ARSC Inuteq (NASA)
Andre is a true mentor, he practices the different
ways of being a mentor, one on one, distance and
group. Andre serves as the alternate integrated
program team lead manager for the PAAC contract in
Code 480. Since taking on this role Andre has become a
very involved and valued mentor to all in 480. He
takes the time to listen to the problems, suggest
solutions and mentors one on one to find solutions.
His close guidance in furthering skill development for
his mentees not only led to increased job
satisfaction, but also diversified the division’s
skillset and improved work quality. He was able to do
this and keep morale up as team members were slowly
transitioned off due to tighter and tighter budgets.
Andre ensured that team members were not
oversubscribed and constantly communicated to check on
them and see if he could help in any way possible.
Andre saw a fellow team member at the center
struggling and taking 12 hours to complete a task, he
took the initiative and asked to help review the task
and due to the mentoring and collaboration he was able
to get the 12 hours reduced to 6 seconds this would
not have been accomplished without his skillful
technique and approach to mentoring and coaching. The
team members’ management was concerned about the
performance of the individual and with Andre helping
and stepping in the confidence and work product of the
individual was recognized and applauded for the short
turn around. Andre also serves as a functional lead
for application development on the PAAC contract. He
makes it a point each year to reach out and pair with
each programmer to learn his/her skillsets and offers
ideas on how to grow in coding and how he can help the
developers meet the goals that they set forth. He also
runs the very popular application development meeting
at the center for all application developers, security
personal, system administrators or anyone that is
interested in coding every other Friday. He uses this
meeting to help teach other developers and
collaborate/mentoring to give each developer a glimpse
of different ways to go and solve a problem. This
mentor venue itself has gathered a community of nearly
45 different developers from across center to
regularly attend and offer ideas. Andre’s greatest
accomplishments is communicating, providing thoughts
and ensuring that all he comes in contact with have
easy access to the tools, the community, for them to
do their job and grow as a person for this Andre Young
is truly deserving of the Flight Projects mentor
award.
Jennifer Poston
Integrated Program Team Lead
