2010 Winners
WIT will announce the winners of its 11th annual Women of the Year in Technology Awards at an awards gala on Wednesday, November 10th at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel. Tables and tickets are still available for purchase but buy early as it's always a sell-out!
Winners will be announced in three categories:
1) enterprise business, representing companies with more than 2,500 employees;
2) medium business, representing companies with 251 to 2,500 employees, and;
3) small business, representing companies with 250 employees or less.
2010 Winner - Enterprise Business
Lisa McVey
Lisa McVey is chief information officer for McKesson Provider Technologies, Resource Management Solutions, and Physician Practice Solutions. She has overall responsibility for information technology leadership for MPT, the largest division of McKesson Technology Solutions (MTS), and the Ambulatory Businesses. McVey directs and manages computing and information technology strategic plans, policies, programs and schedules for business and finance data processing, computer services, network communications, and management information services in partnership with the business to accomplish corporate goals and objectives. She serves as the MTS-IT liaison for McKesson Corporate IT and McKesson Business Technology Solutions (BTS). More
McVey joined McKesson in 1994, and has served in a number of succeeding leadership roles in Research and Development, Services, Sales, Process Office and IT. She has led the operational development of a single, SFA-driven sales process that integrated 22 sales leaders and 15 diverse processes; streamlined sales and service operations by initiating the sales services center facilitator role tasked with supporting and coordinating all quoting and contracting activities; improved business processes by developing IT governance and funnel management methodologies; introduced a service product philosophy, implementation strategies, and a client education approach still in use by the company today. Within one of the MPT business units, McVey aligned products with sales objectives, resulting in $18.6 million in new revenue generated. She also serves on the IT Buyers Council, which comprises McKesson technology, financial and operational leaders who prioritize IT investments based on business needs.
Improving the customer experience, directing core and strategic business initiatives, implementing business process changes, establishing collaborative alliances and developing high-performing customer focused teams in order to implement infrastructure and applications to support the business in achieving its growth and revenue goals are among her core strengths.
McVey is the recent recipient of the Association of Telecom Professionals' 2010 Enterprise Leadership Award and was recognized by Women in Technology (WIT) 2010 Women of the Year in Technology. The latter award recognizes female technology executives for accomplishments as leaders in business, visionaries in technology and women who have positively impacted Georgia's technology community.
Committed to investing in the local community, promoting better health and assisting in the advancement of women in technology; she is one of the champions for McKesson’s community efforts, the Georgia chapter of Women in Technology (WIT), and is active in Technology Association of Georgia, Women in Technology (WIT), CIO Executive Council sponsored by CIO Magazine, among others.
McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 15th on the FORTUNE 500, is a healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to making the business of healthcare run better. We partner with payers, hospitals, physician offices, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and others across the spectrum of care to build healthier organizations that deliver better care to patients in every setting. McKesson helps its customers improve their financial, operational, and clinical performance with solutions that include pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management, healthcare information technology, and business and clinical services. For more information, visit http://www.mckesson.com.
2010 Winner - Medium Business
Margaret L. Loper
Margaret Loper is a Principal Research Scientist at GTRI and Chief Scientist of the Information Technology & Telecommunications Laboratory. Dr. Loper was recruited in 1995 to develop an internationally recognized program in Modeling and Simulation. She achieved that goal through her consistently strong contributions focusing on education, collaborative research and program development. Dr. Loper has twenty-five years of experience in M&S and her technical focus is parallel and distributed simulation. She has made significant contributions to the areas of temporal synchronization, simulation testing, and simulation communication protocols. Dr. Loper received recognition for her contributions to the High Level Architecture simulation standards.More
Before joining GTRI, Dr. Loper worked for the University of Central Florida, Institute for Simulation & Training where she managed the Distributed Interactive Simulation standards development process. This included organizing bi-annual workshops and working with IEEE for the development of DIS standards. Dr. Loper helped coordinate the first demonstration of 40 dissimilar heterogeneous simulations using the DIS standards, and received two service awards for her leadership.
Prior to UCF/IST, Dr. Loper was a systems engineer at Martin Marietta where she worked with continuous and discrete simulations for missile design and operations analysis. She received two letters of commendation for her work on a PATRIOT missile analysis.
Dr. Loper earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University. During her Ph.D. program she received two research fellowships, the Link Fellow in Advanced Simulation & Training and the NASA GSRP Fellowship from the Office of Space Science. Dr. Loper has over 40 publications, teaches academic courses in both the College of Computing and the College of Engineering, and developed a professional education certificate program in M&S.
2010 Winner - Small Business
Barbara A. Carkenord
Barbara Carkenord, Co-founder and Chief Curriculum Strategist of B2T Training, has over 20 years experience in business analysis. Barbara possesses an MBA from University of Michigan and is a Certified Business Analysis Professional Recipient (CBAP®). She began her career in the Information Technology area as a programmer, systems analyst, business analyst, and project manager. Barbara is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, has authored many articles on business analysis and published her first book, Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis in 2008. She is a contributing author to the IIBA book Managing Business Analysts which will be published at the end of 2010. Actively involved in the IIBA, she was a core team member of the IIBA BABOK® creation committee.More
Ms. Carkenord possesses detailed knowledge and experience in many structured approaches and methodologies. Her experience covers many industries including insurance, banking, and manufacturing. Ms. Carkenord designed the business analysis curriculum of B2T Training bringing together proven techniques with real-world experience. She conducts formal and informal training sessions, consistently receiving excellent feedback.
November 10, 2011
05:30 -
09:00 PM
The Foundry at Puritan Mill
916 Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard
Atlanta,
GA
30318
404-962-8700 |
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Regular Price Tickets
Tag Members
Individual $125.00
General
Individual $150.00
Table of 10
$2,000.00 - includes table sponsorship benefits
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