Cindy Stemple

Cindy Stemple is the Deputy Chief Financial Officer of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Named to the position in February 2020, Stemple helps oversee the Center’s $2.8 billion annual budget. In the position, she aids in the implementation and administration of all integrated Marshall and NASA management, including all aspects of planning, programming, budget and execution guidelines for financial resources.

During her three-decade career at NASA, Stemple has served in both technical and strategic management positions within development and operational programs, performing functions such as strategic planning, project management, program planning and control, and technology development. From July 2018 to January 2020, she managed the Office of Analysis in Marshall’s Office of Strategic Analysis & Communications, and was the office’s team lead from May 2016 to July 2018.

From 2015 to 2016, Stemple took a detail assignment as acting project manager for SERVIR, a complex international Earth science project partnering NASA with the U.S. Agency for International Development. She was responsible for U.S.-based project management, including staff development and management, budget formulation and execution, and preparation of financial reports and analysis.

Between 2013 and 2015, Stemple was assistant manager of the Flight Programs and Partnerships Office’s Program Planning and Control Office. She was an assistant project manager for the Robotic Lunar Lander Development Project from 2011 to 2013.

Stemple held various software engineer positions for the agency from 1995 to 2011. She contributed to numerous Marshall projects, including the Marshall X-Ray Calibration Facility, the Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer instrument for the Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes flight software, the Crew Launch Vehicle and Systems Integration Lab Automation Software, and the Robotic Lunar Lander Development Project.

Since joining the agency in 1989, Stemple has received numerous awards, including the NASA Exceptional Achievement medal, two NASA Silver Achievement medals, an Engineering Director’s Commendation Award, an Engineering Director’s Partnership Award, a Women@NASA award and was named a Space Flight Awareness Honoree.

Stemple earned her bachelor’s degree in computer science in 1985 from Mississippi State University in Starkville. She has three children, Mitchell, Elise and Andrew, and currently lives in Huntsville, Alabama, with her husband, Dan.