Susan L. Kevdzija
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Susan L. Kevdzija is the director of Facilities, Test, and Center Operations at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. In this capacity, Kevdzija is responsible for institutional operations and maintenance at NASA Glenn’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility and Lewis Field campuses as well as the modernization and operation of all test facilities at Lewis Field. […] The post Susan L. Kevdzija appeared first on NASA Science .
Director, Facilities, Test, and Center Operations
Susan L. Kevdzija is the director of Facilities, Test, and Center Operations at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. In this capacity, Kevdzija is responsible for institutional operations and maintenance at NASA Glenn’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility and Lewis Field campuses as well as the modernization and operation of all test facilities at Lewis Field.
Prior to this appointment, Kevdzija served as deputy director of the Facilities, Test and Manufacturing Directorate at NASA Glenn. In this role, she assisted in managing over 300 civil service employees and numerous support service contracts, over $200 million in budgets, and Glenn’s institutional and test facility systems and infrastructure.
Kevdzija began her NASA career at Glenn in 1990 as an electrical test engineer and served as acting deputy director of the directorate beginning in 2012. In 2014, she assumed the deputy director role and was appointed to the federal government’s Senior Executive Service corps.
During her time at Glenn, Kevdzija has held a number of other leadership positions, including heading the coordination and consolidation of electric propulsion research and development efforts across NASA.
She has also served as chief of the Planning and Integration Office for the Facilities, Test and Manufacturing Directorate; chief of the Facilities Planning and Management Office; chief of the Space Environments Test Engineering and Technical Branch; facility manager of the Icing Research Tunnel, and facility manager of Space Simulation Test Facilities.
A native of northeast Ohio, Kevdzija received her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, in 1990 and her master’s degree in industrial engineering from Cleveland State University in Cleveland in 1994.
She is the recipient of a NASA Honor Award, a NASA Administrator’s Group Award, a Center Director Award, and numerous Team Achievement, Special Act or Service, and Performance Awards. Kevdzija and her family reside in Strongsville, Ohio.
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