Meryl Mallery

Meryl Mallery brings to Girl Scouts of Connecticut as strong passion for STEM, engineering, and a passion for progressing women in STEM fields. Meryl is currently the Vice President of Engineering at Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company. She leads the engineering team which designs and develops innovative solutions to meet the needs of the Aerospace, Missiles and Warfighter markets for flight termination, rocket stage separation, satellite deployment and military breaching. Mrs. Mallery has over 25 years of experience in the Aerospace and Defense Industry.

She began her career in 1987 working at the Kaiser Marquardt Corporation in Van Nuys, CA. For the next three years she worked on the analysis and design of liquid and gas rocket propulsion systems for tactical and missile defense. She spent the next several years working at Sverdrup Technology in Huntsville, Alabama supporting the Space Shuttle main engine program at Marshall Space Flight Center. In September of 1997, she began her career at the Ensign-Bickford Aerospace and Defense Company (EBAD) starting as a Research and Development Engineer working on commercial mining and blasting IR&D projects. She moved to the Aerospace group in 1999 and worked as both an Aerospace Project Engineer and Analytical Engineer before being promoted to Manager of Aerospace Project Engineering in 2008, Director of Project Engineering in 2011 and then becoming the Vice President of Engineering in 2015. She is passionate about supporting STEM education and is an active member of the Connecticut Science Center Board of Trustees as well as the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame (CWHF) Board of Trustees.

Meryl holds a B.S. in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from U.C. Davis and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State.