HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES 2007 WOC President’s Award
RHONDA D. HOLT Senior Vice President, Digital Media Technologies & Media Asset Management , Turner Broad casting System
1989 BEYA Promotion of Engineering Education
ELLIOTT LYONS Vice President, Leggett & Platt Inc.
VINCENT LYONS Vice President, Leggett & Platt Inc.
Rhonda Holt has been recognized as a leader in hardware and software product development throughout her outstanding career. She was winner of both the 2007 Women of Color in Technology President’s award and the 2002 Black Engineer of the Year Award for Professional Achievement. Also, Ms. Holt was named as one of the 100 Most Important Blacks in Tech- nology by USBE&IT magazine in 2009. After graduating from the University of Florida in 1986, she worked for IBM and over a decade progressed from associate programmer to senior programmer manager. She then went on to Sun Microsystems, where she was vice president, storage systems engineering, then vice president of grid computing operations. At Dell, she was vice president of systems management software development. She has had oversight for delivery of Turner’s web-based products, inluding website development, deploy- ment, and operations for Turner’s new media business in news, sports and entertainment. As vice president, infrastructure, she oversaw operations of all Turner Digital media properties, including
CNN.com,
NASCAR.com, PGATour,com, Cartoon-
Network.com and
NBA.com. She is a member of the IT Senior Management Forum, National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications, and Women in Cable Telecommunica- tions. In 2008, she established the Rhonda D. Holt Endow- ment for Academic Excellence at University of Florida. This fund offers scholarships to freshman engineering students in the STEPUP Program at the College of Engineering and fellowships to graduate students—with a preference for those who went through the STEPUP Program and who partici- pate in the Florida Institute for Development of Engineering Faculty. Ms. Holt earned a bachelor’s degree. in computer and information science in 1986 from the University of Florida.
www.blackengineer.com
Southern University mechanical engineering alumni
Elliott and Vincent Lyons believe two heads are better than one. So ran a line in US Black Engineer magazine’s 1989 Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference issue. Recent honors graduates of Southern, as valedictorian and salutatorian, they both shared the 1989 Black Engineer of the Year Award for the Promotion of Engineering Education They’d served as officers of several student organizations and were the first undergraduates at Southern University’s College of Engineering to teach a class. They also acted as coordinators of the computer lab for students who needed additional time, tutored high school students at a local church in Baton Rouge, and in the spring of 1988, seniors Elliott and Vincent had taught the recitation part of engi- neering mechanics after students went to the head of depart- ment and asked for the twins to teach the class. The twin
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