| SUNY/Buffalo, Bachelors | |
| Mathematics | |
| Northwestern University, Ph.D. | |
| Computer Science |
Ms. Monica Barback is a proven technology professional with over 13 years of senior level, information technology experience contributing to the effective operation and profitability of technology companies through outstanding project architecture and management expertise. In the mid 90s, Ms. Barback served as Technical Lead for the TurboTax Personal product at Intuit. She was responsible for the business recommendation and subsequent implementation of the “State Interview†feature of TurboTax, a feature commended by tax software reviewers. Ms. Barback went on to be the technical architect of Quicken Mortgage, Intuit’s online mortgage website. After Intuit, Ms. Barback went to FreeMarkets, a small Pittsburgh startup that eventually grew to over 500 employees, where she architected two of the company’s flagship business to business online bidding products, and served as a Senior Manager. Ms. Barback has since worked at several privately owned startup companies where she served in both Lead Architect and Management roles, driving company’s technologies and processes. At TrueCommerce, she smoothly coordinated and migrated legacy technology to new technologies, while saving the company money and improving the customer experience in the process. Ms. Barback received her bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at SUNY/Buffalo and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern University.
