Nimble and Creative: Space to Make in the Workplace
World Maker Faire 2016
October 1st-2nd
Large and seeming impassive, Northrop Grumman nonetheless stays nimble enough to help its employees create makerspaces across its regional offices. A panel of engineers discusses why this is so important to fostering creativity within the edifice and how they do it.
Cindy Kohlmiller
Cindy Kohlmiller is a Systems Engineering Manager at Northrop Grumman with over 29 years of industry experience. In 2013 Cindy founded the NGAS FabLab in Redondo Beach leading a team of employees who created the space for employees. . She is also a certified Soul Motion™ conscious movement instructor, embodied leader, and mentor.
Jessie Bacchus
Jessica grew up in an aerospace community about 1 hour north of Los Angeles. After joining a high school robotics team, she knew engineering was in her blood. She graduated from California State University Northridge in 2014 after earning a BS in Mechanical Engineering. After school she went to work for Northrop. Jessica has worked as a Structural, Quality and Industrial Engineer.
Tabitha Beavers
Tabitha Beavers is an Electrical Engineer. She worked with her classmates at Florida Institute of Technology to found and opened Space Coast FabLab a community nonprofit which still services hundreds of individuals before joining Northrop Grumman. She worked as an engineer in the Manned Aircraft Design at Northrop Grumman and is now working to open the Melbourne Northrop Grumman FabLab.
Lauren Wilhelm
Lauren Wilhelm grew up in North Central Texas, where she taught herself junior high and high school before starting college at the University of Texas in Arlington as a music major. After a year as a music major, Lauren realized she missed math and science too much to pursue music as a career and changed her major to Aerospace Engineering. Now she is engineering happily at Northrop Grumman.
Rachael Kubly
Rachael Kubly is a fun-loving, paddle boarding, micro-brew adoring, ~twenty year aerospace career professional who is committed to improving her community. She’s a twice engineering-degreed leader with the heart and soul of an artist. She’s currently spear-heading the standup of the Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems St. Augustine Aircraft Integration Center of Excellence FabLab.
Lindsey Sweeney
UCLA graduate, Aerospace Engineer, and FabLab Coordinator for Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in San Diego. Professional coffee snob and parallel parking aficionado.
