Kudos & Congratulations

University IT staff recognized for their excellent work

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Tom Whitaker (UIT) has played a pivotal role in the development of several UIT Help Desk agents, myself included. Tom has a wealth of technical knowledge and his mentorship has benefitted the UIT Help Desk greatly. He keeps things light and always does right by our customers and UIT employees. Simply put, thanks for everything, Tom!

~ Patrick Oberg, UIT

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I’d like to recognize and give kudos to Hayden Waters (UIT) for his outstanding support in helping me set up Tanium in my environment.

He consistently responds with thoughtful ideas and effective methods, making complex tasks much easier to navigate. His patience and willingness to help have made a significant difference throughout the process.

His depth of knowledge is truly invaluable and has been critical to our success with Tanium. I really appreciate his dedication and support.

~ Adam Smith, Natural History Museum of Utah

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Gordon Kafton (College of Mines and Earth Sciences), you are awesome for what you do and deserve more credit for it!

~ Daksh Choudhary, UIT

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I wanted to thank Ryan Nakamura (UIT) for the amazing job he did to figure out the problems with the logins for our student employees. He kept up on the situation, and I appreciate that they can all now log in and help us out. Ryan also was a tremendous help with figuring out why updates were erroring and not going through. THANK YOU!!

~ LeeAnn Zappitello, Center for Disability & Access

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Roopshika Vennam (VP for Research), kudos for being a Tableau master and working tirelessly on creating the Office of Sponsored Projects dashboard!

~ Kaidon Spencer, Chief Data Officer organization

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Kudos to Riya Singh (ITS) who has provided assistance through my onboarding to the team. She has shown patience and kindness along the way. Great to be working with you!

~ Tyler Sauer, UIT

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Vika Tukia (Auxiliary Services-IT) has been to our office a couple of times now. She may be new, but she knows what she is doing. I know that when she works on issues with our computers, the job gets done quick and done well. Not to mention, she is a pleasure to work with. She is full of positivity and confidence, which makes any issue feel like no big deal. So glad she is part of our Auxiliary Services' IT team. Fakamalo atu (“thank you” in Tongan), Vika!

~ Suzy Bindrup, Commuter Services

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I'd like to congratulate Tejas Ved (ITS) (and other contributors...Riya Singh, Tim Urban, David Tubbs, Clark Nelson, Josh Madsen, and probably more) on a job well done converting our Primary AWS Region's networking into Infrastructure as Code and migrating everyone's accounts over with minimal downtime. This was a big complex change and the team did a great job!

~ David Rasmussen, ITS

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Jorge Figueroa (UIT) is a phenomenal and professional co-worker. Not only is he a top performer, but he does high-quality work on top of balancing his own academic endeavors. He is a stalwart member of our help desk and has held the line for countless nights. He is one of the most dependable co-workers I’ve ever seen! Thank you for being an inspiration to our team, Jorge! 

~ Stam Burgess, UIT

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Kudos to USS Smells Like Team Spirit Committee members Abbey Allen, Sither Dolma, Shellie Eide, Emily Jacoby, Tammy Mabey, Namita Mahtta, Reza Sarijlou, Ammon Thomson, Kristi Vandenham, and Eric Watson for all their hard work planning and hosting events for USS and StratComm folks. I really enjoy the events, as well as spending time with colleagues.

~ Larrisa Turner, UIT

 

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