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Managing change, driving growth

By: Julianna Kreko
MIL has been a fixture at the U.S. Department of Commerce,
International Trade Administration (ITA) for close to 20 years.
Over the years, MIL staff and their government clients have seen
numerous changes, both at an agency-wide level, and within their
organization, which up until December 2018 was known as the
Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO). At that point,
OCIO’s leadership implemented a complete re-branding effort,
resulting in a new organizational structure, logo, culture, and
name – Technology, Services and Innovation (TSI). MIL is excited
for this innovative way of thinking and has recognized this as an
incredible opportunity to implement change management and
end user adoption best practices across the agency.
Thanks in part to MIL’s generous training benefits, multiple
employees at ITA have participated in Prosci’s Change
Management Certification Program. This past March, Peg Chritz
and Julianna Kreko (pictured) completed the three-day course
in Warrenton, VA. Their goal for the course was to formulize
and implement an adoption strategy and training process for
the various technologies being utilized at TSI, thus increasing
efficiency and value for the client and ITA end users. As a user
adoption specialist, Peg recognized a unique opportunity to apply
best practices to some of TSI’s recent projects, including the
SharePoint-based 232 Exclusions Portal. Since returning from the
course, Peg has briefed TSI and MIL senior leadership on a new
engagement and adoption strategy, one that will help our clients
succeed and excel in the face of (exciting) changes.

ETS welcomes a new wave

MIL has been on the fast track when it comes to employee graduate we will be able to bring them on full-time. This group
growth. The ETS Sector has done a fair share in bringing on includes Anthony Armen, Evan Curran, Beth Meck, Jakob Krasny,
new employees to provide customer support. We would like to Brady Slattery, and Brian Sweeney.
take this opportunity to welcome all of the individuals who have In addition, Ian Koladay, Jonathan Morrison, Nora Williford and
recently joined our team. Javon Wright have joined the Triton program, PAX River, MD;
The following new hires provide support to the Naval Air Warfare Jonathan Burch and Jose Rivera joined the team providing support
Center, Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) to our customers at JAX and Cecil Field in Jacksonville, FL; and
contract. James Whipkey joined the team providing System Administrator
support to our customers in Lakehurst, NJ.
Collin Brooks, Brandon Conroy, Barry Freese, Toby Hansen-
Brown, Justin Hartley, Charles Huesman, Kevin Kelp, John Kriz,
Joshua Lopez, Trevor Metcalfe, Sean Millham, Robert Owens,
Ronald Ramos, Anthony Warneck, Rose Weber, Montiko Wilson, Did you know?
and Eric Zernhelt, were brought on board to support multiple
programs and projects for the Air Interoperability Center (AIC), We are offering a referral bonus for engineering, cyber,
PAX River, MD.
We have a crew of summer hires who have been brought on to and IT careers in Southern Maryland. Visit the MILtranet -
provide full-time work while on break from strenuous college HR/Recruiting- DoD Business Unit for more details!
courses. This group will continue to provide support throughout
the year, in a limited capacity, with the hopes that when they

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