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DANA
BOLLES
NASA
Ames Research Center
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Government Relations and
Outreach
Currently, Ms. Bolles works
as a Public Relations Specialist. She's been in this position
since Oct 2007. Among her major job duties are: ensuring that
the local elected officials are aware of NASA Ames' activities;
coordinating tours for elected officials and their staff members;
writing speeches, white papers, briefing papers, and articles
for the Ames Astrogram; and assisting in outreach activities.
Ms. Dana Bolles joined NASA's
Kennedy Space Center in Florida as a flight systems safety
engineer. Her projects included the Mars Orbiter project and
the third assembly flight for the International Space Station.
After almost three years, Ms. Bolles spent the next 1-1/2
years at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD,
as a fire protection safety engineer.
In 1999, she transferred to
NASA Ames, where she has been working now for 8-1/2 years.
For her first 8 years at Ames, Ms. Bolles worked as an environmental
compliance specialist. She managed programs that monitor air
quality, industrial wastewater, toxic gases, and aboveground
storage tanks. She helped NASA Ames carry out its commitment
to environmental protection by ensuring compliance with Federal,
State, and local environmental regulations and by obtaining
the required permits for all equipment and processes that
had the potential to pollute the air, water, and/or ground.
Shed supervised tracking of activities that monitored compliance
and provided consulting services when others needed help to
meet environmental regulations.
In addition to her assigned job duties, Dana enjoys occasional
public speaking engagements, mainly to audiences of students.
She is active in disability-related issues and has served
for several years as the Chair to the Employees with Disabilities
Advisory Group (EDAG).
Ms. Bolles attended the University of California, Santa Cruz,
for 2 years, and graduated from the California State University,
Long Beach, with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.
She then attended San Francisco State University, where she
received a master's certificate in rehabilitation engineering
and technology.
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