Tamara Lyn Pippert to Receive Society of Women Engineers' Emerging Leaders Award in Sales & Marketing; Tamara Lyn Pippert recognized for demonstrated leadership in sales and marketing.

CHICAGO -- The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) today announced Tamara Lyn Pippert the recipient of the 2005 Emerging Leaders Award for her demonstrated leadership in sales and marketing.

Tamara Pippert is a lead marketing product manager for Agilent Technologies, Inc. In this position, she is responsible for program management of the definition, planning, and execution of marketing and product plans; cross-functional coordination and leadership to define and execute marketing plan and product launches; and influencing business strategy direction with user needs assessment, market sizing and roadmap exercises with a cross-functional team. Prior to joining Agilent in 2000, she worked as a software and support engineer for Hewlett-Packard. Prior to her current role, she worked as a software and support engineer for Hewlett-Package/Agilent Technologies.

"Engineering often transcends a strictly technical role," says Ronna Robertson, president of the Society of Women Engineers. "Tamara has proven that adding other skills to the mix augments leadership in a wide variety of ways."

During her career at Agilent, Pippert's leadership skills have been instrumental in several accomplishments within the company. She led an overall marketing program for a $30-$50 million product line from current product marketing and promotion to new product generation. She co-led organizational focus groups resulting in priorities and action planning to address business unit-wide employee survey concerns. And, she was instrumental in the development and maintenance of division-wide product development lifecycle processes, which increases department efficiency.

"Tami's leadership and mentoring associated with identifying the customer voice, positioning products in the market, following processes and communicating through marketing tools to customers and sales channel partners yielded results for me personally," says Stacy Kalisz Johnson, expert product manager engineer, also with Agilent. "This has also been true for others who have experienced her leadership through partnership and mentoring."

In addition to her professional responsibilities, Pippert has dedicated her time to mentoring three co-workers at Agilent. She also volunteers her time to Junior Achievement in Denver.

Pippert earned her B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin and her M.B.A from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

This marks the inaugural year for the Emerging Leaders Awards. These awards were created in response to overwhelming demand from our corporate partners and members to recognize the accomplishments of mid-career women. The Emerging Leaders Awards honor women engineers who have demonstrated outstanding technical excellence as an individual resulting in significant accomplishments in the following areas: academia; manufacturing and construction; procurement/logistics; product research, design, and engineering; quality; safety, health and environment; and sales and marketing.

The Emerging Leaders Awards will be formally presented Friday night, November 4, 2005, at SWE's National Conference Awards Banquet in Anaheim, Calif. The National Conference, "Women Engineers Leading Global Diversity," is being held at the Anaheim Convention Center, November 3-5, Anaheim. The more than 3,000 attendees include professionals from every discipline of the engineering profession and a large number of engineering students and educators. The 2006 Conference is scheduled for October 11-14 in Kansas City, Mo.

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