.As a Human Resource Service Companion at NASA Headquarters, Selina Salgado defines her task as helping with "all traits folks" for the company. Through promoting technical solutions to human resources (HR) difficulties and demands, she excels at an often-underestimated aspect of Digital Transformation (DT): the interpersonal edge. As a champion of area building, knowledge sharing, and digital upskilling, Selina was actually a quick and easy collection for this month's Digital Transformer award..Selina began at NASA in 2019 as a Pathways intern and also formerly operated as a mentoring coordinator for Marshall Area Air Travel Facility (MSFC), which is actually where her Digital Makeover adventure started. At MSFC, she generated an all-in-one, automated body for available work postings, which lessened the company's time to tap the services of and improved presence for accessible openings. She possesses aspirations for additional leveraging these sorts of units to strengthen inclusive teaming all over NASA through creating human resources tools offered as well as interoperable across facilities. Her current staff under the Office of the Main Human Resources Policeman (OCHCO) runs with an 80-20 attitude, working to produce popular resources as well as options that are actually 80% interoperable and twenty% customizable to the specific organization or even circumstance..In addition to her specialized work on electronic human resources resources like the automated task panel, Selina takes initiative to assist folks understand what change implies to them and also exactly how to engage in makeover in their every day lives. In partnership along with Jess Deibert, DT Digital Institute Lead, Selina made the brand-new Makeover Tips (TxTips) series, which includes NASA workers' tech-related pointers for performing their job. The immediate appeal of the community-led collection led to speaker requests for TxTip presentations from many other offices at NASA, featuring the Workplace of STEM Involvement..Most recently, Selina has ended up being a key factor and also companion in NASA's Summer of AI upskilling project to help staff members take full advantage of the advantages of AI while managing dangers. As a self-taught creator, Selina has actually generated a number of resources as well as apps to enhance agency-wide cooperation and also data compilation. She leveraged PowerApps, Electrical power Automate, and Electrical power BI, combined with SharePoint, to nourish information to a control panel used by the Agency Principal AI Officer to brief the Administrator on influence metrics from the Summer season of artificial intelligence project. Selina likewise built and also implemented a number of celebrations to involve and also thrill the workforce around this initiative, consisting of conceiving the organization's initial "War of the Bots" event. Her Reddit-style "Inquire Me Everything" occasion assisted employees recognize the distinctions in large language models by matching ChatGPT versus Microsoft CoPilot to react to participant-submitted prompts and concerns. The Battle of the Bots saw the highest possible interaction of any kind of asynchronous Summer season of artificial intelligence event.Selina's academic history straightens along with her pay attention to the connective and collective elements of Digital Change. She received her bachelor's level in organization control with an emphasis in human resource administration and her master's level in education and learning as well as student affairs, which brought about her rate of interest in NASA's teaching fellowship as well as mentorship systems. The hookup piece, she points out, is what she takes pleasure in very most about collaborating along with DT. "If you experience a concern, there is actually a community of strategy around for you to connect to as well as interact along with ... to build that connect with other staff members that have an interest in and also enthusiastic concerning transformation.".The other influence Selina points to along her Digital Change quest is her armed forces background. "I grew up in an army family, and afterwards I joined the Naval force right away from senior high school. There's a lifestyle there certainly of exactly how to get factors done," claims Selina. "What drives my passion for processes and systems is that it's transferrable to a person else ... I need to be capable to pass that on the following individual." She gets energized by learning new devices as well as locating options to roadblocks, specifically when she can develop methods for others to make use of and also build on her work. "That is actually something that I like about transformation and just alter in general-- that you reach cultivate as well as find out and also connect with brand-new folks.".If there's one information Selina plans to spread at NASA with her accomplishments as a Digital Transformer, it is actually that Digital Change is actually for everyone. "You do not must remain in IT, you do not must possess that background or even specialized [potential]," she mentions. "I suggest, I remain in human resources. Any kind of field at NASA may take advantage of the electronic landscape as well as electronic improvement. Those concepts and sources are actually on call for everyone.".