TCG Newsletter January 2005.pdf - The Columbia Group

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Issue IX
January 2005
December Employee of the Month: Chris Brown
Mike Reed offers congratulations to Chris Brown, CRC’s December
Employee of the Month. Chris joined CRC in 2003 and
has over 25 years of project manager support, including providing
business/financial support and analysis of marine gas turbine
program requirements. He supervises engineering, logistics,
and maintenance analysis for gas turbine engine programs
at NAVSEA 05. Chris is a project manager for the gas turbine
propulsion program and WebMOS, a management operating
system, supporting NAVSEA 05. He is responsible for developing,
reviewing, procuring and implementing customer hardware and software requirements for migrating
logistic support to NAVSUP. Before joining CRC, at Integic, he was project manager for gas
turbine propulsion systems, including migration of life cycle logistics support to NAVSUP. He managed
the development of an upgraded gas turbine inventory management database and Web page
interface for the Navy Inventory Control Point. He supervised the development of an IETM system
for the DDG auxiliary power supply, and he assisted in the acquisition and logistics planning for marine
gas turbine engines for all of NAVSEA. Thanks to Chris's hard work, the Gas Turbine program
support continues to grow. In his spare time, Chris enjoys spending time with his wife and two
daughters. He also enjoys woodworking.
Mark your calendar
January 17, 2005
Martin Luther King
Holiday.
January Employee of the Month: Ted Doroshenk
Mike Reed offers congratulations to Ted Doroshenk, January’s
Employee of the Month. Ted was recently presented his 10-year
service pin from CRC, has a long and storied career as part of the
US Navy. He has served in numerous high profile positions within
the Navy, including 8 years at sea, service as the AMP for the first
battleship restoration at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, CO of SIMA-
Newport, and CNO OPNAV Branch Head. Mr. Doroshenk headed
three different ship acquisition program offices for NAVSEA (PMS
325 Support Ship Boats and Craft Acquisition, PMS 383 Ocean
Research and Surveillance Acquisition, and PMS 313 Steam Surface Ship Modernization and Acquisition).
During his tenure with CRC, Ted has largely been associated with the CVN 77 and CVN 21
acquisition programs. He has played instrumental roles in the development of the CVN 77 Acquisition
Plan, the Advance Planning (AP) Contract, the Detail Design and Construction Contract (DD&C), and
the subsequent Warfare System contract modification. For the CVN 21 acquisition program he has
been instrumental in the development of the Statement of Work and incentive clauses for the Construction
Preparation contract.
On October 28, 2004, Ted was presented with an “Award of Merit for Group Achievement,
CVN 21 Construction Preparation Contract Award”. He was personally cited as a “key player” in the
NAVSEA CVN 21 CP contract team, and for his outstanding efforts that had a tremendous impact on
the Nation’s ability to field the first ship of a new class of aircraft carriers. His commitment to excellence
is identified as the “best of the best” in the acquisition career fields. For his years of service to
the US Navy, and to CRC, Ted was awarded CRC’s Employee of the Month award for January 2005.
Congratulations Ted!
Inside this issue:
Employee of the
Month December/
January
Message from the
President
1
2
Welcome Aboard 2
Contract
Management
State of the Corporation
Luncheon
2
2

Page 2
Setting Sail
Message from the President
As we start the New Year, it is important to face the future with enthusiasm. Wherever we may have
failed to do our best during 2004, it is time to put that behind us and start afresh. Because we are
a small company, your individual efforts are extremely important. Every cog on our wheel is critical.
Every player on the field must give his best if the team is to succeed. Let’s make a resolution for
2005 to work smarter as well as harder. If you see a better way to accomplish a task, let us know.
Most really good ideas come from the bottom up rather than the top down. Embrace change and
welcome growth. Together, we can make this year our best ever.
Norman C. Witbeck
President
Welcome Aboard
December
New Hires
Nicole Buckey
Project Analyst
December 13
Damien Raphael
Senior Analyst II
December 13
Contract Management
Columbia Research has won a three year contract at NAVSSES Philadelphia to develop and fabricate
a Frequency Agile, Multi-Protocol Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tag Reader capable of
reading all standards based RFID tags without replacement of, or modification to, the RF emitter
section of the unit and standardize RFID technology implementations.
State of the Corporation Luncheon
This years holiday luncheon was a great success. Cindi Dallos cheerfully greeted employees and
guests. The food was excellent and the room festively decorated. Dr. Witbeck thanked Cindi Dallos,
Mary Anne Matsko, Craig Peery, and Selena Smith for decorating and setting up the room. He
also recognized many people for their years of service to CRC. Ted Doroshenk was awarded his 10
year diamond pin. Five year emerald pins were awarded to Ravi Addepalli, Jeff Beckner, Angela
Bishop, Ranga Narayanan, Marentha Moore, Balaji Ramamoorthy and Shobana Sriinivasan. Three
year ruby pins were awarded to Jacob Andrews, Leah Bernardon, Ed Canlas, Marilet Cesario, Ken
Hottenstein, Linda Kirk, Mike Marcheselli, and Kelly Watts. Door prizes were drawn and awarded to
Marentha Moore $500, Dave Wright $300, Ryan Kresse $200, and Cathleen Murphy won Redskin
football tickets. Congratulations to all of you. We look forward to seeing you all at next years
luncheon.