Awards and Client Feedback

Distinguished Award (STC’s highest award) and Best of Show for a report designed for NASA’s Flight Opportunities group

Jan 2021  |  Society for Technical Communication

Role: Designer
Designed a booklet for NASA’s Flight Opportunities Group called, “A Guide to Commercial Suborbital Flight Providers.” [As part of the Fuentek, LLC team.]
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Award for Excellence for an Accomplishments Report designed for NASA’s Flight Opportunities group

Jan 2021  |  Society for Technical Communication

Role: Designer
Designed annual Accomplishments Report for NASA’s Flight Opportunities group.  [As part of the Fuentek, LLC team.]
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Award for Excellence for a flyer design for NASA’s Flight Opportunities group

Jan 2020  |  Society for Technical Communication

Role: Designer
Designed flyer for NASA’s Flight Opportunities group. The flyer was about testing and maturing promising exploration technologies. [As part of the Fuentek, LLC team.]

Award for Excellence for the design of Georgia Tech’s Industry Engagement Annual Report

Jan 2020  |  Society for Technical Communication

Role: Designer
Designed Georgia Tech’s Industry Engagement 2017 Annual Report. [As part of the Fuentek, LLC team.]
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Distinguished Award (STC’s highest award) for the redesign of the Fuentek website

Jan 2020   |  Society for Technical Communication

Assisted and advised on the design concepts, color palette, and content for the redesign of the website for fuentek.com, a technology transfer consultancy. [As part of the Fuentek, LLC team.]

Award for Excellence for NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program Monthly E-Newsletter

Dec 2017  |  Society for Technical Communication

Role: Designer/programmer
Designed the e-newsletter look and feel based on the NASA Flight Opportunities program’s existing branding. Structured a template that can be easily modified for each monthly newsletter. [As part of the Fuentek, LLC team.]

Distinguished Communication Award (STC’s highest award) for Georgia Tech’s Office of Research Integrity Assurance (ORIA) Website

Dec 2017  |  Society for Technical Communications

Role: Designer/developer
Designed Georgia Tech’s ORIA website maintaining the Georgia Tech branding, while still differentiating the site. Also assisted in building the site within the Drupal CRM. [As part of the Fuentek, LLC team.]
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Award for Excellence for NASA new technology reporting website

Dec 2013   |  Society for Technical Communication

Role: Designer/programmer
Designed and developed NASA’s new technology reporting system Web site.  [As part of the Fuentek, LLC team.]

Distinguished Technical Communication (STC’s highest honor presented) for Ga Tech brochure

Dec 2013   |  Society for Technical Communication

Role: Designer
Designed Georgia Tech’s Industry Research Collaborations brochure, following established branding guidelines. [As part of the Fuentek, LLC team.]

Award of Merit for NASA website portal

Oct 2012  |  Society for Technical Communication

Role: Designer/programmer
Designed and developed the Innovative Partnerships Office Web Site at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. [As part of the Fuentek, LLC team.]
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NASA Agency Honor Awards

Oct 2012  |  NASA Glenn Research Center

One of NASA’s most prestigious awards, Honor Awards go to individuals and teams who make outstanding contributions to the agency’s mission. The awards were for contributions to two NASA Glenn Research Center events: the Automotive Workshop and the Technology Showcase. [As part of the Fuentek, LLC team.]

Award for Excellence for NASA Technology Transfer Calendar Design

Oct 2011  |  Society for Technical Communication

2011-2012 Technical Communication Competition award for NASA Glenn Research Center 2011 technology transfer calendar. [As part of the Fuentek, LLC team.]

Distinguished Award for Uni-Systems Status and Opportunities Report

Oct 2008  |  Society for Technical Communication

Role: Designer
2008 STC Twin Cities Community Technical Publications award for the Uni-Systems Status and Opportunities Report. Publications winning the “Distinguished” award are clearly superior in all areas. The publication applies the principles of technical communication in an outstanding way, particularly in the way that it anticipates and fulfills the needs of its audience.
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Award for Excellence NASA Annual Report

Oct 2005  |  Society for Technical Communication

Role: Writer/designer
Wrote and designed the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Office of Technology Transfer 2003 Annual Report. [As part of the Fuentek, LLC team.]

