Written by Bryan Prillaman

Level 3, United States, Florida

Hello all,

Since we had a long blog post last week, I’ll be brief here. Wave 5 Nominations are posted and available on Judgeapps! Log in and see all the awesome things your fellow judges are doing. Each wave we see an increase in the quantity of quality nominations, and Wave 5 is no exception!

As a reminder, if you received a nomination, you will receive an email with instructions for the next step within the next two days. Additionally, if you had one or more nominations deferred, you will get a notification email, and your slot will appear in Judgeapps in early August.

Finally, I want to say a big ‘Thank You’ to the Exemplar Teams. While I tend to be the “face” of the program, I don’t do this alone. There are over 30 members across 2 teams, all across the globe. There are thousands of nominations to read and translate and discuss and disposition, data to crawl through and metrics to be collected and trends to be analysed, articles to write, double spacing at the beginning of each sentence in blog posts to correct, suggest process improvements and many other tasks. These judges do it all. Some parts of the process are fun, but others, not so much, but it still gets done. We have come a long way from just a year ago, when waves were taking 6 months between a wave end and foils being mailed out, and we continue to reflect, iterate and improve.

Exemplar Nomination Team

Sean Catanese Seattle, Washington, United States

Carlos Ho Panama, Panama

Kim Warren London, United Kingdom

Jess Dunks Atlanta, Georgia, United States

W. Matt Williams Tampa, Florida, United States

Eric Levine Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan

John Alderfer Hermitage, Pennsylvania, United States

Matteo Callegari Parma, Italy

Gavin Duggan Mountain View, California, Canada

Justin Turner Pinellas Park, Florida, United States

Jack Doyle Durham, United Kingdom

Richard Drijvers Tilburg, Netherlands

Takanori Nakamura Okazaki-shi, Japan

Edwin Zhang Beijing, China

David Hibbs Round Rock, Texas, United States

Sophie Pages Grenoble, France

Francois Grossi Grenoble, France

Scott Neiwert Portland, Oregon, United States

Jeremie Granat Bern, Switzerland

Hans Wang Taipei, Taiwan

Rob McKenzie Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, United States

Emilien Wild Namur, Belgium

Jared Sylva Salem, Virginia, United States

Adrian Estoup Temperley, Argentina

Daniel Sole Garcia Barcelona, Spain, Spain

Kenji Suzuki Chiba, Japan

Joe Lau Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Exemplar Metrics Team

Paul Baranay New York, New York, United States

Eric Levine Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan

Joe Hughto Northampton, Massachusetts, United States

Ronald Thompson Seattle, Washington, United States

John Alderfer Hermitage, Pennsylvania, United States

Chris Langston KENNESAW, Georgia, United States

Dan Collins Toms River, New Jersey, United States

Thank you, for all the work you do.