After five years of engineering school at the
University of Waterloo, Kim was still using Pascal to
implement binary tree data structures, and had made no progress at all in programming her parents’ VCR. Unable to reconcile being a techno-laggard with a full-time engineering career, she switched to management consulting and did stints in the business strategy practice of Braxton / Deloitte in Toronto and Paris, working mainly with telecom and banking clients. With time off for good behavior, she got her MBA at Stanford and spent the rest of the nineties putting the clicks into “bricks & mortar” clients for Deloitte. She joined an e-learning company and stayed there for three years. She is taking some time off, during which she hopes to write a novel, roll her kayak on both sides, and lead a 5’9” climb outdoors.
In her 9 months with Geekcorps, Kim completed her tour in Senegal with Geekcorps, working on the DFI project and did some spectacular work in Mali, working on the nuts ad bolts of putting together a business plan for rural internet providers. 
The Smart Technology for a Smarter Business Program is a highly practical training curriculum that enables small business owners and managers to build smarter businesses with technology. Unlike traditional training experiences that focus on either technology or business, the program targets the integration of both. Multi-faceted, innovative, and experiential, the program addresses 19 different business topics, in 5 different languages, and includes case scenarios, virtual entrepreneurs, technology demos and activities, facilitated discussions, and computer-based simulations. It introduces up-to-date technologies in the marketplace that are accessible worldwide.
Geekcorps’ international technology experts teach communities how to be
digitally independent by expanding private enterprise with
innovative, appropriate, and affordable information and communication technologies.