Marisol Gamboa
Place Of Birth
El Paso, TX
Family heritage
Mexico
Bio
Marisol is a Computer Scientist and leads a team of software developers as an Associate Division Leader for the Global Security Computing Applications Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She has worked at the Laboratory since 2002. Her background and extensive software engineering experience has led her to reach a position where she provides oversight and technical leadership for a team of software experts responsible for developing tools that help Department of Defense personnel distill, combine, relate, manipulate and access massive amounts of data in a timely manner. In addition to this role, Marisol also serves as the Principal Investigator for multiple projects, focusing on furthering technology by exploring techniques and methodologies that have not been proven.
Current job
Associate Division Leader for Global Security Computing Applications
Why would you recommend exploring careers in science and technology to other Latina girls?
Science and Technology give us the tools to create the impossible. It has given me the power to make my ideas and the ideas of others real software that improves the world we live in.