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Professional Excellence and Innovation Award: Corporate Fortune X
Michael Morris - Technical Team Lead and Network Architect – IT Communications Engineering, NetApp, RTP, North Carolina
This award honors Michael Morris for his effective combination of the ideals of professionalism and the innovative use of networking technology. Michael lead the team setting the groundwork for network standards and network design templates that could be used to build a new network at NetApp, while concurrently beginning the procurement process for a new global network based on MPLS IP VPNs. His team designed the global routing for the new network, based on an incredibly scalable and elegant BGP and OSPF design, proven very resilient, scalable, and flexible. Overall telecom costs were cut by 18% with a 6-month ROI. Scalability has been incredibly enhanced and availability is near 4 nines.
Professional Excellence and Innovation Award: Education
Bill Maynard - CIO/COO, NetCom America, Carlsbad, California
In his leadership role at NetCom he is responsible for the corporate infrastructure and California operation. Bill took a new private 7-12 grade school's technology from blank paper to implementation in approximately 8 months, including plans to grow from 150 students to 600 in four years. He was responsible for the design approval, coordination and management of the complete project, encompassing everything from fiber optic networks to battery backups. The school opened as planned and all the technologies implemented were fully functional. Through the careful selection of the technologies and technology partners the school will be able to scale their solutions to the mature state without replacing any of the technologies that were implemented.
Professional Excellence and Innovation Award: Government
James E. Atkinson - Budget Analyst, Special Operations Command Europe, Stuttgart, Germany
This award honors James Atkinson who independently developed a secure network, automated Special Funding Guide for use by the Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR), Headquarters European Command (EUCOM), Headquarters Africa Command (AFRICOM), NATO Special Operations Coordination Centre (NSCC), Special Operations Command Africa (SOCAFRICA), and other commands in the Special Operations Community to identify, track, submit, and obtain special funding from a variety of sources to support missions and exercises. He successfully developed an automated, interactive system for posting, maintaining, and updating special funding criteria on the SOCEUR SharePoint Portal.
Best Mentor Award
This award honors the networking professional who has made the most effective combination of the ideals of professionalism and the accomplished mentor.
Boris Jocoy - President, Tech Brainy Consulting, Aliso Viejo, California
Boris Jocoy was chosen as the Outstanding Mentor. Boris exemplifies the best balance of professional responsibilities of the NPA. He is an evangelist for computer professionals within networking groups, regularly speaking at events on subjects such as technology professional ethics, value of certification, security, Microsoft Exchange, servers, and much more.. He has well-documented credentials and a solid commitment to educational advancement within the computer networking industry.
Top of the Mark — Volunteer Award
This award honors the networking professional who has made the most effective combination of the ideals of professionalism and is a notable example of the best in giving back through selfless effort.
Adnan Rafik - Principal Consultant, IT Selekt Consulting and Solutions, United Arab Emirates (Dubai)
This award honors Adnan Rafik for notable combination of the ideals of professionalism and giving back through selfless effort. Adnan is a passionate IT Professional who loves to promote IT Professionalism around the UAE region. Adnan has founded Techies, UAE IT Pros technical community. He is developing technical community local presence in each United Arab Emirates state to serve the community better and organize the regular meetings. Adnan has passion to do something good for the IT and never afraid of facing any challenges ahead. He is a team player and works easily with different people and he is a positive thinker, thus he succeeds.
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Debra Rowe - Knowledge Management Lead for the Operations Group, Information Technology Directorate, Air Traffic Organization of the Federal Aviation Administration, West Columbia, South Carolina
Debra says, “I’m honored to win this award, networking has been my life since the 80s starting with Unix and starling and brose. Networking is my life.“ This award honors Debra Rowe for demonstrated years of the highest ideals of the network computing professional. Debra serves as a role model in the network computing community and may be considered by peers as an industry luminary. Debra's networking knowledge and experience have enabled her to contribute to the Air Traffic National Airspace System (NAS) and help ensure that NAS equipment provides safer skies. She has worked on ATSS teams as emergency situations required troubleshooting inoperative equipment and communications feeds for the NAS.
Awards for Professionalism winners demonstrate the best in balance of professional responsibilities including technical competency, ethics and a proper professional, education and industry credentials, community and industry contributions, leadership, professional affiliation.
Each award winner receives a specially designed personalized trophy, membership in the Network Professional Association, consideration for the Certified Network Professional, and gifts from sponsors and partners to the Awards for Professioanlism.
Best Networking Professional — Career Achievement Award
This award honors a network computing professional who has demonstrated years of the highest ideals of the network computing professional. This individual serves as a role model in the network computing community and may be considered by peers as an industry luminary.
