Teresa Shea: The challenge of adapting new technologies. [Intelligence] [Career Notes]

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🗓️ 17 November 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Please enjoy this encore episode where Vice President of Raytheon's Cyber Offense, Defense Expert Teresa Shea speaks of her journey from math to adapting new technologies on the cutting edge, With a love of math, Teresa was offered a scholarship by the Society of Women Engineering and decided to pursue a degree in electrical engineering. Unsurprisingly, there were few other women in her program, Teresa interned with and then proceeded to work for the National Security Agency becoming their SIGINT director. Following her government career, Teresa worked to help bring new technologies to government through her work at Raytheon. We thank Teresa for sharing her story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Cyberwire Network, powered by N2K.
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0:52.7	Thank you. dot com backslash cyberwire My name is Teresa
1:01.7	and I am a vice president at Raytheon running a group called cyber offense defense experts.
1:17.9	Okay. running a group called Cyber Offense Defense Experts. When I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to be a teacher.
1:23.1	We played school all the time.
1:25.4	That's what we did.
1:26.8	And as I got older, I zeroed in on becoming a
1:32.0	math teacher. So I graduated from high school in 1977, which was just about the time ARPANET
1:41.3	was turning into the internet. I really liked math. It was almost an escape for me.
1:47.6	And I knew in high school that it wasn't really a common thing for, especially for girls to like.
1:55.3	What got my attention was when I graduated from high school, the Society of Women Engineering.
2:01.4	You've heard of them, I'm sure.
2:04.1	They gave me a scholarship.
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