Biography

Ms. Richards has been an Affiliate Faculty in Computer Information Systems since 2003. In 2012, she was awarded a MSUD Certificate of Excellence for her dedication and commitment as an instructor to the First Year Success Program. She is an independent management consultant leading teams to develop strategies and solve business problems for small to medium companies. Working with various platforms and architectures, topologies and business applications, her strategy is making "change" work for the organization's personnel. Thereby, through applied knowledge-transfer, they understand their mission and add value to the organization. Functional expertise includes leading conversion teams and prioritizing requirements and targeting elements for the project. She advises and supervises implementation of enterprise applications such as ERP, CRM, SAP, Internet Access/Cloud Computing, Security and Disaster Recovery. Stabilization of distributed computing platforms are a specialty. Clients include retail, automotive, child care facilities, construction, accounting and telephony organizations.

She is a member of the National Association of Communication Systems Engineers since 1995, serving as Chair of the Data Networking Board of Standards for three years. She is a Certified Network Consultant and a Certified Netware Engineer.