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degree in human-centered design engineering with a concentration in user- centered design from the University of Washington as part of her commit- ment to earning a Ph.D. in Human Centered Design Engineering from the same school. Boeing noticed this drive and chose Brady for its High Potential leadership program. Not giving up her dreams of space travel, she is a flight director and crewmember at Zero Gravity Corporation, a company working to open space travel to civilians. In her spare time, Brady mentors young people about entering STEM fields.
Jason Garced Information Security Engineer CACI
Dad did it. In the 1980s, Jason Garced’s father brought home a 386 computer. That hooked Garced into science for life as he first stud- ied computer science and then information assurance. Fast forward nearly 30 years and the younger Garced provides computer security for the Aviation Data Management and Control System lab environment at Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division. That means scanning and assessing systems for vulnerabilities, remediating findings, documenting the settings for con- figuration management, and seeing the system through the Department of Defense Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process. He says the future of information assurance will be providing IT security for future Navy information systems. That includes upgrading the Aviation Data Management and Control System. It is scheduled for installation on the next generation of aircraft carriers, starting with the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford. Garced considers the foundation of his work ethic and proudest professional achievement as the time he served in the U.S. Air Force. He reflects upon his selection as Airman of the Quarter numerous times, Air- man of the Year for the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) Wing, being nominated as Airman of the Year for the 18th Air Force, awarded Senior Airman Below the Zone, and various military awards and decorations received for contributions to the military and community.
Gilberto Moreno Senior Member, Technical Staff Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
As a high-school student, Gilbert Moreno was passionate about programming computers and participated in the International Olympiad in Informatics, a computer science competition cre- ated by UNESCO. In school, his hobby became
his career path as he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computing systems from the University of Mendoza, Argentina, and a master’s degree in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon. Now, as a senior member of CMU’s Software Engineering Institute, the former Fulbright Fellow wants to alleviate computer problems such as poor quality and schedule overruns that crop up in large software projects. To that end, he works to develop theories, techniques and tools to create software with predictable behavior, from satisfying timing requirements in real-time systems to realizing globally desirable conclusions in multi-agent systems. Moreno takes pride in having developed middleware for electronic transactions that processes thousands of transactions daily. He sees scale, at different levels, as software’s new arena. For example, making effective use of computers with many processing cores; reasoning about systems so large that they cannot be built at once, or will always be in development; designing systems where many agents, human and computational, interact. Before SEI, Moreno designed and developed multi-platform distributed systems and communication protocols for elec- tronic transactions at ITC Soluciones, Argentina.
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Michael Jaworski Associate Research Physicist Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (PPPL)
As a child, Michael Jaworski’s family encouraged his mechanical aptitude and scientific inclination. As a member of the National Spherical Torus Experiment at the PPPL he performs data analysis and design of experiments related to under-
standing plasma phenomena in the edge region of a fusion plasma. The former Eagle Scout’s dissertation was on Thermally Driven Flows in Liquid Lithium in the Presence of a Magnetic Field and his area of study was thermocapillary and thermoelectric magnetohydrodynamic, free-surface flows and the thermal-hydraulics of liquid metal plasma facing compo- nents. Jaworski’s selection of that as his topic grew out of work he did as a grad studied at Illinois, where he led a team that “combined strong magnetic fields with non-uniform temperatures to produce a self-stirring liquid metal system.” Jaworski’s doctorate, his Master of Science degree in nuclear engineering and his Bachelor of Science degree in mechani- cal science and engineering were earned at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. His favorite quotes are “Those who have excessive faith in their ideas are not fitted to make discoveries” by C. Bernard and “He really succeeds who perseveres according to his lights, unaffected by fortune, good or bad,“ by E.A. Milne.
Enrique Octavio Rodriguez Staff Technical Marketing Engineer Fairchild
Enrique Octavio Rodriguez has always considered studying and working in science and math more of a natural fit to his character than an inspired occur- rence. This certainty led Rodriguez to his current post as a staff technical marketing engineer at Fairchild
Semiconductor doing strategic and tactical technical marketing for that com- pany’s switch and interface product line, which includes analog switches, USB detection ICs, USB transceivers, and LVDS. The company specializes in high- performance Internet connections that optimize energy efficiency and enable mobile connectivity in a wide range of applications. The blend of his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maine-Orono and a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix Online are essential to Rodriguez’s success. He is responsible for revenue growth in the China, Taiwan and Singapore markets through product promotion, support and design-in. To drive the market, he has conducted extensive Asia-Pacific region market research and analysis through product bill-of-materials, market trends and customer information for new product definition. Rodriguez is also accountable for product lines that include the business “voice” for Fairchild’s website, and involved in new smartphone and mobile device product develop- ment that keeps up with the technical specifications and customer needs. Prior to Fairchild, Rodriguez was a circuit design engineer, interface product line at National Semiconductor Corporation.
Tomas I. Alvarez Design Engineer III Fluor
Tomas Alvarez, who has moved into the Fluor project management group, spent the past two years in sales coordinating and proposal prepara- tion. As a sales coordinator, his responsibilities in- clude coordinating all aspects of a proposal such
as setting up pursue / no pursue and bid/no bid meetings, management
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