Anna Salguero

1953-

Anna Salguero served on the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Board of Directors as National President for the 1992-93 fiscal year. A Fellow and Life Member of the Society, she joined SWE in 1973 as a student member. She was Charter President of the Southwest Texas Section as well as Section Representative. She has also served as Section Representative of St. Louis and New Jersey Sections. Anna has chaired and served on various committees on the National level, including Scholarships, Career Guidance, Publicity, Tellers, Nominating, Achievement Award Selection, and Upward Mobility Award Selection. She also served as Protocol Chair for the 2001 National Conference. In addition to President, her National offices included Executive Committee Director, Secretary, Treasurer, Vice President-Student Services (2 terms), and President-Elect.

Anna is currently employed at SBC Laboratories, Inc. as a Principal Member of Technical Staff in Austin, Texas. She is responsible for Network Management and Operations Requirements for Broadband Access Technology Systems in her current position. She represents SBC as the DSL Network Management Subject Matter Expert (SME) at the DSL Forum, a telecommunications technical consortium. She also has a patent-pending in her area of expertise. Previously, she worked at another SBC subsidiary, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, in St. Louis, Missouri, as an Area Manager in the Network Engineering department. She began her career as an engineer in 1975 and held various positions in engineering management until March 1987. At that time, she went to work for Bellcore (a research company owned by the seven Regional Bell Holding Companies now known as Telcordia) in New Jersey on a rotational assignment where she worked in Advanced Technology Planning. In August 1991, she returned to Southwestern Bell, responsible for managing the technical support staff for the company’s electronic equipment property record inventory and investment system.

Anna holds a BS degree in Mathematics from the University of Texas at El Paso. She has completed post-graduate work toward a Masters of Business Administration at St. Louis University.

A recipient of the Mathematics Association of America Award, Anna has been listed in Who’s Who in Texas and the Midwest. She was also affiliated with the Math/Science Network and the Arts and Education Council, both of Greater St. Louis. She is currently an active member of the Southwest Texas Section of SWE.