Officers
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President
Nicole Woodman is currently an Electrical Facilities Engineer working in technical development for the Intel Corporation. She received her Master's degree in Energy System Engineering from Portland State University. She has volunteered for many roles within SWE, which have fostered her personal and professional growth as well as given her a chance to give back to the engineering education community that has had such an immensely positive impact on her life. In her "free" time, Nicole has been busy perfecting her prowess on quad roller skates.
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President-Elect
Jill Murfin is a decisive, driven technical leader with a passion for motivating others. In February of 2017, she joined Nike’s Manufacturing Innovation team seeing an opportunity to combine her love of sport with her experience navigating complex manufacturing products to scale. Prior to Nike, she held roles in Engineering Management, Factory Operations Management, Product Engineering, and Technical Program Management. Jill makes it a priority to inspire both current & future generations of female engineers through mentoring, advocacy, and STEM outreach. Jill is a mom to two kids (Tyler 6, Kylie 5) and was the co-VP of Outreach for the Columbia River Section the past two years.
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Secretary
Chloe Jordan is in her first year at Boeing working as a Tool Design Engineer. She graduated from Oregon State University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Aerospace Engineering. During her senior year, she served as OSU's SWE section President, and Community Outreach Chair the year before! Chloe loves that SWE is a powerful platform for women in STEM, providing tools and resources, along with a thriving culture to further their professional and personal goals. Outside of work Chloe loves Ballet, Barre3, skiing and all things Aerospace!
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Treasurer
Sireesha Akula is an OEM Program Manager at Intel Connectivity group helping customers to enable new businesses and resolving issues with Intel Ethernet products from 2015. Sireesha excelled in customer satisfaction that brought in new business wins and higher revenue from the customer, while the Intel Networking Division rewarded her with ND star award within a year in her role. She has been with Intel for 12+ years and enjoyed working in her roles as Tactical planner and Senior Validation Engineer on CPU and SOC products in past. Sireesha holds a Master’s degree from Portland state university in Electrical Engineering and a certified Project Management Professional. She was introduced to SWE by her friend in 2013 and has been serving different roles in local Columbia River Section and actively participates in Professional development and Outreach activities and. She is amazed by the passion of the Columbia River section board and blessed to be part of this team.
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VP of Professional Development
Dr. Kristen Brastad is currently a senior mechanical engineer at Lam Research. In her day job, she leads problem-solving activities and drives root cause and corrective actions with suppliers, drives improvement of suppliers’ quality and manufacturing processes, and audits and documents supply base performance on quality management systems. Prior to Lam Research, she spent seven years designing residential drinking water treatment systems for the Asian market. Outside of work, Dr. Brastad's passions involve advocating for clean water, playing with her cat, and painting little designs on her fingernails.
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VP of Professional Development
Anna Mary Mathew joined Intel in 2010 as a CPU designer. In addition to circuit and logic design, Anna has worked as Product Development Engineer, System Validation engineer working on functionality validation in the hardware domain. She spent eight years in various validation roles prior to becoming a validation manager in the fall of 2017. Anna manages a team of 8 hardware engineers and is responsible for the technical deliverables and people management responsibilities for her team. She is involved in a number of volunteer activities in SWE and has worked as VP of Professional Development, VP of Collegiate Relations and Scholarship Chair over the course of the last 4 years when she has been active with SWE CRS. She gave a talk at WE Local 2018 in Providence, RI titled ‘Professional Development Through Engagement and Leadership’. She has been actively volunteering at various outreach events since 2017.
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VP of Outreach
Chelsea Tura is a small town girl from Missouri with a chemical engineering degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She graduated in 2010 and moved to Portland, Oregon to go to work for Intel Corporation as an UltraPure Water Engineer. In her spare time, Chelsea enjoys travelling the world, playing recreational volleyball, hanging out with friends, and spending time with her cat and husband. Chelsea is passionate about spreading her passion for engineering and science and letting others know there is so much more to a career in STEM! She is looking forward to the opportunity with SWE to bring her leadership skills and passion for volunteering together.
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VP of Outreach
Irina Belozerova is currently an UltraPure Water Engineer at Intel focusing on water purification and water conservation. Before taking on this engineering position in the industry, Irina conducted research in academia, from environmental microbiology to biosensing platforms. Prior to Intel, her last academic endeavor was a postdoc in Applied Physics at New York University, researching sustainable waste management solutions. As a passionate conservationist and engineer, Irina enjoys giving back by being actively engaged with engineering and scientific communities and now Oregon SWE. Irina is excited to join SWE CRS leadership team to serve growing local engineering community.
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VP of Collegiate Relations
Joy Marsalla is the Sustainable Chemicals Management Manager at Nike and is excited to serve as the Vice President of Collegiate Relations. Joy is passionate about SWE, and has served the Columbia River section in many capacities, including mentorship, as well as formal roles including secretary, outreach, social media, website and scholarship chairs. She is now combining her ongoing support of the section scholarship to improve coordination and communication with the local collegiate sections. She is happy to progress mentorship from collegiate to professional levels, strengthening the pipeline into the Columbia River section, and to create combined events across the collegiate and professional chapters.
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