{"id":686,"date":"2016-08-09T14:29:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T19:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/?p=686"},"modified":"2017-04-07T14:40:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T19:40:23","slug":"adev-intern-receives-first-tesla-innovation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/09\/adev-intern-receives-first-tesla-innovation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"ADEV Intern Receives First Tesla Innovation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Innovation is a regular theme at SuprTEK\u2019s ADEV program. Creating leading edge technology web applications <\/a>that interface with military enterprise systems to provide command and control personnel with the latest mission and resource information is a difficult challenge. The program relies heavily on innovation and a \u201ccan do\u201d attitude.<\/p>\n

To recognize the leaders of this innovative spirit, SuprTEK’s ADEV Senior Program Manager, Dan Shaffer, and Solution Engineering & Delivery Vice President, Ron Howard, created the Tesla Innovation Award<\/strong>.\u00a0 The award is named for Nikola Tesla<\/a>, an inventor credited with creating or advancing many of the technologies that make modern life possible including Alternating Current electricity that powers the world. A small group of SuprTEK ADEV technical leaders, at Dan and Ron\u2019s behest, put their heads together and decided that naming the innovation award after Tesla would be appropriate. Brandon Sanders, a \u201cgap year\u201d intern at ADEV, is the first to receive the Tesla Innovation Award.<\/p>\n

\"BrandonBrandon played a leadership role in creating a tool for the Services Validation Project that enabled the team to both emulate web services to aid in development and evaluate the response and data provided by web services. In developing two suites of web applications that rely heavily on external web services<\/a> to operate and perform as intended, this innovative tool is an invaluable asset to the success of the ADEV Program.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe already have a number of innovators we want to recognize at ADEV,\u00a0<\/em>and we hope that the innovations continue as the program proceeds.\u00a0So, we anticipate that this will be the first of many Tesla Innovation Awards, but we wanted to recognize Brandon before he left to pursue his academic career,<\/em>\u201d Dan Shaffer explains. \u00a0Brandon took a year off after high school during which he interned at ADEV.\u00a0 He will soon complete his internship and\u00a0begin his freshman year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute<\/a> (WPI). The ADEV team hopes to see Brandon return for more intern work during his college breaks.<\/p>\n

Ron Howard served as the major impetus for the award because he believes it is important to recognize team members’ contributions. \u201cWe have a lot of really great people on this team<\/em>,\u201d says Ron, \u201cand I want team members to know their work is appreciated.<\/em>\u201d Tesla Innovation Award winners receive a framed certificate of appreciation, a Nikola Tesla bobble head, and a gift certificate.<\/p>\n

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Don Reed is a Senior Technical Writer with the ADEV program.\u00a0 His background includes engineering and programing, project management, quality and business improvement, and business-technical communication.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SuprTEK’s Team ADEV has created the Tesla Innovation Award to recognize team members’ creative solutions to difficult issues that arise while developing of a suite of leading edge web apps in Java.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"

Innovation is a regular theme at SuprTEK\u2019s ADEV program.\u00a0 Creating leading edge technology web applications <\/a>that interface with military enterprise systems to provide command and control personnel with the latest mission and resource information is a difficult challenge.\u00a0 The program has relied heavily on innovation<\/a> and a \u201ccan do\u201d attitude.<\/p>

To recognize the program leaders of this innovative spirit, SuprTEK ADEV Senior Program Manager Dan Schaffer and Solution Engineering & Delivery Vice President Ron Howard have created the Tesla Innovation Award.\u00a0 The award is named for Nikola Tesla<\/a>, an inventor who is credited with creating or advancing many of the technologies that make modern life possible, including Alternating Current electricity that powers the world.\u00a0 Brandon Sanders, a \u201cgap year\u201d intern at ADEV, is the first to receive the Tesla Innovation Award.<\/p>

Brandon played a leadership role in creating a tool for the Services Validation Project that enabled the team to both emulate web services to aid in development, and to evaluate the response and data provided by web services.\u00a0 In developing two suites of web applications that rely heavily on external web services<\/a> to operate and perform as intended, this innovative tool is an invaluable asset to the success of the ADEV Program.<\/p>

\u201cWe already have a number of innovators we want to recognize at ADEV,\u201d noted Dan Schaffer, \u201cand we hope that the innovations continue as the program proceeds.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cSo we anticipate that this will be the first of many Tesla Innovation Awards, but we wanted to recognize Brandon before he left to pursue his academic career,\u201d Dan explained. \u00a0Brandon took a year off after high school during which he interned at ADEV.\u00a0 He will soon complete his internship to begin his freshman year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute<\/a> (WPI). \u00a0ADEV hopes to see Brandon return for more intern work during his college breaks.<\/p>

Ron Howard served as the major impetus for the award because he believes it is important to recognize team member contributions.\u00a0 \u201cWe have a lot of really great people on this team,\u201d said Ron, \u201cand I want team members to know their work is appreciated.\u201d\u00a0 A small group of SuprTEK ADEV technical leaders, at Dan and Ron\u2019s behest, put their heads together and decided that naming the award for Tesla would be appropriate.\u00a0 Tesla Innovation Award winners receive a framed certificate of appreciation, a Nikola Tesla bobble head, and a gift certificate.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[22,21,24,23,25,26],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news","tag-award","tag-innovation","tag-java","tag-team-adev","tag-web-apps","tag-web-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suprtek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}