Award Nominations
Do you know of an outstanding person or project that deserves recognition?
Employees of TASSCC member organizations are encouraged to submit nominations for the TASSCC Excellence Awards. TASSCC will present one individual and two organizational awards at the Annual Conference in Dallas, Texas.
State Agency and Higher Education Excellence Awards
TASSCC grants two Excellence Awards each year - one to a state agency and one to an institution of higher education.
The TASSCC Excellence Award recognizes those who have implemented a technical application that significantly improved internal operations, customer services, or communications. Special consideration is given to projects that use leading edge technology or that use existing technology in an innovative manner. Nominated projects must be implemented and delivering services described.
Selection Criteria:
- Significantly improved services or operations
- Innovative application of technology
- Collaboration with other agencies/academic institutions
- Quality improvement and/or cost savings
Please click here to submit your nomination for the Excellence Award.
President's Award for IT Excellence
The President's Award for IT Excellence recognizes individual leadership and excellence in information technology by an individual who works for a state agency or institution of higher education. This prestigious award recognizes an IT manager who has provided outstanding information services leadership to the state over many years. Special consideration is given to those who have played a strong role in mentoring and sharing their information technology experience/knowledge with others, promoting intergovernmental cooperation and collaboration, and supporting the goals of the TASSCC organization.
Past winners of this prestigious award include:
2010 Debby Wattman - Texas Department of Family and Protective Services [Press Release]
2009 Doug Fox - Angelo State University
2008 Brian Rawson - Department of Information Resources
2007 Tom Putnam - Texas A&M University
2006 Hope Morgan - Health & Human Services Commission
2005 Mary Lauderdale - Texas Department of Public Safety
2004 John Cox - Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
2003 Kim Weatherford - Texas Dept. of Protective and Regulatory Services
2002 Ginger Salone - Comptroller of Public Accounts
2001 Diana Williamson - Texas Attorney General
2000 Shannon Porterfield - Department of Information Resources
1999 Randy Ebeling - The University of Texas at Austin
1998 Sally Anderson - Texas Department of MHMR
1997 Carolyn Purcell - Texas Department of Information Resources
Please click here to submit your nomination for the President's Awards.
Please direct any questions to ljordan@tasscc.org or 512-474-1827. The deadline for nominations is Friday, June 11, 2010.
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