• Accomplishes information technology staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching,  counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
• Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal  growth opportunities.
• Maintains organization’s effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information  technologies.
• Directs technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.
• Completes projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user  departments and data center.
• Verifies application results by conducting system audits of technologies  implemented.
• Preserves assets by implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures.
• Recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating  trends; anticipating requirements.

It was such an honor to take part in one of the most important designer conventions, and to receive this award was beyond my expectations.