Sharon CHIKOTA

I've been in engineering since 1990, and I currently work as a Senior Engineer at GE Vernova, a position I've held for about three and a half years. My typical day involves working on engineering documents and making sure everything complies with procedures, attending meetings, mentoring others, and supporting other groups. I work in the nuclear industry on the design of a first-of-a-kind small modular reactor, which includes supporting the licensing engineers in the licensing process. One of my proudest professional achievements was working to support the checking of the engineering analysis for the Millennium Wheel in London, also known as the London Eye. I've also done structural analysis for fixed offshore platforms in the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan. I got into engineering because in school I liked math and physics and wanted to do something that was more practical than either of those. When I looked into engineering, it looked very interesting to me, and that was how I decided. I'm an attention-to-detail person, and I focus on making sure everything's going to work and planning everything so that there are no errors or things that are going to go wrong.