Dr. Ana María Tekina-eirú Maynard was raised in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in the suburbs of La Isla (Bronx, New York). Growing up first generation on the mainland, she was the first in her family to go to college. She finished with a Doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Today, Dr. Maynard combines her 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry with over 15 years of leadership in the non-profit sector to deliver applied research, innovative workshops and presentations, and consulting services spanning a wide range of disciplines through her company, Flametree Corporation. Her applied research in STEM to STEAM Education is developing a pilot program of innovative, hands-on project based-learning to inspire K-12 and Adult learning excitement for STEM education through Arts. Ana María's expertise in cultural competence and the training of global leaders has been honed through 20 years of real-world experiences in high tech industry, including IBM Austin Research and Development, that have given her a diverse wealth of project-critical skills to leverage in the training of leaders where multicultural local and remote global teams, outsourced teams in remote emerging markets, as well as the influence of multicultural decision makers are critical to success.
Dr. Maynard received a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering at Brooklyn Polytechic University, and her Doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon under Dan Siewiorek. Her PhD sponsor, the AT&T Cooperative Research Fellowship Program (CRFP), gave her opportunities to conduct applied research internships at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, during graduate school summers in computer systems, small circuits, software performance and tools. Her Masters-degree research at NASA Langley Research Center, focused on the validation of SIFT, a highly reliable multiprocessor system for aircraft control. Her pioneer PhD Research "Investigating the Utilization of Idle Time in High Performance Processors" is known today in the computer architecture field as Multi-threading.
Dr. Maynard's technical leadership matured through her 20-year career at distinct IBM Research and Development organizations where she was given rich and diverse project leadership opportunities requiring multicultural savvy across local, remote and outsourced interactions at all levels. Her skills were formalized with education through the acclaimed IBM Leadership University, the IBM Micro MBA program, and others. The University of Texas at Austin recognized her with a Trailblazer Award (2003) for her 6 years of development and directing of the site-specific, IBM Austin Center for Advance Studies research partnership program. This $1M/year annual program paired and facilitated collaborations with universities around the world, with IBM technical groups and Executive funders across IBM R&D. Her technical focus at IBM included team leadership in applied research projects that spanned multicultural groups in local, global and outsourced locations, as well as projects that required support and/or adoption of project results by multicultural decision makers, from managers to IBM Executives. Her technical expertise and published works span a variety of hardware, software, systems, performance, and project service including: analytic modeling of computer architectures and memory subsystems, full system and trace-driven simulation, workload characterization, and system-level hardware performance analysis of future system designs for commercial markets. During her last tenure at IBM, Ana María was a Researcher at the IBM Research Human Ability & Accessibility Center, where she filed numerous patents for her innovations in Globalization and Multilingual Support of Human Language Applications through Machine Translation.
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