Staff Activities

Transitions

New Employees:

• Kevin Treadwell, Telecommunications Student Assistant (part-time).
   

• Megan Kilgore, Telecommunications Student Assistant (part-time).

• Christina Cooper, Administrative Services Student Assistant (part-time).
   

• Paul Vercher, Computer Systems Manager, Distributed Learning Support.

No longer working in the Computing and Information Technology Center:

• Colin Carter, Administrative Services Student Assistant (part-time).

• Shannon Leach, Production Control.

Changes:

• Doug Alders has moved from Computer Operations to EIS Technical Services where he is a Computer Support Specialist.

Awards, Recognition, Publications, etc.

Supaluk Joy Aswalap, Programmer/Analyst on the UNT/HSC Fiscal Systems Team  and a doctoral candidate in the UNT School of Library and Information Sciences, recently had an article published in First Monday - a peer–reviewed journal on the Internet. The article, "'Information society' development in Thailand: Information workforce and information and communication technology perspectives," can be read here: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_10/aswalap/

Star Performers

All Starr Performers will be recognized at the President's Staff Sack Lunch on November 1.

• Tracy Hansen, Desktop Support, was recognized as a Star Performer in the September 2005 issue of the Human Resources Newsletter.

The following people were recognized as a Star Performers in the October 2005 issue of the Human Resources Newsletter:

• Matthew Barnhart, Distributed Learning Support..

• Patricia Bell, Inventory and Timekeeping Assistant.

• JoAnn Luksich, Data Management Coordinator.

• Claudia Lynch, ACS Documentation Services Manager.

• J. P. Williams, Central Web Support.

Soaring Eagles

The following people were recognized as a Soaring Eagles in the October 2005 issue of the Human Resources Newsletter:

• Charity Beck, UNT Central Web Support, "assisted the Biology Dept. Staff in 'decoding' and explaining DreamWeaver Software."

• Philip Buhler, Student Records Data Systems, was thanked for his "optimization of projects which migrated into production that used to take up to 6 hours to complete but now can run in under one minute!"

• Tracy Hansen, Desktop Support, "helped a fellow employee answer a question which helped to resolve a problem immediately."

• Rhonda Holmes, CITC Administrative Services, "did an outstanding job of helping a department process a purchase order that had a very short lead time."

• JoAnn Luksich, Data Management Coordinator, "was kind and helpful responding to a fellow employees urgent survey development requests."

• Scott Windham, Data Communications, was thanked for helping "a fellow co-worker when they really needed it."