December 14, 2022 – CDT’s annual Ovation Award ceremony was held December 12. The virtual ceremony recognized the accomplishments of individuals and groups within the Department whose exceptional efforts have helped secure better services for Californians. Award categories included Performance Excellence, Leadership, Innovation, Organizational Enhancement, Customer Service, Team Excellence and Partnership.
View the full list of award winners who were honored this year.
PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE AWARD
Nicholas Moody, IT Associate, Security Operations Center / Security Solutions Admin
LEADERSHIP AWARD
Steven Garrett, Information Technology Specialist III, Platform Services / UNIX
INNOVATION AWARD
ODS SWRC Board Support Team: Chris Eddy, Selvarani Janarthanan, Igor Pekelis & Vikram Verma
OIS Security Solutions VDP Team: John Cleveland, Richard McClanahan, Richard McCray & Jorden McDonald
ORGANIZATIONAL ENHANCEMENT AWARD
OAS Business Continuity Team: Karen Bailey, Andres Bravo, Jessica Carter, Diran Gilian, Soudabeh Najarzadeh & Jeffrey Skidmore
CUSTOMER SERVICE AWARD
Michelle Wagner, Graphic Designer (ITS I), Office of Governmental Affairs / Communications
SUPERIOR ACCOMPLISHMENT AWARD:
Michael Mont-Eton, Robin Denat, MMBI Procurement Team: Sahana Ayer, David Friedman, Nick Giustini, Rick Goldberg, Jennifer Herrera, Danielle Kanelos-Ceriani, Roddy Son, Edna Toy, Kristine VanKeuren, Nina Westphal & Domonique Wilson
TEAM EXCELLENCE AWARD
OTECH Cloud Disaster Recovery Team: Kermit Bonner, Jim Boyd, Hong Chen, Wilbert Chin, Craig Cirimele, L’Tanya Cubit, Nick Danyluk, Raymund Dizon, Eric Ehnisz, Sean Ferguson, Steven Garrett, Louis Godey, Larry Lai, Sandra Laxton, Tim Lyons, Christie Nguyen, Phillip Oyog, Jamaal Price, Thomas Scott, John Swetland, Cole Tadlock, Michelle Takeda, Taron Walton, Cary Yee & Jack Zhu
DOF Data Restoration Core Team: Kermit Bonner, Linda Bonner, Cory Buchanan, Jose Chavez Jr, Nick Danyluk, Raymund Dizon, Eric Ehnisz, Kurtis Errecart, Steven Garrett, Stephan Hoaglund, Steve Ju, Phillip Oyog, Harold Poling, Ray Rios, Kevin Smith, Cole Tadlock & Bill Wong
OAS Mail & Warehouse Team: Joseph Doll & Patrick Sullivan
ODS Infrastructure Dashboard Team: Fernando Cabangon*, Vincent Chao*, Vijaya Charugundla, Greg Duncan, Chris Eddy, Christina Florente, Carmen Gonsalves, Ryan Hamilton, Sam Hayashi, Sirisha Ibrahim, Selvarani Janarthanan, Sandeep Johl, Artem Khomishen, Konstantin Koryaka, Jarrett Krumrei, Corinna Martinez, Sharon Rabang, Saranya Ramasamy, Anureet Sandhu, Harjeet Singh*, Jagroop
Singh*, Karuna Tamatam, Vikram Verma, Anneli Wong & Jessica Zhang
OIS Security Solutions Team: Michael Armelin, Oscar Betts, Debbie Cha, Andy Chaobal, Diana Chavez, Kory Fesliyan, Elle Frodahl, John Garcia, Octavio Hernandez, Christopher Kashuba, Rich Kaufman, Hilmi Khelifa, John Ku, Parker Martinez, Suja Maskey, Richard McClanahan, Richard McCray, Jorden McDonald, Diego Mendoza, Nicholas Moody, Douglas Novak, Adam Reyes, Woodrow Sanders & Joshua Williams
PARTNERSHIP AWARD
Critical Services Committee: Melinda Grant (BCSH), Catalina HayesBautista (CalEPA), Eric Jarvis (CalEPA), Marko Mijic (CalHHS), Jennifer Barretto (CDCR), Erika Li (DOF), Jennifer Osborn (DGS), Katie Hagen (DIR), Deanna Ping (DIR), Stephanie Clendenin (DSH), Russell Atterberry (GovOps), Justyn Howard (GovOps), Miriam Ingenito (GovOps) & Kathleen Webb (DGS)