BLACK ENGINEER OF THE YEAR Anthony Mitchell Executive Vice President Booz Allen Hamilton ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR Patrick Gerdes Portfolio Director, Center for Veterans Enterprise Transformation The MITRE Corporation CAREER ACHIEVEMENT GOVERNMENT Walter Price Scramjet Propulsion Technical Area Lead Air Force Research Laboratory Jason Kelly Commander, Transatlantic Afghanistan District, USACE U.S. Army, Army Corps of Engineers CAREER ACHIEVEMENT INDUSTRY Leo Brooks Vice President, Government Operations Boeing Defense, Space & Security COMMUNITY SERVICE GOVERNMENT Fransua Thomas Materials Research Engineer NASA Glenn Research Center COMMUNITY SERVICE INDUSTRY James Northern Senior Project Leader The Aerospace Corporation Jennifer Turner Manager IBM October 23, 2018 Career Communications Group, Inc. Page 1
DAVE BARCLAY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Akeem Iman-Jones Human Resources Director, Boeing South Carolina Vernecia Johnson Director Human Resource Lockheed Martin Corporation EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP COLLEGE-LEVEL PROMOTION OF EDUCATION Ronald Johnson Professor/Fellow Georgia Institute of Technology EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP CORPORATE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION Viktorija Telbis Director of Clinical Education Boston Scientific Corporation GEM OUTSTANDING YOUNG ALUMNUS/GEM STUDENT LEADERSHIP Camarie Clark Officer Trainee U.S. Coast Guard MOST PROMISING ENGINEER GOVERNMENT Wendy Okolo Aerospace Research Engineer NASA-Ames Research Center Thomas West Geotechnical Engineer U.S. Army Corps of Engineers MOST PROMISING ENGINEER INDUSTRY Kimberly Cross Manager, Systems Survivability Engineering Northrop Grumman Corporation Tiera Fletcher Structural Design Engineer Space Launch System October 23, 2018 Career Communications Group, Inc. Page 2
MOST PROMISING SCIENTIST Vimbai Chikwana Associate Research Scientist Dow AgroSciences OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTION GOVERNMENT Alex Richards Director, Test Policy & Controls Missile Defense Agency OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTION INDUSTRY Raenaurd Turpin Senior Manager Strategic System Architectures Adrian Williams Electrical Engineering Manager PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT GOVERNMENT Krystle McClain Installation Environmental Program Director Naval Facilities Engineering Command Royce James Associate Professor U.S. Coast Guard Academy PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT INDUSTRY Arik Brown Consulting System Architect Northrop Grumman Corporation Cedric Fletcher Senior Engineering Manager RESEARCH LEADERSHIP Warren Davis Principal Member of Technical Staff, R&D S&E Computer Science Sandia National Laboratories October 23, 2018 Career Communications Group, Inc. Page 3
SENIOR TECHNOLOGY FELLOW Clifford Macklin Engineering Fellow/Cyber Security Subject Matter Expert SPECIAL RECOGNITION Almetia Simmons Senior-Network Planning Engineer AT&T Ramon Richards Senior Vice President Integrated Technology Solutions Fannie Mae Tanya Foutch Quality Engineering Group Lead for Assembly FCA US LLC Felicia Jones Electric Vehicle Product Manager Ford Motor Company Paul McKenzie Technical Specialist Tracked Combat Vehicles (TCV) Software Modernization Programs General Dynamics Land Systems Christopher Belton Engineer Systems Test 3 Huntington Ingalls Industries Ursel Allen Software and Systems Engineering Manager Leidos Cory Weathers Senior Systems Engineering Senior Manager Lockheed Martin Corporation George Jonas 777X Airplane Safety Engineering Certifications Focal Boeing Commercial Airplanes Awais Sheikh Capability Steward for Business Innovation The MITRE Corporation October 23, 2018 Career Communications Group, Inc. Page 4
SPECIAL RECOGNITION Tollie Strode Senior Project Manager/Team Leader for Live Experimentation SAIC Shane Payne Platoon Sergeant United States Army STUDENT LEADERSHIP GRADUATE Crystal Green PhD Candidate, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences University of Michigan TECHNICAL SALES AND MARKETING Gerald Gaskins Vice President, Capture Executive Leidos October 23, 2018 Career Communications Group, Inc. Page 5