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Federal 100 winner: Shahid Shah
Shah, Netspective Communications founder and chief architect of the Budget Formulation and Execution Line of Business, provided technology leadership on an array innovations for the Office of Management and Budget and the BFELOB system.
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Federal 100 winner: Capt. Roy S. Petty
Petty was the driving force behind an effort to strengthen the defenses of Navy networks and coordinate similar efforts across the Global Information Grid.
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Federal 100 winner: Jiten Shah
As executive director of the Green River Area Development District, Shah overcame public skepticism and contractor turnover to lead the creation of a regional Internet broadband network that serves seven counties in western Kentucky.
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Federal 100 winner: Susan H. Swart
Swart, CIO and head of the State Department’s Information Resource Management Bureau, successfully led three high-profile IT projects: consolidation of the department’s desktop computer network, development of a process for tracking progress of the department’s new State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolset, and departmentwide adoption of new collaboration tools.
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Federal 100 winner: Amanda Post
Post, an intelligence analyst at SRA International, joined the company in March 2008 and quickly displayed her superior research skills, critical thinking and analytic capabilities.
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Federal 100 winner: Zbynek Krobot
Krobot helped to lead the effort to update the cost/benefit analysis for the Human Resources Line of Business.
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Federal 100 winner: Dr. S. Ward Casscells
Casscells introduced a new communications strategy for the Military Health System that uses Web 2.0 technologies to improve patient outcomes, family connections and agency performance.
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Federal 100 winner: Ronald Ellis
Ellis, former project manager of the Army Special Access Program Enterprise Portal, led the effort to field that new communications network for Special Forces.
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Fed 100 winner: Deborah Macaulay
Macaulay, budget information systems analyst and MAX database administrator, played a major role in developing a series of governmentwide budget applications, including Web-based data collection and a secure wiki site.
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Federal 100 winner: Vivek Kundra
Kundra found ways to make government work faster, more efficiently and more cheaply by improving technology policies and services.
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Federal 100 winner: Dinah F.B. Cohen
As director of the Defense Department's Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program, Dinah Cohen had the vision and leadership to create an exceptional program that provides assistive technology and accommodation services to wounded service members and federal employees with disabilities.
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Federal 100 winner: Brad Boston
Cisco Systems' Brad Boston advises governments on best practices and technologies and has campaigned to improve government certification of information assurance tools.
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Federal 100 winner: Frank DiGiammarino
DiGiammarino, vice president of strategic initiatives, leads the creation and execution of special initiatives at the academy, which delivers innovative approaches to government’s management challenges.
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Federal 100 winner: James Ryan
Ryan, deputy director of the Small Business Administration’s Disaster Credit Management System Operations Center, led the design, development and deployment of an online loan application that allows people affected by a disaster to securely apply for loans.
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Federal 100 winner: Tom Clark
Clark, the Coast Guard’s network architect and senior network engineer, constructed the Coast Guard’s IT architecture in a way that would transition the agency to the Homeland Security Department’s common IP network, known as OneNet.
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Federal 100 winner: Carlton Brown
Carlton Brown, a deputy product manager of the Army Program Executive Office's Defense Wide Transmissions Systems, revived a canceled acquisition for secure wireless modules, getting the modules delivered under budget and with design improvements.
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Federal 100 winner: Richard Geisenberger
Geisenberger led a task force that prompted legislative and regulatory changes that enabled the creation of a uniform electronic notary system used by banking and legal officials across the country.
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Federal 100 award: Jolene Lauria Sullens
Sullens has championed the Justice Department’s Unified Financial Management System.
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Federal 100 winner: Steve Ressler
Ressler, an IT specialist at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, launched the networking Web site GovLoop.com to better connect people involved in government.
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