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BARRIOS RECOGNIZES 2009 4TH QUARTER BEAR WINNERS
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The Barrios Employee Awards and Recognition (BEAR) Team recently awarded six employees the Silver Quality Award for the fourth quarter of 2009. The BEAR Silver Quality Award is presented to 1% of Barrios employees each quarter whose contributions are so significant as to merit special recognition by their peers. Sandy Johnson, President of Barrios Technology, made the presentations to the following.
Cheri Armstrong/Senior Engineer – PI&C
Nominated by Harold Stephens - PI&C
The PI&C NASA customer requested changes to the Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) and Configuration Status Management Operations System (COSMOS) audit process to refine the monthly database quality audits. Cheri was able to determine the customer's requirements and address their specific needs. The customer was extremely pleased with the final product, goals and processes. For Functional Configuration Audit (FCA)/Physical Configuration Audit (PCA) tracking, she used superior communications skills to understand the customer's needs and to clearly define our processes and develop a working relationship for FCA/PCA tracking.
Pictured from left are Armstrong; Sandy Johnson, President and CEO Barrios Technology; and Kathy Holmes, Barrios Technology PI&C Manager, Configuration Management.
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Jeff Cook/Staff Engineer - SPOC
Nominated by James Keeton – NASA DI22
Jeff Cook distinguished himself as the Communications and Tracking Officer (CATO) Increment 20 Lead wherein he assisted in planning the communications systems support operations for the very first six-person ISS Crew. Jeff’s dedication to the ISS mission objectives earned him recognition from the ISS Increment 20 Flight Director through her selection of him to “hold the ladder” during ISS Increment 20 plaque hanging ceremony. While Jeff was providing outstanding leadership for this novel new phase of ISS six-person operations, he was also laying plans to deliver the new Keyboard Camera Command (KCC) tool which represents the most significant advancement in controlling the ISS external cameras.
Pictured from left are Dan Jackson, Barrios Technology Manager; Sandy Johnson, President and CEO Barrios Technology; Cook; and James Keeton, NASA CATO Group Lead.
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Bill Cummins/Orion Ground Ops Lead - OPIC
Nominated by Dane Arnold - OPIC
Bill Cummins was nominated for and received a Superior Performance Award from the NASA Orion Project Vehicle Integration and Design Office for his leadership of Orion Ground Operations and the Ground Operations Integrated Working Group (GATOR). Bill has been the chair of this working group for over a year coordinating efforts from multiple NASA centers and contractors. Through his excellent performance and unequalled experience in ground operations, the NASA team has been able to deploy their limited civil service personnel to other areas. Joe Voor, NASA Orion Operations Integration Office lead, said of Bill: “I can always count on Bill. He provides excellent leadership to the GATOR team. His vast experience with ground processing and operations ensures that our team contributes to the Ground Operations processing of Orion and that the vehicle will be the best that it can be.”
Pictured from left are Joe Voor, NASA; Tom Walker, Barrios Technology; Cummins; and Sandy Johnson, President and CEO Barrios Technology.
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Julie Dunning/Staff Engineer - SPOC
Nominated By Mark Wurtzler - NASA
Julie Dunning has directly contributed to the success of the ISS Power, Heating, Articulation and Control (PHALCON) flight control group through her efforts as lead of Expedition 20 and 21 activities. On 11/3/09, the ISS suffered a failure of one of the most critical electrical distribution units, the Main Bus Switching Unit 1 (MBSU). This failure caused power loss to more core vehicle systems than any previous electrical failure on the spacecraft. Because of Ms. Dunning’s efforts managing systems procedures as the EPS File Manager, which involves processing hundreds of changes as the growing ISS is assembled, power was able to be recovered rapidly to numerous systems and payloads with no permanent damage to hardware. On 12/1/09, during the 19S Soyuz vehicle undocking, a Beta Gimbal Assembly (BGA) latch failed to release.
Scott Paul/Flight Program Engineer - MIC
Nominated By Sean Fuller - NASA OC3
Scott Paul is cited for outstanding performance in coordinating and performing analysis and assessments to identify impacts to ISS vehicle traffic planning requirements, including vehicle launch, dock, and undock dates, crew size, crew rotation, port utilization, mission, increment, and docked durations, docking altitudes, and high-level manifest. Scott took the initiative in developing the Crew Rotation and Port Utilization Graphic which provides a pictorial representation of the content contained in the IDRD Flight Program document (SSP 54100) with additional data reflecting Increment durations, crew assignments, stage EVAs, beta cutouts and vehicle launch schedules.
Pictured from left are Sandy Johnson, President and CEO Barrios Technology; Paul; and Sean Fuller, ISS Flight Program Lead.
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Ina Sen/MSG Investigation Lead – MSFC TBE- Payload Operations
Nominated By MSG Investigation Team
Ina Sen, the SODI (Selectable Optical Diagnostics Instrument) Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) Investigation Lead, provided outstanding support in working with the payload developer, facility developer, and ESA operations personnel to create and implement an integrated operations plan for the IVIDIL (Influence of Vibration on Diffusion of Liquids) payload. SODI IVIDIL on-orbit-operations were a resounding success largely due to Ina’s efforts. Prior to IVIDIL ops, Ina identified a huge coordination problem between ESA personnel in Germany/Spain/Italy and NASA personnel at MSFC. Because of her initiative, an operations plan between ESA, MSG facility, and NASA personnel was developed and implemented.
Pictured from left are Sen and Kathy Nordmann
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