IEEE WIE NH - Past Chair 2007

Jennifer started her career as a software engineer at Curtiss-Wright Embedded Computing Controls (formerly Dy4 Systems Inc., Ottawa, Canada) where she developed VxWorks/Tornado BSPs (Board Support Packages) for SBCs (Single Board Computers) and wrote firmware diagnostics. Through her career, she has held increasingly significant positions in software engineering, software release quality and quality management.

Lately, her responsibilities at Visage Imaging, Inc, a subsidiary of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. - where she was the Quality Systems Manager and interim Quality Management Representative - included ensuring compliance for ISO standards (ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 13485:2003) as well as CDMCAS – (Canadian Medical Devices Conformity Assessment System) and MDD (Medical Device Directive) for their Quality Management Systems and products. Furthermore, she learnt how to apply Regulatory standards for FDA (Food Drug and Administration), Health Canada and CE Mark in order to enable the sales of VI Medical Devices products to these different countries.

Jennifer obtained her Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from McGill University, Montréal, Canada (B.Eng ’94). She also completed her Management Certificate from the Boston University Corporate Center in 2004.  She was a Canada Scholar in 1990 – a scholarship program in Canada that sought out, selected and supported academically outstanding students who showed talent, dedication, leadership and service in their communities.

Volunteer Activities 

IEEE (S’90 M’94 SM'07)
Jennifer joined IEEE in 1990 and became a member of Women In Engineering (WIE) in 1996.  She held Secretary and Chairperson positions in the student branch chapter at McGill University. She participated in the local Section activities in Ottawa, Canada (Region 7) where she started her career. 

In 2006, she has reconnected with the NH Section where she was the co-editor of the monthly newsletter. In 2006, she was the recipient of the Young Engineer Award for the NH Section and spearheaded the formation of the NH WIE Affinity Group. 

She was elected as the 2007 Chair of the WIE NH Affinity Group and as the NH Section Vice-Chair for 2007. In January 2007, she was elevated to IEEE Senior Member status - less than 8% of the IEEE's 375000 members hold this prestigious grade of membership, which recognizes significant professional and technical accomplishment.

She is very involved in mentoring students (McGill Mentor Program) and IEEE members (MentorNet) and active in the start up of the section's TISP (Teacher-In-Service-Program).  See the IEEE Institute article - Sep 2007 

PETAC 
She was elected the PETAC Secretary for the 2007/2008 fiscal year. For more information on  PETAC members, see Section 188-E:14 and 188-E:16 http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/xv/188-e/188-e-mrg.htm and redesigned the Pre-Engineering NH website (http://www.preengineeringnh.org)

She is also featured as one of the prominent Diversity Power Leaders on the DPLC website - see profile. 

Jennifer current resides in Merrimack, New Hampshire with her husband (also an Electrical Engineer) and their two sons.