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The Fourth Annual Women in Technology (WIT) Leadership Awards

Tysons Corner, VA, April 15, 2003 - The Fourth Annual WIT Leadership Awards Banquet will be held on May 15, 2003, at the Sheraton Premiere, Tysons Corner. Since 1994, WIT has provided a forum for professional development that is dedicated to serving Washington, DC area technology professionals. The WIT Annual Leadership Awards Banquet recognizes individuals for their outstanding accomplishments in the areas of mentoring, entrepreneurship, and technology. 

This year’s finalists for the 2003 WIT Annual Leadership Awards include:  

Corporate
Anne Altman, Managing Director, U.S. Federal Government, IBM
Sandra Gillespie, Vice President, Lockheed Martin Information Technology
Ellen Glover, President Washington Operations, Impact Innovations Group
Vonya McCann, Senior Vice President, Federal External Affairs, Sprint
Jackie Mitchell, Vice President, Public Sector Services, Hewlett-Packard.

Entrepreneur
Kimberly McCabe, President and CEO, Advanced Performance Consulting Group, Inc.
Madeline McDuffy, CEO, Total Customer Care
Jeanne O’Kelley, President and Co-Founder, Blueprint Technologies, Inc.
Elizabeth Shea, Principal & Co-Founder, The SheaHedges Group
Katie Sleep, President, LIST, Inc. 

Government
Joan Arnold, Program Manager, IT Services and Operations, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Vivien Crea, Rear Admiral, United States Coast Guard
Janet Hale, Undersecretary for Management, Department of Homeland Security
Linda Jacksta, Director Systems Engineering, Office of Information and Technology, Bureau of Customs and Border Protection
Deborah Loudon, Deputy CIO, National Reconnaissance Office

Women in Technology Champion
Dede Haskins, Independent Consultant
Reggie M. Kouba, Director of Business Operations, The SheaHedges Group
Marguerete Luter, Vice President, Global Bid Management for the Unisys Global Network
Susan Schwartz, Principal, River Birch Group
Debbie Thacker, Principal, Thacker Associates


The 4th Annual Leadership Awards program will take place at the Sheraton Premiere, Tysons Corner, Virginia on May 15, 2003 starting with a reception from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and a formal dinner to follow from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Maureen Bunyan, anchor for WJLA-TV will serve as the Mistress of Ceremonies. Winners will be announced the evening of the event.

About Blueprint Technologies

Blueprint Technologies is an enterprise modernization firm that specializes in translating business requirements into architecture-based solutions. Blueprint’s teams of experienced enterprise and solution architects modernize business services and IT capabilities more quickly and with less risk than its competitors by generating an executable architecture that provides integration and interoperability among business processes and IT services.

Blueprint’s architects employ an iterative, model-driven process and reusable assets to rapidly define, design, and align business processes and software services, and to automate executable architecture development. Blueprint’s expertise includes the design and deployment of Service Oriented Architectures, based on industry-standard Web Service technologies.

About Women in Technology (WIT)

Women in Technology (WIT) is a not for profit organization dedicated to offering women involved in all levels of the technology industry a wide range of professional development and networking opportunities. The organization serves as an advocate for and a representative of the interests of women in the technology industry, acts as a liaison with other similar organizations on women’s issues and plays an advocacy role for technology issues in the Greater Washington region and abroad. For more information, please visit WIT's web site, www.womenintechnology.org