Diana Manent Calero
Integration Engineer
Systems Engineering and Integration Branch
Launch Services Program
Diana Manent Calero is an integration engineer in the Systems Engineering and Integration Branch of NASA's Launch Services Program (LSP) at the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
As an integration engineer, she is responsible for interfacing with the spacecraft customer and Launch Services contractor to establish technical requirements for the spacecraft-to-launch vehicle interfaces. She serves as the systems engineer and primary technical lead for the Mission Integration Team to ensure the interface requirements for mission unique hardware and software are properly defined, documented and validated during integrated processing.
Calero was a member of KSC's Strategic Alignment Team which was established to guide the development of an implementation plan for responding to the many changes and initiatives that are occurring at KSC and ensure alignment with agency strategies. She is currently leading an organization development project called Leadership Communication. This project is geared at enhancing leadership communication and feedback throughout each of the center's directorates.
Calero has worked as a communications engineer, telemetry engineer, and design engineer for LSP's Communication and Telemetry Branch where she was responsible for designing systems in support of LSP launch operations, overseeing all telemetry processing for LSP missions, and ensuring that the launch site communication requirements for NASA LSP missions were successfully implemented.
Calero began her NASA career as a student trainee in 1991. Upon graduation, she worked for the Payload Processing Directorate as a design engineer for the Checkout Systems Branch. Her responsibilities were the hardware and software design of systems in support of Shuttle payload ground processing.
Calero has received several honors including consistent Performance Awards, On-The-Spot Awards for immediate recognition of contributions incorporated into NASA processes, Employee of the Month, Group Achievement Awards for being an important team member in developing successful products designed and used for the Space Shuttle program, and Certificates of Appreciation handed out by upper echelon management. She has also received Certificates of Recognition for the publication of articles in the highly distinguished NASA Tech Briefs, a design and engineering technology digest published by NASA.
Calero is a first generation Cuban-American, born and raised in Southern California and South Florida. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Florida International University in Miami and a master’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
She is married to Juan Pedro Calero, also a NASA electrical engineer, and they have one son, Christian. They currently reside in Merritt Island, Fla.
June 2006
Biographies - Current Employees