Contents
- About Annie
- Professional Bio
- Alternative Bio
- Talks & Presentations
- Bionic CIO
- How times have changed...
Alternative Bio
My professional bio talks about being CIO at University of Wisconsin-Madison and the career steps that I took to get there. It also talks about some of my national activities. I thought though, for purposes of this forum it would be fun to identify myself in a different way. So, here is a series of descriptors that I might use to describe myself in a women's group:
- Annie Stunden-born Ann Ellen Kairath
- Working class kid from Queens
- Fireman dad, mom was Irish potato farmer's daughter
- First college graduate in family (and by the skin of my teeth)
- Mother, ma, parent (another story), Aunt Ann, Granny Annie, big sister
- Friend
- Getting' Old (I’m about the same age as Gloria Steinem)
- Survivor
- Mentor and Mentee (often at the same time)
- Good colleague
- Leader
- Director
- Clear thinker
- Truth teller
- Risk taker
- Occasionally impulsive
- Proponent of beauty and order
- Recent Meyers-Briggs said ENTP
- Voracious reader (trash novels preferred)
- Gardener and quilter (when I have time)
- Fan of Dr. Seuss
- Bionic CIO
- Live with Mick (dog ) and Josephine (cat)
I could keep adding to the list - but that's a bit about me. I believe that my history is an important part of who I am, I relish the time I spend with my family and friends, and I truly enjoy the challenges inherent in leading large organizations - especially organizations that must continually learn and change as information technology organizations must. In addition, I like playing with ideas about truth and choice and self-awareness and how our stories contribute to our self-awareness. For me it follows that our self-awareness contributes to our personal and professional growth. I have worked with these ideas as a long time member of a peer counseling community and as a teacher and group leader at national leadership programs and at universities around the country.
And if you must know, I am a UCLA graduate from 1957 and a drop-out from a master's program in speech pathology in 1959. I've been in the computing field since then. It's before computer science was a formal discipline.
-Prepared for the Penn State University Commission for Women 01/24/02