Ellen Jones

Ellen’s background combines both governmental and commercial software development projects. Her experience includes positions with Intergraph Corporation, NASA, and The Weather Channel.

After college, Ellen joined NASA where she programmed simulations for spacecraft avionics systems and participated in research for artificial intelligence components used on the Space Station.

She then spent 9 years at The Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA, where she joined a team that launched weather.com. This work included real-time data system feed processing, software for interactive television, as well as leading the corporate intranet development team.

Ellen then returned to Huntsville as a NASA contractor in 2002 on the prime IT support contract where her work again varied from online learning systems, to meteor event database creation, to CIO office Enterprise Architecture support systems.

In her spare time, she enjoys gardening on her farm, spending time with her family, and fishing and canoeing the Elk River near her home.