Kudos & Congratulations

Congratulations to Brad Grow (University Support Services) and Jodi Kunz (Information Security Office) for winning last month's prize drawing!

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UIT staff recognized for their excellent work

I nominate those involved with the ServiceNow rollout for getting the Phase 1 release out on time:

Kudos to Clay Postma on a great project management job!

~ Jill Brinton, Project Management Office

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Kudos to Aijana Kahriman - she did an amazing job of organizing rooms and lunch for the 100-person, multi-day Customer Centric Product Management training workshop we did with Jeff Patton. Outstanding work. 

~ Ken Pink, Deputy CIO

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Pat Burton, manager of the USS Student Team, deserves kudos for his pertinent, relevant questions and other important contributions during the recent multiple-day workshop for UIT employees on Customer-Centric Product Management.

~ Ken Pink, Deputy CIO

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Congratulations to Senior Accountant Jeanne Krogen (Teaching and Learning Technologies) and Associate Director Trevor Long (Common Infrastructure Services) who were nominated for the University of Utah 2016 Administration District Staff Excellence Award! They will be honored at an ice cream social and awards presentation on Monday, August 1 at 2 pm at The Orangerie at Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way. All employees are welcome to attend the event in their honor.

~ Cassandra Van Buren, Strategic Communication

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Last week USS Web Content and Usability team members once again demonstrated their can-do spirit, problem-solving acumen, fast turn-around, and excellent communication skills when Strategic Communication was launching the 2016-17 Kevin Taylor Service Award website. Special thanks to Nic Courdy and Lani Twitchell who provided technical help just in time.

~ Cassandra Van Buren, Strategic Communication

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Congratulations to Luan Trong for moving from the Pathway Engineering department to the Information Security Office team so that he can further his career. He has been a fabulous student to work with and we are happy for him.

Lisa Osborne has received praise from the University Neuropsychiatric Institute for her help on their move to a new location. They said that she made it "easy."

Congratulations to John Wardle on a successful launch of UTV service in the Skaggs Patient Wellness Center. 

~ Amber Angell and Mike Ekstrom, Common Infrastructure Services

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Monty Kaufusi built a central logging solution for UIT and was able to leverage it to find a disrupted device within five minutes of it going down. Great job Monty!

~ Elliot Fenech, Common Infrastructure Services

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As Pokémon GO fever hit its peak, ISO and University Marketing and Communications needed a quick & accurate article and news media pitch about security concerns related to the game and app permission settings in general. Emily Rushton (Strategic Communication) quickly interviewed ISO subject matter experts Corey Roach and Jake Johansen, did additional research, and produced the pitch and article in record time. Great work, Emily, Corey, and Jake!

~ Cassandra Van Buren, Strategic Communication

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Josh Gross joined the IAM team less than a year ago and has been providing operations support in both the PeopleSoft and Active Directory areas. Recently, we had an issue with one of our initiatives that required us to take a step back and look at other ways to approach the problem. Even though Josh was pulled into the project late in the game and he had other competing priorities, Josh jumped right into helping us document and research the issue. He was able to identify several options for us to pursue and followed the implementation through to the end. Josh is dedicated to process improvements that increase efficiencies and accomplish the identified end goals. It is refreshing to work with someone like Josh who gives their all to making the University a better and more secure place to work.

~ Jodi Kunz, Information Security Office

 

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