Kimberly Whitehouse
Born in Florida and raised in Georgia, Kimberly joined the Marine Corps upon graduating high school. She served for several years as a jet engine mechanic until she was selected to attend college while on active duty. Kimberly attended the University of Florida earning a Bachelor’s degree in Finance. Upon graduation, she was commissioned as an officer in the Marine Corps, serving as a Data Systems Officer until she retired after over 21 years of active service. During her last few years in the Corps, she earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, California.
After retiring from the Marine Corps, Kimberly has worked for a major defense contractor, owned her own business, and taught high school computer science. Kimberly is excited to join the faculty at NVCC and loves spending time in the computer lab sharing her passion for computer science. When she’s not in the classroom, you will likely find her enjoying one of her many other hobbies, such as quilting, reading, cooking, hiking, running (sloth-pace), attending baseball games, or riding her Harley-Davidson. The most cherished aspect of her life is her family. Kimberly is married, has five children, two grandchildren (and another on the way), and two sweet Viszla puppies!
Kimberly can be reached at cboicu@nvcc.edu
Cristina Boicu
Cristina is a new faculty member in Computer Science at the Annandale campus. Cristina has taught for more than 15 years in higher education, at undergraduate and graduate level, in multiple institutions. She designed and taught several information technology and computer science courses at George Mason University, Colorado Technical University, Northern Virginia Community College.
Cristina has performed basic and applied research in Artificial Intelligence and knowledge-based decision support systems (knowledge acquisition and refinement, knowledge engineering, multi-strategy learning, mixed-initiative problem solving) with applications in military, intelligence analysis, emergency response, financial, education and medical domains. She has advised students in their research and academic programs as well as assisting teaching several computer science and information technology courses at George Mason University, US Army War College and US Air War College. She has extended experience in computer related industries including programming in various languages, starting with assembly language, C, C++, LISP, Prolog, Java and Python, software design and development for industrial computers, intelligent agents, databases, and web development.
She holds a PhD, an MS, and a BS in Computer Science.
In her free time, Cristina enjoys photography, music and travel!
She can be reached at cboicu@nvcc.edu