.As a Human Resource Company Companion at NASA Central Office, Selina Salgado describes her task as aiding with "all traits folks" for the company. By promoting technical solutions to human resources (HR) challenges and also requirements, she stands out at an often-underestimated aspect of Digital Transformation (DT): the interpersonal side. As a champ of community structure, know-how sharing, and digital upskilling, Selina was actually a very easy selection for this month's Digital Transformer award..Selina started at NASA in 2019 as a Pathways trainee as well as earlier functioned as a mentoring organizer for Marshall Space Tour Facility (MSFC), which is actually where her Digital Transformation adventure began. At MSFC, she created an all-in-one, automated device for accessible job postings, which decreased the organization's opportunity to tap the services of as well as improved presence for on call roles. She possesses goals for additional leveraging these sorts of units to boost inclusive teaming around NASA by creating human resources resources readily available and interoperable all over facilities. Her present crew under the Office of the Main Human Funds Officer (OCHCO) works with an 80-20 mentality, operating to create common resources as well as answers that are 80% interoperable as well as twenty% customizable to the specific association or case..Aside from her technical service digital HR resources like the automated task panel, Selina volunteers to aid folks recognize what makeover suggests to them and also how to exercise transformation in their lives. In collaboration along with Jess Deibert, DT Digital Academy Lead, Selina produced the brand new Makeover Tips (TxTips) series, which includes NASA staff members' tech-related ideas for performing their job. The immediate appeal of the community-led set caused sound speaker ask for TxTip presentations from numerous other workplaces at NASA, including the Workplace of STEM Interaction..Most lately, Selina has actually come to be an essential contributor and also partner in NASA's Summer months of AI upskilling project to aid employees maximize the benefits of AI while managing dangers. As a self-taught developer, Selina has actually made several devices and also apps to simplify agency-wide collaboration and also information compilation. She leveraged PowerApps, Electrical power Automate, as well as Power BI, incorporated with SharePoint, to nourish records to a dash made use of by the Organization Principal AI Police officer to inform the Manager on effect metrics from the Summer of artificial intelligence campaign. Selina likewise cultivated and also carried out many celebrations to engage and thrill the labor force around this campaign, consisting of conceiving the agency's first "Fight of the Bots" occasion. Her Reddit-style "Inquire Me Just about anything" event helped workers recognize the variations in large foreign language designs through matching ChatGPT versus Microsoft CoPilot to react to participant-submitted motivates as well as questions. The Battle of the Bots observed the best interaction of any sort of asynchronous Summer season of AI event.Selina's informative history aligns along with her pay attention to the connective and collaborative parts of Digital Change. She received her bachelor's level in organization control along with a focus in human resource management and also her expert's degree in learning as well as pupil undertakings, which brought about her rate of interest in NASA's internship and also mentorship courses. The relationship item, she says, is what she enjoys very most about collaborating with DT. "If you experience a problem, there's an area of strategy out there for you to communicate to and engage with ... to create that connect with various other employees that are interested in and passionate regarding change.".The various other effect Selina points to along her Digital Improvement adventure is her army history. "I grew in an armed forces household, and then I participated in the Navy right away from high school. There is actually a culture there of exactly how to acquire things carried out," states Selina. "What drives my enthusiasm for methods as well as units is that it's transferrable to someone else ... I need to have to become able to pass that on the next person." She obtains energized through finding out brand new resources and also discovering services to obstructions, particularly when she can establish methods for others to make use of as well as improve her job. "That is actually something that I enjoy concerning improvement and only alter in general-- that you reach establish and also find out and also associate with new folks.".If there is actually one notification Selina plans to disperse at NASA via her achievements as a Digital Transformer, it is actually that Digital Transformation is for every person. "You don't must remain in IT, you don't must have that background or even technological [capacity]," she says. "I imply, I'm in HR. Any area at NASA can utilize the digital yard as well as digital change. Those concepts and information are actually accessible for everyone.".