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Library of Congress top performers

During a holiday dinner celebrating the Library of Congress (LOC) team, project leadership recognized some of its top
performers during a festive awards ceremony held at Fogo de Chao. Award recipients were chosen for exemplary performance
displayed over a year that saw MIL’s IT support presence at the Library continue to grow. The last year, in particular, was crucial
in our continuing success and expanded footprint supporting the agency. Employees were given the opportunity to nominate
themselves or another employee and provide feedback as to why the candidate had earned consideration for the specific awards.
The 2023 award recipients included:

Michael Allen – 2023 Service & Support Xavier Parada – 2023 Stellar Leadership
Technician of the Year. Recognizes a top- Award. Recognizes a member of MIL’s
performing employee in a desktop support Library of Congress leadership team who
role providing high-quality advanced technical has demonstrated exceptional performance,
support to customers. steadfast leadership skills, and a commitment
to excellence.
Ariana Cortez – 2023 Service & Support
Analyst of the Year. Recognizes a top-performing Laura Polzin – 2023 Notable Impact Award.
employee in a Tier 1 or 2 service desk role Recognizes a member of any LOC team that
providing exemplary front-line technical support receives a high amount of praise from peers
to customers. and Library stakeholders for delivering a
continuous high-level of performance.
Erich Kwaloff – 2023 Rising Star Award.
Recognizes an employee from any LOC team Kenneth Scott – 2023 Operational Support
that has recently joined the MIL family and has Engineer of the Year. Recognizes a top-
made a notable impact during their initial tenure performing employee in an operational support
and who has displayed potential for continuing engineering role providing high-quality
accelerated growth. advanced technical support to support mission-
critical and operation-dependent enterprise
Kelly Mason – 2023 Diamond Service Award. systems.
Recognizes a top-performing employee of the
Copyright Service Desk providing front-line Special thanks to Erin Cooper, MIL’s Creative
support to members of the public requesting & Brand Manager, who worked with LOC
technical support in submitting Copyright managers to design an award that represented
applications. the MIL brand and gave the recipients an award
they could proudly display. Please join us in
Zachary McCray – 2023 Service & Support congratulating the 2023 award recipients!
Engineer of the Year. Recognizes a top-
performing employee in a desktop engineering
role providing high-quality advanced technical
support and delivering high-level solutions
that positively impact team operations and
conferences
efficiencies.

Diverse Organization of Firms

MIL's COO Marisa Daley was a panelist at the Diverse Organization of Firms Legislative &
Townhall meeting! She was invited by our valued teaming partner Tabatha Thurman, CEO of
Integrated Finance and Accounting Solutions. The panel, moderated by Salome J. Tinker of
TSC Enterprise, discussed leveling up in the federal procurement space through mentorship
and teaming.
DOF is an affiliate organization of the National Association of Black Accountants, Inc.
DOF members are Black and other minority owners of licensed CPA and Financial Services
firms. Their member firms provide a variety of accounting, finance, and consulting services
to corporations and small businesses, government, nonprofit organizations and individuals
both nationally and globally.

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