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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2001
Release # 222-01

Contact: Sunny Mindel / Sid Dinsay (212) 788-2958
  Deborah Labadie, DOITT (212) 788-6564


MAYOR GIULIANI PROCLAIMS "NYC GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGY DAY"

Recognizes City's Technology Professionals at Inaugural
Excellence in Technology Awards Program (ETAP)

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani today proclaimed "NYC Government Technology Day" in recognition of the innovative contributions made by the City's Information Technology personnel. In addition, the City employees were honored at the first-ever Excellence in Technology Awards Program, held at the Surrogates Court House and sponsored by the City's Technology Steering Committee.

Mayor Giuliani said, "Information technology is an incredibly delicate and difficult body of work, one that our City depends on as we go further into the 21st Century. These men and women have taken on-and met-the challenge of keeping New York City ahead of its time, from overseeing the seemingly simple workings of voicemail and e-mail, to undertaking the complex redesign of our NYC.gov portal."

Allan Dobrin, Commissioner of the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, said "Every area of our government's operations has benefited from technology, whether it be human resources, finance operations, or services for senior citizens, as exemplified by the wide array of technology projects being recognized through our Excellence in Technology Awards. I am pleased that the hard work of the City's Information Technology personnel is being recognized."

Under the direction of the Mayor, and through the leadership of the New York City Technology Steering Committee (TSC), the City established ETAP to recognize the contributions by City technology professionals, who have developed solutions that enhance agency productivity, service delivery, and customer service.

More than 100 employees from various City agencies were nominated in categories of Leadership, Development and Support. They were:


Excellence in Technology Award &
Best E-government Initiative Serving the Public

Andrew S. Eristoff, Peter Lempin, Joseph Mizrahi, Charles Niessner

Demonstrated Leadership in Management of IT
Avi Duvdevani

Demonstrated Excellence in Project Management
Neil Berman, Bob Pajvani

Best In-house Developed Application
Robert Bryan, Frank Guglielmo, Eleni Limperopoulos, Kamlesh Patel

Best E-government Initiative Serving an Agency or Agencies
Ricardo Browne, Barbara Carroll, Joseph A. DeMarco, Dominick Gervasi,
Leslie Johnson, Walter Vazquez

Best In-house Developed Application
George Forest, Jeff Golden, Abdelhamid Hassan, Kay Hendon, Alan Polinsky
Michael Shilman, Robert Smith

IT Support and Service Winners
Iftikhar Ahmad, Nissim Baruch, Edward Brown, Virginia Brown, Amy Cheng,
Miosotis Cid, Ken Clark, Olimpia Davidovici, Medhat Fahmy, Erskine Fleming,
Julie Forgione, Annie Hemmingway, Paul Kaufman, Edwin Latorre, David Lubetkin, Don Martenson, Robert Melaniff, Ernest Parker, John Pavlus, Sam Pearson, David Philip, Jacqueline Russell, Matthew Sepkowski, Julia Stevenson, Richard Walter, Martha Winn, Yam-Mung Yuen

GIS Winners - Enterprise Initiative Award
Jack Eichenbaum, John Eterno, Tom Didesidero, Wendy Dorf, John Griffin, Paul Katzer, Al Leidner, David Litvin, Vincent Soriano, Richard Steinberg


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