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Rising Stars
ANJELICA B. DORTCH
Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Management and Budget
To help the government modernize and bring in the necessary talent to do so, Anjelica Dortch has become a leading figure on a variety of fronts.
Among other accomplishments, she led the planning
for the first governmentwide IT and cybersecurity hiring fair, where more than 30 civilian, military and intelligence agencies conducted onsite interviews. Some even fast- tracked job offers for attendees.
“Without her, I don’t think that would have happened as successfully as it did,” said Trey Kennedy, senior advisor to the CIO Council.
Dortch also helped organize the inaugural Women in Federal IT and Cyber event to celebrate the successes of women in the federal IT community and encourage more women to pursue such careers.
“It started off with Anjelica’s idea,” Kennedy said. “She actually bought it up last year, but we didn’t have time to pull it off.”
Dortch worked with the CIO Council’s Workforce Committee to launch both initiatives. “She helps serve
as that linkage between the council and OMB in terms of what it is they’re trying to accomplish and to make sure those accomplishments are reported back,” Kennedy said. “She has a great strategic vision for what she wants the [council’s] Workforce Committee to do.”
AKOUA ENOW
Management and Program Analyst, Office of Information Technology, Transportation Security Administration
Akoua Enow has a talent for sifting through detailed budgeting and planning operations and collaborating with managers on complex acquisitions at the Transportation Security Administration.
Although she has been in the federal workforce for eight years, Enow is only two years into her job as management and program analyst at TSA’s Office of IT. In that time,
she has emerged as a major contributor to the complex coordination of value-added process improvements for OIT’s Applications Development Division. She manages the division’s $50 million budget by collaborating with project managers, contracting and procurement staff, OIT’s budget and finance team, and the IT acquisition review team.
The discussions require finesse and an intricate understanding of how those functions interrelate. Additionally, the work requires a sense of intangibles and everyday workplace events, including shifts in senior leadership priorities, fluctuating funding sources and changing requirements.
Enow completed 45 procurement packages in fiscal 2018, including some requiring painstaking market research.
She accounted for an additional 20 procurement requests totaling $35 million in the same period — more than half
of the requests processed by the division. Each package requires collaboration with various budget teams, branch managers and other stakeholders.
Her work on the $400 million, four-year Flexible Agile Scalable Teams blanket purchase agreement has been particularly remarkable, according to her managers. FAST
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