Throughout her enlistment in the Marines, Sgt. Solaire Sanderson was stationed with four other women. The “fab five” worked hard to excel and were side-by-side throughout training, at Camp Pendleton and two deployments to Afghanistan.
Solaire Sanderson uses the leadership experience and other skills gained from her five years in the Marines as a service engineer for Finance and Professional Services at Microsoft. Sanderson attended Microsoft Software & Systems Academy (MSSA), an intensive 18-week course that provides active duty U.S. service members at bases across the country with the career skills necessary to meet the IT industry’s high demand for talent.
Sanderson encourages service members to consider MSSA when they are planning to leave the military. “It’s hard to be used to putting on your uniform every single day and then snap your fingers one day and have all that be over,” she says. MSSA gives service members time to think about what they want to do when they get out — and perhaps discover a passion for technology they didn’t realize they had.
To learn more, visit the Military Affairs blog.
Suzanne Choney
Microsoft News Center Staff
