Karen Noel is a Senior Director, Linux Engineering at Red Hat at Red Hat. Colleagues describe them as "Karen is an excellent engineer, and has really mastered anything she has put her hand to. It really is an honor to work with Karen since her gifts are not limited to technology but encompass team work, customer focus, attention to detail and problem solving. One of the very best people I have ever worked with." and "Karen and I worked on a daily basis for several years, and she kept surprising me. - Her technical skills are outstanding, from low-level details up to architectural insights to business-related aspects. - She's a people person. She spends quite a bit of time communicating or gently helping others improve, in my case discussing anything from English pronunciation or wording to subtle machine code bugs. - Finally, she's a team builder, constantly evaluating how to best organize a large effort and take advantage of everyone's talent. She was quick to pick up, coordinate and deliver large projects in HPVM, starting with on-line virtual machine migration. Oh, and she's very nice and funny too :-)"