Kristie is a Human Factors Consultant at Concentrix.  She holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Auburn University, where she studied human centered computing under the guidance of Dr. Juan Gilbert, a prominent member of the Speech community.  Kristie has worked on speech applications for numerous clients and is a co-inventor on a patent, “Method and System for Creating Natural Language Understanding Grammars”.  She's been working in this industry since 2004, has been a member of the AVIcD board for 5 years (currently Vice President), and has presented multiple talks at SpeechTEK conferences in the past.