Software expert had career in rocket science

Alison Godfrey has had a blast as a software engineer.

Now retired, Godfrey, who is in her mid-50s, recalled a career working on projects involving rocket launches and radar systems for American military defense heavyweights Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Honeywell.

Godfrey got her start in software engineering as a math major with an emphasis in computer science where she learned to work on high-performance mainframe computers.

“A lot of people in those days had math degrees because people didn’t know where to place computers,” Godfrey said noting she chose this major because she loved math, science, engineering and working with computers came easily to her.