November 20, 2015

November 20, 2015

DOT Awards for 'Forward-thinking

Individuals'

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In separate ceremonies, FAA employees were honored for their outstanding achievement

as winners of the U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary’s Annual Awards at DOT

and FAA headquarters. This is the highest honor FAA employees can achieve.

DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx commended winners in his speech at the Secretary’s Awards

Ceremony at DOT Headquarters. Foxx specifically mentioned innovations by the FAA in

implementing NextGen and regulating unmanned aircraft systems, and highlighted the

critical role the FAA plays in ensuring safety in an ever-changing world.

“You are an impressive group of

forward-thinking individuals,” he said.

“All of you are working hard on a daily

basis to make this country a better

place, ensuring that we are not just

preserving our transportation systems

today, but better equipping them to

embrace the changes of tomorrow.”

At the FAA ceremony, Administrator

Michael Huerta said, “These award

ceremonies remind us that, every day, each of us has an opportunity to be extraordinary.

That the work we do allows the most complex aerospace system in the world to also be the

safest. It brings families together and connects people and businesses with opportunities

around the globe.”

Huerta spoke on the importance of the FAA Strategic Initiatives

(https://my.faa.gov/org/staffoffices/AOA1/Strategic_Initiatives_Group.html) , but made clear that those

goals are not possible without the agency’s hard-working employees -- the driving force

behind them: “Without our employees, the Strategic Initiatives are just words on paper. It’s

all of you who breathe life into them.”

The list of DOT Secretary’s Award winners are as follows:

Meritorious

Achievements

Regina Jones, AHR

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Maureen Moreland, Meritorious Achievements Award. (Photo: DOT)

Angela Laws, Excellence Award. (Photo: DOT)

Maureen Moreland, AVS

Excellence Awards

Jeffrey Adkins, AFN

Orpha (Beth) Burkett,

ANG

Angela Laws, AFN

William Maddox, Jr., AFN

Donald Stiger, ASH

Transportation Safety

Awards (Individual &

Team)

Aviation Safety

Information Analysis

and Sharing Team, AVS

Ann Azevedo

Michael Blake

Franklin Doscher

Jiranee Elter

James Fee

Sean Hafner

Robyn Laporte

Mark Liptake

Barbara Pisaro

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Jeffrey Adkins, Excellence Award. (Photo: DOT)

Orpha (Beth) Burkett, Excellence Award. (Photo: DOT)

Warren Randolph

Charisse Roberson

Vivek Sood

Stuart Spande

Corey Stephens

Foundations of

Professionalism

Initiative Team (Joint

Award of ATO, NATCA

and PASS)

James Barrett

Thomas Boland

Stephen Bouchard

Steven Hansen

Jonathan Henning

Garth Koleszar

Ernesto Lasen

Andy Marosvari

Robert Mickolayck

Jeffrey Richards

Kathy Sanford

Robert Stone

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Foundations of Professionalism team. (Photo: FAA)

Team Awards

Departmental

Procurement Platform

Implementation Team,

AFN - DOT Lead

Kamala Koneru

Heather Scott

Janet Shepherd

Tammy Wiley-Karth

Departmental Space

Initiative Team, AFN -

DOT Lead

Kathy Roddy

Bunmi Shofu

Eagle Peak Restoration Team, AFN

Lesa Adkisson

Billy Anderson

John Andrews

Richard F. Ball

Charles Barkheimer

Robert Berry

John Bollman

Roger Borrows

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Joseph Bowling

Paul Bratcher

Ronald Breaux

James Brice

Gregory Brooks

Dalia Catalano

Arthur Clark

Joshua Freeman

David French

Rodney Funk

Christopher Gilbert

Martin Goodenough

Robert Gula

Manuel Hernandez

Robert Jasper

Charene Johnson

Robby Johnson

Anthony Jones

James Kuhn

Blake Leon

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Aaron McGonigal

Jorge Mendoza

Traci Mitchell

Scott Mosher

Brian Person

Zayin Radford

Arthur Schwab

Ronald Sheltman

Justin Simon

Dustin Tinoco

Joseph Vincent

Kent Webb

Roger Woods

NextGen Integration Working Group, ANG

Edward Bolton, Jr.

Teri Bristol

Lorne Cass

Donna Creasap

Paul Fontaine

Pamela Gomez

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UAS Test Team. (Photo: FAA)

Joshua Gustin

John Hickey

Nicholas Lento

Thomas Skiles

Paul Strande

Jessica Sypniewski

Jesse Wijntjes

Unmanned Aircraft System Test Team, ANG

Ferne Friedman-Berg

Truvillus Hall, III

Charles Johnson

Matthew Kukorlo

Philip Maloney

Edward Marciano

Robin Peterson-

Brown

Dana Henderson-

Picorale

Anthony

Rodriguez

Albert Schwartz

Richard Small

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EEO and Affirmative Action Team

People with Targeted Disabilities Tiger Team, ACR

Erin Ballard

Roxann Brewer

Theresa Brown

Amy Corbett

Mark Hoover

Regina Jones

Sabreenah Key

Michael Looney

Julie Ann Lynch

Mamie Mallory

Michael J. O’Donnell

Courtney Wilkerson

Partnering for Excellence Teams

Beyond Traffic Team, APL - DOT Lead

Raquel Girvin

Christopher Hillers

Matthew Klein

Julie Marks

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Gregory Rasnake

Nancy Shellabarger

Mary Thies

Peggy Wade

Cross Model Efficiency Initiative Team, AFN

Tameka Bentley

Marie Kennington-Gardiner

Janettarose Greene

Steven Hicks

Thomas Holloway

Angela McCullough

Ebola Team, ASH - DOT Lead

Kristie Greco

Roderick Hall

Mary Mason

Alex Near

Kurt Owermohle

Robert Sweet

Getting to the SES Learning Service Team, AHR - DOT Lead

Veronica Lucas

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Deloris Martin

Special Emphasis Investigation Team, AVS

David Baron

Michael Boler

Edward Cardenas

Paul D’Allura

Richard Donegan

Douglas Dymock

Kenneth Feist

Scott Ford

Larry Lupton

Steven Nielson

Misty Pena

Jacquelyn Pinson

Donald Riley

Kent Stephens

Paul Vercellino

The Sustainability Champion

Gregory Massoud, ATO

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