NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION: Awarded Paul Lightsey, Ball Aerospace mission system engineering staff consultant for the James Webb Space Telescope, the Distinguished Public Service Medal, NASA’s highest honor given to a nongovernmental employee. NASA also awarded its Exceptional Service Medal to Ball’s Randy Coffey, CloudSat program manager; and Steve Long, the CloudSat mission operations lead.
PARKING STRIPE ADVERTISING INC.: Promoted Becky Osborne from chief operating officer to president, and hired Jordan Sievers as an account executive.
EXEMPLA HEALTHCARE: Kristi Davis has rejoined the company as director of medical-staff services at Exempla St. Joseph Hospital.
9NEWS: Community-relations director Lynne Valencia and director of marketing and promotion Steve Carter were promoted to the position of vice president.
KIEWIT BUILDING GROUP: The commercial building division named JD Vetter vice president of commercial building services.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS COUNCIL OF RESIDENTIAL SPECIALISTS: Awarded Judy E. White the Certified Residential Specialist designation. White is a broker associate with Reaction Realty/Metro Brokers in Westminster.
MATHEMATICS ENGINEERING SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENT: Announced that Dave Aguilera, meteorologist for KCNC-Channel 4; Mike Almeda, science teacher at Heaton Middle School in Pueblo; Ellie Greenberg, president and chief executive of EMG and Associates in Centennial and MESA board member; Lynn Jordan, principal of Jordan Resources Inc. and MESA board member; and Anthea Johnson Rooen, co-director for recruitment and outreach for the multicultural engineering program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, were recipients of the 2007 MESA Service Awards.
THE CENTER FOR RESOURCE CONSERVATION: Named Keith Desrosiers the organization’s executive director.
