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I think the best thing about

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my job is that there has always

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been a challenge and it’s

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also taking those ideas and

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seeing them turn into

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products or applications,

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in our case.

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Hi. I’m Jane Maples. I’m

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at Marshall Space Flight

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Center and I work out of

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the CIO organization at

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the NEACC.

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In there, we’ve got things

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like Mobile WebTADS and

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NASA Contacts. We also

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have apps@NASA, which is

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the agency app store.

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Those apps, like WebTADS

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mobile, are used for a

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quick and easy way to

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enter your time and your

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overtime requests on

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your mobile device.

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With the WebTADS mobile,

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one of the key examples

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of how that was used was,

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if you recall, in 2011,

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the tornadoes came through

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north Alabama and we

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were without power for a

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while. And, folks that

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had their WebTADS mobile

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were able to enter their

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time, even though we

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didn’t have that power.

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I grew up involved in 4H.

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I had a lot of learning

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experiences through my 4H.

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When I graduated from high

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school, I was a 4H citizen

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ambassador and got to

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go to Europe.

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I was in Girl Scouts for a

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number of years, I guess

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from brownies to seniors,

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camping and learning

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different things through

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the Girl Scout program,

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as well.

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In high school, I was involved

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in a number of clubs like

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science club, math club and

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that kind of thing.

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Growing up, some of the females

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that inspired me were my mom

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and sisters, some Sunday school

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teachers, schoolteachers; I

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had some awesome high school teachers.

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And then once I started my

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career, I had some great

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supervisors. A few ladies

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were promoted and I had the

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opportunity to work for a

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couple of them. Both,

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learning how to be a manager

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and how to do better

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procurements and how to

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write those contracts a

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little better.

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Over the course of my career,

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I’ve had many opportunities

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as a result of the hard work.

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Some have been exciting

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opportunities, like getting to

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see a launch, and getting to

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see a launch with hardware that

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you bought…with your mom.

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That’s pretty exciting.

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Within NASA there’s numerous

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opportunities for young women

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to be involved that cross

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the gamut. Yes, you can be an

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engineer and yes, you can be a

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scientist. But, you can also

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be a public affairs person or

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a person working with software

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and working with customer

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relationship management.

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One of the best pieces of

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advice I can give is when

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there are opportunities to be

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involved in new things. Take

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advantage of it. You never

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know when that new thing is

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going to be the thing of the

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future that is really going