.As a Human Resource Business Companion at NASA Head Office, Selina Salgado defines her task as aiding with "all factors folks" for the venture. By promoting technical remedies to personnels (HUMAN RESOURCES) challenges and requirements, she succeeds at an often-underestimated facet of Digital Transformation (DT): the interpersonal side. As a champ of area structure, expertise sharing, and digital upskilling, Selina was a simple selection for this month's Digital Transformer honor..Selina started at NASA in 2019 as a Pathways trainee and previously functioned as a mentoring coordinator for Marshall Room Flight Center (MSFC), which is where her Digital Improvement experience began. At MSFC, she made an all-in-one, automated system for accessible task posts, which lessened the agency's time to choose as well as enhanced exposure for accessible openings. She possesses aspirations for additional leveraging these types of devices to enhance broad teaming across NASA through making human resources tools on call and also interoperable across facilities. Her current group under the Office of the Chief Person Funding Officer (OCHCO) works with an 80-20 mentality, functioning to produce typical tools and also options that are actually 80% interoperable and 20% adjustable to the certain association or even scenario..Along with her technical work on digital HR tools like the automated work board, Selina volunteers to aid people recognize what improvement implies to them and just how to exercise makeover in their every day lives. In partnership with Jess Deibert, DT Digital Institute Lead, Selina produced the new Makeover Tips (TxTips) collection, which includes NASA employees' tech-related suggestions for performing their work. The instantaneous popularity of the community-led collection triggered sound speaker requests for TxTip discussions coming from a number of other offices at NASA, including the Office of Stalk Interaction..Very most lately, Selina has actually ended up being a vital contributor and also partner in NASA's Summer months of AI upskilling project to assist employees make the most of the advantages of AI while taking care of dangers. As a self-taught developer, Selina has actually generated many devices as well as applications to streamline agency-wide collaboration and records selection. She leveraged PowerApps, Power Automate, as well as Power BI, combined with SharePoint, to feed data to a dash used due to the Firm Principal artificial intelligence Policeman to brief the Administrator on impact metrics from the Summertime of AI project. Selina likewise built and also performed numerous celebrations to engage as well as thrill the staff around this project, consisting of developing the organization's 1st "Struggle of the Bots" celebration. Her Reddit-style "Inquire Me Just about anything" celebration aided employees comprehend the differences in large language versions by matching ChatGPT versus Microsoft CoPilot to reply to participant-submitted motivates as well as questions. The Fight of the Bots observed the best involvement of any type of asynchronous Summer months of artificial intelligence celebration.Selina's academic background straightens along with her pay attention to the connective and collaborative parts of Digital Transformation. She got her undergraduate's degree in organization management along with a concentration in human resource control and also her professional's degree in education and learning and also pupil undertakings, which resulted in her interest in NASA's teaching fellowship as well as mentorship plans. The relationship part, she claims, is what she takes pleasure in very most approximately collaborating with DT. "If you run into a problem, there's a neighborhood of technique on the market for you to reach out to and also engage with ... to build that connect with various other workers that want and also zealous regarding makeover.".The various other impact Selina suggest along her Digital Makeover journey is her military history. "I grew up in an army family, and afterwards I joined the Navy right away from senior high school. There is actually a lifestyle certainly there of how to acquire factors performed," points out Selina. "What steers my enthusiasm for processes and also units is actually that it is actually transferrable to someone else ... I require to become capable to pass that on to the next person." She obtains vitalized by discovering new resources and also finding answers to obstacles, specifically when she may create methods for others to leverage and improve her job. "That is actually something that I enjoy about improvement and only change typically-- that you come to develop and also learn and also connect with new people.".If there's one information Selina hopes to spread at NASA with her success as a Digital Transformer, it is actually that Digital Change is for every person. "You don't must be in IT, you don't must have that history or specialized [capability]," she says. "I suggest, I'm in HR. Any sort of industry at NASA may make use of the electronic landscape as well as electronic improvement. Those guidelines as well as sources are accessible for everybody.".