OMAHA, NE, March 31, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Kay Wise has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals are selected based on their position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in their field.

Kay's career started in 1974, in the days of Arpanet and the UNIVAC 1100. On a grant to Creighton University from the Kellogg Foundation, Kay served as research associate to Steve Evans, who had been in the first artificial intelligence classes at Carnegie Mellon. Together Steve and Kay worked with faculty and with Henningson, Durham & Richardson to build an online, searchable health sciences curriculum using a semantic net.

Among Kay's most significant achievements was the design and implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for ACI while the company grew from 100 to 700 employees. Kay's design followed techniques in the U.S. Army Manual, Structured Systems Analysis and Design and in An Introduction to Relational Database Design by C.J. Date. System implementation employed Tandem's pioneering client-server architecture. ACI employees used the ERP system to catalog every piece of code needed to install an ATM or POS system as well as every problem reported and every fix released. Each employee entered time spent per product, per customer, and per administrative task. Each unit of code was tracked through the software development process and identified as part of a priced contract item sold to a customer. By the time U.S. West sought to acquire ACI, ERP reports detailed five years of profitability by product and by customer, proving ACI a worthy acquisition in 1986.

After leaving ACI, Kay founded The Wise Choice Consulting Co. where she designed and built an historical society library system, and a sawmill log inventory system using Novell Netware and Advanced Revelation, a DOS-based development environment built around variable-length fields stored in multi-valued structures. Active in the community during the early 1990s, Kay served on the board of the Douglas County Chapter of the Red Cross, and served the Omaha Chapter of the Data Processing Management Association (DPMA) managing Infotec '91 and Infotec '92, the region's leading technical conference.

As systems became more complex and roles more specialized, Kay found it advantageous to join a large corporation giving her wider opportunity to grow the management skills she had been learning from Gerald M. Weinberg and others during Consultant's Camp each summer. In 1992 Kay joined FDR where she oversaw a five-million-dollar fourteen-month upgrade of their heavily customized Oracle ERP system prior to the year 2000. The project came in on time and under budget. Later Kay initiated and led a software engineering process group (SEPG) covering eighteen hundred engineers following the Capability Maturity Model (CMM).

Kay retired from FDR in 2002 to pursue her interest in art, both painting and collecting. In 2006 she accompanied her husband to live in Dubai. While there, Kay studied art with Suheil Baddor, then photographed artifacts collected by Ahmed Al Mansoori. With Anneka Lessen, she collaborated to write The Gulf Trade Museum. while building a relational database inventory system for the Crossroads of Civilizations Museum.

Following her work with the museum, Kay joined the Dubai Public Policy Research Centre. The Dubai government had asked the Centre to answer the question: "What are the ten most important issues in Dubai based on media reporting and public comments. Picking up the challenge, Kay estimated the project then designed, contracted, and managed the solution. Using AI techniques as well as relational database and data flow design experience, Kay implemented a system allowing dozens of employees in multiple countries to record radio, tv, and print media opinions, and to track and rank associated public policy issues using Microsoft SharePoint with Datapolis workflow automation software.

Since returning to the United States in 2015, Kay has concentrated on website design and the publication of Positive Politics, describing how to use politics effectively with honor and integrity to advance the common good.

Ms. Wise's accomplishments have been recognized with several honors from being named among Outstanding Young Women in 1967 to this Marquis Who's Who in 2027. Reflecting on her career, Ms. Wise attributes her success to a habit of life-long learning, to curiosity around system requirements, and to finding fun in collaborative teamwork.

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