2022 Annual Award Recipients

Outstanding Service Award

Colleen Faragon

Colleen Faragon

Manager

Department of Media Production, and Department of Regulatory and Child Care Assistance Training

Colleen Faragon is a vision-oriented, participative leader, who sees beyond stated needs and current capabilities to opportunities that others don’t yet recognize. Constantly looking for better, more innovative ways to do our work, she engages and challenges team members to share their ideas and provides invaluable insights and guidance to support their work. Her breadth and depth of subject-matter knowledge inspires her teams.

PDP Outstanding Team Award

DTAT Event Planning Team

Team Members: Christine King and Allison Stevens

Christine King and Allison Stevens, PDP’s Department of Temporary Assistance Training (DTAT) Event Planning Team, managed all event planning and event logistical support for 561 days of training in 2022. They also developed COVID-19 pandemic health and safety protocols for the return to in-person training and equipped training teams with necessary supplies. This team consistently when above and beyond to meet customers’ known and emerging needs leading to highly successful training events.

DTAT Event Planning Team: Christine King and Allison Stevens

PDP Outstanding Trainer Award

Eric Gleason

Eric Gleason

Senior Trainer

Department of Computer Training Services (DCTS)

In 2022, Eric was responsible for training 28 different programs to 1976 trainees. Excellent in the classroom and via WebEx, Eric has expertise in multiple state computer systems and his ability to speak the language of system developers allowed PDP to quickly update curriculum in response to system changes and enhancements.

PDP Outstanding Professional Staff Award

Dan Meade

Dan Meade

Programmer/Analyst

Instructional Technologies Unit (ITU)

Dan Meade creates and maintains websites, and designs digital and print materials. Dan constantly shows innovation in his work, pushing the boundaries of what is known, to make work more efficient and effective. Dan is a constant champion for web accessibility and web usability and demonstrates this commitment to those principles through his work and in communicating with clients and sponsors.

PDP Outstanding Administrative Support Staff Award

Fatma Labeb

Fatma Labeb

Administrative Assistant II

Child Care and Child Welfare

Since joining PDP, Fatma has approached her job tasks with curiosity and determination. Fatma continuously looks for ways to make processes more efficient and beneficial to all stakeholders. She has excellent technological skills and has been able to share those skills with others on the Administrative Team.