Carol Dekkers, CMC, CFPS, PMP, P.Eng

Carol is a respected technology expert who keenly bridges business, technology, and cultural intelligence for corporate success.

Leading information technology expert renowned for her ability to bridge business needs, technology, and cultural intelligence to achieve successful outcomes. By successfully combining a background in engineering and communication with a common sense and culturally astute approach to global technology, Ms. Dekkers has established herself as a leading expert, author and presenter.

She frequently keynotes software, technology, and quality conferences in her presentations. Her reputation as a high quality expert and presenter has earned her invitations to speak in over 20 countries, and her presentations have been translated into a wide variety of languages including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, French, and Finnish. Carol's client list is a veritable who's who list containing Fortune 500 companies, governments, and public administration. She works with those companies who are serious about achieving success through technology.

She is most frequently retained to work with companies to build better software - on time, on budget, and that meets the users needs! Her most popular workshop titles include: -Cultural Intelligence - Success with the People Side of IT Globalization; -GeekSpeak - Communicate with Software Developers with Confidence! -Secrets of Highly Effective Measurement Programs; -You can't Measure Us! and other Myths about Measurement; -All I Need to Know about Process Improvement I Learned by Watching Football; -Unleash the P.O.W.E.R. (an acronym) to Improve; -Requirements are the Size of the Problem - a Management Look at Software Projects; -Creating Consciousness: Knowing the questions to ask to get the software you need!

As an international technology expert, co-author of with over 60 published articles, and hundreds of international industry conference presentations to her name, Ms. Dekkers expertise and style make conferences a success. She is available for speaking and workshop engagements worldwide.

Topics customizable for your group and geography to meet the specific goals of your venue. Carol is an accomplished keynote speaker and has been featured in both 2007 and 2008 by SAP (Germany) at their Global Quality Day.

Carol's Topics:

• Unleash the POWER of Quality;
• ....of Measurement;
• Maximize IT!
• Future of Proj. Mgmt.

• AXA
• SAP
• Compass America
• Bank of America
• ConWay Transportation
• Pershing
• RIM

• The IT Measurement Compendium: Estimating and Benchmarking Success with Functional Size Measurement;
• Program Management Toolkit for software and systems development;
• Over 60 published articles

Carol's affiliations include:

• PMI
• ASQ
• IFPUG
• ICMCI
• NSA
• NSA CF
• APEGGA
• IEEE