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CDT Ovation Awards Cite Achievements of Employees, Teams

The list of awardees was published on CDT’s TechBlog in conjunction with a virtual departmental awards ceremony held on Dec. 7.

In its year-end initiative to recognize employees’ performance, the California Department of Technology has published its list of 2022 Ovation Awards. The list of awardees was published on CDT’s TechBlog in conjunction with a virtual departmental awards ceremony held on Dec. 7. The list of honorees for individual and team awards follows:

Performance Excellence Award: Keri Nomura

Leadership Award: Blaine Wasylkiw, Julie Bianucci

Innovation Award: Ayan Vakharia

Organizational Enhancement Award: Katherine Milton; Data Center Financial Services Team: Stevie Choate, Steven Haro, Adrienne Lee, Anthony Lozano, Mike Vargas, and Ly Vo.

Customer Service Award: LeNette Morgan, Vanessa Ortiz

Superior Accomplishment Award: Larry Lai; Roddy Son; Technology Modernization Fund Team: Louis Leclerc, Carolyn Nordstrom*, Jeet Poddar, and Jeffrey Porcar.

Team Excellence Awards


BCP Coalition Team: Julie Bianucci, Renée Evans, Anita Fearman, Michael Halverson, David Machol, Carmen Morrison, James Smith, Anooja Tandon, and Salem Wali-Ali.

Content Management System Team: Justin Black, Janet Buehler*, Michael Halverson, Joyce Humphrey, Floyd Layher, Richard McClanahan, Carmen Morrison, Carolyn Nordstrom*, Himabindu Pasupuleti, Raquel Rivera, James Smith, and Joseph Stewart.

Digital ID Team: Greg Fair, John Florian, and Jarrett Krumrei.

eCommerce Team: Themmi Carias, Kevin Lao, Janet Lee, Keith Nguyen, Shaun Owens, Nikunj Patel, Jimmy Ren, David Shen, Hoy Teoh, Jack Vang, and Ching Vue.

Infrastructure Orchestration Team: Christopher Langston, Myles Maskovich, and Eric Woodford.

Midrange DBMS and Oracle Database Team: Hong Chen, Donald Councill, Roy Ferguson, Jon Fritts, Robert Fritts, Larry Lai, BeeSeng Lee, Chethana Manohar, Johnson Neal, Mukesh Verma, and Jenny Wang.

Privileged Access Management Team: David Adcock, Louis Arredondo, Chris Baad, Jeff Bender, Meldchor Calaustro, Themmi Carias, Rubi Carrillo, Mireya Cintron-Ortiz, Chris Demaree, Jeremy Fong, Andrew Hang, Steve Ju, Randy Kotecki, Kevin Lao, Bhupesh Patel, Nikunj Patel, Igor Pekelis, Donald Savant, Thomas Scott, Paul Vincent, and Jackie Xiong.

Public Key Infrastructure Upgrade Team: David Adcock, Kermit Bonner, Linda Bonner, and Jose Chavez Jr.

Solaris Support Team: David Chang and Espy Nalath.

Web Services Team: Jim Burke, Michael Chen, Courtney Chittock*, Kasey Cusick, Harvey Dhillon, Ashley Draper, Gregory Duncan, Christina Florente, Angelina Gerasimov, David Goebel, Yesenia Gutierrez, Danny Guzman, Ryan Hamilton, Artem Khomishen, Konstantin Koryaka, Koji Kumpulainien, Pia Lomboy, Jorden McDonald, Steven Pierce, Sharon Rabang, Timothy Shambra, Linda Tracy, Yee Vang, Greg Watanabe, and Tiffany Wilson.

*Employee is no longer with CDT.