2007 - 2008 Events

Debbie Cortez is a Senior Project Manager at SAIC Corp. and has been with the Corporation for nearly a decade. She holds a B.S. in Management of Information Systems (MIS). Her background and strengths are in Information Technology and she also has experience in business architecture, requirements development, customer relations management, and change management. Debbie has had the opportunity to work at software development company where she worked on projects certified at CMM Level 5. She has worked in both the telecommunications and public health industries.

James F. Young, Jr. is a Senior Program Manager for SAIC’s Public Health sector in the state of Georgia. He is responsible for account management and oversight of all activities within this segment. A well-respected senior strategist, Young has more than 20 years of leadership expertise in the technology services industries.
Young engineered SAIC's Public Health Preparedness segment, creating strategic and tactical approaches to public health business. Currently serving as senior program manager, Young manages three data centers, two disaster recovery centers, digital certificate issuance for 10,000 employees world-wide, and manages 83 mission critical applications which track diseases, outbreaks, and hazardous substances on a global backdrop. Current activities include managing R&D labs for informatics looking at current technologies in the GRID and digital imaging integration.
Prior to joining SAIC, Young served as Director of Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services, Regional Manager for Thomson Software, International, and Senior Project Manager with Lockheed-Martin Corporation.
Young received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Kennesaw State University and his Master of Science in Information Technology from Mercer University. He currently serves as Adjunct Professor in the Mercer University Masters program.

Paula Mossaides is a Senior Program Manager at SAIC currently managing two projects in Atlanta. Paula earned her BS in Applied Mathematics at MIT with a minor in psychology and her MS in Computer Science at Oregon State University with a minor in artificial intelligence. She has been in the Software Development / IT / Research / Consulting arena for 30+ years. The first eleven years as a programmer and the last twenty two in various management positions from project manager to Director of IT to Senior Program Manager. She holds one of the first US patents in software for her work in computer graphics. She managed the first commercial release of an X Windows / UNIX workstation. Paula has worked in the Graphics, Multimedia, Financial, Airline, and Public Health industries. Paula has worked for MIT’s Media Lab, Tektronix’s Graphics Terminal and Workstation divisions, NCR’s Human Interface Technology Center, Delta Airlines, weather.com, and the last five years at SAIC.

Steve Huff is a Senior Project Manager and has been with SAIC for eleven years. Steve says he feels a bond with Georgia Tech because his father graduated from here and was a life-long Yellow Jackets fan. He graduated in 1980 from East Tennessee State University with a B.S. in Computer Science and in 1995 from Auburn University with a M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering. Steve served on an aircraft carrier and a nuclear submarine during a tour in the U.S. Navy. Steve is currently working in Atlanta as a Business Analyst and Quality Manager for SAIC software development. In this role, he works to enhance the National Health Surveillance Network (NHSN), a set of web-based applications which hospitals use to report on patient and health care worker safety.

Paula Mossaides is a Senior Program Manager at SAIC currently managing two projects in Atlanta. Paula earned her BS in Applied Mathematics at MIT with a minor in psychology and her MS in Computer Science at Oregon State University with a minor in artificial intelligence. She has been in the Software Development / IT / Research / Consulting arena for 30+ years. The first eleven years as a programmer and the last twenty two in various management positions from project manager to Director of IT to Senior Program Manager. She holds one of the first US patents in software for her work in computer graphics. She managed the first commercial release of an X Windows / UNIX workstation. Paula has worked in the Graphics, Multimedia, Financial, Airline, and Public Health industries. Paula has worked for MIT’s Media Lab, Tektronix’s Graphics Terminal and Workstation divisions, NCR’s Human Interface Technology Center, Delta Airlines, weather.com, and the last five years at SAIC.