Staff Page for Kate Ambrose

Member of the Technical Staff

Administrative home

Acquisition Support Program

Key responsibilities

Ambrose works with Civil agencies and program offices in the Department of Defense to create mechanisms for gathering, analyzing and characterizing the state of practice in acquiring software-intensive systems.

Teams

Civil & Defense Agency Acquisition Improvement Team Risk Management Focus Team International Process Research Consortium Planning Committee Independent Technical Assessment Team Benchmarking for Improvement Team

Professional Background

Prior to joining the SEI, Ambrose was a research analyst specializing in business intelligence and investigations for two international risk consulting companies. As a development research analyst for Carnegie Mellon University, she supported corporate and foundation relations for the institutional advancement office.

Publications (recent or significant)

• CMU/SEI-2004-TN-002: A Roadmap of Risk Diagnostic Methods: Developing an Integrated View of Risk Identification and Analysis Techniques. Williams, Ambrose, Bentrem, September 2004.
• CMU/SEI-2004-TN-013: Risk Based Diagnostics. Williams, Ambrose, Bentrem, Merendino September 2004.
• Why Not Network Centric Acquisition? Monarch, Sisti, Capell, Blanchette, Ambrose, Conference on the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems, January 2004.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts, Seton Hill University
• Graduate coursework, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University
• Introduction to CMMI
• Continuous Risk Management
• Consulting Skills Workshop

Professional Memberships and Activities

• American Guild of Musical Artists

Contact Information

Electronic mail address: kma@sei.cmu.edu

Fax:(412) 268-5758

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