SAVE THE DATE: WID TVC Fireside Chat with Jody Singer

360D Quality Circle Northwest,Huntsville AL 35806

06 June, 2023

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Date: Tuesday, June 6th Time: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM CT Location: Axient- 360D Quality Circle NW Suite 430 Huntsville AL 35806 Moderator: Dr. Kuan Collins, Executive Director for Digital Innovation, Axient Showrunner: Mallorie Edwards, ASQ Huntsville Section, Programs Chair / Plasan North America, Manufacturing Engineer - NPI • Ms. Jody Singer, NASA Marshall Space Flight Director The topic will be Jody's career at NASA, Artemis mission and the collaboration with the Huntsville Industrial Base. ASQ Members will earn 0.5 RU for attending. Agenda: • 4:30 PM Meet and Greet (invitation only) • 5:30 PM Registration and Dinner • 6:30 PM Fireside chat • 7:30 PM Q&A Jody Singer is the director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Appointed in September 2018 as the first female Marshall center director, Singer manages one of NASA's largest field installations, with nearly 7,000 on- and near-site civil service and contractor employees and an annual budget of approximately $4.5 billion. Prior to being named to the position, Singer had served as Marshall acting director starting July 2018 and the deputy director from February 2016 to July 2018. During her 38-year NASA career, Singer has held leadership roles of increasing responsibility in human spaceflight, technology and science flight mission programs. Singer was appointed in 2002 to the Senior Executive Service. She began her NASA engineering career in 1985 through the professional intern program. From 1986, she has served in numerous levels of responsibilities in the Space Shuttle Program office, including an engineer in the Space Shuttle Main Engine office and being selected as the first female project manager for the Reusable Solid Rocket Booster Project leading the team during the Columbia Return to Flight activities. From 2010 through 2012, she held deputy positions for three concurrent major programs: the Space Shuttle, Ares, and the start-up of the Space Launch System (SLS). Under her leadership, Marshall supports our Nation in human and scientific exploration, development and discovery which benefits all humankind. In November of 2022, Mrs. Singer led the Marshall team to accomplish successful launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) which enabled the historic Artemis I mission restoring America’s capability to send humans to the moon, an event that has not occurred in since 1972. Singer earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama in 1983. She has been named as an Alabama Distinguished Engineering Fellow, a State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame recipient, Engineer of the Year and inducted as an AIAA Associate Fellow. Singer has been recognized with numerous awards during her NASA career, including a Presidential Rank Award (Distinguished and Meritorious Executive), the highest honor for career federal employees, and the Silver Snoopy award by the NASA Astronaut corps.