BLACK ENGINEER OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS
versity, St. Louis Science Center, the United Way of Greater St. Louis Executive Committee, the HBCU Harris-Stowe State University’s African American Business Leadership Council and Barnes Jewish Hospital.
In 2010, WWT won the St. Louis Minority Business Council
Excellence Awards and was named the Minority Business Enter- prise of the Year and an HP Partner in Excellence. They also won
Career Achievement — Government
Henry A. Dulaney Chief, Engineering and Construction Division, Vicksburg District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Henry A. Dulaney worked for the Corps of Engineers until he earned a bachelor’s degree in Electrical En-
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the AT&T Supplier Award. In 2011, WWT received several more industry awards ranging from National Minority Business Council’s Outstanding Technology Firm of the Year to VMware’s Government Partner of the Year Award for North America to the EMC Veloc- ity Enterprise of the Year Award and the VAR500 Best Partnership Award. The company has also won numerous honors from its key strategic partners like Cisco, HP, NetApp, EMC and VMware.
ate. Currently, he has three new JSU graduates on staff and they, in turn, have returned to the JSU campus to make presentations on the work they do for the Corps. In his role as Vice President of SAME Vicksburg Post, he has been an invaluable point of contact for the new chapter on the JSU campus. He attended the kick-off ceremony and helped lead the students in election of officers. He worked with a JSU SAME faculty point of contact to coordinate funding that would allow the new chapter president to attend the annual SAME Convention.
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neering from Mississippi State University in 1985. Fresh out of college, he spent a brief stint with Proctor and Gamble before joining the Corps of Engineers as a design engineer in the Vicksburg District. Since 1986, he has advanced from Unit Chief to Section Leader to Division Chief. As Division Chief, he is responsible for planning and managing all projects and design, and for technical engineering consulting, advisory services and construction management for technical divisions within the Vicksburg District.
In addition to his work with the Vicksburg District, Dulaney has been very active in working with future engineers. He is a supporter of the City of Vicksburg school system, serving as a contact for speakers for National Engineers Week, and speaking to hundreds of students himself over the last 20 years as part of the annual National Society of Professional Engineers program, which calls attention to the contributions of engineers. He also played a big role in a classroom initiative at Vicksburg High School, coordinating local industry and business leaders to visit the school and share their keys to success with students. He is very active in the Vicksburg Post of the Society of American Engineers (SAME) and, as the current Vice President, he works with SAME posts, schools, professional associations and Corps of Engineers districts to find the best campers from around the country for the annual one-week engineering and construction program. He has played an integral part in moving the camp from an idea in 2002 to a local camp in 2003 and to achieve national status in 2008. The camp is sponsored by the Society of Military Engineers and supported by local engineering groups and volunteers.
Dulaney also has a major commitment to the Jackson State University School of Engineering; he has served as a guest speaker on many occasions to discuss career opportunities and workforce challenges. He was the first recruiter at Vicksburg Dis- trict to hire a Jackson State University (JSU) engineering gradu-
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In 2008, Dulaney was presented with the Society of Ameri- can Military Engineers Regional Vice President’s Medal for Outstanding Service to the Society. He also won a U.S. Depart- ment of the Army Achievement Medal for Civilian Service in execution of the hurricane and storm damage risk reduction system mission from 2007 to 2010. He holds a master’s degree in Engineering Management from Mississippi State University and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the state of Mississippi.
Career Achievement — Government
William J. Makell, Jr. Ethnic Policy Advisor, Office of Diversity Headquarters U.S. Coast Guard
senior black aviators in the U.S. Coast Guard. He has flown over 3,000 hours in search and rescue helicopters to complete well over 170 missions, saving 20 lives and assisting more than 200 others in distress at sea. On one such occasion, Cmdr. Makell risked his life conduct- ing night hoists, made dangerous by heavy power lines and thun- derstorms in the Florida mangroves. In these missions, he rescued 14 men, women and children who had been stuck for more than 12 hours. He redesigned more than 400 surplus night vision goggles into 900 monocular night vision devices, which provided small boats and cutters the same capability as aviators. He also recognized that enlisted crews did not have the same amount of computer resources as officers so he created an e-learning center at Air Station Miami to house computers solely for use by people wanting to complete online training or college education courses in a conducive learning environment.
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ommander William Makell is one of three
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