{"id":3182,"date":"2018-06-22T14:48:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T18:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2018-06-25T08:27:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T12:27:47","slug":"may-honoree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/2018\/06\/22\/may-honoree\/","title":{"rendered":"May Employee of the Month &#8211; Kelly Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/APR-KellyWalker-SchoolConstruction-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3171 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/APR-KellyWalker-SchoolConstruction-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kelly Walker<\/strong> has nearly 18 years with the DGS Public School Construction Program. Her ability to work as a liaison between departments is exceptional. Everyone already has something on their plate, but Kelly kindly takes on a little more as she coordinates multiple project submissions that are all, of course, \u201cHigh Priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our unit was tasked with providing a super quick review of a large, high-profile project. Kelly grabbed the bull by the \u201c?\u201d and monitored the submission through the necessary review process -including procurement &#8211; in less than a week, when a project of that magnitude would normally take four weeks easily. Her efforts made it possible for the local agency to get the project out to bid in a timely manner, which helped them avoid escalated costs.<\/p>\n<p>So if you are having issues with another unit, another department or a fellow colleague, then you need to sign up for Ms. Walker\u2019s \u201cDiplomacy 101\u201d class!<\/p>\n<p>On a side note I am known to be a little hyperactive, which sometimes causes me to veer slightly into other lanes; Kelly is helping me to slow it down! LOL!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Clarence Felder<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Walker has nearly 18 years with the DGS Public School Construction Program. Her ability to work as a liaison between departments is exceptional. Everyone already has something on their plate, but Kelly kindly takes on a little more as she coordinates multiple project submissions that are all, of course,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/2018\/06\/22\/may-honoree\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empofweek"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3190,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions\/3190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}