Kathleen covers content management and collaboration technologies for The 451 Group. She has nearly a decade of experience in the content management, portal and search industries. Prior to joining The 451 Group, Kathleen was an independent consultant and writer, working for publications including Portals Magazine, eContent Magazine and The Gilbane Report, as well as for software vendors including BEA Systems and FatWire Software.

Kathleen previously held product management and product marketing positions in Sun Microsystems' software division, managing search, portal and content management technologies and partners. Prior to joining Sun, she spent four years as an analyst at Giga Information Group (now part of Forrester Research), where she rose to lead Giga's coverage of the enterprise portal, search, content aggregation and information management markets.

Kathleen holds a Master's degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Rhode Island and a BA in History and Political Science from the University of Massachusetts.