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on women. She identified the corporate need to develop a Black executive talent review in a bid to provide mentors and sponsors to employees that may otherwise be overlooked among 100,000 individuals in the United States.
Since then, over 30 candidates have been promoted to exec- utive rank. States joined IBM as a systems engineer in 1978. By 1991, she had responsibility for developing markets for distrib- uted computing. Later she led IBM’s Midwest sales, delivering e-business and early web solutions. During her tenure in IBM’s Software Group she built an organization of 5,000 technical architects and specialists along with management systems and supporting business processes. She also led sales enablement for 15,000 sales and technical professionals.
One of her memorable achievements was her work with the
South African government and the local IBM team to open IBM’s first Innovation Center in Africa. More recently as a senior execu- tive on IBM’s Integration and Values team she was responsible for transforming processes for skills development, knowledge management and career progression for IBM’s professional sales force, In her previous role as vice president of cloud computing for the IBM Software Group, she led a global team responsible for establishing market leadership for cloud computing. In 2011, she was appointed to her current role, responsible for technology strategy for IBM’s growth initiatives including cloud computing, Smarter Planet, business analytics and growth markets. These initiatives will contribute $20 billion of incremen- tal value to IBM’s 2015 roadmap. States co-chairs the IBM North America Black Constituency Council, chairs the Board of Visitors for the Northeastern University College of Business, serves on the board of directors for MoJo (momsandjobs dot com) and is a member of the Executive Leadership Council. She was spokesper- son for the nationwide Black Family Technology Awareness Week (BFTAW) campaign and launched BFTAW in Biloxi in Missis- sippi at a newly renovated middle school after hurricane Katrina. Over 100 students attended the event complete with interactive science exhibits. At the end of the show, a young girl stood up and told the audience “I want to be a scientist.”
PRESIDENT’S AWARD Theodore (Ted)
Colbert, III Vice President, Information Technology Infrastructure The Boeing Company
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Infrastructure, Ted Colbert is responsible for developing and maintaining IT solu- tions―network, computing, server, storage, collaboration and infrastructure―across
the entire Boeing enterprise. He was named to this position in De- cember 2011 and continues to report to Boeing Chief Information Officer, Kim Hammonds. Previously, Colbert was vice president of IT Business Systems, where he was responsible for developing and maintaining the computing application systems that support Boeing finance, human resources, corporate, commercial capital business units as well as
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the company’s internal systems. He was named to this position in September 2010. Colbert started with Boeing as director of the en- terprise network services organization, which provides the connec- tivity infrastructure that enables all internal Boeing applications and Line of Service delivery systems to integrate, communicate, and pass data from point to point throughout the company and beyond. Colbert spent more than two years at Citigroup as senior vice president, Enterprise Architecture based in the New York metro area. At Citigroup, he held positions focused on strategy and plan- ning in global architecture and engineering. His major contributions at Citi were focused on driving IT programs to improve technology strategy, work-slate management and prioritization, and delivery lifecycle processes across IT engineering and operations. He led major enterprise efforts to drive common architecture across the global consumer organization. Prior to joining Citigroup, Colbert spent eleven years with Ford Motor Company’s Information Technology organization. During his tenure with Ford, he held several positions including manager, Global Deskside Services responsible for global engineering and operations for client (UNIX and Windows) infrastructure hardware/ software, mobile, global end-user support (helpdesk), site manage- ment, and executive liaison to several major technology suppliers. Prior to this role, Colbert held leadership positions in the areas of program management, infrastructure engineering and operations, application development/portfolio management, and process reen- gineering.
In addition to his technology leadership contributions at Ford, he championed and led several campus recruiting, career develop- ment, and community service projects. Colbert completed the Dual Degree Engineering Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia with degrees in indus- trial and systems engineering and interdisciplinary science.
PRESIDENT’S AWARD Marachel L. Knight,
PE, PMP Vice President, Program Management AT&T Services Inc.
ust a year ago, in No- vember 2011, Marachel L. Knight was awarded U.S. Patent No. 8064876 for inventing the “Systems for Use with Multi-Number Cellular Devices,” which al-
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lows a device to be used for work and personal communications. It sounds deceptively simple, yet it was a technology break- through. She has two other patent filings pending. With 17 years at AT&T under her belt, Knight is now the executive director, business operations, and overall program man- ager and chief of staff of the Office of the Senior Executive Vice President of AT&T Technology and Network Operations (ATNO). Knight provides direct support of complex business opera- tions to the senior executive vice president and the SEVP direct reports leadership team—four officers and one vice president. ATNO has 118,000 employees—just under half of AT&T’s worldwide workforce—and includes the Information Tech-
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