Kathy Logan is our May Star Player of the Month! Kathy came us from the USC School of Social with vast knowledge and experience as Facilities Manager. Kathy supports our Provost Shared Services Team and our other USC units, that interact with the Office of Planning and Design. Since joining the Provost Office, Kathy has…
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April 2021 Star Player
Diana Rangel is our April 2021 Star Player of the Month! Diana Rangel is the Senior Human Resources Business Partner supporting the Student Affairs organization. She has done an excellent job supporting Student Affairs during the pandemic with timely informative communications related to remote working, on-campus protocols, testing requirements, and coaching conversations. In addition Diana has been…
March 2021 Star Player
Jamie Putorti-Sandheinrich is our March 2021 Star Player of the Month! Jamie is our Special Projects Manager and has done a wonderful job of working with the schools to coordinate the state authorization process for our online programs. She maintains great relationships and is always available to offer a helping hand with the large volume of…
February 2021 Star Player
Matthew Marchak is our February 2021 Star Player of the Month! Matt is the Assistant Director in the Office of Institutional Research. Matt’s decision-making skills are solid, and he provides leadership to every member of the department. He has a deep understanding of institutional operations, history, and policy, and leverages that information to advance projects…
January 2021 Star Player
Khalilah Williams is our January 2021 Star Player of the Month! Khalilah has been instrumental in project managing university wide Talent & Organizational design programs and equally in continual enhancements to our Provost Data Analytics capabilities. I want to recognize Khalilah’s ability to work across organizations and at various levels as she gracefully drives the…
December 2020 Star Player
Fritzie Alcaraz is our December 2020 Star Player of the Month! Fritzie is an accountant II in the Provost Finance team. Over the quarter, Fritzie worked to train her peers on TM1 so that our financial projections are completed accurately and timely. In the past two months, Fritzie also stepped up to help the Controllership…
November 2020 Star Player
Octavio Higareda is our November 2020 Star Player of the Month! Octavio is an Accountant I for Provost Finance. One of his main responsibilities is the management of Undergraduate Programs, including program operations, Trojan Scholars Society, Advising, Academic Honors and Fellowships; distribution and management of numerous scholarship stipends. He provides the AVPs monthly reconciliations and…
October 2020 Star Player
Maria Gradillas is our October 2020 Star Player of the Month! Maria is the recipient of the Provost Shared Services Star Player award for October 2020. Maria has taken care of the controllership function for the Office of the Provost for the past six years. On an annual basis, she processes over 3,000 transactions in…
September 2020 Star Player
Yunyun Dai is our September 2020 Star Player of the Month! Yunyun has been a Statistician in the Office of Institutional Research for almost 7 years. Her duties include running the survey research program (which focuses largely on student surveys (but not exclusively), publishing the university’s enrollment report and graduation rates, developing data visualizations, providing…
August 2020 Star Player
Gretchen Lees is our August 2020 Star Player of the Month! Gretchen oversees the USC Libraries and PAM and was with us when we started in 2015. Over time, she has found many ways to be successful in partnering with the other departments in our organization. Gretchen’s clients love her, they often tell me she…