People
Rising Star Zhenia Klevitsky
Klevistsky contributed her time and expertise to numerous organizations in the federal IT community, including ACT-IAC, AFCEA and the Association of Proposal Management Professionals.
Cybersecurity
Rising Star Richard J. Renomeron
Renomeron led a team of engineers that provides the Office of Management Budget with an array of systems for developing budgets, including the much-lauded Max Federal Community wiki.
People
Rising Star Harold Schliesske
Schliesske stepped into a variety of roles to support the deployment and management of biometric systems in Iraq and other tactical environments. He updated systems at 10 installations in Iraq, and the reduced demand for staff and equipment is expected to save $700,000 a year.
Cybersecurity
Rising Star Beth Sherry Maloney
Maloney served as social-media evangelist and educator, both within Palladian and in the federal IT community at large. She also managed the transition of the Treasury Department’s HSPD-12 initiative to the General Services Administration’s USAccess shared-services program.
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Rising Star Louis Carrion
Carrion fielded the Army’s Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care program to all 13 Air Force facilities throughout the war zone in Iraq. He coordinated the network installation command infrastructure, trained providers on MC4 best practices and cleared any hurdles to deployment.
Modernization
Rising Star John Collier
Collier designed and developed an advanced multi-intelligence analyst system. He came up with a design that could fit on a couple of laptops or be scaled to a system that involves hundreds of systems.
Modernization
Rising Star Genen Soo-Hoo
Soo-Hoo gave a new face to NYPD's Crime Stopper program by developing a multimedia-enabled "Submit a Tip" Web site.
Cybersecurity
Rising Star Alma Ritter Cole
Cole led the response to the Adobe Reader JBIG2 vulnerability. His team identified and tracked multiple spear-phishing e-mail messages that attempted to exploit this vulnerability. His team also tackled other zero-day security threats — that is, flaws for which no fixes are available.
People
Rising Star Ryan P. McCullough
McCullough created a procurement methodology, known as the Performance-Based Approach, that closely aligns a contractor’s measures of success with an agency’s objectives.
Cybersecurity
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Modernization
Rising Star Joseph Arthur Rhodes
Rhodes planned and coordinated the construction of a facility at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, to support the deployment of the Movement Tracking System, which tracks the location of logistic vehicles and their content.
Digital Government
Ephraim Lo
Lo researched methods for automating the initial identification and basic analysis of signals of interest collected via a variety of Air Force systems.
Modernization
Rising Star Jason Khan
Khan assisted federal agencies with the adoption of open-source software, Web 2.0 tools, cloud computing and other leading-edge technology. He also has worked on a number of cross-agency lines of business programs, including grants and financial management, IT infrastructure and information security.
People
Rising Star Joseph Kattar
Kattar worked with GSA officials to develop and manage requirements for IT contracts that support the Joint Strike Fighter program. He made a good impression from the start, implementing processes that resolved contract problems that had lingered for more than two years.
Modernization
Rising Star Heather Blackwell
Blackwell led the modernization of the Air Force’s $600 million inventory of theater command and control and air control communications systems. Using a portfolio management approach, she successfully made the case for a $30 million budget increase to improve communications in counterinsurgency and humanitarian relief operations.
People
Rising Star Emily Scott
Scott quarterbacked an initiative to provide Iraq with a nationwide retail payment infrastructure, supporting the use of debit cards, credit cards, point-of-sale devices and other modern financial conveniences.
People
Rising Star Steven Posnack
Posnack played a wide range of roles behind the scenes — drafting policies and guidelines, advising top officials on privacy and security matters, and coordinating work with health IT stakeholders across the country.
People
Rising Star Christina Bapst
Bapst manages the Enterprise Data Management Office, which coordinates the data collected, managed and shared across DHS’ 22 components. Bapst, who also oversees the budget for the Office of Applied Technology, tightened OAT’s acquisition process, with 98 percent of projects now completed on schedule.
People