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The Vehicle Maintenance team is responsible for handling the repair of golf carts, vehicles, and other equipment at USF. This small team services about 65% of the 650 golf carts and the majority of university-owned motor vehicles on the Tampa campus. The team specializes in metal fabrication and performs major and minor repairs on carts, receiving more than 1,300 work orders a year. In addition to repairs, they offer advice for cart purchases. The team also maintains the fuel pumps and diesel storage facilities on campus. The team includes Carlos Hernandez, James Gillilan, Raluek “Joe” Intarawichian, Supat “Pong” Yarngnork, Choksuraphon “Peter“ Piamjaroen, and Manager Raymond Curbelo. All are certified technicians.

The Waste Management Team services Tampa campus Auxiliary and E&G areas. Routes are run daily with two dedicated trucks that pick up and transport recyclables and waste on campus. They are continuously expanding the recycling efforts on campus to meet the goal of being one of the top 50 greenest universities

Vehicle Maintenance Team from left James Gillilan, Carlos Hernandez, Raymond Curbelo, Choksuraphon “Peter” Piamjaroen

in the country. The Waste Management Team moves over 1,300 tons of waste and refuse and collects over 400 tons of recyclables every year. They also manage the community recycling station on Sycamore Drive, where over 150 tons of recyclable materials are

Welcoming New Additions...Thomas Schlick, Assistant DirectorFacilities Management

Juan Pena, Maintenence TechnicianFacilities Management

Robert Moore, GroundskeeperFacilities Management

Desiree Cadle, Benefits Representative Human Resources

Beverly Rodriguez began work at USF in November of 1995 for the Director of Academic Computing. She then worked from December 1996 to June 2006 in the AVP’s Office of Management & Budgets for USF Health. From June 2006 to March

2015 she worked for the Director of Physical Plant. After Physical Plant, Facilities Planning & Construction, Environmental Health & Safety, and Emergency Management were merged together and became Facilities Management; she began working for AVP Christopher Duffy. After 22 years of working at USF, Beverly has now retired and leads a busy life with family.

Beverly Rodriguez retires after 22 years at USF

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“Meet the Team”

Reminders

Beverly Rodriguez Retires

On the Job: Mike Gaughan of Parking & Transportation Services keeping the parking lots looking great!

Remember to nominate your deserving co-workers for an Excellence Award.

The Sick Leave Pool open enrollment period is April 1 through April 30. Speak with your Departmental Leave Coordinator to take part.

Vehicle Maintenance and Waste Management

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Waste Management Team from left Tirado Jose, Raymond Curbelo, Jimmy Davis

collected each year. The team consists of two members: Jimmy Davis, with five years at USF, and Jose Tirado, with 15 years at USF.

Thank you to Ray Curbelo and these two hard working teams!

PATS’s new pay stations for parking feature a alphanumeric keypad as well as a backlit color LCD display for better readability and easier navigation.

Anniversaries

Facilities Management

Parking & Transportation Services

Human Resources

Paid Parking Stations Get an Upgrade!

Parking & Transportation Services has installed ten new, Digital, Luke II-600B, pay stations in lot 3C, lot 5A, lot 22A, lot 36, lot 29B (east and west), lot 2B (north and south), lot 33T and lot 38C. These innovative new units are designed to deliver enhanced usability and feature a 38-key, alphanumeric keypad, ideal for easy license plate entry when Pay by License Plate is introduced in the near future.

Online Training Opportunities Provided for Free

Jesus Holland 18Mercedes Castaneda 18John Wilson 17Pathum Narkmongkol 10Leela Gardiner 9Almeta Jackson 9Ruben Gutierrez 6John Shuey 5Bernice Pugh 4Claribel Hernandez Gomez 4Amber Cross 2William Land 1Russ Schmitt 17Eya Hernandez 16Everett Doten 15Otis Evans 4Steven Beggs 20Steven Bury 15Yiu Cua 12Bradley Orr 11Dwight Cuadrao 4Carl Pritchard 2Steven Marshall 6Jeffery Seymour 5Supat Yarngnork 4Raluek Intarawichian 2

Robert Jordan 14Orlando Rivera 11James Orf 10Eric Tate 3Daniel Preble 2

Carol Caruana 6Denise Haunstetter 2Carol Hendrick 1

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Did you know that USF has thousands of training courses available 24/7 on hundreds of software and professional development topics? These courses are available through Lynda.com and Atomic Learning - at no cost to employees!

Here’s how to access these training resources:

Go to www.lynda.com and click “Sign In” on the top right of the page. (NOTE: steps 1-3 will only have to be done once. Lynda will remember you after that.)

1. At the sign in page, select “sign in with your organizational portal”.

2. When asked to enter your organization’s URL… Type “usf.edu” in the “yourcompany.com.yourschool.edu field.” Click Continue.

