Gwendolyn Bell Darby, PMP, Honored by Cambridge Who's Who
Gwendolyn Bell Darby worked on the LANA language project and provides invaluable IT services to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
ATLANTA, GA, June 17, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Gwendolyn Bell Darby, PMP, Senior Project Manager for Northrop Grumman Corporation, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in business operations management.
Gwendolyn Bell Darby, backed by over three decades of professional expertise, is an authority on process improvement and leadership development. She now celebrates her fifth year as a Senior Project Manager for Northrop Grumman Corporation, where she manages projects pertaining to hardware, software and networking. Ms. Darby also offers information technology consulting services for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She holds a master's degree in behavioral psychology from Georgia State University, a bachelor's degree in cultural anthropology concentrating in business culture, a certification in project management from the Project Management Institute (PMI) with advanced project management training and a certificate from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. She is also a licensed amateur radio operator specializing in emergency operations and field communications through the Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES) organization. Her call sign licensed by the Federal Communications Commission is KE4PWU.
In an exclusive interview with Cambridge Publishing, Ms. Darby recollected two achievements that she today considers to be the highlights of her career. From 1974 to 1978, she worked on the LANguage Analogue (LANA) project led by Duane Rumbaugh and Tim Gill. This study analyzed one chimpanzee (named Lana, after the project) to discover that "she could discriminate between lexigrams, sequence words grammatically and make novel utterances, demonstrating language learning." Her associates on this project, she noted, were "great and brilliant." While working for the state of Georgia Public Health Program, Ms. Darby also worked on location at the Center for Disease Control when the first 100 cases of HIV broke out amidst severe budget cuts to Public Health at the national and state levels. During these tumultuous times, she was proud of her outstanding service in conceiving, developing, and managing many of the first statewide information technology systems in Public Health for the State of Georgia. These systems brought better information to both the national and state programs and their funding by Congress and the legislature to promote better health care for all citizens. She credits her success in similar and on-going endeavors to the support of her husband, daughter, mother, friends, and mentors.
In addition to her work in information technology, Ms Darby is an avid artist. She has studied with Jennifer Julian in photography and Gail Novak in watercolor. After studying with Julian, her digital photographic image was accepted in a highly competitive and juried exhibition "Picturing Home" at Emory University's Visual Art Gallery in 2009. Her accepted work centered on documenting family culture, a continuation of her early interests in cultural anthropology. Photographic jurors were well-known Julian Cox, curator for Atlanta's High Museum and Jason Francisco, director of the Arts School at Emory University. She continues in early 2010 with other photographic images being accepted in juried competitive exhibitions in "Evolution" and at Cumming Festival of Arts.
Moving forward, she will seek to focus more on her photography and watercolor painting, while setting time aside to travel and document culture. A member of Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Project Management User Group, she lends her support to the American Red Cross and the Girl Scouts of the USA. She actively continues her interests in project management by recently completing the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business and Advanced Strategies, Inc.'s Certificate of Completion in Project Management, a nationally recognized program for developing outstanding Project Managers.
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