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The 2006 Rising Stars
George Bernard Shaw said youth is wasted on the young. But if the inaugural list of Federal Computer Week’s Rising Star Award winners is any indication,
many young members of the government
information technology community have
plenty of wisdom to share.
The awards, which FCW created with
the Young AFCEANs of AFCEA International’s
Bethesda,
Md., chapter, are
important because
they recognize the
good work of
younger people
in the community who might otherwise
go unrecognized. FCW will honor the
winners in the Oct. 9 issue and during
an awards ceremony Oct. 12 in Washington,
D.C.
We modeled the Rising Star program
on the Federal 100 awards program. A
panel of expert judges chose the winners
from a pool of more than 180 people,
who were nominated by others in the
government IT community.
We congratulate the winners — and
thank them for their work.
— Christopher J. Dorobek
The winners
Ryan Altenbaugh
Army |
Steven Krauss
GTSI |
Jerry Russell Jr.
Army |
Amy Anda
Perot Systems |
John LaGuardia
Defense Department |
Tracy Ruszin
National Security Agency |
Eytan Apelberg
Vienna, Va., government |
Kristy LaLonde
Office of Management
and Budget |
Jeff Shen
Red Team Consulting |
Rodney Austin
VHA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System |
Craig Larscheid
U.S. Postal Service |
Arvinder Singh
CNSI |
Stacie Boyd
Office of Management
and Budget |
Christopher Lukas
State Department |
Cody Smith
General Dynamics |
Ann Bradbury
Small Business Administration |
Nick Macchione
San Diego County government |
Jon Smolenski
Army |
Christopher Carey
Justice Department |
Jon Marshall
NewVectors |
Brooke Spitzer
Navy |
John Chiu Jr.
National Institutes of Health |
Hamid Moinamin
Inserso |
Aristides Staikos
Army |
Bradford Curry
Airman 1st Class
Air Force |
Rebecca Moore
Interior Department |
Kathleen Straub
Human Factors International |
Ryan Dickover
Navy |
Zachary Murray
Office of the Director
of National Intelligence |
Christopher Taylor
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration |
Bridget Dongarra
Office of Personnel Management |
Paul Nguyen
Court Services and Offender
Supervision Agency |
Kyle Tucker Jr.
Army |
Andrew Glaser
IBM |
Corey Nickens
General Services Administration |
Tatyana Vidrevich
XSB |
Randi Greenberg
Homeland Security Department |
Adam Oline
Justice Department |
Cory Wagner
Environmental Protection Agency |
Temujin Greer
Social Security Administration |
Mandy Parmer
BAE Systems |
Lynnette Williams
General Services Administration |
Christopher Hamm
General Services Administration |
Megan Quinn
Environmental Protection Agency |
Amy Witte
Office of Management
and Budget |
Jamey Harvey
District of Columbia government |
Andrew Reago
Social Security Administration |
David Wyld
Southeastern Louisiana
University |
Kristyn Jones
Defense Department |
Steve Ressler
Homeland Security Department |
Rodney Young
Army |
Lee Kair
Transportation Security Administration |
Michael Russ
Oklahoma Department
of Human Services |