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employees of the month
April 2019: Scott Xavier

Scott is quickly becoming an integral
business sector. In the past couple of years, June 2019: Tibeb Eshetu
part of the MIL family within the ETS
Scott has taken on many challenging Tibeb has become an integral member of
high-stakes projects. These projects are the Reconciliation Team for Diplomatic
directly related to supporting the current Security (DS) at Department of State as
RDT&E customer in a fast-paced and a Team Lead for both the Invoicing and
agile environment. On top of these daily Reimbursement team. As Team Lead
responsibilities, Scott is always thinking of ways to improve the for the Invoice Team, Tibeb provides
current work environment, employee morale, and support of the knowledge and expertise to ensure
customers. invoices are paid in a timely manner to
mitigate the amount of interest expense incurred by DS. As team
May 2019: Waseem Riyaz lead for Reimbursements, Tibeb ensures reimbursable agreements
are fully executed, and that funds are collected and allocated in a
As the lead SharePoint engineer on MIL’s timely manner. In addition to providing guidance as a team lead,
Office 365 platform team supporting the Tibeb is a hands-on contributor to each team and performs the
International Trade Administration (ITA), daily tasks of each position. Tibeb is always thinking and looking
Waseem Riyaz has done an outstanding for ways to improve the current process to ensure the client
job managing tasks across multiple receives the highest level of support. She has been a great mentor
developmental projects. An ITA customer to others on the team while providing excellent support and
favorite, Waseem is regularly consulted for quality to the client.
his technical knowledge and is a trusted
source for SharePoint best practices. Waseem is also known for his
friendly nature, patience, and willingness to help colleagues and announcements
clients alike. Despite his busy workload, Waseem responds quickly
to user needs and thoroughly resolves issues; on several occasions,
the ITA CIO has even singled him out during ‘all-hands’ meetings
to convey customer praise.
among the first to research and implement new features as they Abigail Maria Fisher
Waseem is an avid adopter of new technologies and is usually
are introduced. For example, Waseem recently and successfully
led the project to modernize the Petition Counseling System,
a key ITA application, by using the latest Microsoft “Power Born 03/30/2019 | 9 lbs. 3 oz.
Platform.” He was instrumental in establishing new techniques On March 30th, 2019 at 7:44 PM, Paul Fisher
to rapidly build custom forms and generate sophisticated reports and his wife Samantha welcomed their
and data visualizations. In the client’s words, they were “blown beautiful baby girl, Abigail Maria. Abigail was
away” by the new system. 9 pounds, 3 oz., and 20.5 inches long. Paul is
For these reasons, and many others, we would like to recognize the team lead for Triton. Proud siblings are
Waseem Riyaz as MIL’s Employee of the Month. He is incredibly Trinity, Asher, Sebastian, Xavier, and Isabel.
deserving of this award and should be commended for all of his
accomplishments.
Jaxton Bishop Conner

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