Lisa-Ann Barnes is the president and founder of IreeTec Incorporated, a company that specializes in improving organizations' project management processes and skills. She is considered an expert in project management, speaks at industry conferences, is quoted in trade publications, and is co-author of Client/Server and Beyond: Strategies for the 21st Century, published by Prentice Hall.

With over fifteen years experience in Information Technology, Lisa-Ann Barnes has gained strong business and technical skills, with an expertise in project management. She has developed a proprietary approach to project management and has implemented it in various positions, industries, and countries to successfully deliver projects / products, improve project management processes, and mentor teams.

Lisa-Ann began her career with Accenture and implemented mainframe and client/server applications for companies in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, and Mexico. She then moved to Accenture's CASE tool software foundation, FOUNDATION, where she applied her project experiences to solving customer's problems with software development and project management processes. In 1994, she joined Corporate Computing International where she served as Chief Methodologist and Product Development Manager. During her tenure with Corporate Computing, Lisa-Ann developed an object-oriented development methodology with a heavy rapid application development flavor, and a corresponding project management methodology. The methodology was presented in a desktop project management tool, complete with scheduling and estimating functions. During this time, CCI was rated by the Gartner Group as one of the leading consulting companies in client/server development techniques; the firm was acquired by LBMS in 1995, which has since been purchased by Computer Associates.

In late 1994 Lisa-Ann founded IreeTec Incorporated, which helps organization create a culture of project success. IreeTec improves the project manager's effectiveness through products, training, and consulting services. Software products include MiMentor, which is a knowledge-base of project management best practices; introduced in 1999, it has been adopted as part of project management development programs at several large companies. Consulting engagements have resulted in:

• Improved efficiency of Information Technology organizations through changes in structure, alignment with business, implementation of development of methodology and tools
  
  
• Improved management of projects in software, engineering, and pharmaceuticals development disciplines through implementation of project management offices, including processes, tools, procedures, training, and staff
  
  
• Improved project management skills of over two hundred professionals through long-term mentoring, on-the-job training, and training courses
  
  
• Successful project implementations, such as a major business process re-engineering, packaged software implementations, custom web-based project reporting applications, and various training/documentation development initiatives

Lisa-Ann is also the chairperson of CompTIA's Cornerstone committee that is responsible for setting the direction of the Project+ certification program. She also serves on the board of Women In Technology, Chicago chapter as the chair of entrepreneur activities.