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NASA Co-op IRD
by Thomas Kromis

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Fiancé

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United States Marine Corps
Travel & Adventure
Norway
Israel
Jordan
Egypt
Italy
Malta
Spain
Japan
21 years of active duty
service
Promotion to Master Gunnery Sergeant

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My $1200 investment in 1987
North Lake College
Associate Degree
Southern Methodist
University
B.S. and M.L.S.

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Transition from Marine to NASA

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Learning Opportunities
• Meetings:
• ICB, projects, reviews, etc.
• 67 hours
• Training:
• Co-op HR, SharePoint, Satern, etc.
• 22 hours
• Presentations:
• NTSB SS2, Managing Risk, “We Could Not Fail”
• 5.5 hours
• Tours:
• Buildings 8, 46 and 227
• 3.5 hours

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Projects
• JSC search function
– Allan Stilwell
• Provided test search feedback
• New Employee Handbook
– Herb Babineaux
• Reviewed for accuracy
• Submitted discrepancies

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Projects (cont.)
• DAA Discrepancy Report
– Vanessa Beene
• Obtained NAMS access
• Observed & learned process
• Provided feedback
• Enterprise software license update
– Herb Babineaux
• Researched & consolidated 187,507 licenses
• Created Power Point (55 slides) presentation

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Projects (cont.)
• CTO Website
– David Kelldorf
• Suggested options regarding current website
• Researched pros and cons of changing platform
• IRD Customer Survey
– Kathy Kaminski
• Created new Survey Monkey survey for IRD
• Collected results

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ConVERG - Connected
Veterans ERG