SHARE Awards

The John R. Ehrman Award for Sustained Excellence in Technical Education

This award was established to recognize an outstanding body of contribution to SHARE’s technical program. It honors those who have provided the content of SHARE’s technical program, by delivering high quality presentations, contributing to strategic white papers and ongoing task forces, championing technical activities, and sharing technical expertise at a high level. There are two aspects of the award that must be satisfied:  the demonstration of exceptional technical competence and knowledge, and the effective sharing of that competence and knowledge with fellow SHARE participants over time. Please submit your nominations by utilizing the link below. 

Any participant is eligible for consideration, we recommend at least 5-10 years experience of SHARE contributions. Recipients need not be ribbon-wearers but must be long-term contributors to SHARE's technical program. Current and past volunteers, and IBM employees are eligible for the award.

Past Recipients

Robert Rannie, 2018
Cheryl Watson, 2018

Click Here to Submit a Nomination for the John R. Ehrman Award

Laetitia Harrer Snow Memorial Award for Humanitarian Service to SHARE

To honor individuals who have shown a long-term dedication to SHARE, with contributions to SHARE's culture, people, and environment, and as a memorial to Tish Snow, who was, herself, an example of this type of individual. 

Nominees must have five years or more of volunteer service to SHARE, but should not have been a member of SHARE Senior Management in the five years immediately preceding their nomination. During those five years, however, their service to SHARE will have continued, in the form of active mentoring volunteer support, informal committee or Board involvement, and will have demonstrated that their commitment to SHARE's people extended beyond their commitment to complete their formal volunteer duties. 

Past Recipients

Robert Rosen, 2014
Ron Thielen, 2008
Robert Rannie, 2004
Anne Caluori, 2003
Chuck Forney, 1994
Bettye Odneal, 1993
John Hogan, 1993

Click Here to Submit a Nomination for the Laetitia Harrer Snow Memorial Award for Humanitarian Service to SHARE

SHARE President's Award

To honor the individual effort of a SHARE contributor who has, in the opinion of SHARE's President and CEO, performed outstanding service for SHARE during the preceding year. 

Past Recipients

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SHARE Distinguished Service Award

To recognize outstanding service and support from someone in a provider role (as opposed to volunteer role) who has worked for and with SHARE management over a period of years, generally given upon their departure and/or retirement. 

Nominees are any (generally senior) individual who has made an outstanding contribution to SHARE over a period of years of service in a provider role (as opposed to volunteer), in the opinion of the nominators and the judging committee.

Past Recipients

Best of the Best Session Winners

At each SHARE event, from the hundreds of sessions presented, SHARE recognizes the Best of the Best from within User, IBM and Vendor session categories. Those winners are selected based on session evaluations completed by event attendees and recognized at the subsequent event.

With SHARE St. Louis Session Winners, SHARE added new digital badge recognition for the Best of the Best Session Winners to allow presenters to showcase their accomplishment across their professional networks. Look for these badges in the SHARE community.

Congratulations to these SHARE St. Louis Best of the Best Session Winners:

• USER Session: Receive Order Overview and User Experiences
  • Keith Sisson and Jason Shewbert
• IBM Session: IBM Dynamic Partition Manager Introduction and News
  • Andreas Bieswanger
• VENDOR Session: Zowe UI - 21st Century z/OS: Introducing a Desktop UI/UX for Administrators and Developers
  • Peter Fandel and Jean-Philippe Linardon

View additional Best of the Best Session Winner information from past SHARE events.

Click Here to Submit a Nomination for the SHARE Distinguished Service Award