And the Checkered Flag Award goes to...
As another solid quarter comes to a close, it’s time for one of our favorite traditions at Ergatta: The Checkered Flag Award.
If you’re new to Ergatta or if you’re unfamiliar with this tradition, the Checkered Flag is awarded at the end of each quarter to the Ergatta employee (or employees) who best exemplifies our company values. Ergatta’s values are:
The Checkered Flag is a peer-nominated award, meaning fellow Ergatta team members take the time to submit hand-written nominations for their peers based on performance throughout the quarter. A group of our senior leaders reads through each and every nomination that is submitted to determine the winner (or group of winners!) for that given quarter. We are beyond proud and thrilled to announce our three winners from Q1 of 2022: Benjamin Norwood, Jarrett Heflin, and Jimmy Donnellan.
The best part of the Checkered Flag presentation ceremony is getting to hear snippets from each recipients’ nominations. We wanted to kick off this week by sharing what Ergatta employees had to say about each of this quarter’s three recipients - we hope you enjoy them as much as we did.
Jarrett Heflin, Sr. Brand Marketing Associate
“Jarrett's overall work ethic and passion for Ergatta makes him deserving of the Checkered Flag. He cares about the success of the company and you can feel that exuding from everything he does on a daily basis…Jarrett has the unique ability to hustle and pull off a project in a scrappy way without compromising the quality of the end result - the perfect intersection of be fast/not perfect + focus on outcomes. A true team player!”?
"It is a genuine honor to be recognized and awarded the Checkered Flag Award by a team imbued with a passion and love for Ergatta’s mission and each other." - Jarrett
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Jimmy Donnellan, Customer Experience Associate?
“Jimmy [is] such a great model of customer service; he gets rave reviews from pretty much every customer he speaks to, and for good reason! Jimmy is very knowledgeable about his job and the role he has. He keeps calm and always checks his sources when speaking to people and is always eager to help - Jimmy is such an important asset to the CX team!”?
"I was thrilled to win the Checkered Flag Award this quarter! I have so much admiration for everyone here at Ergatta, so it was a major honor to be nominated by my incredible peers." - Jimmy
Ben Norwood, New DevOps Engineer at Ergatta?
“I appreciate Ben’s ability to execute on multiple critical components for top priority projects, and help establish new best practices for the entire engineering organization along the way. He [takes] on mind-bogglingly complex projects with such a calm adeptness that instills confidence and optimism in the rest of the team. Ben embodies Ergatta’s values by staying focused on outcomes, always being open and communicative, moving fast and discovering and uncovering along the way (rather than waiting for perfection), and demonstrating a deep knowledge and understanding of the technology. Kudos, and thanks, Ben!"
"I’d like to thank my colleagues for considering me for this award. I feel a bit humbled because there were a few other really great improvements and efforts led by folks on our team to be considered." - Ben
Stay tuned for a follow-up story later this week on Ben’s recent internal move within Ergatta! Ben’s efforts this quarter made it clear that he was the right person for a very important open role that we were hiring for on our engineering team; crucially, it is also a position that he has a deep passion for, and one that will allow him to flex the skills that he is most keen on developing. We’re so excited to have Ben moving internally into this new role, and we can’t wait to share more details on this exciting news soon!