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employees of the month

Kyle Corrigan, January 2017 areas. During the appraisal, Audrey also handled logistics for the
appraisal team and supported issues and questions as they arose.
JKyle Corrigan, a member of MIL’s Cyber In Oct. 2016, DoS was successfully awarded a Level 2 CMMI
Team, has been supporting our NAVAIR assessment for Development— a huge accomplishment for both
5.4.3.9 Cyber Simulation Branch DoS and MIL.
customer since joining MIL in February In early 2017, Audrey will participate on the appraisal team and
2015. As a cyber security engineer, act as the onsite lead for MIL’s CMMI reassessment, which covers
Kyle supports the Army’s Redstone Level 3 for Development and Level 2 for Services.
Arsenal Threat Systems Management Congrats & thanks for all that you do, Audrey!
Office (TSMO) through our work with
of the PAX River Red Team, which supports TSMO in conducting Megha Tatiya, March 2017
NAVAIR 5.4.3.9. He is a charter member
penetration tests across the United States for various DoD Megha Tatiya joined MIL in April
Commands. Kyle has participated in several TSMO operations 2016 as a facilities and property
this year, while continuously taking on more responsibility for management subject management
conducting the actual offensive penetration testing and increasing expert on the National Institute of
his Red Team certification levels. Standards and Technologies project
In February 2016, Kyle received Close Access Training (CAT) and (NIST). Bringing with her over eight
became one of a handful of TSMO operators certified to conduct years of asset management experience
Close Access operation. Red Team Close Access operations in both the public and the private
involve gaining surreptitious entry to buildings and facilities sector, Megha was able to make an
to access potential target networks and intelligence. Upon immediate impact on the team.
completion of his CAT, Kyle and his fellow CAT team members Megha supports the automated facilities and property
were immediately sent into a Close Access operations to test the management systems within NIST’s Office of Facilities and
security of a U.S. facility. During the operations, he and his team Property Management (OFPM). These systems include asset
were doing so well that the Exercise Control Authority called in tracking, inventory, work order management, storeroom,
Military Police. Kyle and his team were subsequently arrested preventive maintenance, accountable personal property,
and thrown into the stockade. After several hours they were all and real property systems. In this role, she performs testing,
retrieved by trusted agents. Talk about a team player-- how many administration, configuration management, operations, and
employees would get arrested and jailed for their company and maintenance of the Maximo (asset management application).
the customer!
Megha always works to provide the best and most appropriate
Thank you, Kyle, for your hard work and dedication to our team. resolution in responding to incident tickets and researching
Congrats! customer issues. Additionally, she is responsible for writing
requirements and implementing changes to the Maximo system
Audrey Vance, February 2017 while coordinating its interactions with the NIST financial system
or other business systems. She generates re-occurring and ad-hoc
Audrey Vance joined MIL in July 2013 reports to the OFPM management.
as a Project Management Analyst. One of Megha’s most recent accomplishments was her
Last June, she transferred to the dedicated efforts on the successful completion of the OFPM
Configuration Management team to storeroom inventory. During the inventory, Megha provided
support Capability Maturity Model troubleshooting for the scanners, guidance and advice on the
Institute (CMMI) appraisals for both inventory process, and data/analysis. In addition to her work
MIL and the Department of State (DoS). with the scanners and inventory process, she checked reports and
Audrey was invaluable during the State database queries, rewrote and created new queries, and conducted
Department’s CMMI appraisal process, a trial run of the inventory process, ensuring that everything
which was a multi-year project ending in Oct. 2016. She worked was ready. One OFPM manager put it best when he said, “The
closely with MIL and DoS to organize work products that covered inventory would not have been as successful without Megha’s hard
multiple projects, contractors, and direct hires in Charleston, work and leadership.”
SC, Washington, DC, and Bangkok, Thailand. She produced MIL and the NIST project management team appreciate the
numerous work products, maintained detailed schedules for the diligence and level of commitment shown by Megha in her
completion of other work products, and completed an in-depth support of OFPM.
Practice Implementation Indicator Description that displayed
how DoS work products align with CMMI’s Level 2 process Thank you & congrats, Megha!

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