Heroines in Technology presented by SAIC Reston, Va.
The Eighth Annual Heroines in Technology presented by SAIC will be held at 6 p.m. Friday, November 14, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Reston, Va. The event recognizes and honors women in the technology field who exemplify volunteer service in the community.
The black-tie gala will include a cocktail reception, dinner, live band, dancing and live and silent auctions (see link to list of items, below). The event is a benefit for the March of Dimes, which conducts the event with Women in Technology.
Finalists will be recognized and winners announced in the following categories: individual, corporate and lifetime achievement.
WUSA9 News Now anchor Lesli Foster will serve as mistress of ceremonies. Event co-chairs are Sandy Scearce, manager of business development at Grant Thornton, and Gayle Sweeney, principal at North Highland.
The 2008 finalists are the following (their photos and bios are at the end of the page):
• Robin Gardner, strategic account manager, GTSI • Kimberly Hancher, CIO, EEOC • Cynthia Hilsinger, data asset manager, U.S. Air Force • Susan Kearney, executive vice president, SmithGifford • Lisa Kimball, vice president, DMDC operations, Telos Identity Management Solutions, LLC • Elizabeth Lewis, partner, Cooley Godward Kronish • Leeanne McDonald, information systems security officer, Lockheed Martin • Lisa Moss, senior photo editor, AOL • Barbara Mullenex, partner, OPX • Connie Theroux, director of strategy and competitive intelligence, EDS • Patty Weaver, chief administrative officer, Alion Science and Technology
The Hyatt Regency Reston is offering a special room rate of $109 per night for Heroines in Technology guests. To make reservations, please call (800) 233-1234.
Jane Norris, co-host of The Federal Drive program on WFED-AM (Federal News Rado), is interviewing select nominees for her show, which airs from 6 to 10 a.m. weekdays. Ms. Norris will also attend the event. For more information on the show and Heroines interviews, click here.
To watch a video presentation featuring last year's finalists, click Video: Heroines in Technology Finalists and their Commitment to the Community, below.
For more information on corporate sponsorship or the event, please contact Tina Solomita at (703) 824-0111, ext. 20.
Date:
Friday November 14, 2008
Location:
Hyatt Regency Reston
1800 Presidents Street
Reston, Va.
To purchase individual tickets or a corporate table online, please click Register Now (above). Corporate table benefits includes the following benefits:
• One table (10 guests) with premiere seating for dinner and the awards presentation. This table will be reserved and labeled with your company’s name. • A one-quarter-page advertisement in the event program • Company name listed in the event program • Company name listed in the evening’s PowerPoint presentation
For information on corporate sponsorship opportunities, please contact Tina Solomita at (703) 824-0111, ext. 20, or csolomita@marchofdimes.com.
Honoree(s):
Robin Gardner
Robin Gardner is a strategic account manager for GTSI Corp. For the past eight years, Ms. Gardner has served as a councilmember in the City of Falls Church and has been the mayor since 2006. During this time, Ms. Gardner has stabilized the tax rate, created a new vision for the city, attracted new businesses, created new business areas in town, and overseen the largest development in the city’s history. As a citizen, Ms. Gardner participates in clothing and food drives, makes meals for the Falls Church Homeless Shelter and arranges for a former employer—Apogen Technologies—to adopt a family for Christmas through Homestretch. In addition, she promotes literacy by reading to children, is a fundraiser for the PTA and has been involved with the Falls Church Housing Corporation. Professionally, Ms. Gardner has been active in many capacities within the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association (GEIA) and IAC.
Kimberly Hancher
Kimberly Hancher has been a senior member of the Federal information technology (IT) community for more than 27 years. She is the chief information officer (CIO) of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, coordinating all information technology service management for its headquarters and 50 field locations. Ms. Hancher is also president of The Angels Network, an all-volunteer charitable organization of women who offer their time, energy and financial support to local homeless facilities. As CIO of The Angels Network, she introduced online event management and collaboration tools for the board of directors. As manager of the Angels Network Mentoring program, she coordinated lunchtime seminars for college-age summer interns about the value of philanthropy and the importance of networking, effective interviewing, personal presentation and money management skills. Since 1992, she has been a lifetime member of the Salvation Army Women's Auxiliary raising funds for Camp Happyland.
Cynthia Hilsinger
Cynthia Hilsinger is a data asset manager with the U.S. Air Force. Utilizing her Department of Defense (DoD) leadership training, she actively prepares women for leadership by her involvement with Women in Defense. As a past Toastmasters Area Governor and award-winning speaker, Ms Hilsinger devotes energy to Women in Technology, encouraging women to advancement in the technology sphere. Working with the Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association, Ms. Hilsinger introduced technology enabling deaf-mute staff to communicate freely with the public. She serves the Wounded Warrior Program, where she uses her knowledge to explain how technologies can overcome or at least mitigate disabilities of wounded soldiers. Ms. Hilsinger draws on her personal experiences to alert others to technologies that would improve quality of life.
Susan Kearney
Susan Kearney is executive vice president of SmithGifford. Since 1995, Ms. Kearney has been involved with ChildHelp, a nonprofit organization that provides research, education and residential treatment programs for the most severely abused and neglected children in the area. In 2000, Ms. Kearney was named to the board of the Aurora House, a residential therapeutic facility in Falls Church where court-involved female adolescents are taught the responsibility and life skills necessary to help them stay in school and out of the courts. She served as vice chairman until 2007. In 2006, Ms. Kearney was elected to the City of Falls Church School Board and was recently elected vice chairman.
