{"367111":{"#nid":"367111","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ECE Seminar (ECE 2001A\/ECE 8001A)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EMs. Mary Lynn Smith\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker\u0027s Title and Affiliation: \u003C\/strong\u003EStaff Antenna Engineer\/Project Engineer,\u0026nbsp;ViaSat Inc.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeminar Title:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cem\u003ESix Keys to Success\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EThe talk will start with a brief summary of Mary Lynn\u2019s career.\u0026nbsp; Each of the six keys to success \u2013 Communication, Know Your Options, Manage Your Risks, Continue to Learn and Grow, Plan for the Unexpected, and Work\/Life Balance will be discussed in detail using some of Mary Lynn\u2019s experiences as examples. A brief summary of who ViaSat is will wrap up the talk.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong class=\u0022BodyText\u0022\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EMary Lynn Smith is a staff antenna engineer\/project engineer\/program manager for the Antenna Systems (AS) Division of ViaSat, Inc. As a staff antenna engineer, Mary Lynn is responsible for the electrical design of feeds, subreflectors, and antenna designs. She is also responsible for managing the cost, quality elements, performance, schedule, and technical aspects of antenna systems as a program manager and project engineer.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 1995, Mary Lynn joined ViaSat (formerly the Satellite Network Division of Scientific Atlanta) as an antenna engineer. During this time Mary Lynn has designed tracking and non-tracking antennas covering the range from 200 MHz to 44 GHz, and frequency selective surface (FSS) subreflectors for dual and tri-band operation. In addition to her design work, Mary Lynn has also been the project engineer and\/or program manager on numerous projects. These included a 3 C-band 6\/9m antenna limited motion communication network, full autotracking L\/S-band systems, a program tracking L\/S-band system, a UHF transmit upgrade to an existing S\/X-band full autotracking system, 4 C\/X-band 9m antenna limited motion network, multiple 3m X-band antenna systems, Ka-band horn, polarizer, and diplexer for second generation consumer user terminal, Ka-band antenna system portion of an airborne user terminal, and Ku\/Ka-band antenna system portion of an airborne user terminal. In 2006, as Limited Motion Product Line Manager, Mary Lynn was responsible for maintaining, improving, and expanding the limited motion product line of antennas. From 2007 to 2011, as VGate Champion for AS, Mary Lynn was responsible for helping to develop templates to support the VGate process which ViaSat uses to develop and manage programs. She also helped in implementing and training others to use the process. In 2009, as acting antenna and microwave engineering manager, she was responsible for managing the antenna and microwave engineers, making sure that programs were adequately staffed, supporting proposals, maintaining tools, and identifying needed training. From 2009 to present, as the ViaSearch Site Lead for AS, Mary Lynn has helped define what searches were needed, has been involved in the development testing, and assisted in the training of others to use the ViaSearch tool created to search various systems and databases at ViaSat for information. She also mentors new engineers and project engineers as needed and created a training course for project engineering for ViaSat\u2019s JAST division in Switzerland.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMary Lynn worked at Watkins-Johnson Company in San Jose, CA, as a member of the technical staff in the Antenna Department, Electronic Equipment Division from 1988-1995. She received a B.E.E. at the Georgia Institute of Technology on the Co-operative Education Plan in 1988 and her M.S.E.E. at Santa Clara University in 1994. She has been a member of I.E.E.E. since 1983 and a senior member since 2007. From 2011 to present, Mary Lynn has been the IEEE Region 3 Student Activities Committee (SAC) vice chair and from 2012 to present the IEEE Region 3 Student Professional Awareness Conference (S-PAC) coordinator.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESeminar with Mary Lynn Smith - ViaSat Inc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Six Keys to Success"}],"uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2015-01-22 17:19:10","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:20:33","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-01-28T10:05:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-01-28T10:55:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-01-28T10:55:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-01-28 15:05:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-01-28 15:55:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-01-28 15:55:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1577","name":"career"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPaul Steffes\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-3128\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:paul.steffes@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Epaul.steffes@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}