.As a Personnel Organization Companion at NASA Main Office, Selina Salgado explains her project as assisting with "all factors people" for the venture. By assisting in technological answers to human resources (HR) challenges and also demands, she succeeds at an often-underestimated aspect of Digital Change (DT): the social edge. As a champ of area structure, know-how sharing, and digital upskilling, Selina was actually a very easy selection for this month's Digital Transformer award..Selina began at NASA in 2019 as a Pathways trainee and also recently functioned as a mentoring coordinator for Marshall Area Flight Facility (MSFC), which is actually where her Digital Transformation experience began. At MSFC, she produced an all-in-one, automated unit for accessible job postings, which decreased the agency's opportunity to choose and also improved exposure for offered openings. She possesses goals for more leveraging these kinds of bodies to improve broad teaming all over NASA by making HR tools available and also interoperable all over facilities. Her existing team under the Office of the Principal Human Being Capital Police Officer (OCHCO) works along with an 80-20 mentality, operating to generate usual resources and also answers that are actually 80% interoperable and twenty% adjustable to the certain institution or circumstance..Besides her technical work on digital human resources devices like the automated work panel, Selina volunteers to aid folks comprehend what improvement implies to all of them and how to perform change in their day-to-days live. In collaboration along with Jess Deibert, DT Digital Institute Lead, Selina created the new Transformation Tips (TxTips) set, which includes NASA employees' tech-related recommendations for performing their job. The immediate level of popularity of the community-led collection caused audio speaker requests for TxTip discussions coming from several various other workplaces at NASA, consisting of the Workplace of Stalk Involvement..Most recently, Selina has become an essential contributor and partner in NASA's Summer months of AI upskilling initiative to assist staff members make the most of the benefits of AI while dealing with dangers. As a self-taught programmer, Selina has actually made many devices as well as applications to improve agency-wide partnership and also information assortment. She leveraged PowerApps, Power Automate, and also Power BI, integrated with SharePoint, to nourish information to a dashboard made use of due to the Agency Principal artificial intelligence Policeman to inform the Administrator on influence metrics from the Summer of AI campaign. Selina additionally cultivated and carried out many celebrations to engage and also thrill the workforce around this campaign, consisting of developing the firm's 1st "Fight of the Bots" event. Her Reddit-style "Ask Me Anything" activity helped workers know the distinctions in large foreign language styles by matching ChatGPT against Microsoft CoPilot to respond to participant-submitted motivates and questions. The Battle of the Bots observed the highest possible engagement of any asynchronous Summer season of artificial intelligence event.Selina's educational background lines up along with her focus on the combinative and collective elements of Digital Improvement. She acquired her bachelor's level in business monitoring with an emphasis in personnel monitoring and her master's level in learning as well as student affairs, which led to her enthusiasm in NASA's teaching fellowship and also mentorship programs. The connection item, she points out, is what she enjoys most approximately collaborating with DT. "If you run into a problem, there is actually an area of practice available for you to connect to as well as interact along with ... to create that connect with various other staff members that have an interest in as well as passionate concerning improvement.".The other effect Selina indicate along her Digital Transformation adventure is her military background. "I matured in an army household, and afterwards I joined the Navy right away from secondary school. There's a culture certainly there of exactly how to obtain traits performed," claims Selina. "What drives my interest for procedures and also devices is that it's transferrable to somebody else ... I need to have to be capable to pass that on the next person." She receives invigorated by finding out brand-new devices and also locating services to obstructions, especially when she can create procedures for others to make use of and build on her job. "That is actually something that I really love about makeover and just alter in general-- that you come to cultivate as well as learn and associate with brand new people.".If there is actually one information Selina intends to spread at NASA by means of her accomplishments as a Digital Transformer, it's that Digital Change is actually for everybody. "You don't must be in IT, you don't have to possess that background or even specialized [ability]," she mentions. "I imply, I'm in HR. Any sort of field at NASA may take advantage of the digital garden and also electronic transformation. Those guidelines and resources are offered for everyone.".