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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

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