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Employee Recognition Program




Congratulations to Jess Walders

Named ITS Employees of the Year, 2010

Employees of the Year, 2010
Jess Walters, Vice President Lev Gonick

Jess strived to add value to ITS and the university through her hard work, determination, leadership and quality of work. She developed new relationships throughout campus during the many implementations of new services and upgrades. Jess applied her previous experience and helped move project management processes forward in ITS. All these attributes and qualities were reflected the success of her projects this year.

Jess was instrumental in leading two very large projects, the Google Apps Transition and Identity Finder. She also served as a mentor to the HCM and Financials upgrades. Her projects included:

Voice Mail/Call Manager Upgrade - This project impacted all campus phone users and took months of testing and communication efforts to complete.

Google Apps Transition - This project transitioned all faculty, staff and alumni from iPlanet to Google Apps.

Identity Finder Installation - This project was implemented to reduce the risk of finding personal identifiable information on faculty and staff desktops and laptops.

ePortfolio Pilot - This project investigated the viability and scalability of the software package, called Digital Measures, for creating and maintaining student portfolios.

Operational Excellence - The project is to introduce new processes and procedures to obtain operation excellence within the ITS organization. Jess is currently leading a committee to introduce change/problem management processes into ITS.


Do you know an outstanding employee?

Nominate him/her for Employee of the Month by emailing Lora Veselsky.
Learn about the Employee Recognition Program here.




Employees of the Month
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  • October 2010: OpEx Change Control Committee: Dave Dominish, Tim Van Oss, Mike Thomas, Bob Garcar, Matt Panchur, Dwayne Bible, Ed Rynes, John Sully, Neal Mathur
  • September 2010: John Landers & Tim Van Oss
  • August 2010: James Goodman, Curtis Bunner, Paul Kalanish, Jay Kennedy , Kirsten Nagel, Steven Organiscak, Bob Sopko , William Wichert
  • June 2010: Harry Berger, Kelli Caponero, Liju Jacob, Anson Ashby, Tony Kramar, Jeff Lunter
  • May 2010: Ken Adams, Gina Bencke, Barb Brennan, Cindy Chen, Jim Heavey, Jennifer Loudiana, Jim Prince
  • Apr 2010: Ruth Cannon
  • Mar 2010: Dirk Holsopple, John Morton, Dennis Risen, Eng Wu
  • Feb 2010: Curtis Bunner, James Goodman
  • Jan 2010: Peter Beurmann
  • Dec 2009: Jessica Walders
  • Nov 2009: Hadrian Djohari
  • Oct 2009: Steven Organiscak
  • Sept 2009: HCM Team
  • Aug 2009: Kevin Chan, Dave Kovacic, Jess Walders, Dave Weilacher
  • Jul 2009: Mike Thomas
  • Jun 2009: University Annual Report Team
  • May 2009: Paul Jarc
  • Apr 2009: Sean Maxwell
  • Mar 2009: Debbie Andrews
  • Feb 2009: Peggy Wats Gup
  • Jan 2009: Colleen Meneely-Kobe
  • Dec 2008: Lou Changeri, John Ozanich
  • Nov 2008: Peter Beurmann
  • Oct 2008: John Sully
  • Sep 2008: Ruth Cannon
  • Aug 2008: Nate Murphy
  • Jul 2008: Genevieve Matthieson
More winners:

  • June 2008: Sean Maxwell
  • May, 2008 Lora Veselsky
  • April, 2008 Debbie Andrews
  • March, 2008 SIS Team: Zach Mandeleyl, Nassif Nassif, Jim Heavey, Lori Albrecht, Sue McHenry, Nate Murphy, Tony Kramar
  • February, 2008: Peggy Watts Gup
  • January, 2008: Jon Cline
See previous winners here.