3. At the NetID Single-SignOn page, log in with your NetID and Password and click “Sign In”.

4. Use a keyword in the search field at the top to find courses that interest you.

Atomic Learning is found on the MyUSF Portal.1. After signing in to MyUSF, click

Learning and Teaching Tools2. Click Software Tutorials3. This opens the Atomic Learning page

and, since you entered via the portal, the courses are all available to you at no cost. Simply search for the software and topic you are interested in.

Christy Chefalas, Fiscal and Business Specialistand Gabriel Montalvo

Cerise Mullings, Associate Director, HR

April Amorose, Postal Services Representative (left) and Carrie Towner (right)

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Outstanding Staff Award Winners from Administrative Services

Christy Chefalas

Cerise Mullings

April Amorose

Colette Nasworthy

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“April goes the extra mile to help customers with their mailing needs at the USF Post Office. April will take the time to research rules and regulations for items customers would like to mail instead of sending them to another post office… April is very upbeat and positive throughout the day. She treats every customer as the most important person to come in our doors.”

Colette Nasworthy, Safety and Compliance Officer

Congratulation to the 2016 Outstanding Staff Award winners from Administrative Services! Each year, the University of South Florida seeks to recognize employees who exemplify excellence through their daily commitment to the University. It is the hard work and dedication of these employees that make our success possible.

The award winners, from across USF, will be honored at the annual Outstanding Staff Awards Ceremony on April 4, 2017 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM at the School of Music Concert Hall.

“For several years, the required summer camp criminal background check process had been plagued with a need to research, develop and provide a comprehensive procedures guide for the entire USF System. Cerise diligently pursued and worked to develop an extremely helpful and accurate guide. The guide provided needed

“Christy represents the BULLISH system of guiding principles in all facets of her work ethic… Christy’s intricate knowledge of Concessions, Gift In Kind and Foundation funds was pivotal to the VP’s Pillars initiatives to help make “USF one of the Top Workplaces in Tampa Bay”, achieving excellence for recruiting, and rewarding and retaining a World-Class staff. Christy displays outstanding and selfless commitment to others success.”

“Colette has been instrumental in developing procedures, processes, and plans that enhance and solidify key items critical to our department. This allows to continuity to be maintained and access to previously non-existent data that now allows us to measure variables, milestones, and function more fluently… Colette enhanced our department’s internship program to allow USF students an opportunity to gain real-world experience in Emergency Management, enhancing their learning experience while at the University… Colette [also] volunteered her time to assist with our Vice President’s Pillar

initiatives, ensuring that Administrative Service employees had access to important communications and enhancing their voice within the organization.”

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Maintenance Technicians Marcelino Rivera, Jose Rivera, Jim Niblett, and Bradley Orr with Eliezer Rodriguez (front center) and Glen Aleo (right)

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E-mail newsletter submissions to:aaronnichols@usf.edu

Congratulations to the recent Quiet Quality Award winners from Administrative Services! To nominate a staff member for a QQA, visit www.usf.edu/staff-senate/qqa.

Quiet Quality Award Winners

VP Williams, Eric Tate, Catherine Llyod, and Tim Barstow

Gloria Murphy and VP Williams

Outstanding Staff Award Winners from Administrative Services - Cont.

Team Award: James Niblett, Bradley Orr, Jose Rivera, and Marcelino Rivera

“Excellence Boxes”

Nine “Excellence Boxes” have been installed in break rooms and employee areas in the following locations:

• DUP Bull Runner break room • MHB room 142• MHB hallway near room 120• OPM break room• PPA break room• PPB break room• PPC break room• PTA hallway just off break room• SVC Human Resources break room

Idea Proposal forms and Excellence Award nomination forms are available at each box location. If you have an idea that will help us become one of the “Top Places to Work in Tampa Bay”, please fill out an Idea Proposal form and drop it in the box. Idea Proposals will be collected on a regular basis by members of the Communication Pillar team.

You can also submit Excellence Award nominations in the boxes. Drop completed forms in the box or you can submit a nomination online at: usf.edu/Excellence Awards.

“This team of Building Maintenance Plumbers in Facilities Management have consistently gone above and beyond their duties in addressing the large amount of restroom back-ups that occurred around campus. [Their] dedication to their trade has greatly impressed their management, co-workers and the customers they serve. They instituted their own rotation of arriving to work early to pro-actively inspect the most problematic restrooms on campus in order to find discrepancies

compliance information and instructions all in an effort to ensure the safety of thousands of minors attending summer programs. A recent audit conducted resulted in positive commendations and findings all due to Cerise’s efforts.”

before they become major back-ups. It’s a dirty job and they have worked as a team to rise up to the circumstance.”

To achieve excellence, you must be competent in your job and perform at a level that will make people say

“Wow!”