NASA's CIO - Santa Baby, I’d sit on your lap for a shower cap

Re:NASA's CIO - Santa Baby, I’d sit on your lap for a shower... by rksprst on Monday December 20, 2010 @03:21PM (#2025634)

Looked at her linkedin profile, she went from getting her BS in 1980 to being Deputy Director of the US Department of Justice in 1983. How did that happen? She was a college grad with 3 years of experience with a degree in math. She's not a lawyer or a DA or State Attorney General, I'm really curious how she got that job?

Edit: Seems she was the Deputy Director of the Office of Information Assurance in the US Department of Justice. That's still a big jump, but not as large.

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Re:NASA's CIO - Santa Baby, I’d sit on your lap for a shower... by ahi on Monday December 20, 2010 @03:36PM (#2025681)

She's not exactly dumb:

"Ms. Cureton earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Howard University in 1980 graduating magna cum laude with a major in Mathematics and a minor in Latin. She also received a Master of Science Degree in Applied Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University in 1994, and a Post-Master's Advanced Certificate in Applied Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University in 1996. She performed extensive research in numerical analysis and has been published in the "Journal of Sound and Vibration.""

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Re:NASA's CIO - Santa Baby, I’d sit on your lap for a shower... by adestefan on Monday December 20, 2010 @05:57PM (#2026099)

It's probably not really a jump. In 1983 the Office of Information Assurance in the US Department of Justice probably was a tiny blip on the Justice Department's org chart with 5 people in it. It's pretty easy to get the title Deputy Director when you only have 5 people in an office.

Government titles are interesting. I've run into many Deputy Assistant Directors or other out there title just to fill in a line on an org chart. Plus it's easier to get money for a position when it has a title.

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