Kudos & Congratulations
Congratulations to Paul Fischer (CHPC) and Craig Bennion (CIS) for winning last month's prize drawing!
Skip to details regarding David Kosanke's retirement party.
UIT staff recognized for their excellent work
Garth Devries, Jeramy Berry, Cindy Devine, and Ed Fresco did an awesome job on Phase I of the Royall Project. This was a critical project with a short two-week timeline that this team was asked to complete in support of increasing undergraduate student enrollment for Fall Semester 2016. The team successfully did the analysis, created complex sql statements, and created a program for exporting this data in four files in the short timeframe allowed.
~ Patrick Burton, University Support Services
A big thank you to Dave Rasmussen for successfully planning and implementing, without any service interruption, deduplication in the campus storage environment, resulting in increased capacity.
~ Kim Tanner, Common Infrastructure Services
Thank you to Dusty Argyle for moving the last of the ACS domain over to Active Directory (AD).
~ Stacey Wood, Common Infrastructure Services
A big thank you to Kelsey Loizos (USS) for her help on several recent projects. Kelsey let me sit in and observe web usability testing on UIT’s Service Catalog, and provided exhaustive details on the study for an article. She is collaborating with me on concurrent projects related to the Service Catalog, and recently resolved an issue I was having in Google Analytics. Terrific internal customer service – Thanks Kelsey!
~ Jesse Drake, UIT Strategic Communication
David Kosanke started out as a telephone installer in March 1991, and the majority of his time at the University has been spent managing the Physical Plant which includes telephones, cable, and fiber. In the early 1990s he was instrumental in installing the fiber plant on campus, when the University of Utah became the first air-blown fiber plant in the western United States. David and his crew were trained and certified by Sumitomo Fiber Optics. If you mention a manhole number, David will tell you exactly where it's located on campus, Research Park, or the surrounding area, and what the interconnects connect to. He has worked with Campus Design and Construction over the years to keep the wiring standards accurate and current, and has also been the liaison with Campus Design and Construction for new and remodeled buildings. He has worked with CenturyLink, coordinating and designing pathways for new building connections for telephone service.
David Kosanke earned his Building Industry Consulting Service International Registered Communications Distribution Designer (BICSI RCDD) certification in 1994. He has been the chief cook and bottle washer for the many barbeques we’ve had over the years, from the time NetCom consisted of 40 people, to the current ~400-size UIT group. We will miss him.
~ Syndi Haywood and Jody Sluder, Unified Communications
David Kosanke retirement party details:
Wednesday, March 30
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.; remarks/speeches at 3:30
585 Komas, Room 200
Light refreshments will be served
Anyone can submit an item for Kudos & Congrats!
Simply email praise for your UIT colleagues to stratcomm@it.utah.edu. The people you recognize will be put into a drawing to win gift cards, event tickets, merchandise and more. Those who submit entries will also be put in a separate drawing for more prizes. (Directors and associate/assistant directors not eligible for prizes.)
A special thank you to some exceptional campus organizations that, in the past, have donated tickets, merchandise, and gift cards to help recognize UIT employees: Athletics, Auxiliary Services, Dining Services, Kingsbury Hall, Pioneer Theatre Company, Red Butte Garden, UIT Leadership, and Utah Museum of Fine Art.
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