THE AMERICAN SOCIETY
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 RADM Gable and RDML Rabago present the Rosenblatt Young Engineer Award to Mr. Skvarla |
CITATION:
Kai Skvarla has demonstrated superb technical expertise, extraordinary management skills and tenacious dedication to his assigned programs. He quickly earned the trust of his superiors as an essential and dedicated engineer, and he readily took on greater responsibility with resounding success.
Mr. Skvarla was promoted to be Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative and subsequently Program Manager for the National Security Cutter (NSC) at a relatively early age. He handled many high visibility technical, programmatic, budgetary and contractual issues with considerable skill. For example he was instrumental in processing mountains of data related to the NSC structural fatigue issues and producing accurate and coherent presentations to senior officers, and to Inspector General and Congressional staff. He displayed extraordinary poise under pressure, masterful leadership and program management ability, and boundless optimism and enthusiasm. As a forward thinker, he perceives potential obstacles and needs well in advance of others, and develops ideas and plans to head off or deal with those if and when they emerge.
He demonstrates similar commitment and dedication in collaboration and mentoring of his fellow engineers. He serves as an excellent role model for the many uniformed and civilian engineers associated with the Deepwater Program - both seniors and subordinates alike.
He has demonstrated unusual early professional development and has clear potential for future success at the highest levels of most any organization. Based on his already impressive accomplishments and his clear potential within the field of naval engineering, Mr. Skvarla is highly deserving of the Society’s 2008 Rosenblatt Award.