December 2007
Alliance helps brighten a WA DVR Family's
Holiday
Alliance Enterprises, Inc. staff sponsored a
local DVR
family again this year. Tina Wilbur of Alliance Enterprises, Inc., delivered a
car full of presents to the local DVR office. Alliance contacted the local DVR office to
coordinate sponsoring a family in need. Although not a
formal program, the DVR office selected a family
participating in the rehabilitation process, which needed a
bit of help this year.
Happy holidays and New Years greetings from the
Alliance team!
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Alliance Team members: Shane Frost, Jeff Prentice,
Denise Simmet, Chris Hill, Jo Ann Sabisch, and
Catrina Spurgin.
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Pacific Northwest Rain Storm Alliance Update
As many
of you have heard, a powerful Pacific storm battered the
Northwest on Monday December 3, 2007, blocking roads with
fallen trees and causing power outages to over 80,000
people. Flood waters closed all lanes of Interstate 5 near
Centralia, where the majority of major flooding occurred.
Luckily, the
Alliance headquarters was not significantly
effected by the storm's high winds and torrential
down pours. The new facility was designed with
considerations to the northwest weather including
industrial generators to keep our teams up and
running during power outages.
For a better perspective of
the flooding please visit our
photo gallery of aerial images taken from
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Olympia, WA is about 24 miles North of Centralia,
WA.
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October 2007
National Disability Mentoring Day
Here at Alliance Enterprises, we were proud to be part of
the
National Disability Mentoring Day held on October 17,
2007. Disability Mentoring Day is an opportunity for
students and job-seekers with disabilities to get a first
hand experience in the field they are interested in
pursuing.
It was a pleasure to host Ms. Lena Boyce, a student at
South Sound Community College who is studying graphic
design. Anne Wax, Laura Walker, Betsy Cousineau and Chris
Hill participated in “mentoring” Ms. Boyce. Ms. Boyce
learned about Alliance and how we work as a team, our
product AWARE, our customers, our
newly designed website and a how one gets a job a Alliance.
We each shared our career paths along the way and how we
found Alliance. Ms. Boyce was delightful and enthusiastic
about her own career path. She also shared a website she
created to display and sell her artwork and photography.
Alliance received a very nice thank you from Ms. Boyce
who commented: “I just wanted to formally thank you for
taking the time to meet with me. All the information and
feedback that I got from you, Anne, Laura and Betsy is going
to help me a lot in the future. I really love the way your
company operates, as well as the atmosphere at Alliance.”
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We wish Ms. Boyce great
success in her career and Alliance looks forward to
participating in next year’s Disability Mentoring
Day program! |
Betsy, Chris,
Laura, Lena, and Anne at Alliance Headquarters.
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September 2007
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v5 Gifford X-Country Tour's #1
Fan!
Tahlia Duerre,
Lisa's great niece and pen pal, is having fun
tracking the progress of the X-Country Tour as her
aunt and uncle reach new destinations.
She creatively decorated a bulletin board
showcasing a U.S. map with rhinestone stickers she
added to mark locations, souvenir postcards sent by
Lisa from each state they have traveled through, and
a copy of the
tour
itinerary.
Keep up the good work
Tahlia!
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August 2007
v5 Gifford Cross-Country Tour Kick-Off
The schedule's been set and preparations are being made for the
v5 Gifford Cross-Country Tour. They have been traveling
throughout the U.S. visiting
customers and working on site.
For a glimpse of their adventures ahead take a look at
the Tour
Itinerary, including
photos, destination maps and
information.
Alliance donation helps local high school band
HP has a program where they give money to
schools for all the HP Toner Cartridges they collect and
send back to HP. We are donating our used cartridges to a
local high school and they are using the money they received
from HP to support a special needs student participating in
the high school band so he can pay for his band trips
including a trip in 2008 to San Francisco, California to
study with college music professors and perform in concert.
We will continue to give our used
cartridges to the school and they will continue to
use the funds raised to support their special
programs not fully funded by tax payer dollars.
Florida Division of
Blind Services received The Governor’s Sterling
Award
Each winner has undergone an in-depth assessment and
evaluation that included an expert team of examiners
conducting an on-site review of the organization’s
management systems and organizational performance
results. During their presentation for this award,
the agency demonstrated
AWARE.
Steve Ritacco, DBS, Senior Management
Analyst said “That the Governor and others on the
panel were very impressed with the AWARE system.”
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May 2007
I’m pleased to introduce a new staff
member to Alliance Enterprises. On Monday, April 23rd,
Craig Keating will join Alliance as a Sr. Development
Specialist.
Craig brings with him 25 years experience
in development, management and leadership. Craig spent the
last 81/2 years working at Intel where he managed
development, validation and sustaining for BIOS, Firmware,
Server Management and Utility technologies. Prior to Intel,
Craig was the first employee hired in a small 4-person
startup company, Corollary Inc., located in Irvine,
California. Craig was instrumental in growing the company to
110 employees with $20 M annual revenue and ultimately
acquired by Intel. He wore many hats at Corollary including
Director, Architect, Manager, Operating System Kernel
developer and many more that supported the growth of
Corollary.
Craig has a Bachelor of Science,
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April 2007
Ann-Marie Wehrer, Ann-Marie has an
interesting background working as a Senior Library Assistant
helping libraries around the world identify the strengths
and weaknesses in their collections. Working at OCLC (Online
Computer Library Center, Inc.) and WLN (Western Library
Network) in Lacey, Ann-Marie has plenty of testing and
project management experience. Ann-Marie graduated from The
Evergreen State College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in
European and American Culture in 1985.
Lynda Martin, Lynda is a recent graduate (March 2006)
from Central Washington University, Ellensburg, with a
Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. She
specialized in Information Systems with minors in Business
Administration and Mathematics. The word is she loves Math!
Please welcome our newest team members!
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March 2007
Alliance
Welcomes Tina Wilbur and Laura Walker
Alliance is pleased to introduce two new employees, Tina
Wilbur and Laura Walker!
Tina is our new Administrative Assistant. Tina comes to
Alliance with plenty of experience as an Administrative
Assistant and understands what it takes to make an office
run smoothly.
Laura is our new Documentation Assistant and will be working
closely with the User’s Groups and supporting our
documentation needs. Laura recently worked at The Olympian
Newspaper as a Communications Specialist, creating
advertising material and working closely with customers and
venders.
We welcome both Tina and Laura to our Alliance Team!
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February 2007
Alliance Welcomes Steve St. Peter
Steve will begin working with Alliance as a
Developer on the Interface Manager team. Steve’s
work history includes 4 years in the United
States Air Force as an Aircraft Maintenance
Technician and 22 years with
Hewlett-Packard/AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES as a
Warranty Technician and an Associate Software
Engineer. Steve is currently finishing his
undergraduate studies through DeVry University
majoring in Computer Information Systems.
Welcome to the Alliance team, Steve!
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January 2007
Happy New Year!
The 7th Annual "Host a Family for the
Holidays" was a huge success! Chris Hill
and Wendy Massey delivered gifts to
Kathy Monroe, a counselor for WA DVR,
for a family in need. All gifts were
donated by Alliance employees.
Kathy delivered the gifts to the
Holiday Family just in time for
Christmas. The family was so excited and
thanked everyone at Alliance for their
generosity.
Thank you to
everyone who participated in this great
event.
We wish all of you a safe and wonderful
new year!
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