Sherita T. Ceasar is the recipient of numerous career achievement awards, including Women of Color magazine's 2001 Technologist of the Year.

She has been inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame and recognized as one of the top 50 technology leaders in the cable industry by Cable Fax for her service on the national board of directors for Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT).

A telecoms executive with over three decades of experience in the industry, her accomplishments include launching the Comcast Universal Caller ID cross-platform application, digital video recorder (DVR), Comcast Content Distribution Network, Cavalry conditional access, and Cloud DVR platforms.

Sherita earned a Bachelor of Science in 1981 followed by a Masters of Science in 1984, both in mechanical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. She began her career at Northrop Grumman and then worked at Motorola from 1988 to 1996.

At Motorola, she led paging operations as director of manufacturing for the regional Americas paging group. She drove the component design, manufacturing, quality, and building pagers.

In 1996, Sherita joined Scientific-Atlanta as vice president of quality. She had responsibility for technology integration and business management as vice president of SciCare Broadband Services.

As vice president of digital launch, she was responsible for implementing post-sales processes to launch the Explorer 2000’s Digital Broadband Delivery System. She led installation and site support, network management, customer training, and program management to support 100-cable operator commercial launches.

Sherita then worked as the general manager of the Georgia branch of Charter Communications, before starting as vice president of the product engineering, cross-platform, and engineering services of Comcast in 2007.

At Comcast, she became vice president of national video deployment engineering in 2011, leading the development of services such as the X1 remote, cloud DVR, and building the infrastructure of the cloud. Currently, Sherita is senior vice president of the technology environment and strategy for Comcast Communications.

In 1997, she won her first Women of Color STEM award. She also received the Society of Women Engineers' Distinguished New Engineer of the Year, and the Julia Beveridge Award for her support of the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Two years later, she was inducted into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame. She also served as president of the Society of Women Engineers from 1999 to 2000, becoming the first Black woman to hold the position. In 2003, Ceasar won a Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) TAMI Award for launching master courses on advanced digital services.