During her decades-long career, Sherita Ceasar established many firsts, including launching the first Comcast Universal Caller ID cross-platform application, remote DVR, Comcast Content Distribution Network, and Cloud DVR platforms.

Prior, she led paging operations for Motorola, technology integration at SciCare Broadband Services, and launch quality at Scientific Atlanta and Charter Communications.

As senior vice president of national video deployment engineering for Comcast, she transformed regional video deployment activities into a function that is a critical element of the corporation's video platform.

Before retiring as senior vice president of technology environments & strategy in 2022, she served as a speaker at a meetup held during a learning and networking event.

Highlights of the day featured insights from Ceasar, followed by a panel of technologists sharing career advice. More than 50 students were hosted at Comcast's Technology Center.

Ceasar began her career at Northrop Grumman. She then moved to Motorola, working in component design and building pagers. As director of manufacturing, she was the highest-ranking Black female engineer in Motorola's Paging Products Group. In 1996 she started at Scientific-Atlanta as vice president of quality.

The recipient of numerous industry awards, she was recognized by Cablefax as one of the most influential multi-ethnic executives and powerful women In tech. In 2000, she served as national president of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), becoming the first Black woman to hold the position.

A few years earlier, she won her first Women of Color STEM award before being named Technologist of the Year. In 2003, Ceasar won a Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) TAMI Award for launching master courses on advanced digital services.

She graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology with a master's degree in mechanical engineering. She also earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at IIT.