SPECIAL RECOGNITION WINNERS
Ms. Morrison reduced cost on major vendor contracts, slash- ing operating expenses by $8 million. She also identified errors in business unit reporting of 401K match expense, medical and dental claim expenses and initiated her team to drive accountability for correction, generating $2 million in savings. Her team consisted of representatives from HR, finance, shared services, IT and corporate finance. She has a
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bachelor’s degree in accounting from the State University of New York and an M.B.A. with a concentration in finance from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Ms. Morrison is six sigma certified and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Finance Research Board, and the Board of Directors, Stamford Senior Center, LLC.
] Sannadean Sims [ Deputy Chief Financial Executive/Comptroller, Defense Information Systems Agency
set new levels of financial performance, achieving “first time ever” results with improvements in budget formulation, execution, accounting, and financial management activities.
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annadean Sims won a Presidential Rank Meritorious Executive Award
this year. She was recognized for spear- heading a new approach to planning and monitoring the financial execution and performance outcomes of Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) pro- grams. As DISA’s deputy controller, she
Her approach has proven critical in making tradeoffs across agency pro- grams and the Department of Defense portfolio of net-centric systems. It has also proven instrumental in the Business Transformation Agency selecting DISA as the model to represent 28 other De- partment of Defense agencies pursuing BTA’s new enterprise resource planning program – the Defense Agency Initiative. As a result, DISA now routinely meets and exceeds all statutory and regulatory performance criteria, which had never
before been accomplished.
These successes have enabled her to defend the agency’s $8 billion budget on Capitol Hill and in the Pentagon. The agency has dramatically increased its ability to deliver its complex array of IT products and services faster to the war fighter than before, and has the data to prove it. DISA, a combat support agency, provides command and control capabilities and the infrastructure to continuously operate and assure a global net-centric enterprise in direct support to joint war fighters, national leaders, and other mission and coalition part- ners. She was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in November 2004.
] Alaka Shivananda [ Technical Staff, Advanced Tactical Systems, The Boeing Company
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laka Shivananda was a lead soft- ware engineer for space-borne GPS software—technology we take for granted today—and the information and software architecture for deployment of Internet in the sky, real-time internet access on commercial airlines.
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As a systems engineer in the Advanced Tactical Systems group, she works with contracts and supplier management, while developing contacts with small businesses, the Defense Information Sys- tems Agency, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the area of advanced tactical systems. Ms. Shiva- nanda also works on the development of service-oriented architecture (SOA) based process for system of systems architecture development. “It’s a simple idea,” she explains. “How do you get disparate groups from different compa- nies or different corporate cultures to use a common language and methodol- ogy?“
These developments led to a new stan- dard for system of systems, for which
Ms. Shivananda earned a patent, and has been adapted throughout Boeing and the entire defense industry. “The military adapted our system,” she said. “For example, the U.S. Air Force couldn’t communicate effectively with the U.S. Army. With system of systems, we eliminate those communication barriers. It’s very satisfying to know these ideas led to the better use of resources in the American military. It saves money and saves lives.”
In the past few years, in addition to earning multiple patents, she has also been published in major industry pub- lications. “I’m very proud of what my work has led to at Boeing,” Ms. Shivana- nda says.
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