Joy Laibl
Manager, Network Engineering Group
NASA
Joy Laibl, Manager of the Network Engineering Group for the Office of Chief Information Officer (OCIO) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), provides management oversight and technical direction in design, development, implementation, and maintenance of the laboratory’s networks, Ground Communication and Telecommunications Engineering. Laibl is responsible for the integration of processes, methods, activities, and product/service delivery within the group consistent with the guidance established by the OCIO. She is also responsible for providing technical management direction, leadership, guidance and oversight on planned, special, and ad hoc initiatives and audits to a multidisciplinary team through the group’s senior-level contributors and their cognizance for technical performance.
Under Laibl’s leadership, the Network Engineering Group successfully consolidated a large enterprise network of 16,000 nodes, along with the mission operations networks of 1,600 nodes, into one organization with one set of processes, one engineering team, and one operations concept. This activity leads the way for other government organizations to unify both mission critical and enterprise infrastructure into a common support model. It has also resulted in significant savings for JPL of over one million dollars per year.
Laibl, a 12-year veteran of JPL, has positively influenced the way JPL does business. As a direct result of her initiative and innovation, JPL is now focused on consolidating activities, reducing duplications, increasing performance, and improving metrics, and quality of the service that they are delivering, all while reducing costs.
Laibl holds a Masters Degree in Business, Information Technology from the University of Redlands and a Bachelors degree in Journalism from California State University, Northridge.
In her spare time, Laibl sits on the board of directors for a non-profit youth organization. She also has an avid interest in sports photography, particularly when it involves her two sons playing the sports they enjoy.
Laibl resides with her family in the Los Angeles area.
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