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DANA
BOLLES
NASA
Ames Research Center
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Government Relations and
Outreach
Since October 2008, Ms. Dana
Bolles manages the Speaker's Bureau (SB) Program in the Education
and Outreach branch at NASA Ames Research Center. She helps
to coordinate NASA speakers for events in any of the 9-1/2
states suppported by Ames' SB program. Additionally, she assists
with special projects requiring an outreach component.
Ms. Dana Bolles joined NASA's
Kennedy Space Center (KSC) 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 (GSFC),
Greenbelt, MD, as a fire protection safety engineer.
In 1999, she transferred to
NASA Ames, where she has been working now for 9-1/2 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.
She supervised tracking of activities that monitored compliance
and provided consulting services when others needed help to
meet environmental regulations.
For a short period of one year, Ms. Bolles worked in Government
Relations where she acted as a laison to local elected officials.
She ensured they were aware of NASA Ames' activities and coordinated
tours for elected officials and their staff members.
Awards
&/or Recognition:
In addition to her assigned
job duties, Dana enjoys public speaking engagements, mainly
to audiences of students. She has presented at numerous international
speaking engagements such as in Italy, Taiwan, and Mexico.
She is active in disability-related issues and has served
for several years as the Chair to the Employees with Disabilities
Advisory Group (EDAG).
Educational
Background:
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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Speaking Engagements:
Proyecto Vision (2008),
Plane Math (1998), and Taiwan (1997).
OCTOBER 2009
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