfolio Manager and also has the role of scrum master and scrum of scrums for various web and mobile platform projects. Implementing Scrum practices for the mobile delivery showed a significant increase in faster delivery with MVP features that were priority to the customer. Outside of work, Kim is a board member of Haverford Township Rotary  helping making her local and international community a better place to lice. Kim also served as the Social Media Chair for the local Rotary District. Her other volunteer work includes leading a township beautification project for HPED (Haverford Partnership for Economic Development)  and past Technology Chair - Board of Directors for as Technology Chair for NWCT ( Network of Women with Careers In Technology).