Tonya G. Boney – the Panel Chair for Shipyard Production Process Technologies – currently holds the position of Program Director in Facilities Engineering at Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Gulf Coast Sector. In this role she is responsible for the design and construction of the new Jackson County Maritime Trades Academy which is expected to be complete in June 2011. She began her career at Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding in 1999 as an Industrial Engineer. She holds a bachelors degree in Engineering from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette). Since beginning her career at Northrop Grumman, she has held positions of increasing responsibility including Sector Supervisor of Industrial Engineering Work Measurement and Process Improvement, LPD Program Production Manager for Pascagoula Operations, and Sector Director of LPD Program Support. Mrs. Boney has been an active member of the Shipyard Production Process Technologies Panel since 2000 and was elected to and served on the Panel's Steering Committee since 2001. She is currently a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the Society of Women Engineers.