Kudos & Congratulations
UIT staff recognized for their excellent work
Congratulations to Briettny Curtner (Deputy CIO organization) and Jeremy Burns (CTO organization) for winning the last prize drawing!
Many heart-felt thank yous and congratulations to UIT Strategic Communication group members Larrisa Turner (lead), Jesse Drake, and Patrick Harris for their exceptional skill, professionalism, dedication, and caring during months of planning for the UIT Employee Spring Party at Boondocks. Further, they fulfilled their responsibilities with grace and aplomb on party day.
Thank you, Jan Lovett, for volunteering to support us during the party. You’re the best!
Larissa Dooley was invaluable as she worked with us to navigate the financial services aspects of the event.
Thank you all!
~ Cassandra Van Buren, UIT Leadership Team
Mark Curtz has helped me out with DocuSign forms and workflow and has been so helpful, responsive, patient and took the time to give me examples that I was later able to apply on my own, which was a big win for our department. Thanks so much Mark! I appreciate you!
~ Shaunelle Eckman, Facilities Management
Kudos to the IT team in Athletics (Kirk Barlow, Ben Perez, and Adam Martin)! Thank you for always coming to my rescue and helping me navigate through my technology issues; all those little things that matter. Your patience is beyond measurable and your dedication is appreciated! Very grateful for each of you.
~ Lisa Bouillon, Department of Athletics
Shout out to Earl Crawford on the UIT Campus Help Desk! I recently called about an issue I’ve been working with NOC for a few months and he was SO helpful and thorough in getting me the information I needed. Thank you Earl!
~ Desirae Allen, U of U Health Care Navigation
Melissa Ulfich is extremely knowledgable and helpful. She has been an invaluable member of our team. Her expertise in the university’s accounting practices and policies has been proven in the practicality of her input on specific issues we’ve come across. Due to her adept assistance, we have avoided numerous issues and have resolved a variety of financial needs appropriately and expeditiously and I’m not sure what we’d do without her. Thank you, Melissa!
~ Larissa Dooley, UIT Finance
I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to Cassandra Van Buren, Jesse Drake, and Larrisa Turner for orchestrating yet another successful UIT event. Their dedication and hard work often go unrecognized, but the time and effort they invest are truly commendable.
~ Jan Lovett, Deputy CIO organization
Bobby Azeem, Gabriela Lozano, Nathan Eldredge, Ken Kizer, and Josh Madsen all make up the Network Firewall team. They are all amazing and a pleasure to work with every day. Thank you all for all you do! For being responsive and willing to help out whenever something is needed. You are all awesome!
~ Ryan Millward, Information Security Office
I want to recognize, Tony Le, our IT guru.
Tony, thank you so much for stopping by on Wednesday without any prompt. It was great because I had something I needed help with and would have put it off had you not just popped over. I really appreciate you proactively coming around to see if there is anything you can help with.
~ Courtney Demond, Division of Public Health
Thank you, Heather Winters! Your cleanup across Avaya, Centrex, and Teams voicemail has been essential in streamlining our migration. I’m beyond grateful for the clarity you bring to the project.
Thank you, Jeffrey Haddon and Dan Jenkins! The weekly updates and commitment to best practices keep our momentum and lay a solid foundation for long-term hardware success.
Thank you, Keith Hughes! Your CPU utilization assessment made our camera hardware cutover planning possible.
~ Briettny Curtner, DCIO
Thank you, Apoorva Dharadhar, for your strong business intelligence and analytics work, performed with attention to process improvement and customer service. Your professional technical background in software development and database design clearly informs the work you do for UIT and the University of Utah.
~ Cassandra Van Buren, UIT Leadership Team
We had a pretty significant issue in production where a user inadvertently deleted hundred of records. We needed to revert the impacted tables back to where they had been. With help from Rob Birkinshaw and Arnie Carter, we learned some new SQL tips and were able to restore the data in minutes.
~ Val Olds, DCIO
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Submit your kudos and the UIT employees you commend will be entered into a monthly prize drawing. UIT employees who submit entries will also be entered in a separate prize drawing.
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