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Member Spotlight: Anne Kobus

It's easy to see why Anne was chosen as the member to highlight this month -- she's a savvy businesswoman, a development guru, a marathon runner, AND she's a mother of four!

Anne is currently Executive Producer at Interactive Development Corporation (IDEV) in Silver Spring. IDEV (http://www.idev.com) is a full life-cycle online development company. In her role as Executive Producer, Anne is responsible for supervising the production and graphic design staffs while providing senior-level consulting services to clients, in addition to serving on IDEV's executive committee. IDEV is exploding along with the rising tide of e-business: from ten employees a year ago, they now boast 28 and project to nearly double that in the coming year. Anne is enjoying the excitement and likes the challenges of participating in the executive committee of a hot development company.

Before joining IDEV, Anne made her mark as the founding Director of the Networked Media Center (http://nmc.georgetown.edu) at Georgetown University. The Networked Media Center is a division of the Communication, Culture and Technology graduate program designed to provide continuing education and hands-on training in interactive technology. Thanks to Anne's hard work and innovation, lots of Web Women, from the newbies to the divas, have been able to get the training and extra edge they've needed to stay on top of the new media game.

Like many of us in new media, Anne's background covers a broad spectrum of interactive media and design. She has a degree in Architecture and practiced this art until she and her husband began their family in the early 80's. With great support from her husband, Anne split her time between her family and teaching high school technical drawing classes, and later studying CAD and 3-D animation. By the early 1990's, she had her own 3-D animation consulting business -- and four children!

Her growing interest and talent in the burgeoning interactive environment drew Anne to The New Media Group (http://www.tnmg.com), and then to On-Line Communications, Inc., where she served as Vice President for Interactive Services. These positions and her directorship of the Networked Media Center helped Anne develop her skills in project and staff management, but her love of development eventually lead her to IDEV where she enjoys a mix of the two.

In addition to her work, Anne somehow manages to keep up with her four children, ages 11 through 16, and to squeeze in weightlifting and running to keep in shape (as if four kids aren't enough!). She credits this wonder-woman ability to her husband's superhuman household management skills, a topic she visited when speaking before the Women Opening Doors for Women event last summer.

You might ask: what has this wrrl NOT done? Well, she doesn't have a personal web site, but we can forgive her for that since she's been integral in the development of so many outstanding examples:

http://www.ms.foundation.org (through her role in the development of this site, Anne met with Gloria Steinem!)

http://www.stuartweitzman.com (see his shoes on the Millennium Vogue cover)

http://www.ultrastar.cncweb.com/bowie/history/outside/chars.htm (David Bowie's site)

And, she has been good enough to share with us some of the sites that help keep her on top of her game:

http://www.researchbuzz.com
http://www.intermarketing.org
http://www.1to1.com
http://www.digitrends.net
http://www.interactivehq.org

Curious to see who our previous member spotlights were? Check out our archives!

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