Irma Wyman

Irma M. Wyman, who lived from 31 January 1928 to 17 November 2015, was an early computer engineer and the first woman to become a vice president of Honeywell Inc., where she was also the first woman to serve as the company's chief information officer. In 1945 she was accepted into the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan as one of seven female students and graduated in 1949, one of two women in her class. While still a junior she worked on a missile guidance project at the Willow Run Research Center and learned of the prototype programmable Mark II computer developed at Harvard University, which turned her to computers. After graduation she joined a start-up company that Honeywell Information Systems eventually acquired and followed a long management career at Honeywell, becoming vice president of Honeywell Corporate Information Management before retiring in 1990, and she sponsored its Information Security Awareness Program. She then served as Archdeacon of the Diocese of Minnesota and endowed scholarships for women in engineering and computer science.