Melvin L. Evans, 2010 Honoree
- Title
- IT director
- Employer
- Hand Arendall LLC
- Location
- Mobile,, Ala.
- First job:
- Kitchen help at a local barbecue restaurant.
- Most valuable career advice:
- "Don't be afraid to make a mistake, admit your mistake or correct your mistake."
- If I were not in this business, I would probably be...
- "doing volunteer work for a nonprofit organization."
- Best mentoring relationship:
- "My first IT job, where I worked with some of the most talented people I've ever known."
- Favorite gadget:
- "My BlackBerry Bold."
- Leadership philosophy in a nutshell:
- "Learn to assess any and all challenges from every possible perspective and you'll have more successes than failures. No detail is too small to be considered."
- Ask me to do anything but...
- "wash windows. I always make them worse instead of better."
- Passions outside of work:
- Photography and cycling
- Favorite sport:
- Basketball
- What's in your MP3 or CD player right now?
- "About 16,000 songs, mostly jazz."
- In high school, I was...
- "a nerdy bookworm who didn't fit in."