Judy Lee hails from the east coast where she earned her Bachelor’s (American History) and MBA degrees. She began her career in IT Technology at The Prudential, Merck, and Bell Labs. Judy moved to San Francisco to join Intel as Manager, Database Administration.
She moved into consulting, in positions from Project/Program Manager to CIO at companies such as Adobe, HAL Computing (Fujitsu USA), Bank of America, and Network Appliance, primarily as a Principal of the Systems Consulting Consortium.
While at SCC she co-authored, with James Spitze, the CMR article, “The Renaissance CIO Project: the Invisible Factors of Extraordinary Success,” named one of the top 15 articles of the decade, was a regular member of three CIO roundtables and served as an honorary academic member of the CIO Leadership program in the Haas School. She has chaired several Big Data and Machine Learning conferences.
After years in Silicon Valley, she enrolled at Golden Gate University to earn the Doctor of Business Administration degree and joined the full-time faculty. She is the recipient of faculty-selected awards: Outstanding Student of the Ageno School of Business, the Faculty Service Award, and the Nagel T. Miner Research Professorship, focusing on analytics education.
Drawing on previous experience, she developed and taught MS degree programs in IT Management, Project Management, and Business Analytics, all of which she oversees as Prof. and Dept. Chair of Business Innovation & Technology. Judy is also an active citizen of the GGU community, having served on the Faculty Senate, Chair of the Committee on Academic Standards, and currently Chair of the Faculty Personnel Committee.