Kudos & Congratulations

Brian Haymore did a wonderful job representing CHPC in discussions and making a well-received presentation at the Condo of Condos workshop at NCSA (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). ~ Steve Corbató

 

Thanks to Jill Brinton, Ryan Hines and Cary Lopez for reaching out to deans and chairs to include them in process work analyzing Strategic Scheduling and Course Management. They united stakeholders in a desire to improve academic planning and were able to identify issues and their causes without offending anyone. Their work has been praised by Ruth Watkins and the process work has gathered 287 ideas for improvement. ~ Paula Millington

 

Congrats to Paul Burrows for working with Pat Hanna to conceptualize a way that requests to USS Portfolio would be handled. Some we will never do; some are no brainers; some need more analysis and scrutiny from the portfolio committee to determine priorities. The concept went to USSP in January and was endorsed with a few suggestions. ~ Paula Millington

 

We would like to acknowledge the phenomenal work the CIS Engineering & Operations group did during the first week of the semester. They are a talented, hard-working team. ~ Trevor Long and Jeff Hassett

 

A big thank you to Michael Davis for his exemplary service to his co-workers and clients. He constantly and consistently goes above and beyond his expected job duties. ~ Cindy Hanson

 

Thanks to Joe Breen, who spearheaded the development of the third pod of racks for research computing in the Downtown Data Center. ~ Steve Corbató

 

Congratulations to Eric Young, student intern in USS / Content & Usability, who just graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Communication! ~ Debbie Rakhsha

 

Marv Hawkins did a great job providing accurate and timely information to the USS Portfolio team on projects that are “in flight” and needed to be prioritized. He waded through many disparate priority lists and came up with the top 20 projects. The committee ranked them, and for the first time, the committee delivered a list of priorities to USS. ~ Paula Millington

 

Thanks to Wayne Bradford for shepherding CHPC’s unique research computational environment, for handling data with patient health information in compliance with HIPAA regulations and for being a co-author (with former CHPC director Julio Facelli and other colleagues) on a paper describing this environment that was recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. ~ Steve Corbató

 

Show your co-workers how much you appreciate them. Anyone can send in thanks or congratulations for their UIT colleagues. Email them to stratcomm@it.utah.edu. Those people recognized will be put into a drawing to win prizes such as free meals, gift certificates, apparel, tickets, memberships, and more.