Marla Thornton has been working at JPL since 1987 (with one year away). She has worked as a simulation programmer on an army training wargame, an automation system engineer on a DSN project, a TC&DM project representative for Voyager, SIRTF and Deep Space 1, Ground Data System Engineer for SIM, and finally as a Ground Data System Engineer for MMO supporting Stardust, Mars Odyssey, Genesis, and Mars Global Surveyor.

BS Mathematics - UC Santa Barbara
MBA- University of Southern California