Tammy Hinkle, 51, was a stay-at-home mom for eight years before returning to work.
In 2020, she enrolled in a 10-month cybersecurity training program without any tech experience.
About three years later, she'd landed a cybersecurity role with a subcontractor at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab .
In February 2022, she started her first cybersecurity job as an enterprise help-desk technician with the IT company OBXtek.
In February, Hinkle started her subcontractor role as an IT-security engineer at JPL — she said she focused on identity credentials and access management.
Persons:
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Organizations:
NASA, Service, California State University, Jet Propulsion, Cal State, JPL —, University of California
Locations:
Wall, Silicon, Pasadena , California, Long Beach, Los Angeles, OBXtek