Linda Parker Gates

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Key Responsibilities

Linda Parker Gates is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the SEI's Acquisition Support Program. She has over 20 years of experience in software process improvement and related fields. Her current work focuses on acquisition improvement for government, civil, and intelligence agencies.

Professional Background

Ms. Gates has supported numerous government agencies in transitioning software process improvement strategies to their organizations. She specializes in process improvement implementation, technology transition, change management, and strategic planning. She has contributed to the development of major SEI technologies, including the Process Change Methodology, the Mastering Process Improvement training course, and the Defining Software Processes training course. Ms. Gates joined the SEI in 1989, specializing in process modeling, process definition methods, training, and consulting. Before rejoining the SEI in 1996, Ms. Gates was a Member of the Technical Staff at the Software Productivity Consortium in Herndon, Virginia. There she developed the Consortium's process engineering methodology and accompanying training course and worked with numerous industry clients.

Publications (recent or significant)

Strategic Planning with Critical Success Factors and Future Scenarios, CMU/SEI-2010-TR-037, November 2010.
SEI AJ Award Winner for Innovation as the Team Lead for the Veterans Affairs IT Strategic Planning, May, 2006.
SEI AJ Award Nomination for Innovation as a team member for Veterans Affairs CoreFLS Lessons Learned, April, 2005.