Kathryn is a self-described Agile Evangelist and Chief Analogy Officer at Hewlett-Packard.  Kathryn began her career at Accenture in Washington D.C., has done service work in Guatemala, moved her family to Singapore and now calls the San Francisco Bay Area home. Kathryn has been practicing Agile techniques in it’s various forms for about 11 years in large and small companies and holds several Agile certifications that are meant to impress people. 

In her role at HP Kathryn works with teams that range from highly experimental teams in HP Labs to HP Server teams to Software Operations monitoring teams. Kathryn hopes to be a disruptive force for anyone who thinks that the way we develop products is just fine.