The support structure for the Department is composed of 25 staff members, 19 of whom provide administrative support and 6 who are responsible for computer systems and operations. Individual positions and brief function descriptions are outlined below. The Department has returned to its 2000 staffing level due to financial constraints.
Director of Administration: Pat Ipavich, Chief Administrative Officer responsibility for oversight and coordination of the administrative activities of the Department.
Administrative Assistant I: Adelaide Findlay, Receptionist, schedules meeting rooms, purchases department supplies, coordinates the department Distinguished Lecturer Series, provides miscellaneous secretarial support.
Information Specialist: Jordan Landes, serves as the Department Librarian and Newsletter and High School Programming Contest Coordinator.
Assistant Director for Business and Finance: Janice Jastrzebski, responsible for the overall management of the department’s financial and business operations.
Business Office Manager: Janet Doherty, responsible for the day-to-day supervision of the Business Office staff, signs payroll journals, final approval for travel requests and PHR actions, monthly review of credit card transactions, and research proposal coordination as needed.
Research Coordinator: JoAnn Simms, responsible for the MD Foundation Account, Research Budgets and Proposal Coordination, and Cost-sharing Accounts.
Coordinator, Payroll: Jodie Gray, responsible for the processing of all appointment information and salary charges to appropriate accounts through the PHR system for department personnel.
Accounting Associates, Grant and Contract Accounting: Cheri Tubman and Kathy MacLeod, balances all research accounts on a monthly basis, prepares financial statements for PI review, verifies the availability of funds prior to expenditures being approved, processes all accounting transactions for designated accounts.
Accounting Associate: Carole Hankins, processes transactions and balances on a monthly basis the State, DRIF, Summer Programs’ account, CP Foundation Accounts, and Scholarship/Fellowship Accounts.
Accounting Associate, Benefits and Leave Reports: Sue Blandford, provides benefit information to department personnel, processes faculty leave reports and maintains annual and sick leave balances, processes corrections to staff leave reports, collects payroll documentation needed for PHR system appointments.
Administrative Assistant I: Felicia Chelliah, verifies the accuracy of Effort Reports, files and performs general office support: (part-time).
Advisor/Consultant, Graduate Program (Faculty position): Gwen Kaye, responsible for graduate and undergraduate class assignments, supervises staff members, coordinates the graduate student application through acceptance process, makes graduate and undergraduate TA assignments, completes reports and responds to information requests from a variety of university and department sources. Works closely with the Director of Graduate Education and advises the Department Chair on a variety of academic matters.
Advisor/Consultant, Undergraduate Program (Faculty position): James Maybury is the primary advisor on academic policies and procedures for all of the Department’s undergraduate student population. Interacts with University Administrators and Department faculty members. Compiles information for reports and interacts with the Co-Directors of Undergraduate Education.
Administrative Assistant II, Graduate Program: Fatima Bangura, provides administrative support to the graduate program.
Administrative Assistant II, Undergraduate Program: Julie Buck, provides administrative support to the undergraduate program.
Business Services
Specialist: Brenda Chick, responsible for the mailroom operation, phone changes,
furniture purchases and office moves, enters changes to the card-key system,
handles security issues, monitors building maintenance problems, and
coordinates parking assignments. Supervises several part-time students. Brenda
has continued to perform some administrative responsibilities associated with
the Office of the Chair in lieu of the Executive Administrative Assistant
position not being filled.
Director of
Computing: Brad Plecs, responsible for maintaining the department’s hardware
and software computing requirements, manages a UNIX, PC, and Mac based computer
environment. Supervises staff members.
Research
Programmers: Eric Gurevitz, Matt Katsouros, James Phongsuwan, Geoff Ransom,
Derek Yarnell, provides the technical support needed to meet the Department’s
education, research, and administrative requirements.
Student Assistants:
6-8 hourly paid students
Coordinator: Kim
Thangpijaigul, responsible for CALF accounting, computer equipment purchases
and their inventory.
Computer Engineer:
Steve Kelley, provides programming support to the Database group.
Program Management
Specialist I: Cathy Sinex and Tina Madison, both provide administrative support
to several faculty members including purchasing, travel coordination, entering
information for power-point presentations, coordinating foreign visitor
arrangements, monitoring research account statements.
Administrative
Assistant I (part-time): Felicia Chelliah, provides secretarial support to three
faculty members.
Note: There are several Faculty Research
Assistants who provide additional research support to various faculty members.
These positions are not classified as staff positions within the University’s
Personnel Structure.