Sharon was the first female at RMS to achieve the distinguished technical classification of Senior Fellow Engineer. She has extensive program management experience and led multiple very sophisticated and complex development programs through the Engineering Manufacturing and Development EMD) phase of development. She is very committed to program excellence and developing high quality products for Raytheon’s customers. Sharon is a certified Systems Architect, certified SW Architect, certified Agile Scrum and Product Owner, and is also certified in Scaled Agile Framework SAFe) Since retiring, Sharon has made the transition from industry to academia by teaching different cybersecurity courses in the College of Engineering. In 2020, she led a grouof faculty to develothe curriculum for a new BS in Software Engineering, which was approved by Arizona Board of Regents in April 2021. The Software Engineering degree program is now offered across 3 different campuses/formats including On-campus, Online, and to our Yuma Distance Campus. As the program was launched in the Fall 2021, she was selected to become the Director of the Software Engineering program, which is co-led by both the Electrical and Computer Engineering ECE) and the Systems and Industrial Engineering SIE) departments.