NMTC Announces Fourth Annual TechEx Award Finalists

NMTC Announces Fourth Annual TechEx Award Finalists

[March 26, 2009 – Albuquerque, NM]

The New Mexico Technology Council (NMTC), the state's largest advocacy group for technology related business, announced today the finalists for this year's TechEx Awards. Companies from across New Mexico took part in this year's competition, which seeks the best and most successful implementation of technology products or implementations produced by a New Mexico based company or organization. Nine Technology Solution Awards will be presented on behalf of the industry and will be announced at the Awards Banquet on April 2^nd.

Sponsored in part by the New Mexico Business Weekly, the Fourth Annual TechEx Awards will be held in Albuquerque on April 2, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency downtown, from 6 to 10pm. The leaders of New Mexico's technology community will join for a gala evening to recognize and celebrate excellence and technical achievement in the New Mexico technology industries. John Andrews, principal and chief executive officer of iClient Global LLC, will keynote the event. NMTC has made tickets available on its website at http://www.nmtechcouncil.org/.

NMTC – Fourth Annual TechEx Technology Solution Awards Finalists

• Pearsonkramer for Misterhub – Online Project Management Software
• Ultramain Sytems for eReporting
• Clearwired for MVP Sport Systems
• SolutionWerx, Inc. for Essentials Employment Experience & Happiness Begins At Work
• Chesspark for Chesspark
• Game Production Services, LLC for Cognitive Air Defense Training System (CAD-TS)/Engagement Control Station Simulation (ESC2)
• Nuvita LLC for Nuvita
• Ideum for MT2 Multitouch, Multiuser Table
• Commercial Data Systems, Inc. for ABWUA Disaster Recovery Solutions
• SantaFeDonations.com for SantaFeDonations.com
• Bill Fernandez Design for Agent Desktop for the Contactual Hosted Call Center System
• Bernalillo County Clerk's Office for eRecording (QuickDocs) Solution
• Intel Corporation for Air Economizer Proof-of-Concept
• NM Economic Development, SGI & Intel for Encanto: New Mexico Computing Applications Center
• Stone Design for Twittelator Pro
• Bernalillo County for SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation
• Sandia Base Elementary, APS for Promethean Interactive Whiteboard Solution
• APS Technology Department for its Qwest QMOE Implementation
• Sun Healthcare for Sun Healthcare Virtualization
• Qwest & Cisco for Network, Communications and Distributed IT Solutions Implementation for New Horizons Computer Learning Centers

NMTC – Fourth Annual TechEx Achievement Award Individual and Organizational Nominees:

• Marc Orchant
• Sherman McCorkle, President, Technology Ventures Corporation
• Jonathan Wolfe, Ph.D., Executive Director, Fractal Foundation
• Jim Coker, Owner & Chief Developer, Five12 Software
• Stephen Guerin, Santa Fe Complex
• Larry Sklar, Regents' Professor of Pathology, Dept. Pathology and Director, UNM Center for Molecular Discovery, UNM School of Medicine
• Clint Hubbard, CIO, City of Albuquerque
• Barbara Stoller, Director, Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Outreach Program
• David Beining, Associate Director for Immersive Media, UNM ARTS Lab
• Chantal Foster, Founder Duke City Fix & Alb Web Geeks
• Elaine Montoya, Becky Padilla and Teri Farley, Co-Founders Animotion NM
• Jeff Van Dyke, President, VanDyke Software
• William Flores, Deputy Secretary, NM Higher Education Department
• Dr. Dale Alverson, UNM Center for Telehealth & Cybermedicine
• Dr. Brian Ormand, Director, NMSU, ICT New Mexico Learning Network Director
• New Mexico Technology In Education (NMTIE)
• IDEAL-NM
• New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge

Email: awards@nmtechcouncil.org