December 2024 Transformer of the Month: Jill Marlowe

Portrait of Jill Marlowe

If Digital Transformation had been a ship, the vessel for delivering on our missions and making certain easy passage into the long run, our ultimate Digital Transformer of 2024 can be the captain. Rising up crusing along with her father on the Chesapeake Bay, this transformer developed the navigation expertise she now makes use of at NASA “with each readability and precision, very similar to a sailor who understands the delicate shifts within the wind,” says Christina Haymes, DT Enterprise Integration Architect. “She is aware of the right way to watch the ocean to seek out the invisible breeze,” notes Patrick Murphy, DT Portfolio Supervisor. “I like how she operates as a frontrunner each in calm and troubling seas to get us the place we need to be.” Imaginative and prescient and management are simply two of the numerous the reason why our December Digital Transformer, Jill Marlowe, stands on the helm of our ever-evolving journey. 

Jill has devoted over three a long time to her profession at NASA, beginning as an engineer and evolving into her place because the Digital Transformation Officer. Her early crusing experiences led her to pursue ocean and aerospace engineering at Virginia Tech; an innate ardour for continuous progress led to subsequent grasp’s levels in mechanical, civil, and environmental engineering. As Jill moved into management positions throughout NASA’s engineering organizations, divisions, and directorates, she realized that the expertise she was instinctively utilizing to rework her work might additionally assist the company overcome a wider vary of challenges. 

Her eager eye for cross-cutting options completely positioned her for the dynamic position of Digital Transformation Officer, diving into technical issues with engineers sooner or later and strategizing with senior executives the subsequent. Though she brings a rigorous technical background to the position, Jill most enjoys the artistic and collaborative facets. “It actually offers me a possibility to have interaction with numerous earlier profession people who typically are bringing a few of these digital concepts into our office,” she says. “To me, it’s a really generative position, and that’s what I like the very best about it.”  

Jill commits to working towards what she preaches, strategically leveraging instruments like Microsoft Groups and different M365 functions to construct a tradition of digital innovation and affect others to affix the motion. Krista Kinnard, DT Tradition and Communications Lead, says, “We work in a digital world with new instruments that make our lives simpler. Jill has actually proven how the way in which we work together with one another issues and will be streamlined to drive our workforce to success.” Jill’s growth-oriented mindset drives her to remain on the innovative of recent capabilities—all the time with the aim of enabling mission outcomes and rising our capability for partnership. 

Jill Marlowe

Jill Marlowe

Digital Transformation Officer

Jill’s fervent perception within the energy of collaboration is clear in the way in which she talks about her technical work, notably with Digital Engineering (DE). “I’m very enthusiastic about the place we’re with digital engineering at NASA and the progress Terry Hill and his workforce have made [toward] a unified engineering neighborhood,” says Jill. By seed funding and ongoing assist, Jill and the DT workforce grew Digital Engineering at NASA from preliminary prototype exams to an operationalized program inside the Workplace of the Chief Engineer. Along with the neighborhood’s alignment round a shared imaginative and prescient, Jill is happy with the workforce’s quantitative achievements in creating techniques, instruments, and approaches for digitalizing the engineering processes and adopting a typical toolchain. “I really feel like we’ve been speaking about these sorts of concepts my total profession, and we’re this near having this within the fingers of the engineers throughout NASA to allow them to work collectively and with our companions in ways in which we haven’t been capable of earlier than” 

For Jill, the measure of DT’s success lies within the means to allow extra advanced missions, collaborate extra seamlessly with companions, and construct extra resilient techniques that put together us for the long run. Underneath her management, DT facilitated the maturation of NASA Mission Cloud, a digital resolution for capturing mission functionality necessities and defining expertise wants. In FY24, DT launched the brand new IT Modernization for Transformation (ITMX) fund and curated a $10M portfolio of enterprise options in information interoperability, federated search, digital engineering, cybersecurity, synthetic intelligence, and extra. By championing Digital Transformation at NASA and demonstrating its worth, Jill paved the way in which for options that speed up discovery and mission supply.  

Over her profession, Jill cast bonds, championed innovation, and positioned the company to leverage the ripple results of her work lengthy after her upcoming retirement in December. Her legacy, nonetheless, could be finest summarized by the way in which she made folks really feel. “It sounds easy, however so many individuals are listening to reply, whereas Jill is listening to grasp,” Krista says. The remainder of DT management echoes this sentiment. “Jill has a deep information of NASA and has constructed sturdy relationships throughout the company. Most of all, I worth her mentorship and friendship,” says Christina. Patrick places it merely: “Collaborating with Jill is a pleasure.” 

As she displays on her time on the company, Jill shares inspiring aspirations for NASA’s future and DT’s means to hold us on that voyage. “When occasions are difficult, folks need heroes. I believe numerous what NASA does is deliver humanity collectively. Once I take into consideration these massive expectations on NASA for the long run and the expertise that’s coming alongside that may make these desires come true…it actually offers me chills.” She continues, “I encourage the continued neighborhood round Digital Transformation, the continued quest to seek out shared options to frequent challenges. As a result of I actually do assume that’s the way in which we’re going to get there from right here.” 

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Sourcing information and pictures from nasa.gov/information

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