Chief Technology Officer
ThoughtWorks

Dr. Rebecca Parsons is ThoughtWorks’ Chief Technology Officer. She has more years of application development experience than she cares to admit, in industries ranging from telecommunications to emergent internet services. She has extensive experience leading in the creation of large-scale distributed object applications and the integration of disparate systems. ?? Before coming to ThoughtWorks, Rebecca worked as an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. She also worked as a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory researching issues in parallel & distributed computation, genetic algorithms, computational biology & non-linear dynamical systems. ?? Rebecca received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Economics from Bradley University, a Master's of Science in Computer Science from Rice University and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University.