The ETEBA New Mexico Chapter will hold its monthly dinner meeting on Thursday, May 10th at the DoubleTree Hotel, 4048 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, New Mexico, starting at 5:30 PM. Ms. Dot Harris, Director, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity, US Department of Energy, will be the featured speaker. A block of rooms at the rate of $82.00 per night is reserved for this meeting. The registration code is PECOS.
The May Meeting is sponsored by The Lakeworth Group, a minority-owned small business that provides professional technical services to support client success (www.thelakeworthgroup.com ).
Dot Harris is the Director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the United States Department of Energy. Ms. Harris brings nearly 30 years of management and leadership experience to this position, having served at some of the world’s largest firms and leading a successful energy, IT, and healthcare consulting firm. Ms. Harris was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 29, 2012. As the Director at the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity, Ms. Harris leads the Department of Energy’s efforts to ensure minorities and historically underrepresented communities are afforded an opportunity to participate fully in our energy programs. Ms. Harris oversees a corporate funding strategy for minority institutions, develops the current and future Departmental workforce, works closely to develop small business contracting opportunities at the Department, and protects the civil rights of Departmental employees and recipients of funding from the Department. Previously, Ms. Harris was the President and CEO of Jabo Industries, LLC, a minority-woman owned management consulting firm concentrated primarily in the energy, information technology and healthcare industries. Ms. Harris has also served as an executive at General Electric Company (GE) and held a number of leadership positions in GE's Energy and Industrial Systems businesses. After joining GE in 2000, as the E-Business Leader for Engineering Services, Ms. Harris was critical in expanding GE’s business operations and energy sector growth. GE tasked her with key operations roles, including responsibility for the North Region power services businesses, responsibility for the Central U.S./Canada’s integrated power generation, and, beginning in 2009, oversight over all marketing for GE’s industrial businesses GE’s Global Marketing Leader. Before joining GE, Ms. Harris was an officer and Vice President of Operations & Production for ABB Service, Inc. She also spent twelve years as Field Services Engineer and Services Manager with Westinghouse Electric Company. Ms. Harris holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina and a M.S. in Technology Management from Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Georgia.
