Erin Sholl

I am branch chief of the Operations and Visiting Vehicle Safety Branch, responsible for technical leadership in Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA). I perform supervisory duties like resource planning, budgeting, performance appraisals, interfacing with customers and strategic planning, but my favorite part is the people. I love getting to guide and mentor them in their careers and being an advocate for my team.    I have had the opportunity to perform in various rotations throughout my safety career. Although they did not all lead me in the exact path I thought they would, I would do each one over again for the unique experience and knowledge I gained from them.    Through these opportunities, I gained new skills and developed relationships that have been invaluable in helping me determine what is important to me in my career and the role that I play for SMA and, maybe more importantly, what is not. Stepping outside my comfort zone enabled me to gain a broad experience of integration, leadership and interpersonal skills that helped me earn the position I am in today.   I always loved and excelled at math and science, so when it was time to declare a major and I still did not really know what I wanted to do with my life, I picked chemical engineering (my high school chem teacher was amazing). The early courses were great, but when I had my first chemical engineering class, I hated it! I switched to aerospace, met a friend who had interned at Johnson Space Center, and decided that is where I was going to work! 

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