Alma U. Martinez Fallon (born 1958) is a retired marine engineer who worked for many years on the design and construction of military ships at Newport News Shipbuilding and its successor organizations, Northrop Grumman Newport News and Huntington Ingalls Industries.
[2] Martinez Fallon was born on December 1, in 1958 in Constanza, Dominican Republic, the youngest of three children; her mother was a teacher and her father was a forester.
In the mid-1960s they moved to San Juan de la Maguana and then Santo Domingo, and in late 1967 they emigrated to New York City.
After additional work on military "roll-on/roll-off" ships for transporting vehicles and commercial shipbuilding, she moved into engineering management in the early 1990s.
Her subsequent positions involved steel fabrication and supply chain management, eventually becoming corporate director of strategic planning before retiring.