Amy Sorensen
About Amy Sorensen
Amy Sorensen is the Director of Risk Management at BLUE ORIGIN, with extensive experience in risk management and engineering roles at Raytheon and other companies.
Director of Risk Management at BLUE ORIGIN
Amy Sorensen is the Director of Risk Management at BLUE ORIGIN, where she has been serving since 2022. In her role, she oversees the company's risk management strategies and ensures the safety and reliability of their extensive aerospace ventures. She brings a wealth of experience from her previous roles in both defense and engineering sectors, contributing significantly to BLUE ORIGIN's mission.
Mission and Systems Assurance Manager at Raytheon Missiles & Defense
Before joining BLUE ORIGIN, Amy Sorensen worked at Raytheon Missiles & Defense as the Mission and Systems Assurance Manager from 2020 to 2022. In this position, she was responsible for ensuring system reliability and mission success, leveraging her extensive background in risk management and engineering.
Education and Expertise in Engineering and Risk Management
Amy Sorensen has an extensive educational background. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from Utah State University from 1990 to 1994. She furthered her education at Georgia Institute of Technology, receiving a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) with a focus on Controls and Embedded Design from 1998 to 2001. Additionally, she earned a Graduate Certificate in Statistics from the University of Arizona between 2017 and 2019.
Previous Roles at Raytheon
Amy Sorensen held multiple roles at Raytheon over several years. She started as an Engineer at Raytheon in 2004 and served as a Senior Components Engineer until 2012. She then moved on to become the Principal Engineer at Raytheon Missile Systems in 2012. From 2012 to 2015, she was the Electronic Product Development Section Head. Subsequently, she became the Risk and Opportunity Manager from 2015 to 2020 and served as the Risk Management Section Head in 2020 before transitioning to her role as Mission and Systems Assurance Manager at Raytheon Missiles & Defense.
Early Career in Engineering
Amy Sorensen began her career at Motorola as an Engineer from 1993 to 1998. She then took on roles at American Standard/Trane and Trane Company as an Electrical Engineer from 1998 to 2004. These early roles in her career provided her with a strong foundation in engineering, which she has built upon in her subsequent positions in risk management and defense sectors.