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The 2006 Rising Stars

Sep 18, 2006

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	Rodney Young Army

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