FY18 OFFICERS
The Executive Council is available to answer any questions you may have about the section and the programs we offer. We look forward to meeting you at an upcoming event!
President - Roxana Carrillo
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Roxana Carrillo has been a member of the Society of Women Engineers - Orange County (SWE-OC) section since 2014. Roxana was the Programs Chair in FY15 and FY16, organizing 9 dinner meetings featuring professional development speakers with over 130 attendees (cumulative). She was also an active committee member for the 2015 and 2016 Professional Development Conferences. She has led outreach activities at the Girl Scouts Engineering Day, such as building miniature bridges and making water bottle filters with the students.
Roxana is a Sr. Staff Engineer at Avocet Environmental, Inc., where she contributes to remediation, groundwater monitoring, waste management, and other various projects. She attained her B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Irvine in 2012. |
Vice-President and Section Representative - Jolene Cordon
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Jolene Cordon is a developer for Pacific Life. She has been working with SWE since 2013 where she started as the Professional Development Chair for her collegiate section. Through her experience mentoring her peers, she found a passion for outreaching and building communities.
Jolene received her B.S. in Computer Engineering from Florida International University while living in Miami. She then returned home to Orange County where she pursued an accelerated online M.S. in Computer Engineering – from the same school – while starting her career as a developer. She was named a Rising Woman in Technology in 2015 by Advancing Women in Technology (AWT) and soon thereafter graduated with her Master’s at 21 years old. She collaborated with SWE-OC on the Girl Scouts Outreach in the SWE 2017 Sonora Region Conference in which she helped coordinate and facilitate the parents program. She is also the VP of Educational Partners for the Orange County Engineering Council. In her spare time, Jolene enjoys playing with her Maltipoo and playing video games. |
Secretary - Sally Soltero
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Sally Soltero received her undergraduate degree in Nano Engineering from UC San Diego in 2014. She was an active member of the SWE-UCSD section with roles ranging from Publicity Officer to Vice President, Internal. After graduation, Sally moved to Orange County to work with CRU Global Innovations as a Product Development Engineer. She joined the SWE-OC section in 2016 and was part of the 2017 Sonora Region Conference Committee.
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Treasurer - Ariel Carmichael
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Ariel Carmichael joined the SWE-OC section in 2017 after moving to California to start her professional career. She is currently a Staff Engineer at Geosyntec Consultants in Huntington Beach, working primarily on environmental remediation projects. Ariel received a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Louisiana State University in 2013 and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where her research focused on biofilms, surface science, and polymer materials. Ariel joined SWE in her undergrad and became more involved with the Graduate SWE group at UIUC, serving as treasurer for the 2015/2016 year. She is excited to get involved with the Orange County section and looking forward to this year’s events.
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Alternate Section Representative - Paola Chavira
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Outreach Director - Lydia McDowell
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Lydia is currently a Service Engineer at Boeing Commercial Airplanes in Seal Beach. She feels that she has one of the best jobs in the company, often travelling to support airline customers with structural repairs and using what she sees in the field to make the next generation of commercial aircraft safer, greener, and more cost efficient.
She enjoys the opportunities to inspire the next generation of female engineers that SWE’s outreach initiatives bring. As a collegiate SWE member, she started organizing engineering workshops for the Girl Scouts and continues to enjoy this role as Outreach Chair with SWE-OC. Lydia is glad to be a part of a community of driven and talented engineers who are passionate about supporting each other and inspiring the next generation. |
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