Bio
Kim Hobson is the Systems Management Group Leader in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Division (NND) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where she manages staff responsible for IT project management, software quality assurance, and IT operations. Ms. Hobson joined the Nuclear Security and Isotope Technology Division, Nonproliferation Systems Group at ORNL in December 2012, as an IT Project Manager. In that role, she led multiple IT projects, served as an IT advisor, and provided operational analysis for National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiatives. She is a seasoned PMI-certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with over 30 years of diverse commercial and government experience including in the intelligence community. Ms. Hobson is also the Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Manager for NND and is responsible for providing SQA guidance to Division staff as well as assessing policy compliance. She is a senior advisor to the NNSA Program Management Information System, Generation 2 (G2) project (a major capital IT project visible on the federal IT dashboard) and is a member of its leadership team. Ms. Hobson received her B.S. in Business Administration from The University of Tennessee, earned an MBA from Trident University, and is a trained meeting facilitator. Ms. Hobson is also certified in Infrastructure Technology Information Library (ITIL) Foundations and is a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agilist.
Prior to joining ORNL, Ms. Hobson was employed by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for nearly 25 years, where she participated in a wide array of software development projects, led a training group and a user support helpline, managed a technical writing group, and was an IT project manager. Her last major contribution at SAIC was to manage a strategic project instituted by the Governor of the State of Hawaii to baseline information and technology services for the State’s Executive Branch.
Ms. Hobson has authored project management articles, been an invited speaker at project management and Agile conferences, and has contributed to U.S. Department of Energy as well as Government Accountability Office (GAO) publications.