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“Qituwra’s work was vital in strategic planning of the direction of 18F and helped usher the organization into addressing many concerns,” Pressley said.
Moreover, Anderson is now mentoring new hires, and her fluency in Spanish is an asset for 18F’s many user-centered design projects.
JEREMIAH BURCH
Scrum Master, TCG
Creating a new federal website that blends data from 27 agencies while balancing the needs of the Office of the Federal CIO and the vendor community is a monumental task.
Jeremiah Burch tackled that challenge when he
helped lead the development team that created the new ITDashboard.gov. A big part of the job was communication because TCG needed to ensure that the various users of the application would get the functionality they needed.
“It’s a lot of clarifying requirement, a lot of prioritization, a lot of planning and testing and all of that,” Burch said. “The day-to-day is really communication.”
To put those insights into action, Burch used an agile approach that included multiple sprints planned well ahead of time. That planning required understanding the budgets of the agencies that would use the dashboard and any internal policies that would have an impact on the system.
One of the dashboard’s goals is to give Office of Management and Budget officials more insight into the implications of the budgets they are considering by showing in more detail how each of the agencies would be affected.
“I am inspired by the OMB federal employees here who are doing the work that they’re doing,” he said. “I’m just glad to be a part of it.”
CAPT. KEELY J. CARRIGAN
Operations Flight Commander, 707th Communications Squadron, U.S. Air Force
In less than a year as the operations flight commander for the 707th Communications Squadron, Capt. Keely Carrigan has had a transformative impact. Under her guidance, 99 direct reports are performing active cryptologic network integration, cyberspace and nuclear operations, signals intelligence and communications in support of missions for the intelligence community, the Defense Department and mission partners.
That progress builds on Carrigan’s previous work as flight commander for plans and resources, where she oversaw a Global Wing IT system upgrade to enhance cybersecurity. The upgrade deployed more than 1,300 systems to 35 operating locations worldwide.
“Her initiative, vision and negotiating skills with key leaders were pivotal” to successfully conducting a $22 million Major Automated Information System acquisition program for DOD that will provide a more secure and robust network infrastructure, said Lt. Col. Mark Betters, commander of the 707th Communications Squadron.
Thanks to Carrigan, “the 707th Communications Squadron is now better postured to execute global communications planning, and all local personnel for future rotations will be supported by an enterprise IT support contract,” Betters said, adding that Carrigan also oversaw a Microsoft Windows 10 migration for almost 6,000 personnel.
“She has clearly made an impact here and will continue to do so as a rising leader in the United States Air Force,” Betters said.
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