Background
Carpenter was born in Des Moines, Iowa on February 4, 1934. She grew up in several Midwestern cities and then in Short Hills, New Jersey.
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In 1952, Carpenter graduated from the Beard School in Orange, New Jersey (now Morristown-Beard School). She then completed her bachelor"s degree in literature at Smith College in Northampton, Master of Arts in 1956.
Career
During the 1980s, Carpenter served as corporate vice president for information management systems at Hilton Hotels. She was one of the first women to serve as a chief information officer (Chief Information Officer) at a company with more than $1 billion in revenue. During her tenure at Hilton, Chief Information Officer magazine named the company to their list of the top ten travel service Information Technology Innovators.
Carpenter also received placement on Chief Information Officer Magazine"s list of the top 100 CIOs.
Carpenter co-chaired a reception of the Smith College Clubs of Los Angeles and Pasadena to launch the $125 million fundraising campaign for the school in 1988. In the 1960s, Carpenter joined International Business Machines Corporation as a systems engineer, instructor, and sales representative.
She was the first woman to take on all three of these roles at the company. Carpenter later served as director of information systems at Quanex Corporation, an industrial company in Houston, Texas, and chief information officer at Rosenbluth Travel in Philadelphia during the 1990s.
Rosenbluth, the fifth largest travel agency in the United States. at the time, had a corporate client list that included Walmart, DuPont, Nike, Incorporated., and Chevron Corporation.
(After its 2003 acquisition by American Express, Rosenblauth"s operations now work as the American Express Business Travel division) Carpenter led the automation of Rosenblauth"s booking system, which had previously relied on manual entry. In a 1992 profile of her work written by Chief Information Officer magazine, Carpenter outlined five critical elements for Information Technology innovation at Rosenblauth:
Staff Nurturing Programs
Contact between Information Systems and Customers
Team Decision-Making
Concurrent Development Methods
Toleration for Failures
Carpenter founded the first woman"s shelter in the Detroit, Michigan suburbs. She helped organize the Michigan chapter of the National Organization for Women (National Organization for Women) and served as the founding president of National Organization for Women"s Oakland County chapter.
After her college studies, Sandra Carpenter married Nick de Kuyper and moved to Europe to live with de Kuyper.
They had one son, John. They divorced in 1961.
In 1964, Sandra Carpenter married widower Robert Carpenter. Sandra Carpenter and Robert Carpenter divorced in 1980.
