ALC banquet honors staff award winners Published Feb. 20, 2009 By Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla., -- Staff and Home Office Civilian of the Year and Wiley Post Civilian Leadership Awards winners were honored recently during a ceremony at the Tinker Club. Category one, GS 4 and below: Gary Smart is a file clerk providing mail delivery and processing support in the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center Engineering Directorate. He also works closely with the Air Force Archive and assisted with editing the Technical Order Managers Quick Reference Guide. Category two, GS 5-7: Thomas Shimkus, OC-ALC/EN, is an aerospace engineering technician in the Enterprise Engineering division of the Engineering Directorate. He provides engineering, technical and data management support to the Aircraft Structural Integrity Management Information Systems. He is responsible for editing, reducing, analyzing, storing and reporting aerospace engineering data from flight logs for the E-3 aircraft. Category three, GS 8-11: Patrick Mitchell, OC-ALC/CS, is the management analyst in the chief of staff office assigned as the lead for the suspense management team. He has managed more than 2,000 Senior Officer Communication and Coordination Electronic Resource taskers and produced a SOCCER on-time rate above 90 percent -- an OC-ALC and Air Force Materiel Command record for suspenses. Category four, GS 12-15: Mel A. McFarland, OC-ALC/JA, is an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate. He is one of two environmental law compliance attorneys at Tinker. As the lead advisor to Tinker Aerospace Center acquisition team, he provided key support to TAC acquisition which will result in a military construction cost-avoidance of $300 million. He provided critical legal advice to Tinker's restoration program on landfill reuse application and public meetings. Category five, Rookie of the Year: Geronimo Gonzalez Jr., OC-ALC/FM, is a cost analyst in the Acquisition Cost Division of the Financial Management Directorate. He spearheaded secretary of the Air Force directed KC-135 Programmed Depot Maintenance feasibility study and produced a quality economic analysis decision support tool recommending increased organic PDM capability. He collaborated on a Tinker Aerospace Complex Base Case Analysis and evaluated proposed maintenance costs. Category six, Administrative/Clerical: Janis Ruppert, OC-ALC/EN, is a management analyst in the operations section of the resources management division of the Engineering Directorate. She is charged with the responsibility and duties of ensuring adequate and successful resolution of Equal Employment Opportunity complaints and grievances. She also acts as the EN Wingman coordinator, historian, protocol and tele-work coordinator. The Wiley Post Civilian Leadership Award Winners are: Non-supervisory GS 9 and below: Julie Deason, OC-ALC/EN, is an engineering technician in the Engineering Data Branch Office and is the focal point for Defense Logistics Agency, requests for engineering assistance from engineers in the 327th Aircraft Sustainment Wing and 848th Supply Chain Management Group offices. She advises DLA personnel on the preparation and modification of requests and resolves problems on NSNs, part numbers, etc; which makes the request executable and precludes return of the request to DLA for rework. Non-supervisory GS 10 and above: Jennifer Filippone, OC-ALC/PK, is a program manager in the advisory and assistance services buying branch of the Contracting Directorate. She developed and implemented TAASC program management checklists for repetitive activities and evaluated existing TAASC practices -- identifying areas for improvement. She then led the team to implement found improvements. Supervisory 1st and 2nd Level: Kathleen Day, OC-ALC/FM, is a supervisory budget analyst in the Financial Management Directorate. She provides decision support to the FM community and is considered the guru for FM functional/administrative issues. She led six FM resource boards and solved complex functional issues, opening lines of communication with Chief Financial Advisors. Ms. Day is the financial management directorate focal point for the FY 10 Program Objective Memorandum submission. Supervisory Manager: Dr. Kristian Olivero, OC-ALC/EN, is currently assigned as chief of the Enterprise Engineering Division of the Engineering Directorate. He provides technical direction, guidance, and oversight over engineering and logistics workforce developing and sustaining enterprise-wide engineering and data management programs. He led the Compact Radome Range team to organically complete the CRR project resulting in the Air Forces' first indoor test facility capable of performing full functional test for large aircraft radomes.