FY20 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!
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Natalie White is an Enterprise Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. Over her 15-year career as a Senior Software Engineer and Solutions Architect, she has developed a deep technical skill set across a wide breadth of industries - telecommunications at Motorola, health and welfare at Fidelity Investments, e-commerce payment processing at CyberSource (VISA), and the pharmacy industry at PDX, Inc. She has been an active member of the SWE Orange County professional section since moving to California two years ago for her husband's job.
Natalie earned a BS in Computer Science and a BS in Mathematics from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX. She also enjoys using her technical skills in her volunteer work with the Cub Scouts and on the Industry Advisory Board for the TCU Computer Science department. Her non-technical hobbies include hiking, baking, sewing, knitting, and swing dancing. |
Internal Vice-President - Krista Miguel
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Krista Miguel is an early-career Electrical Engineer EIT with a wide range of professional internship experience. Prior to her most recent position with City of Anaheim as an Assistant Power Engineer, Krista completed internships at Disneyland Resort, GE, City of Fresno, PG&E, and Toyota. Krista received her BS in Electrical Engineering from Fresno State in May 2017.
Krista has been a SWE member since 2012, when she joined as a collegiate member of Fresno State. Krista has since been Fresno State's Section Treasurer and Section President. Krista has been a member of SWE - OC since the summer of 2018, when she took on the position of Outreach Chair. She was part of the organizing team for Girl Scouts of OC Engineering Day and is also on the WE19 Host Committee. She has previously been to two SWE Annual Conferences (Los Angeles and Nashville) and can't wait to welcome thousands of SWE members to Anaheim! In her free time, Krista likes to hang out with her four-legged children, Charlie and Mabel (meow). She also frequently visits the Disneyland Resort and likes to hang out in South Orange County, either shopping, dining, hiking, or going to the beach. Krista is a runner, and after having done a lot of half marathons, she completed her first ever full marathon in January at Walt Disney World in Florida. |
External Vice-President - Selen Alper
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Selen Alper is a Software Engineering Program Manager at Panasonic Avionics Corporation (PAC). PAC is the market leader of in-flight entertainment and is headquartered in Lake Forest, CA. Selen graduated from UCLA with a degree in electrical engineering and started her career as a development and test engineer at Panasonic Avionics working on seat software, before making a career change into technical program management.
Selen was first introduced to SWE in high school as a result of SWE-OC’s K12 activities. During her undergrad, she was involved with SWE and IEEE, and also acted as the President of the Engineering Society of UCLA. Her favorite SWE events are professional development events. She especially appreciates SWE’s Mission to “demonstrate the value of diversity and inclusion.” |
Treasurer - Jacqueline Medina
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Jacqueline Medina is an Associate Engineer at SoCal Gas. She recently graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with a Chemical Engineering degree. Currently she is the Social Chair for SWE OC Professional section and volunteers at outreach events such as Girl Scout Day and Collegiate Training. SWE was an integral part of her collegiate experience. She was active in her SWE section while in community college at Santa Ana College and while in university, she held various SWE leadership positions. She hopes to continue her involvement with SWE throughout her career and continues to encourage other girls and women who have an interest in engineering or science to pursue it.
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Secretary - Lorenia Jimemez
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Lorenia Jimenez is a Junior Software Developer at Zapways Inc, an airline software company based in Irvine. Lorenia has been working most recently as a lead UX/UI designer in the reimplementation and redesign of their current bookings process. Lorenia graduated in 2017 from the University of California, Irvine, where she earned a BS in Informatics with a specialization in Human-Computer Interaction. Her involvement with SWE began at Santa Ana College (SAC) where she co-founded SAC’s first SWE Collegiate Interest Group. Being involved in SWE gave her the confidence and inspiration to apply for an internship at NASA JPL on her freshman year and interned there all 4 years of her undergrad in the Robotics and Planetary Science sections. She found inspiration, mentorship, and guidance from the professionals at SWE-OC while she was an undergrad and now, as a professional she wanted to do the same for other collegiates and took the role of Collegiate Relations chair last fiscal year.
Lorenia’s favorite non-engineering activities include spending time with her two sons and her dog, watching sports with friends, barbecuing with family and designing logos, shirts on Illustrator. |
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