Tanya D. Zapata is a highly skilled technical manager with over fifteen years of naval mechanical engineering experience. She has served onboard the USS Cole (DDG 67) and USS Jason...ver maisTanya D. Zapata is a highly skilled technical manager with over fifteen years of naval mechanical engineering experience. She has served onboard the USS Cole (DDG 67) and USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) in capacity of Leading Chief Petty Officer, Engineering Training Team, and served on shore at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) where she became the first female Gas Turbine Shop Team Leader to change out gas turbine engines and generators while earning a prestigious Navy Afloat Maintenance Training Strategy (NAMTS) program special classification code; while at Naval Station (NS) Norfolk, the world's largest naval base. She has trained hundreds of Gas Turbine System Technicians (Mechanical) to operate, repair and perform organizational and intermediate maintenance on mechanical components of gas turbine engines, shafts and controllable pitch propellers, main propulsion machinery including gears; and assigned auxiliary equipment and propulsion control systems. She is a qualified Engineering Officer of the Watch (EOOW) on gas turbine engineering plants.ver menos