Alison Hill is our October Star Player of the Month! Alison Hill joined USC in October 2021 as a Senior Human Resource Partner. Initially Alison supported the Office of Research, Provost Shared Services units and more recently began supporting Enrollment Services. Alison coordinated the Federal Student Work Study job fair held August 19, 2022. This was a wonderfully…
Category: Star Players
Sean Powell is our September Star Player of the Month! Sean Powell joined USC earlier this year in January as a Computer Services Consultant in Provost IT and has done a tremendous amount of work in his time with us so far. He has helped support the deployment of hundreds of new computers this summer to 50+ offices…
Sunnary Adeva is our August Star Player of the Month! If you’ve ever come across student statistics about USC, chances are they came from Sunnary Adeva, Senior Institutional Research Associate in the Office of Institutional Research. Sunnary oversees the bulk of external reporting responsibilities through numerous surveys and other data collection efforts. As an experienced IR professional, the…
Ray Gonzales is our July Star Player of the Month! Ray Gonzales oversees our Office of Institutional Research and he has assembled an expert team to manage complex data sets and perform analyses on many aspects of the university’s core functions. He and his team have recently created several data visualization reports that track data of interest to…
Leena Mathew is our June Star Player of the Month! Leena Mathew is the director of our Finance and Controllership team and leads by example with a knowledge of sound financial principles, fiscal responsibility and accurate and timely reporting. She has played a key role in the testing of our new financial system, and is a member of…
Raquel Yarber is our May Star Player of the Month! Raquel Yarber leads our talented Payroll Services team that provides support to all of the units that report to the provost, and other divisions. Her leadership style is greatly appreciated by her team and builds on a culture of accuracy and timeliness, in addition to a service-oriented approach…
Shantel Gentle is our April Star Player of the Month! Shantel Gentle is responsible for the payroll management and personnel coordination of the USC Libraries. She manages between 230-250 faculty, staff, and students per semester and provides additional support to Student Affairs – Rec Sports as needed, which is another 180 staff and students. She…
Shahla Fatemi is our March Star Player of the Month! Shahla Fatemi helps manage projects in the office of academic operations and helps coordinate the military and veteran programs delivered across the university. She coordinates an academic bootcamp for prior-enlisted and recently separated veterans who are applying to four-year universities which has great impact on…
Barbara Leaks is our February Star Player of the Month! Recently, the Pacific Asia Museum (PAM) experienced a backlog of invoices, primarily due to two factors (1) change in cost centers for standing POs, which Central A/P could not fix for weeks; and (2) one of PAM’s employees was on a leave of absence. Through our…
Sydney Liu is our January Star Player of the Month! Sydney Liu is a Statistician in the Office of Institutional Research and runs the centrally managed course evaluation system for the university. She leads the effort to evaluate over 20,000 course sections every academic year, which includes sending hundreds of thousands of emails to almost 47,000…