Prior to joining JPL in 1987, Annette worked at Lockheed in Burbank, California. At JPL, Annette was the Cognizant Engineer and then task manager of the Network Operations Control Center Real Time (NOCC-RT) Project in Division 36. In 1994, she became the Mission Sequence System Engineer on the Cassini Project. She returned to Division 36 in 1996 where she managed the Network Data Management Group. In 1997, she was appointed as Deputy Manager of the Mission Software Systems Section. During that tenure, Annette had the additional direct responsibility as the Uplink Consolidation Task Project Element Manager for the Network Simplification Project, as part of the Deep Space Network. In 2002, Annette was selected as Manager of the Mission Software Systems Section. When the Engineering and Science Directorate re-organized in 2004, she joined Division 38 as the Deputy Division Manager .

• B.S. in Math and Computer Science, 1983; University of California, Los Angeles
• M.S. in Computer Science, 1985; University of Southern California, Los Angeles

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California