Award for Excellence for Fuentek website

Oct 2004  |  Society for Technical Communication

Designed the Fuentek Corporate Web Site. [As part of the Fuentek, LLC team.]

Award for Excellence for Roche Diagnostics web page

Oct 2004  |  Society for Technical Communication

2003-2004 Online Communication Competition award for the Roche Diagnostics Biosensor Technology Web Page. [As part of the Fuentek, LLC team.]

I just wanted you to know I am starting to send out the notice to clients and contacts to visit my new website.  The response is overwhelmingly POSITIVE.  Everyone loves it so much, especially me.  I may even have some new business for you…  I gave [my colleague] your contact details and he loved what you did for me.

Once again, thank you so much.  It was the best decision ever to hire you to give me a polished, professional website.

Cathy Brand
Founder
Global Sales Compliance

Lee Ann is fantastic at marketing and communications.  See also writes articles for the renowned How Stuff Works!  I see her strengths as follows:

  1. Graphics/Web/Writing Talent: Lee Ann is equally gifted at all three.  This is relatively rare I find.  She can do all of the above:  org identity/logo generation, storyboarding, web layout, brochure layout, html coding, web hosting setup, excellent writing and editing, good feel for marketing language/creativity, and so on.  When I say talented on each I do not mean “in light of doing all three” – I mean she is REALLY good at all three (especially developing the “look and feel” of a marketing communication I find).
  2. A Joy to Work With – great balance of flexibility and independence:  Lee Ann strikes the perfect balance of initiative and receiving direction.  If you say…”I want my website to look like X…go do it”….then Lee Ann will not bother you and re-appear with a finished product ready to go (she will seek your input of course, but does not HAVE to have it – you can just trust her judgment and let her do the job).  On the other hand you can work with her step by step to create the vision, look at proofs, and step through the process where it is collaborative along every step.  She is equally congenial using this technique.  This not only impresses me in general, but in a situation where “creativity” is at play, she is very good about not becoming wed to an idea and being unwilling to change direction.  You can sometimes see this in “creative types” but Lee Ann is not this way at all.  She certainly has an opinion about what looks and sounds good and will share it, but she is flexible.
  3. She delivers:  Lee Ann has always delivered (with high quality, fair price, on schedule, and with a smile).

Joseph Holmes
President / CEO
Acuity Edge, Inc.

Lee Ann,

I would just like to take a minute and thank you for all your efforts on the Workplace Applications software brochure. Your creative ideas coming to fruition on paper was an inspiration to witness. When we give out the 4 page full color WPA software brochure to a prospective client, it will be done with pride thanks in part to your work.

It was a pleasure working with you on this project and I look forward to continuing our work together.

Jim Kurzec
Workplace Group

I use Lee Ann Obringer exclusively for my own and client web pages and marketing collateral design. We have been working together for several years. She is reasonably priced, creative, classy and refreshing, and does fabulous work in a timely fashion. She knows how to get your key words out there for maximizing hits to web sites and listens to clients so that the image they want is what is portrayed in a consistent, thoughtful manner.

Penny Noyes
Health Business Navigators

Lee Ann Obringer is a wonderful, award-winning, website designer who refers to herself as “a marketing communications & design resource,” and she couldn’t be more right. She’s charming and refined, and brings to her projects an unusual combination of being extremely visually artistic and having strong verbal and psychological marketing skills. Not only are her sites fantastic to look at, but because she always organizes them so that the visitor can’t miss the important stuff, I’m sure they do a great job of selling both image and product for the owners.

Beverly, you provide accounting services to small-business start-ups, and probably work with lots of clients like me – third year in business, starting to deal with larger clients, need to enhance my professional image. I hope you’ll recommend Lee Ann to them. I think they’d be delighted with the results.

Susan Solakian, President
Renovations Consulting, Inc.