767 Biography
Shelly Ganje
Shelly Ganje is keeping the 787 team focused on achieving its aggressive weight targets. As the senior manager of the Weight Engineering organization, she leads the technical team responsible for estimating the weight of the current design and helping to select and drive improvements.
"As a new college graduate when I joined Boeing 17 years ago, I didn't foresee the degree of globalization I would participate in," Ganje said. "The degree of travel and the opportunity to work with many diverse cultures has been a fascinating and wonderful professional and personal experience."
Ganje served as a lead engineer of the Payloads Weight Engineering group on the 767-400ER program. In this capacity, Ganje led the team that ensured the airplane interior elements--including the stowage bins, ceiling and sidewall panels and passenger service units--met their weight targets, an accomplishment she said was challenging but achieved.
Looking back at her career, she says her personal highlight came after a particularly difficult presentation made to some high-level executives. "After the presentation, a vice president walked over and handed me a note while the meeting continued," she recalled. "The note said 'Fabulous job -- knowledge, credibility, integrity, leadership.' I still have the handwritten note from seven years ago."
She said the best part of working for Boeing is both "the quality of the people I work with day to day and the ability to work on airplanes, a product that has such a significant influence on the world."
Looking forward, Ganje is clear on the next important moment of her career--"Watching the first take-off of the 787 Dreamliner!"