For Immediate Release
Date:   May 21, 2004

IIa Corporate Staff Continues to Grow

Oak Ridge, TN. Information International Associates (IIa) is pleased to announce the addition of new staff members in Oak Ridge. Fred Rascoe, Jewel Hebert, and Ivy Fu join IIa’s corporate headquarters staff in newly created positions with the growing company, bringing the number of employees in Tennessee to 66. IIa has more than 200 employees in 14 states, the District of Columbia, France, and the United Kingdom.

An April 2004 master’s graduate of the University of Tennessee’s School of Information Science, Rascoe joins IIa as an information specialist. He will support IIa’s work with CENDI—the Federal STI (scientific and technical information) Manager’s Group, SAIN (the Southern Appalachian Node of the National Biological Information Infrastructure), and AFMIC (the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center.

Jewel Hebert and Ivy Fu fill new positions in IIa’s corporate finance and accounting department. Hebert comes aboard as project accountant with a BBA in Finance from the University of Louisiana. She has worked in finance and accounting positions in the local area since 2000.

Fu joins IIa’s staff as a part-time accounting clerk. She holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Beijing Teacher’s College in Beijing, China. She is currently seeking an associate’s degree in accounting at Roane State Community College.

Founded in Oak Ridge in 1988 by Bonnie C. Carroll, IIa has a world class reputation in scientific and technical information (STI) services, national and international information policy and standards development, library and information center management, intelligence work, and base operations support services. In March 2004, Federal Computer Week named Carroll one of the Top 100 information technology professionals in America.