Meet July 2009 Employee and Team Member of the Month
Kenneth Nock
NOAA Research
Employee of the Month
July, 2009
Kenneth Nock has worked through enormous difficulties in processing personnel actions to effectively meet the Geophysical Fluid Dynamic Laboratory’s scientific and support group staffing requirements. His diligence and talent ensured that all personnel actions were executed successfully to meet mission requirements. Nock’s work was particularly difficult this year as GFDL transitioned from being serviced by staff in Boulder to Silver Spring and then finally on to Norfolk. Nock used his interpersonal skills to establish effective working relationships with all three groups of people and to negotiate with them to properly complete GFDL’s personnel actions. He exhibited professionalism, tact, and diplomacy in working with these diverse and geographically disbursed staff members.
NOAA’s National Weather Service
Team Member of the Month
July, 2009
Bill Deringer, contract site manager at the NWS Radar Operations
Center in Norman, Okla., made use of his outstanding managerial leadership skills and technical expertise in working to restore the Reno, Nev., weather radar after it sustained wind-driven, catastrophic damage. This catastrophic damage required use of multiple, sub-contracted teams to place cranes, other construction equipment, and repair components at the mountaintop site to facilitate repairs. The work was complicated and dangerous. Deringer coordinated activities for local delivery and temporary storage of the new radome, radar antenna pedestal, and antenna dish from separate locations. Once the parts were on-site, Deringer rented a 120-ton crane, coordinated the
removal of the existing pedestal and remaining antenna and radome pieces, the assembly of the new radome pedestal and antenna.