Sarah is a mother of 3 and a Senior Program Manager at Sierra Nevada Corporation who specializes in portfolio management of highly complex projects. She possesses more than 11 years of experience in the aerospace industry and has served in the Army Reserve for 12 years. Sarah shapes the strategy and technical plans for software teams, and identifies the program management mechanisms that foster collaboration with the other disciplines.
Sarah started her career as a Software Test Engineer and was promoted into technical leadership roles to ensure the support needed to develop high quality products. She was selected to move into technical management in 2016 where she managed a variety of projects across the aerospace industry. These included research and development of new products, sustainment projects, pure software projects, and non-recurring engineering with multi-disciplinary teams leading up to Low Rate in Production (LRIP). Most recently, Sarah has led the development and rollout of the roadmaps for a portfolio of 7 software product lines.
Sarah believes that with team buy-in and attention to the planning stage, multi-disciplinary teams are able to effectively collaborate and communicate to produce successful products with on schedule and in scope deliveries. Sarah holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science, with a concentration in Space from Colorado State University.