Meet the 2011 Rising Star award winners
Twenty-five people from government, industry and academia are being recognized as up-and-coming professionals in the government IT community.
The votes are in and 25 individuals are being recognized in this year’s Rising Star awards program, cosponsored by Federal Computer Week (FCW) and its affiliate publications, Government Computer News (GCN) and Washington Technology.
The Rising Star awards program honors up-and-coming employees in the public and private sectors who have made an early — and substantive — mark in the government IT community. The program is an opportunity for agencies and contractors to spotlight some extraordinary achievements, both as a reward to the people and as an example to others.
This year’s winners from government and industry were selected from more than 125 nominations submitted by their supervisors and coworkers. An independent panel of judges from the government IT community selected the 25 finalists, including 18 people from government, six from industry and one from academia.
As always, we offer our thanks to Phil Kiviat and the Young AFCEANs, from the Bethesda, Md., chapter of AFCEA International, who first suggested this program and continue to support it.
This year’s winners and the judges will be featured in print and online editions of FCW in October. The winners also will be recognized at the GCN Awards Gala on Oct. 19.
Here are the 2011 Rising Stars:
Zachary Baldwin
General Services Administration
Cate Berard
Environmental Protection Agency
Leonard D'Avolio
Department of Veterans Affairs
Jamie Findlater
Department of State
John Mark Hall
Department of Navy
Zacharie T. Hall
Department of Army
Jessica Hernandez
Food and Drug Administration
William Jay Huie
eGlobalTech
Brian Ibbison
TCG
Jim Lanoue
Department of Homeland Security
Zachary Lindsay
Department of Army
Gaurav Mathur
Creative Computing Solutions Inc.
Jessica Milcetich
General Services Administration
Maj. Nicholas R. Miller
U.S. Army
Robert S. Niewood
General Services Administration
Mari Oh
Blackstone Technology Group
Gaurav “GP” Pal
Smartronix
Matt Reiss
Department of Agriculture
Bridget Roddy
Department of State
Junaid Shah
General Services Administration
Veda Sims
Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board
Tom Suder
University of Central Florida
Paul Swider
Department of State
Jeremy Thomas
Idaho National Laboratory
Department of Energy
Nicole Willis
Department of Homeland Security
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