Award honors outstanding employee-based culture, rewarding work environment, job satisfaction
Portland, Ore., Sept. 28, 2020 – PacStar, a leading developer and supplier of tactical and enterprise advanced communications solutions, today announced that the company has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2020 honor by The Oregonian. The list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administrated by employee engagement technology company Energage, LLC. The anonymous survey uniquely measures 15 drivers of engaged cultures that are critical to the success of any organization: including alignment, execution, and connection, just to name a few.
“I’m very pleased that PacStar has been named as a Top Place to Work by the The Oregonian based on our employees’ feedback. Our team’s perspective of our work environment and our team members’ job satisfaction is very important to our entire management team since they are truly the best judges of an organization’s culture,” said Peggy J. Miller, CEO of PacStar. “I believe it’s extremely important to foster an employee-focused culture that supports both individuals and strong connections among teams, particularly during challenging times like the COVID-19 pandemic. I am very proud of our PacStar team and all that we have accomplished together. I look forward to continued growth and collaboration as we achieve more great things in the future.”
PacStar was ranked #18 out of 42 midsize companies with 100 to 499 employees in Oregon and/or Southwest Washington in this year’s Top Workplaces competition by The Oregonian, which is in its ninth year.
PacStar has been honored with several awards during the past two years including the 2020 Technology Association of Oregon’s Most Disruptive Technology Award, 2019 Pacific Northwest Defense Coalition Innovation Award, 2019 Industry Innovation Award, Technology Company of the Year Award, Fastest Growing Private Company Awards, and many others. PacStar CEO Peggy J. Miller has also been honored with several awards including the 2020 Sam Blackman (Technology Executive of the Year) Award, 2020 EY Entrepreneur of the Year NW Finalist, 2019 Athena Award, 2019 Gold Stevie Award for Women Executives in Business, 2019 Top 12 Executives of the Year Award by the Portland Business Journal, and 2018 Women of Influence Award by the Portland Business Journal among many other awards for her leadership.
About PacStar
PacStar is a leading provider of advanced communications solutions for a wide range of military, intelligence and commercial applications. PacStar created and manufactures its COTS-based rugged, small form factor expeditionary and mobile communications systems. Separately, it developed integrated, network communications management software, IQ-Core® Software, for the military, federal, state/local government and emergency responder markets. The company’s patented IQ-Core Software, hardware technology and integrated solutions provide secure, command, control and communications systems, particularly in remote or infrastructure starved areas. In addition, PacStar’s communications systems are ideally suited for commercial/industrial organizations with mission-critical field communications requirements.
John Wranovics
Director of Public Relations
John Wranovics has over thirty years of experience in managing media relations and the promotion of high technology products. He has been with Curtiss-Wright since 2003. He has a degree in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley.