Convergent Research
Kari Graham has a diverse range of work experience. Kari is currently the Head of Operations at Convergent Research. Prior to this, they worked at Raytheon Intelligence & Space as a Chief Engineer and IPTL, where they were responsible for technical direction and team execution for a high-speed encryption product line. Kari also served as a Systems Engineer at the same company. Before that, Kari worked at The Boeing Comp as a Manufacturing Engineer and Lead Validation Engineer, where they developed build plans, integration schedules, and re-plans based on resource availability. Kari also served as a Manufacturing Planner, where they developed and maintained manufacturing work instructions and bill of materials. Kari also has experience at C&D Zodiac as a Lead Product Support Engineer and Product Support Engineer, where they created departmental project schedules, managed daily tasks, and developed technical solutions. Kari has additional work experience at Coldwell Banker Morris Real Estate as an On Call employee, and as an Intern at Archinoetics, LLC and Abney Solar Electrix.
Kari Graham received a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and Japanese from UCLA in 2006-2011. Kari then went on to pursue a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University from 2014-2016.
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Convergent Research
New types of organization are needed to accelerate scientific progress. Academic research groups and startup companies are essential to science and technology development. But there are some projects they just aren’t suited for. A university astronomy lab couldn’t have launched the Hubble Space Telescope on its own, nor would a venture-backed startup have built the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Hubble and CERN illustrate a common pattern in science: a need for projects that are bigger than an academic lab can undertake, more coordinated than a loose consortium or themed department, and not directly profitable enough to be a venture-backed startup or industrial R&D project. Focused Research Organizations (FROs) are a new type of scientific institution designed to fill this gap.