Dat Le is a Senior Finance Manager at Applied Materials. Colleagues describe them as "Dat worked at Ames Research Center providing analytical support for our CIO organization. Not only was he a key member of the financial analysis team, he showed incredible initiative to create a common data tool that is being exported to other parts of the organization. The tool is becoming the standard for the entire CFO organization management reporting. Dat demonstrated very sophisticated analytical abilities along with entrepreneurship in supporting the CFO. " and "I had the pleasure of working with Dat as part of our efforts to bring a high level of financial transparency to the NASA Ames Research Center CIO and CFO. Dat showed an aptitude for rapidly adopting new financial models and a keen understanding of the complexities of Government budget from both a technical and human perspective. He is easy to work with and partners well with others, and will be an asset to any finance organization."