Melissa Orme:
CLASS OF 1979
Canoga Park High SchoolClass of 1979
Canoga park, CA
Melissa's Story
Hello friends, a bit about me. I studied aerospace engineering at USC, earning a PhD degree. I was a tenured professor at UCI in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering when I did the unfathomable and relinquished my tenure and moved to Greece with my family, bringing my twin boys who were in the 1st grade at the time. My husband who is Greek wanted to return to his homeland and also to move forward on his invention of ultrasound computed tomography for breast cancer detection. We put our boys into a Greek speaking school so that they could become fully immersed in the culture, making parent-teacher conferences for me somewhat challenging initial...Expand for more
ly. We returned to the states when the socio-economic climate declined and we also wished our sons to begin taking classes in english to prepare for university in America. Returning to America, I became Chief Technology Officer for a startup company (Morf3D) focused on 3d printing (Additive Manufacturing) for the aerospace company. I was later recruited to join Boeing as Vice President for Additive Manufacturing, a role I currently hold. My sons are now PhD students and because of the Coronavirus, have returned to the nest with their father and me. We are grateful for our close, loving family, and the opportunities that we have been afforded.
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