Web Managers Best Practice Awards 2006
Judges Panel
David Almacy, Internet and E-Communications Director in the Office of Media Affairs, serves as a White House spokesman and manages the content, design and function of the White House website. Prior to joining the White House staff, David was senior advisor to Deputy Secretary Eugene Hickok at the U.S. Department of Education. He first joined the Education Department in November 2002 as communications director for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans. Before that, he spent two years with an Internet communications firm specializing in the design and development of campaign, Congressional and federal government websites. Previous experience also includes five years at C-SPAN traveling the country with the C-SPAN School Bus program.
Andy Bailey has been involved in a wide variety of innovative Web projects over the past 11 years. In this current role as the Web Content Manager for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), he oversees content and policy development and management for the department’s Internet and intranet Web sites. Andy started his Web career as a contractor at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on the technical support team where he assisted in designing and building several early iterations of HUD’s Internet Web site. He moved to DOL as a contractor in 1998 and became a federal manager in 2002. Prior to learning how to open and close HTML tags, Andy was an Air Force officer. Andy is a member of the Federal Web Managers Council.
Annetta Cheek is an anthropologist by training, earning a PhD from the University of Arizona in 1974. Most of her Federal career has been in writing and implementing regulations. She became interested in the Plain Language movement seven years ago, and since then has worked to spread the use of plain language across the government. She spent four years as the chief plain language expert on Vice President Gore's National Partnership for Reinventing Government. She has been the chair of the interagency plain language advocacy group for six years and is the Vice-Chair of the nonprofit Center for Plain Language . Currently she is an Executive Assistant to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, where she continues to focus on plain language projects and serves on the Web Council. She also is a member of the Web Content Management Working Group and Assistant Editor of WebContent.Gov.
Clare De Cleene is the Web Communications Manager at the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. As such, she manages the operations for the agency's Internet site and two intranet sites. She also manages the content and design of the two intranet sites, both of which underwent major redesigns as part of a migration to the FileNet Content Management System.
Terry Davis has spent his entire federal career focused on website operations and policies for components of the Department of Defense (DoD). Prior to federal service, he was a Navy Senior Chief, Russian interpreter and air crewman. He has served as customer service technical manager, and as a project /program manager overseeing website design, process improvement and content management system implementation. He is currently employed with the DoD CIO, where he is providing leadership and coordination in the development of DoD policies for web operations and Internet domain name use.
Brian Dunbar has been the NASA Internet Services Manager since 1995, overseeing the development of the NASA Home Page and the NASA Web Portal ( http://www.nasa.gov ). In that time, the NASA main Web presence has grown from a static site of several hundred pages to a dynamic, customizable web portal comprising 61,000 Web pages, interactive media, and live television web-casts. In addition to covering major news events such as the loss of Deep Impact when it collided with a comet in 2005, and the space shuttle's return to flight in 2005, the portal has brought together many of NASA's decentralized web efforts into one location, making it easier for the public to find information.
Kit Fuller has worked for the U.S. Geological Survey for over 30 years in a variety of information and project management positions. A cartographer, Kit has in recent years led USGS Web development projects as a way to help USGS better reach and serve its many types of customers. He has studied and documented best practices in Federal Web management in “Becoming a Citizen-Centered Government through Best Practices in Web Management” (http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/ofrs/2004-1359/ofr2004-1359.pdf). Kit recently founded the USGS Web Metrics Working Group to compile and interpret metrics related to the USGS Web sites. He participates in the Federal Web Managers Council Web Metrics Task Group.
Tina Kelley serves as the Assistant Director, E-Government Staff, Internet Services Office in the Office of the CIO of the Department of Justice. She directs a staff of content managers and Web developers who create and manage the DOJ Internet and intranet sites and support the Department’s senior management offices. Tina became involved with the Internet back in the days of gopher sites and assisted the Department’s IT staff with creating the content of the first Justice Web site. She assumed formal responsibility for the Department’s Web content in 1996. Tina holds a Masters in Library Science and was formerly Chief of the Information Services Staff in the DOJ Library and, prior to that, the Legislative Librarian at the Treasury Library.
