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SolarWinds Announces Winners of 2021 IT Pro Day Awards Program
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SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) announced the winners of its annual IT Pro Day Awards program, honoring IT professionals' contributions in the past year. The awards, which expanded globally this year, showcase achievements across various categories including Rookie of the Year (Praharshita Gaur), Rockstar of the Year (Fabrizio Cabianca), IT Mentor of the Year (David M. Williams), and Trailblazer Award (Diana Awde). The program aims to recognize the resilience and innovation of IT professionals, especially during a transformative year impacted by the pandemic.
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Awards honor the contributions IT professionals havemade to their organizations and the industry in the past year; recipients announced for Rookie of the Year, Rockstar of the Year, IT Mentor of the Year, and the Trailblazer Award
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI), a leading provider of simple, powerful, and secure IT management software, today announced the winners of its annual IT Pro Day Awards program. Created to honor IT Professionals Day, this year the program was expanded to welcome nominations from the IT community around the world. The awards aim to provide a platform to celebrate all the heroes of IT who rise to the challenge every day to deliver for their businesses and navigate ever-shifting landscape of digital transformation.
Praharshita Gaur, Rookie of the Year Award Winner
“SolarWinds is committed to celebrating and supporting the global IT community. We established this awards program in 2020 to recognize those individuals who go above and beyond daily as a thank you for the community’s hard work and resiliency, especially in a year that continues to be defined by massive transformation and a global pandemic,” said Chrystal Taylor, Head Geek™, SolarWinds. “Again this year, it’s inspiring to see the nominations submitted by supportive colleagues and peers, highlighting the hurdles overcome by tech pros all over the world. These stories truly reflect the importance of IT in modern business, and we hope these awards reinforce the value and commitment tech pros bring to their organizations 365 days a year.”
The winners were selected by the SolarWinds Head Geeks™: Leon Adato, Liz Beavers, Sascha Giese, Kevin Kline, Thomas LaRock, and Chrystal Taylor. As the Head Geeks evaluated entries, they considered the challenges and technology implementation hurdles the nominees overcame and any measurable results, data points, or other qualitative/quantitative context that best demonstrated the values and goals outlined in the respective category.
SolarWinds 2021 IT Pro Day Awards Winners
Rookie of the Year: Praharshita Gaur (Canada)—After completing a business undergraduate degree in an unrelated field, Praharshita realized she had a desire to help others and a technical aptitude that attracted her to working in IT. Starting her full-time career with Great West Media in early 2021, she has utilized her knowledge of workflows from her degree to excel early on. Praharshita used these skills to deliver on projects such as deploying enterprise security management (ESM) solutions to non-IT departments, onboarding/offboarding processes using an IT service management (ITSM) solution, improving IT efficiencies with a new patch management system, and coordinating a security audit.
Rockstar of the Year: Fabrizio Cabianca (United States)—Fabrizio is an IT professional with 30 years of industry experience. He covers a variety of areas in the enterprise environment, including security, networking, data center, storage, virtualization, wireless, integration, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), etc. Currently working for the City of West Palm Beach as senior network and systems architect, he’s part of a team of very skilled individuals who provide business continuity for over 1,500 employees and a variety of local government services. The team constantly seeks to make improvements, leveraging the latest technologies available from multiple brands and vendors, while optimizing resources and reducing costs. Counting on a select suite of monitoring tools, Fabrizio and his colleagues assure constant visibility, performance, and proactive action over the entire infrastructure.
IT Mentor of the Year: David M. Williams (Australia)—David is an IT professional and author. He’s worked in a variety of roles from software developer, systems administrator, and business analyst to IT manager and chief information officer for multinational, publicly listed companies. In addition to his day job, David strives to give back to the industry—he’s founded user groups, presented at conferences, taught university courses, and written thousands of technical articles. David is passionate about the field and helping students and newcomers advance their own careers and knowledge. While IT allows us to do all sorts of wonderful things with technology, at the end of the day, David says it’s all about people.
Trailblazer Award: Diana Awde (United States)—Diana is the chief information officer for My Health My Resources (MHMR) of Tarrant County, the second largest community behavioral health center in Texas. Diana has led transformational change in the organization by implementing solutions to support business continuity and patient access to care during the pandemic. She accomplished her goals by developing a high-performing IT team that values teamwork, excellent service, and collaboration with the business. Notable accomplishments include modernization of infrastructure, high availability of systems and network, moving to hybrid cloud environment, implementation of remote work and telehealth solutions, deployment of patient tablets, advancement of a cybersecurity program, and progressing access to data and reporting. Diana sees her role as a partner to the business, focusing on technology to enhances staff experience, so they can focus on MHMR’s mission to positively change lives.
In July 2021, SolarWinds administered its IT Pro Day 2021 survey: Bring IT On to 287 members of its THWACK® community to understand tech pros’ sentiment towards their careers after nearly two years of unprecedented challenges and change.
“Not only did the survey reveal almost half of tech pro respondents are proud of what they do, 62% of tech pro respondents say they’re motivated to succeed in their roles,” Taylor continued. “SolarWinds is committed to nurturing this positive career sentiment by equipping tech pros with the skills and support they need to succeed in a challenging and evolving profession. Our goal for supporting holidays like IT Pro Day—establishing the IT Pro Day Awards program is to make tech pros feel valued, motivated, and excited to grow and advance their careers in the years to come.”
SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) is a leading provider of simple, powerful, and secure IT management software. Our solutions give organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—the power to accelerate business transformation in today’s hybrid IT environments. We continuously engage with technology professionals—IT service and operations professionals, DevOps and SecOps professionals, and Database Administrators (DBAs) – to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available IT infrastructures, applications, and environments. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK community, allow us to address customers’ needs now, and in the future. Our focus on the user and commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management has established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for observability, IT service management, application performance, and database management. Learn more today at www.solarwinds.com.
The SolarWinds, SolarWinds & Design, Orion, and THWACK trademarks are the exclusive property of SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC or its affiliates, are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and may be registered or pending registration in other countries. All other SolarWinds trademarks, service marks, and logos may be common law marks or are registered or pending registration. All other trademarks mentioned herein are used for identification purposes only and are trademarks of (and may be registered trademarks of) their respective companies.
Courtney Cantwell SolarWinds Phone: +1-512-585-0849
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Source: SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC.
FAQ
What are the IT Pro Day Awards given by SolarWinds?
The IT Pro Day Awards honor IT professionals for their exceptional contributions and achievements in the industry over the past year.
Who won the IT Pro Day Awards in 2021?
The winners in 2021 included Praharshita Gaur for Rookie of the Year, Fabrizio Cabianca as Rockstar of the Year, David M. Williams as IT Mentor of the Year, and Diana Awde received the Trailblazer Award.
How does SolarWinds support the IT community?
SolarWinds supports the IT community by recognizing contributions through initiatives like the IT Pro Day Awards and conducting surveys to understand tech professionals' sentiments.
What is the significance of the IT Pro Day Awards?
The IT Pro Day Awards highlight the resilience and innovation of IT professionals, acknowledging their efforts to navigate challenges, particularly during the pandemic.
