has brought tremendous value to the company. Vadlamudi is the supply chain leader, bringing SAP supply chain functionality to over 40 affiliates within an 18-month window.
Lisa T. Richardson CEO
Flow Learning & Media Group, LLC
Lisa T. Richardson, Ph.D., helps individuals and organiza- tions solve flow problems in their processes with a holistic approach to technology education. Dr. Richardson is CEO of Flow Learning and Media Group LLC, a software applica- tions consultancy and learning center in East Point, Ga., that serves corporate, government and education entities. She is dedicated to increasing the number of women of color in STEM fields.
To support this mission, she recently launched Codenistas, a Saturday technology education program for middle school girls. The Codenistas’ curriculum includes web design, animation, programming and entrepreneurship in a project- based format. Housed within the company’s co-working community Spout Lab, girls in the Codenistas benefit from mentoring by its members, who are independent business owners representing a wide variety of industries.
Doris Chui General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
Doris Chui shoulders the responsibility for the largest software project team in the Santa Clara office of General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, an effort that com- prises over $10 million and nearly half a million lines of high- ly complex source code. The software that she is designing is a critical component of a program that is not only important to the company, but is also vital to the defense of our nation. She leads a project team of 20 software engineers, managing their day-to-day tasking and career development.
Chui was selected from among all software engineers in Santa Clara to lead this highly visible program. She is an extremely motivated, self-starter who excels on any task that is given to her and has earned the respect of her software team, program management, and the customer community. Among her many talents, she nimbly forges difficult technical decisions, strives for challenging schedule and budget com- mitments, and inspires her team to attain high goals.
Tonia Powell Facilities Engineer
Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding
Tonia Powell, a facilities engineer at Huntington Ingalls Shipbuild- ing (HIS), is a leader and a strategic thinker. In 1998, she joined HIS as a structural welder, but tenacity and ambition led her to earn a bachelor’s degree in science and technology from the University of Southern Mississippi, and a master’s in technology
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with an emphasis in project management from the American Intercontinental Online University. HIS designs, builds, and maintains nuclear and non-nuclear ships for the Navy and Coast Guard. Among other projects, Powell supervised the on-time, under-budget dismantling of a contaminated test facility and the reconstruction of new office space.
Stephanie De La Fuente Information Technology Specialist IBM
For the past five years, Stephanie De La Fuente has been an important IT specialist within IBM. Her work includes responsibility for business analytics integration of service- oriented architecture-based solutions for banking and insur- ance clients. In 2012, the native Texan led the Dallas-area Women in Technology group, was an active participant in Engineers Week and Girls Inspired Greatly About the World of Technology (GIGAWOT). She received her M.S. degree in information technology and management and B.S. degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Dallas. Dur- ing college, she was a founding member of the local chapter of the Society of Hispanic Engineers.
Mershelle R. Davis Regulatory Compliance Analyst Lockheed Martin
Mershelle R. Davis’s specialty is establishing Lockheed Martin suppliers and developing novel strategies to expand their capabilities. In 2011, her efforts, which included participation in multiple local, regional and national small business confer- ences annually, led Lockheed Martin to spend $47 million with small businesses.
The former Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) member, who graduated from the University of Alabama at Birming- ham with a bachelor’s in business administration, is Lock- heed’s veteran-owned and veteran/service disabled veteran advocate. The regulatory compliance analyst joined Lock- heed in 2007 after working as a supervisor, respectively, for Texas Instruments and TriQuint Semiconductor. She served as a U.S. Army officer from 1986-2000, the same year she received her MBA from Tarleton State University.
Sheetal Brahmbatt Lead Engineer The MITRE Corp.
At MITRE, Sheetal Brahmbatt has been lauded for her acute techni- cal software knowledge, systems engineering skill, tenacity, and commitment. She is the lead en- gineer for all Air Force command and control mission planning platforms. A chief engineer to whom Brahmbatt reports said that the senior software systems engineer shows how “creative thinking and solutions that some-
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