The Journey to Working at NASA with Capt’n Amy

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Bill Kennedy

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Capt’n Amy is a Systems Engineer Supervisor for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center. Her mission is to make sure that the facilities are always mission ready. Her team also provides support for launch operations. In this episode, Amy takes us through her journey from studying electrical engineering in college and designing sprinkler systems to becoming a supervisor at NASA. 00:00 Introduction 01:23 What is Amy Doing Today? 09:55 First Memory of a Computer 13:55 Interests...

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Arden Labs Education.
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0:11.0	Visit Arden Labs.com forward slash education for more information.
0:20.0	Welcome to the Arn Labs podcast.
0:24.5	Our special guest today is Amy Lindynian, or also known as Captain Amy.
0:31.2	And before I let her say anything, okay, Amy is one of my favorite people on Twitter because she works at nassah and she has the coolest
0:41.1	feed and she's working on cool stuff that i'm going to let her talk about and then if you're not
0:47.3	following her after this well i don't know what your feeds about but it's all wrong okay amy welcome
0:53.6	to the show well thank, thank you, Bill.
0:55.5	Thank you for inviting me. I was so excited when I reached out and you said yes. I was like crossing
1:00.8	fingers and toes and this is very cool. Well, it's kind of cool for me because this is my first podcast,
1:06.5	so I'm excited. Ah, nice, nice, nice. Give everybody like the two minutes on what you're doing today.
1:14.1	This podcast is about you and I want to kind of explore your journey and how you ended up eventually at NASA and kind of what you're doing.
1:21.9	So like I give everybody the two minutes spiel.
1:25.0	The elevator pitch.
1:26.3	Yeah.
1:27.3	Well, I am a systems engineer supervisor.
1:33.0	I lead a team of about 30, 35 engineers, system engineers, and our mission is to make sure that
1:42.3	the facilities at Kennedy Space Center are always
1:45.6	ready, always mission ready. And we also provide support for launch operations,
1:53.3	particularly Artemis, but also some of the commercial spaceflight that comes out of
1:58.4	Kennedy. So that's my job. I get to hang around a bunch of really cool and smart people,
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