Staff Activities

Transitions

The following are new employees:

• S.M. Shawkat Imran, part-time I/O Operator.

• Srihari Jellapuram, part-time I/O Operator.

• Ravi Bhamidipati, part-time I/O Operator.

• Brendan Carroll, ABN network Asstistant on the ADM, Notes and User Services Team.

• Taeko Ozaki, part-time I/O Consultant.

The following people no longer work in the Computing Center:

• Pratik Dabib, part-time CPU Operator.

• Mellonee Lee, Campus Information Operator.

• Bertha Williams, Data Entry Operator.

• Jennifer Isgitt, Campus Information Operator.

• Shashi Pulakurti, Datacommunications Assistant.

• S.M. Shawkat Imran, part-time I/O Consultant.

• Milind Belhe, part-time I/O Consultant.

• Amy Durham, University Information Operator.

Promotions, Transfers, and Other Changes

• Dianna Laakso, Lead UNIX Systems Administrator, is now Dianna Mullet since her marriage to Kevin Mullet, NMS Datacommunications Computer Systems Manager, on November 7, 1998 (their announcement appeared in the October 1998 Bennchmarks Online).

• George Morrow, ACS Academic Mainframe Programmer/Analyst, retired in December. He will return to ACS in February on a modified service agreement.

Awards

The following people were honored at the December 10, 1998 Service Recognition Awards program:

• Richard Harris, Associate Vice President for Computing and Communications Services -- 35 years of service

• Coy Hoggard, Senior Director of Administrative Computing -- 30 years of service.

• Earl Jackson, SIMS Year 2000 Project Team Leader -- 25 years of service.

• George Williams, General Data Systems Team Leader -- 25 years of service.

• Rachel Dowdy, Lead Data Entry Operator (Retired) --20 years of service.

• Sue Ellen Richey, Purchasing and Personnel Services Administrative Services Officer-- 15 years of service.

• Nancy Fisher, Voice Response Applications Team Leader -- 10 years of service.

• Catherine Hardy, Academic Database Administrator -- 10 years of service.

• Robert Jones, Student Records Data Systems Programmer/Analyst-- 10 years of service.

• Brenda Kirk, Notes & User Network Management/User Support Computer Support Specialist -- 10 years of service.

• Paul Koldjeski, Database/Central Programming Support Programmer -- 10 years of service.

• Howard Shaw, Student Records Data Systems Programmer -- 10 years of service.

• David Walden, Network and Communications Services Telecom Specialist -- 10 years of service.

• Linda Wallace, Student Records Data Systems Programmer/Analyst -- 10 years of service.

• Rong Wang, NT/HSC Payroll/Personnel Data Systems Programmer/Analyst -- 10 years of service.

• Douglas Alders, Mainframe Technical Services Computer Operations Computer Equipment Operator -- 5 years of service.

• Dr. Maurice Leatherbury, Senior Director Academic Computing and Assistant to the Associate Vice President for Computing & Communications Services -- 5 years of service.

• Kenn Moffitt, ACS Central Web Support Web Developer -- 5 years of service.

• Rebecca Padia, Planning and Administration Administrative Assistant -- 5 years of service.

• Charlotte Russell, Planning and Administration Computer Support Specialist -- 5 years of service.

• Christopher Strauss, ACS Remedy Action Request System Computer Systems Support Database Administrator -- 5 years of service.

• Mike Wright, Notes & User Network Management/User Support Manager -- 5 years of service.

The following people celebrated 10 year employment anniversaries in January, 1999:

• Barbara Heffley, UNT/HSC Fiscal Data Systems Team Programmer/Analyst.

• Daniel Strange, NT/HSC Fiscal Data Systems Programmer/Analyst .