Talk:Juanita Christensen

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TMJSmith I picked up this from the WP:GOCE/REQ copy edit request page. I made a bunch of sentence/flow edits, however there are some questions that must be answered to get this article in better form.

The lead paragraph, I inserted an invisible comment where there's a question of the title ""...of facilities and environmental" sounds like it's missing a word -- environmental something -- or it should be just "environment".

Additionally, the career section would benefit from a total overhaul as it is comprised of many roles/titles, companies/military posts, with corresponding dates and locations that don't present well in paragraph form. The subject moved around quite a bit and sounds like was promoted repeatedly throughout. There isn't much content in the career section aside from describing these roles and the regular paragraph format for an article is just a little challenging to read and comprehend. I made a table to try to get it all straight — as it would be a more comprehensive and visually appealing way to present the information.

Other considerations for the article -- the references/sources are challenging to view and discern information and verify facts. Ideally, the personal life section would include some dates and specify which marriage produced the children since one cannot tell as they children statement is nestled in between marriage #1 and #2.

Here is how the career section would look if the content was first summarized at a high level with the details of dates, locations, roles, companies, etc. in a table: I'm leaving the original prose in the article as-is for now however since there is data missing, we can move this table to the article page when all the data is filled in.

original career section

Christensen began her career as an electronics engineer working at Boeing (in St. Louis, MO) in May 1985. She then changed jobs, and moved several times over the next 36 years.

After working at Boeing for one year starting in May 1985, Christensen left St. Louis for New London, Connecticut and worked as a software engineer with Mystech Associates and Structured Technology from November 1986 to May 1988. She moved back to St. Louis and became a senior electronics engineer with McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, a position she held from May 1988 to June 1991. She then moved to Huntsville, Alabama as senior lead engineer of Comanche Systems/Software Engineering & Integration with General Dynamics Advanced Information Services (formerly Veridian).

Christensen completed a corporate leadership development course with Veridan at the Bolger Center in 2003. From April 2004 to January 2005, Christensen served as principal systems and integration engineer for the cruise missile defense system, program management office, CAS, Inc. in Huntsville. She then became the held the same position for the unmanned aircraft systems program management office, supporting the extended range and multi-purpose UAVSDI Inc., from January 2005 to February 2007 in Huntsville.

Christensen worked as the director of the engineering analysis directorate at the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) from February 2007 to September 2008, then became the technical management division chief in the project management office for unmanned aircraft systems (PM UAS), program executive office (PEO) aviation in Huntsville. In December 2011, Christensen was named a STEM Science Spectrum Trailblazer by the Black Engineer of the Year Award (BEYA) program. She received a BEYA alumni leadership award in May 2012. Christensen was deputy director for the aviation development directorate of the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), from August 2012 to February 2015. She completed training in the Defense Acquisition University executive leadership program in 2013. Christensen is certified by the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act, Level III, Systems Engineering Acquisition, and the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act, Level I, Program Management.

Christensen was selected for Senior Executive Service (SES) in February 2015. She was the first African-American woman from Redstone Arsenal to join the SES. Christensen accepted the position of acting executive deputy to the Commanding General, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command effective September 5, 2017. She is also the director of the AMRDEC weapons development and integration directorate (WDI). From November 26, 2017 until January 16, 2021, Christensen was director of AMRDEC. On January 17, 2021, she became the deputy chief of staff for logistics (G4) of facilities and environmental at the United States Army Materiel Command.

revised career section

== Career ==

Christensen began her career as an electronics engineer and worked at Boeing (in St. Louis, MO) from May 1985 to May 1986. She then moved several times over the years for various roles at different companies:

Years	Company	Role	Location
May 1985 - May 1986	Boeing	Electronics Engineer	St. Louis, MO
November 1986 - May 1988	Mystech Associates & Structured Technology	Software Engineer	New London, CT
May 1988 - June 1991	McDonnell Aircraft Corporation	Sr. Electronics Engineer	St. Louis, MO
June 1991 - April 2004?]	General Dynamics Advances Information Services (formerly Veridian)	Sr. Lead Engineer	Huntsville, AL
April 2004 - January 2005	CAS	Principal Systems & Integration Engineer	Huntsville, AL
January 2005 - February 2007	UAVSDI, Inc.	Principal Systems & Integration Engineer	Huntsville, AL
February 2007 - September 2008	US Army Space & Missile Defense Command (SMDC)	Director , Engineering Analysis	Huntsville, AL
August 2012 - February 2015	US Army Aviation & Missile Research, Development & Engineering Center (AMRDEC)	Deputy Director for Aviation Development	Huntsville, AL
February 2015 - [September 2017]?	??? (Senior Executive Service)	???	???
September 2017 - [November 2017?]	US Army Aviation & Missile Research, Development & Engineering Center (AMRDEC)	Acting Executive Deputy to the Commanding General	???
November 2017 - January 2021	US Army Aviation & Missile Research, Development & Engineering Center (AMRDEC)	Director	???
January 2021	US Army Materiel Command	Deputy Chief of Staff	???

If the data to complete the table can be supplied, we can just move the whole section over to the article page and replace the current "career" section. The Real Serena Joy^Talk 00:07, 22 June 2022 (UTC)