HDI Award Finalist Announcements

Ruben Eduardo Canales Announced as HDI Global's Analyst of the Year in Dallas

After being named the Northeast Regional Analyst of the Year, Ruben Canales competed with Regional Finalists for HDI Global's Analyst of the year and was announced as the winner at the Annual Conference in Dallas. It is the second consecutive year a Capital Area Analsyt of the Year has been named HDI's Global Analyst of the Year. Congratulations Ruben!! Many thanks to Robert Half Technology for sponosoring Ruben's Conference Registration and Spherion for sponsoring his travel expenses.

Ruben Canales was born in Tegucigalpa which is the capital and largest city of Honduras. He earned his bachelor degree in Computer Science Engineering from the Catholic University of Honduras in 2001. He then initiated his career as a NOC technician in the Telecommunications Company where he performed his internship. After a few months, he accepted a job offer from a "Cisco Systems" partner company and moved to El Salvador as a Networking Engineer for "Telefonica" of Spain.

Upon arriving to America he enrolled at Georgetown University where he obtained the following certifications: A+, Network+, Security+, MCP and CCNA. After completing his coursework, he decided to return to the workforce and the IT field by providing Helpdesk technical support, first to the District of Columbia government agencies and shortly after, as a Technical Analyst with Spherion at the International Monetary Fund.

World Bank named a Team Excellence Finalist, Internal Support

Congratulations to the World Bank, a finalist in HDI's 2008 Team Excellence, Internal Support Awards process.

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HDI Capital Area Analyst of the Year and Finalists

HDI Capital Area recognized Help Desk Analyst of the Year Finalists and announced this year's winner at our Annual Luncheon on December 11th.Ruben Eduardo Canales (pictured 1st from left), of Spherion-International Monetary Fund, was announced as HDI Capital Area's Analyst of the Year winner. Congratulations to Ruben and all of our finalists! Ruben moved to the Northeast Regional Competition and was announced as the winner.

Congratulations to our Capital Area Help Desk Finalists

Yolanda Banks - Federal Reserve Board (pictured 3rd from left)
Jessica Padilla - OnPoint Consulting (pictured 4th from left)
Greg Carrido -Marriott International (pictured 5th from left)
Staff Sergeant Kimberly Urbanski - Defense Information Systems Agency's Joint Staff Support (pictured 6th from left)
Sandra Seroskie - President HDI Capital Area (pictured 2nd from left)

Capital Area Analyst of the Year 2006
as 2007 Help Desk Analyst of the Year

Oyebimpe Oyelese was announced as HDI Capital Area’s Analyst of the Year winner at our Annual Luncheon in December of 2006. Bimpe moved on to the Northeast Regional Competition and was announced as the Northeast Regional Winner on March 15th by Northeast Regional President, Virginia Scuderi. Bimpe and other regional finalists were screened by a panel of nine judges, with Bimpe emerging as the winner. Bimpe competed against Regional Finalists at the HDI Annual Conference in Las Vegas and emerged as HDI Global’s HDIAOY for 2007.

Oyebimpe Oyelese was born in Ibadan Nigeria, the last of 5 children. She attended high school in Nigeria and earned a degree in Electrical Electronics Engineering at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 1997. After graduation, she came over to the United States and worked in the Electrical Engineering field until she discovered her love for computers and Information technology support and went into the Information Technology field.

She has been in client support for seven years and it has been a very fulfilling career - solving problems and taking on more responsibilities. She has been able to say at the end ‘Eureka- I found it’. Even though the client support environment could be challenging, she finds a client’s appreciative ‘thank you’ and the fact that she has helped someone make their work easier or enabled and empowered someone to meet a deadline priceless and rewarding, especially at the World Bank where she currently works as a Senior Analyst, staffing the helpdesk, sharing her extensive experience to lead the ITIL exercise and conducting training/coaching sessions on various applications.

Coming from a third world country, she understands the effects of poverty and the impact a good project can have in the lives of people who are not as fortunate. Being able to contribute in some small way gives her a great sense of purpose. Her work at the World Bank is not just a job, it is an opportunity to give back and contribute to the development of countries like her native country.

Bimpe as she is known by her friends, clients and colleagues, is an exceptionally high energy performing professional. She has won several quarterly incentive awards and customer survey awards. She was the HDI AOY nominee for 2005 and also 2006 and was presented with the AOY award in December 2006. She is married to Samson and lives in Frederick, MD.