Staff Activities

Transitions

Changes:

• Howard Draper, Helpdesk Consultant, is now working as a part-time Information Security Intern, CITC Administration, Information Security.

New CITC Employees:

• Lloyd Spaine - Helpdesk Consultant (part-time).

• Jamie Young - CPU Operator (part-time).

• Craig Morris - Helpdesk Consultant (part-time).

• Rachael Moffitt - Report Distribution Assistant (part-time).

• Billy Huber - Programmer/Analyst, Administrative Information Systems, EIS Project.

• Michael Teer - Datacomm Technician (part-time).

• Glenn Thorpe - Information Security Intern (part-time).

• Jason Emanuel - Computer Systems Manager, UNIX Systems Team.

• Brandon Walters -  Tape Librarian, Computer Operations.

• Yaw Bonsu - Data Entry Operator (part-time).

• Luis Sanchez - Computer Equipment operator (part-time).

No longer working in the Computing and Information Technology Center:

• Christina Hearn - Tape Librarian, Computer Operations.

• Watsunya Ferreira - CPU Operator.

Awards, Recognition, Publications

• Dr. Maurice Leatherbury, Executive Director of Information Technology and Academic Computing,  was named Chair of the Information Technology Infrastructure team on a project that the Texas International Education Consortium (www.tiec.org) has undertaken to develop plans for a new private university in Saudi Arabia.  He went with a fact-finding delegation to Saudi Arabia in January to meet the principals in the new university and to gather information preparatory to developing the plans for the IT infrastructure. More information about this project can be found here: http://www.tiec.org/gaz0312.pdf
  
  Dr. Leatherbury has also been elected Secretary of LEARN (Lonestar Education And Research Network,) a consortium of 30 Texas institutions of higher education that are designing and implementing a fiber optics backbone connecting the major metropolitan areas of the state.

• Congratulations to Sharon McSherry, Programmer on the UNT Fiscal Data Systems Team, on the birth of her son January 20, 2004.

• Cathy Gonzalez, EIS Training/Computing Administration Manager, had an article published in the January 2004 newsletter by the Office of New Student and Mentoring Programs. The article, "More Than Just an Advisor," can be viewed here.

The Human Resources Newsletter (February, 2004) recognized these Computing and Information Technology Center employees as Soaring Eagles: They will receive awards at the President's Staff Sack lunch on February 24.

• Danja Anthony, Data Entry Operator, Data Entry, always maintains an upbeat attitude.

• Don Butler, Team Leader, Student Records Data Systems and Jay Maxwell, Programmer, Student Records Data Systems, were recognized for their assistance in implementing the Texas Common Application interface for the new EIS system.

• Selva Ganesan, former ACS General Access Lab monitor, was recognized for helping a staff member who had problems scanning pictures in the ACS Lab.

• Gini Kennedy, Programmer/Analyst with the Student Records Data Systems Team, was recognized for her outstanding work in implementing the undergraduate prospect system interface to the new EIS system.

• Jesse White, Programmer/Analyst, Student Records Data Systems, "saved the day when he informed a fellow staff member that his car lights were on."