WASHINGTON, D.C. (USTCNS) --- Phyllis B. Spano, the Human Resources Officer for Military Sealift Command's Afloat Personnel Management Center and the APMC deputy director was selected as the Department of the Navy's absolute best in 1999 for Human Resources Management.
Spano received the coveted 1999 Human Resource Award for Excellence. This award is not a local award, nor an MSC award - it's a worldwide Navy award.
The award was presented to Spano March 21 during the U.S. Navy Worldwide Human Resources Conference held at the Hilton Crystal City Hotel in Arlington, Va.
Vice Adm. Gordon S. Holder, USN, Commander, Military Sealift Command, attended the award ceremony.
Spano, an MSC employee for 19 years, began her federal civil service career in January 1981 as a GS-3 clerk typist in the personnel office at Military Sealift Command Atlantic in Bayonne, N.J., rising through the ranks to a GS-13 supervisory management analyst in 1994.
Since May 1997, Spano has served as the human resource officer and deputy director of APMC. Spano oversees all civilian mariner programs and activities at the APMC in Virginia Beach, Va., two pier-side satellite offices in Norfolk, Va., and San Diego, Calif., and two fire-fighting facilities in Earle, N.J., and San Diego, Calif. (FROM MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS).