North White Plains Resident Named Woman Achiever By NYPA

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November 21, 2002

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WHITE PLAINS—The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has selected Janis Archer, director of product design and delivery in NYPA’s information technology unit, as its Woman Achiever of the Year for 2002.

Archer was one of the approximately 80 women honored by their employers at the annual Salute to Women Achievers Luncheon sponsored by the Academy of Women Achievers of the YWCA of the City of New York at the New York Marriott Marquis in Manhattan on Thursday (Nov. 21). The award recognizes women who have demonstrated leadership and served as positive examples in the workplace.

“Archer has served the Power Authority through her efficient and phenomenal work as director of product design and delivery,” said Eugene W. Zeltmann, the Power Authority’s president and chief executive officer. “She is a person with the exceptional zeal recognized by this award.”

A resident of North White Plains, Archer is based in the Power Authority’s White Plains office.  She was selected for the award from among Power Authority staff at projects and offices throughout New York State."

Since joining the Power Authority staff in 1989, Archer has contributed to many successful software application solutions for the Power Authority, including management of a year-long project to revise NYPA’s billing system for Y2K compliance. She also helped implement a program for NYPA energy traders to submit bids to supply electricity to the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), the not-for-profit corporation that administers the state’s wholesale electricity market and also operates its transmission system.

Archer is currently supervising the development of a system that will allow NYPA staff to more accurately predict customers’ electric loads to ensure that NYPA’s energy traders bid for the most economic power available, in the NYISO market, to meet those customers’ needs.

Archer is known by her NYPA peers as a great leader and mentor, who is attentive to the needs and deadlines of her colleagues. She takes great pride in her work and appreciates the help she receives from her co-workers.

In nominating her for the award, Archer’s supervisor noted her dedication to excellence in her work and her impressive community service activities.  Archer teaches college-level information technology classes and serves on the board of the Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel in White Plains.  She has stage managed for a local theater group and served on the board of the Valhalla Ambulance Corps for six years including three as chairperson.  Archer also enjoys taking courses in her free time on topics as diverse as macroeconomics, astronomy, finance and photography.

Archer holds a bachelor’s in mathematics from Binghamton University and a master’s in computer science from New York University.