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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Nicholas Santillan is our July 2020 Star Player of the Month! Nick is Project Manager for the Provost IT Team. He deals with various roles including planning and coordination with stakeholders, vendors, and the IT Team, managing complex projects, and building WordPress sites. He is a very hard worker, and he makes sure that everything…
Heidi Tran is our June 2020 Star Player of the Month! Heidi is the recipient of the Provost Shared Services Star Player award for June 2020. As a result of the COVID crisis, we have experienced a significant increase in the need for Stipends/awards. In the final quarter of the fiscal year, Heidi processed over…
Alina Arakelian is our May 2020 Star Player of the Month! Alina joined our team last year, after working in the ITS division on the Workday Finance core team. Alina is highly skilled in data analysis and this has helped build rapport with our ITS department heads. Alina is consistently prepared for daily and weekly…