Women in Leadership Program

Marcia Yates

Active Term: 05/2023 - 05/2024

Areas of Expertise

• Winning Work-Life Balance & Mentoring
  
• Improving Communication Habits
  
• Skills for Contracts & Negotiations
  
• Driving Ideas, Intellectual Growth & Transformation
  
• Transformational Vs. Transactional Leadership

Consulting CTO & Software Architect

Ksandr Software Consulting

Marcia Yates has been a software architect, technical manager, a CTO, and a CIO over her long 40-year career in high technology. She is currently an independent consultant. Her most recent full-time position was Principal Software Architect at Veranex/Ximedica, a medical device development company in Providence, RI. Over the past 20 years, Marcia has held senior contributor and executive positions in biotech companies and research institutes – including Ximedica, Philips North America/Innovation Lab, Claritas Genomics, PatientsLikeMe,

​Good Start Genetics, Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the Whitehead Institute. But she has a very diverse background that also includes avionics, real-time process control, financial services, and process manufacturing. Marcia is first inventor on three broad software patents and earned her master's degree in Computer Science from Boston University, where she teaches a graduate course on Enterprise Architecture.

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