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"Hubble Women Making History"

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My name is Daria Outlaw and I am 
a systems administrator here at  

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Goddard and I provide IT support services 
for the Hubble Space Telescope project.  

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Systems administrators are IT professionals that 
provide services to ensure that organizations  

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computer systems are functioning, our role and 
responsibility is to provide support to users,  

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to troubleshoot issues, and to provide overall 
network and support. IT and IT infrastructure  

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is the foundation that makes things possible for 
Hubble, and as systems of administrators we have  

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a tendency to work in the background, but we are 
the ones that kind of keep things running. I am  

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from a small town in North Carolina, and I was 
educated in the public school systems there. From  

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there I did my undergraduate studies at North 
Carolina Central University, and my Graduate  

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Studies at Johns Hopkins University. I actually 
have been working at Goddard Space Flight Center  

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for 25 years. Once I am at the office the first 
thing I do is go through email and voicemail,  

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setting priorities to address user requests and 
then just kind of going out to solve whatever  

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problems that have come our way. Alongside of 
that we have daily ongoing tasks, things such  

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as patching and upgrading systems, or replacing or 
upgrading hardware, supporting computer systems,  

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servers, and the overall network in general. 
My favorite part of the job being able to work  

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directly with our users. Hubble has a remarkable 
talent and being able to work face-to-face,  

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day-to-day with remarkable people I think is 
probably one of the highlights. My advice to other  

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young women that are coming up in this profession 
or any profession is to surround yourself with  

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a network of positive people that you can learn 
from. You cannot be afraid of mistakes, mistakes  

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are valuable learning tools. Being a woman in any 
male dominant industry some of the challenges that  

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we face or the challenges of being seen, or being 
heard, or just being accepted for our overall  

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gifts and talents. But what I've learned is that 
you have to have confidence in yourself, you have  

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to believe in yourself, stand your ground, and 
just keep moving forward. It gives me a great  

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sense of pride to be able to work on Hubble and to 
be able to work alongside so many remarkable women  

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that through their profession they're changing 
the game and opening up so many doors for others.

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