Stephanie Madden is a Web Content Specialist for FirstGov.gov, where she creates, researches, and maintains content for the federal portal. She oversees FirstGov.gov's popular e-mail updates that alert subscribers to new content on the website, and manages RSS feeds that feature new content on FirstGov.gov and citizens' frequently asked questions. Prior to joining the FirstGov.gov team, Stephanie served as a web manager and writer-editor with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, instituting and managing the agency's website as well as the White House's Preserve America website. She received an M.A. in interactive journalism, and a B.A. in print journalism, from American University in Washington, D.C.
Gina Pearson is the Director of the National Energy Information Center at the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration. She manages the agency's public website, records management and information life cycle programs, customer satisfaction and user assessment initiatives, and other programs. A certified Project Management Professional with over 10 years experience creating Web-based solutions, Gina was previously the Web Manager for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. Before joining ERS, Gina was a Senior Technology Consultant for Advanced Technology Systems where she played a lead role in redesigning the U.S. Department of Labor's home page, www.dol.gov, launched on Labor Day 2001. Gina is a founding member of the Federal Web Content Managers Forum and has served on the steering committee for FedWeb. She currently serves on the Federal Federal Web Managers Council, and the Federal Web Metrics and Federal Usability Committees.
Rand Ruggieri is the Program Manager for the Presidential E-Government initiative, International Trade Process Streamlining . Rand’s team implemented a content management system for that initiative. Through www.export.gov, U.S. firms interested in becoming an exporter or expanding their export sales, can find information about the mechanics of exporting, how to analyze foreign market opportunities, and where they can find help both domestically and internationally. Prior to joining the Federal Government, Rand managed an import/export company, provided international consulting services to U.S. defense companies, and managed projects at a major telecommunications firm. Prior to his current eGov assignment, Rand led the implementation of GPRA at the Foreign Agricultural Service of USDA, along with other reegingeering and reorganization projects. Rand has a Bachelor’s Degree in Foreign Service, from Georgetown University and a Master’s Degree from University of Maryland in International Management. Rand is also a Senior Fellow with the Council for Excellence in Government.
Larry Teller took a 6-month consulting job at the Environmental Protection Agency’s new regional office in Philadelphia in 1972, liked what he did, and stayed. Thirty-four years later, he’s one of the office’s old timers, having held a variety of interesting jobs in environmental assessment (under NEPA), congressional and intergovernmental relations, public affairs, enforcement and compliance assistance, administration and management, and web and print communications. He co-chairs the regional office’s web management committee, was until recently a member of EPA’s Web Workgroup steering committee, and as the region’s web content manager represents the mid-Atlantic region on EPA’s Web Council. Larry became one of the early regional members of the government-wide Federal Web Managers Council, and is pleased to be on the Council’s website editorial board and its best practices recognition group. He also chairs Region 3's customer service committee and has served on many agency work groups aimed at making EPA a more customer-driven, publicly-involved organization. After 28 years of active and reserve duty as a special agent with its Office of Special Investigations, he recently retired from the Air Force.
Chris Testa is Manager of the Customer Requirements team for the Library of Congress, Office of Strategic Initiatives, Web Services Division. As project manager, Chris has overseen several high profile redesigns of the Library's web properties, including American Memory, THOMAS, and the Library's home and audience pages. Chris has over 10 years of experience developing and managing internet and web products, applications, and services. Before joining the Library, Chris was a Web Producer for the J. Paul Getty Trust, where he was responsible for the overall information architecture, search, and production/content management for the Getty's web properties. Prior to the Getty, Chris was a Producer for the Walt Disney Internet Group, where he lead the effort to implement a suite of web-based community tools (e-mail, instant messenger) for Disney's Club Blast online subscription service. He also managed the search infrastructure and design for Disney.com, Family.com, Abc.com, and Oscars.com. Chris holds a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science, with a specialization in information retrieval and systems analysis, from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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