Angela Duckworth is co-founder, chief scientist, and a board member of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance scientific insights that help children thrive. She is also the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, faculty co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change For Good Initiative, and faculty co-director of Wharton People Analytics. 

A 2013 MacArthur Fellow, Angela has advised the White House, the World Bank, NBA and NFL teams, and Fortune 500 CEOs. 

Prior to her career in research, Angela founded a summer school for low-income children that was profiled as a Harvard Kennedy School case study and, in 2018, celebrated its 25th anniversary. She has also been a McKinsey management consultant and a math and science teacher in the public schools of New York City, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. 

Angela completed her undergraduate degree in Advanced Studies Neurobiology at Harvard, graduating magna cum laude. With the support of a Marshall Scholarship, she completed an MSc with Distinction in Neuroscience from Oxford University. She completed her PhD in Psychology as a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

Angela's TED talk is among the most-viewed of all time. Her book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance is a #1 New York Times best seller. She is also co-host, with Stephen Dubner, of the podcast No Stupid Questions.

Angela Duckworth

Software Domain Manager and Control Account Manager of CAT IVa SD&amp;D US Navy target program.  Provide overall domain guidance and ensure CMMI Level 3 compliant, disciplined software development.  Coordinate processes of Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) with members across internal developers and leadership teams of subcontractors in multiple timezones.  Establish, define software development approach (UML, Artisan, Rhapsody).  Document and maintain Software Development Plan throughout software product development lifecycle.  Manage change control through Software Configuration Management (SCM) and Software Quality Assurance (SQA) teams to generate, monitor, approve, and implement builds, releases, corrective actions and change requests.  Generate Software Requirements Specification (SRS), through analysis, allocation, decomposition, and derivation in coordination with Systems Engineering flow down of System/Segment/Detailed Specifications.  Architect, model and document software design in UML (Rhapsody) and integrate with requirements management tool (DOORS) and ensure bi-directional end-to-end traceability of requirements from top level to detailed item specifications to models to code.  Coordinate, conduct and document Software Specification Review (SSR) and support SE with System Requirements Review (SRR) and System Functional Review (SFR).  Develop, execute, monitor and maintain Software Configuration Management Plan, Software Measurement Plan and Software Quality Assurance Plan.  Conduct formal FQT.  Monitor compliance in the software development process, documentation, and metrics.  Generate and maintain software user manuals.
•	EVMS Trained by Humphreys &amp; Associates and SM&amp;A
•	Rhapsody and UML/SysML Model-Driven Development Trained
•	CMMI/AS9100 Auditor Trained
•	StarTeam Application Lifecycle and SW Configuration Management Tool Trained
•	Systems Engineering Trained
•	IBM System Architect DODAF framework and ABM methodology trained

Software Domain Manager

EAE employee brought back to resurrect and complete the SPECES planetary drill research project for NASA Mars Exploration Office.

Sr. Systems Engineer

Jimani Inc.

Designed, built and brought to market the Langolier Fiber Laser Marking System, a state of the art, paradign shifting, &quot;green&quot; laser marking system that is an order of magnitude more energy efficient and requires zero maintenance.  Added additional functionality with custom work cells, 4 axis automation, and integration with robotic arm for large area automated laser marking.  Established ISO and AS9003 compliant Quality Assurance system in compliance with customer QA systems and approved as build-to-print vendor.

General Manager

Swales Aerospace

Functional manager of engineering group.  Designed the six-axis Motion Controls System including requirements definition, analysis, and design synthesis, then through technical reviews, then manufacturing, integration, test, and field tested the TRL-6 SPECES planetary drill system, successfully drilling through the icy permafrost at the Idaho National Laboratory field test for NASA's Mars Exploration Program Office managed by Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Group Supervisor, Software Engineering

Additional duty in IT Department.  Reporting to the Network Systems group manager and director working day to day with Windows NT, 2003, Solaris, and Linux servers in 24/7 real-time production environment.  Managed enterprise wide spam filtering project from scope definition, product evaluation, vendor selection, and saw to its success implementation.  Successfully transitioned from Windows 2000 to Windows XP.

System Administrator

VROne.Net

Built the only NT based full service ISP way back when the platform of choice was Unix and they said it couldn't be done.  Ported POSIX compliant BIND to NT and the rest is history.  Became regional provider before merger with Jetlink Systems in 2001.

Teltron Computers, Inc.

A regional computer retail chain that started in its hay days.  I decided to call it quits when end users can purchase hardware from the web for less than wholesale cost to the company purchasing at much larger volume.  Mentored many future tech stars including CEOs of venture funded startups and CIO/CTO of Inc. 500 companies.

President

Teltron Computers

Sales management for the company sales organization responsible for over one million annual revenue.

Sales Manager

Enterprising propellerhead, multi-disciplined professional with experiences from C-level management to hands on the metal hardware and software development.  Master computer jock, live and breath all things technical and digital.  Bleeding edge since 6502.  Self taught programming languages, BASIC, Pascal, Assembly, Ada, C, C++, C#, VB.net. Up to speed quickly in any Computing/IT/Programming related projects.  IT skills scale across enterprises.  Combining skills from IT, Software development and Hardware design and development, program management and process improvement.   Unique perspective both as a service provider and a service consumer.  Motion control and industrial automation, knowledge management, automation, process improvement to Information Automation Technology.  Experienced in NASA/DOD Technology Development (TD) and System Development and Demonstration (SD&amp;D/EMD) phases of acquisition lifecycle.

Specialties: Current SECRET Clearance.  Systems Engineering (Systems Architect, DODAF ABM Methodology), Requirements Analysis, Allocation, Decomposition, Derivation,  Management (IBM/Telelogic DOORS), & Design Synthesis.  Model-Driven Design (UML, Rhapsody, Artisan), IT, SW Development, Motion Control, Quality Assurance, CMMI, IPPD, AS9100, Program & Project Management, EVMS. At ease in executive management, engineering, finance, production, manufacturing, purchasing, sales, R&D, and QA roles. Multi-lingual.

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