Kate Carruthers

Kate Carruthers has extensive experience in delivery of corporate web and e-commerce solutions for organisations such as AMP, GE and Westfield. She is deeply involved with open source and web 2.0 online communities.
Over the past few years Kate has worked with marketing teams to deliver integrated digital marketing strategies. Her focus is online collaboration, social media, digital integration, email and search marketing. Kate has done postgraduate work in management and e-commerce and is currently studying law part-time. She also has a strong back ground in 6 Sigma, process improvement & enterprise application development and is active working for industry and professional associations including:
* chair of Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society NSW in 2002-4 and 2007
* member of IEEE-Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering
* reviewer for Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
Kate is active in monitoring and tracking developments in web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, social media, and online collaboration. She is an educator and skilled facilitator. Kate blogs at http://carruthk.blogspot.com and has a personal website at http://katecarruthers.com.