Women in Tech Marketers: How to Advance Your Career in Today's Digital World

The pace of emerging technologies has increased significantly, challenging individuals to maintain knowledge of relevant skills and Business Areas to staff programs with the appropriate level of engineering skills needed for optimum performance on contract in a timely manner. Develop strategies that enable a proactive rather than reactive approach, allowing engineers and organizations to stay ahead of the curve to optimize on contract performance and be prepared for future work. Learn about different engineering shapes to determine which shape is most appropriate for you and /or your organization. Broaden your horizons and explore available options that can be used to develop a Personal Development Plan that includes learning new skills and gaining experience using these skills. Don’t miss opportunities – stay ahead of the curve!

Pam Sheary is a Lockheed Martin Fellow with 30+ years of software and systems engineering experience in the Department of Defense (DoD) industry, including 12 years managing International software development efforts. She continues to serve as the Chief Software Engineer on very large government contracts. Pam is a recognized technical leader within Agile / DevSecOps, Quantitative Management, and Risk and Opportunity Management. Pam’s work to establish Enterprise-level Code Quality has been leveraged across various government agencies. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Pam served in various Software and Systems engineering roles developing and testing software embedded systems and application development tools with geographically dispersed teams. Pam earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh with continued graduate studies in Computer Engineering and Web Design /Accessibility. She holds several certifications, including the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) and SAFe® for Government.

Cybersecurity incidents and failures impact critical public infrastructure, national defense, corporate economic interests, and personal privacy. As the magnitude and frequency of cyber events continues to escalate, vendors and agencies are desperately seeking solutions to solve this issue once and for all. In the 1980’s the software development industry was facing similar challenges. That crisis prompted Frederick Brooks to write his iconic paper “No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering.” The solutions and technologies detailed in that paper are eerily similar to the “breakthrough” solutions currently proposed for cyber. This presentation examines the “Silver Bullets” of cybersecurity, lessons we can learn from that parallel history, and the essence of challenges that confront modern security practitioners.

Teresa Merklin is a Fellow at Lockheed Martin where she specializes in Cyber Risk Assessment and Engineering for Cyber Resiliency. She is currently attached to the Aeronautics Cyber Range which performs cyber assessment and penetration testing across the complete portfolio of Lockheed Martin aircraft and related systems. She has 30+ years of career experience starting out in embedded software development which slowly morphed into cybersecurity over time. Teresa holds a BSEE from Oklahoma State University, a Masters of Software Engineering from Texas Christian University, and an MBA from the University of Dallas. She holds the CISSP and CSSLP certifications.

5G brings the power to connect billions of new devices and enable their use in new ways. With that comes significant risk. What types of threats does 5G introduce and what should we consider as we start incorporating 5G into our products?

Katie Grzywacz is a Lockheed Martin Associate Fellow and is the chief cyber architect for the LM Space Centers of Excellence. She has 16+ years of experience that includes security engineering and offensive security testing. She is currently researching cyber threat scenarios that apply to a multitude of 5G use cases.