{"id":1840,"date":"2019-01-31T17:43:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T17:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2019-01-31T17:45:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T17:45:25","slug":"governors-citation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/31\/governors-citation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"TEI Founder, Adissa Barry, Receives Governor\u2019s Citation Award for Commitment to the Economy and Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Governor\u2019s Citation Award<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1841\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TEI_08-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Get to know our owner, CEO, and President, Adissa Barry, better in this article about her recognition from the Governor\u2019s Office and ABC Baltimore:\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TEI_08-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TEI_08-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TEI_08-1024x702.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TEI_08.jpg 1990w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Adissa Barry, Owner, President and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.teiconst.com%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C8c6fd5d534dc4ec36f8a08d686f34264%7C1ae60ee5c476416196cfed74c334bc0a%7C0%7C0%7C636844776696563601&amp;sdata=KY3sgQCVkyBSIvPeAgXe3JRcGF%2B1ESZqMzUTdO2mXwE%3D&amp;reserved=0\">TEI Electrical Solutions<\/a>, was recently recognized by ABC Baltimore and the Governor Office. She served as a panelist for ABC Baltimore\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abcbaltimore.org%2Fevent%2Fthe-abcs-of-certification-panel-discussion-and-network%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C8c6fd5d534dc4ec36f8a08d686f34264%7C1ae60ee5c476416196cfed74c334bc0a%7C0%7C0%7C636844776696573596&amp;sdata=QmsqIsroa6Xp9qsXc96O0O0lqwRYvgyjTdVp3v8B7Vc%3D&amp;reserved=0\">ABCs of MWBE Certification Panel Discussion and Network<\/a>.\u201d The event featured an impressive panel of Minority and Business Owned Enterprise leaders. Barry was invited to shed light on her 26 years of experience in the day-to-day financial management of design and construction firms (with a specialty focus in construction accounting). Panelists shared advice and tips on obtaining and leveraging the Minority &amp; Women Owned Business Certification. Attendees also had the opportunity to network with general and specialty contractors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adissa Barry was also awarded the Governor\u2019s Citation Award from the Government\u2019s Office of Small, Minority &amp; Women Business Affairs and Maryland\u2019s business community. Barry was nominated by the Frederick County Office of Economic Development.\u00a0 The award recognizes significant contributions to Maryland\u2019s economy as a result of hard work, dedication, and commitment in pursuit of excellence and success for business, the community, and the state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barry established TEI in 2001 and has grown the company to annual revenues of $25 million. TEI has <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">80<\/span> <strong>100<\/strong> employees with offices in Frederick and Baltimore. Barry manages TEI\u2019s day-to-day <strong>financial<\/strong> operations, provides executive oversight on all TEI contracts in support of healthcare, research, DOD, and commercial facility design\/build and design-bid-build projects. She supports her team by ensuring adherence to project goals, budgets and schedules.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barry is just as committed to her community, devoting her time to Habitat for Humanity, several local churches, and youth programs. She recently worked with Project JumpStart to mentor Baltimore City residents in an 87-hour pre-apprenticeship training program. Five of those individuals are now proud employees of TEI. The entire <a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.teiconst.com%2Fcontact-us.php&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C8c6fd5d534dc4ec36f8a08d686f34264%7C1ae60ee5c476416196cfed74c334bc0a%7C0%7C0%7C636844776696573596&amp;sdata=FE2JCuRoRDqFO3GTYDe6wQBkrbWe6DdQidba4oIGa8Y%3D&amp;reserved=0\">TEI team<\/a> celebrates Adissa Barry\u2019s accomplishments and looks forward to continued prosperity and achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor\u2019s Citation Award Adissa Barry, Owner, President and CEO of TEI Electrical Solutions, was recently recognized by ABC Baltimore and the Governor Office. She served as a panelist for ABC Baltimore\u2019s \u201cABCs of MWBE Certification Panel Discussion and Network.\u201d The event featured an impressive panel of Minority and Business Owned Enterprise leaders. Barry was invited<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TEI_08.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p94jaR-tG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teiconst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}