Lisa Kimball
Lisa Kimball is vice president of Defense Manpower Data Center Operations with Telos Identity Management Solutions, LLC. A lifelong volunteer, Ms. Kimball has served in a variety of capacities, including as a state-certified firefighter and EMT, an armed forces caseworker with the American Red Cross, a volunteer in local schools, and as a Boy Scout troop leader. She has spent the past 12 years on the board of her synagogue while continuing to actively volunteer with the Loudoun County Medical Reserve Corps and the Paws4People Foundation. Most recently, Ms. Kimball has been the catalyst for Telos’ school-business partnership with C.S. Monroe Technology Center, serving as a role model for young women and encouraging them to consider non-traditional careers in information technology.
Elizabeth Lewis
Elizabeth Lewis is a partner in the law firm Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP where she leads the Employment & Labor practice group. Among her professional activities she serves as a director of Goodwill of Greater Washington and the Greater Washington Board of Trade, and is a member of the Economic Club of Washington and a member of the Organizing Board of MindShare. Ms. Lewis is also a past chair of the Alexandria (Va.) Chamber of Commerce. Among her volunteer activities, Ms. Lewis enjoys helping MindShare lead an annual leadership program for CEOs of emerging companies; working with Goodwill to serve more than 3,250 individuals with disadvantages and disabilities in 2007; and, as a member of the Women’s Advisory Board and a participant at Camp CEO, working with rising leaders in the Girl Scouts to provide them with support, guidance, skills and confidence. She also supports Five Talents International, Good News Jail and Prison Ministry, and FACETS. She has coached girls select soccer teams for McLean Youth, Inc.
Leeanne McDonald
Leeanne McDonald is an information systems security officer for Lockheed Martin. Ms. McDonald supports the American Cancer Society (ACS) by forming a team for the Reston Relay for Life. For six years as captain, she put together a team to raise money, covered the track for the duration of the event and organized a fundraising activity during the event. She was one of the few who stayed from start to finish. Ms. McDonald has also been a Daffodil Day coordinator for ACS for seven years. She takes daffodil orders from people across the Washington, D.C., area for about a month; later she spends two days traveling across the region to deliver them. Her willingness to take orders from those near and far earned her fourth place among the top 10 coordinators for Fairfax County in 2008.
Lisa Moss
Lisa Moss is a senior photo editor at AOL. She is also the co-founder of SeizureTrackerDotCom. Seizure Tracker provides people living with epilepsy—and their doctors—with free comprehensive tools to help them understand relationships between seizure activity and anti-epileptic medications. Ms. Moss and her husband have participated in the National Epilepsy Walk since it began two years ago. As a team captain, her efforts resulted in her team raising $3,800 and landing in the top 10 percent of fundraising teams. Ms. Moss is also co-chair of the Metro D.C. branch of the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance (TS Alliance). TS Alliance is the only national voluntary health organization for the genetic disorder known as tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). In her co-chair role, Ms. Moss has been involved with several fundraising functions including an annual charity dinner and silent auction that raised more than $100,000 for TSC research this year.
Barbara Mullenex
Barbara Mullenex is a managing partner with OPX, an architecture and interior design company. To celebrate OPX's upcoming 25th anniversary, OPX team members developed and participated in 25 charitable projects, calling the collective effort OPX Magic. The projects included painting a high school cafeteria, contributing DNA to a bone marrow donor pool and baking cookies at the Boys and Girls Club. Ms. Mullenex was instrumental in the success of OPX Magic. She has leveraged her extensive network of friends and colleagues to rally others to contribute time, labor and money to several non profit organizations in Washington, D.C., and overseas. For example, when the Maryland Youth Ballet was evicted from its longtime Bethesda studio in 2006, Ms. Mullenex helped the school find—and relocate to—temporary space. She later helped the school move to a permanent location in Silver Spring, where she was involved in the overall design process for the new space.
Connie Theroux
Connie Theroux is director of Strategy and Competitive Intelligence for EDS, an HP company, U.S. Public Sector. Throughout her 24-year EDS career, Mrs. Theroux has been actively engaged in supporting the community where she lives and works. She successfully led several EDS community outreach projects including two years as the United Way Campaign area lead and a regular member of the Leukemia Ball executive committee. In June, Mrs. Theroux participated in a mission trip to Rio Bravo, Mexico, to build two houses for families in need as well as organized community outreach to children in the area. She also lends her leadership skills to her church, Arcola Methodist Church. Through her participation on the church’s Strategic Council, she helps plan efforts to grow the congregation, support the community and upgrade and expand church facilities. Mrs. Theroux is a 14-year volunteer with the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents in Staunton, Va., where she coordinates outreach to children and teenagers being treated at the center. She also serves as a Girl Scout troop leader for Troop No. 4107.
Patty Weaver
Patty Weaver serves as the chair for the executive committee of Alion Cares, the charitable-giving arm of Alion Science and Technology. Ms. Weaver is the co-founder and president of Kiddos Charity Golf Classic, Ltd., which benefits Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children (IFHFC). She has raised more than $149,000 through the golf event in the past 14 years, including $40,000 in 2007. As a member of the development committee for IFHFC, Ms. Weaver has acted as a facilitator for IFHFC Kid Power, a program that gives children in the community the opportunity to help other young people through philanthropy and community service. She also has participated in the “Cox Movies Under the Moon” fundraiser. Ms. Weaver was an active member of the Leadership Fairfax Board of Directors for five years, a member of its Gala committee for two years and its Gala chair in 2003, when she raised more than $80,000.
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