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Round of Applause Awards
Congratulations to the following individuals who have received Round of Applause recognition from their colleagues! To nominate a co-worker for the Round of Applause Award, visit the online nomination form.
Round of Applause: Daniel Sater
Daniel coordinated the publication of the Report on State Budget Allocations and Policies. The full 106-page report covered a wide range of financial and policy information on the UNC System. It was presented to the Board of Governors as part of the January BOG meeting.
Nominated by Aubrey Clark-Brown
Round of Applause: Daphne Dow
Daphne possesses valuable knowledge and experience working with Excel, far beyond the routine spreadsheet applications. She is always willing to consult on uses I may be less familiar with and help problem-solve to get the results I’m after. Sharing her knowledge, Daphne has broadened the Excel capability of our team. She’s the Excel Jedi Master for our group!
Nominated by Miriam Tripp
Round of Applause: Angelisa Riggsbee
Angelisa always has a full plate providing outstanding support for the CFO and the Board, but cheerfully adds more whenever it’s needed. As we prepared for the move to Raleigh, she kept everyone informed, organized, and on schedule to make the transition as smooth as possible. Now that we’re here, she makes sure she’s available to validate parking whenever it’s needed. Others might sigh at the interruption or roll their eyes at yet another person with a parking request, but Angelisa greets us like she’s glad to see us and sends us on our way cheered and validated. It’ such a pleasure to work with Angelisa and a model for me to emulate!
Nominated by Miriam Tripp
Round of Applause: Shirl Smith
Shirl is so responsive and incredibly helpful! Whether your needs are urgent or immaterial, she always finds time to help. Even when she has several tasks on her plate, she treats you as if you are the priority and does so with grace and patience.
Nominated by Tony Stewart
Round of Applause: Ramdan Maarad
Ramdan consistently provides stellar customer service. Whether by text, call, teams message or help ticket, you can count on Ramdan to respond quickly with a few trusty solutions to your problem. If his initial “bag of tricks” is not successful, you can guarantee he’ll reach out with options to meet and troubleshoot the dilemma. Even in the midst of moving to Raleigh, and all of IT’s responsibilities, Ramdan was never too busy to help with what I’m sure could be considered minor tech issues.
Nominated by Tony Stewart
Round of Applause: Melania Hall
Melania Hall is the best of the best! She is always willing to assist me when I am stuck with an issue I have not encountered before. She will send me detailed line-by-line instructions with pictures to boot. She is always pleasant and willing to go many extra miles to assist me as well as my department. If there is an employee of the year I would nominate her for that too. She is the most deserving person I know.
Nominated by Mildred Alexander
Round of Applause: Xiaoyan Qi
Nominated by Giana Malak
Round of Applause: Kathy Bryant
Kathy Bryant is the knower of all things, keeper of the keys, and all-around great person! Recently, I’ve been thankful for everything she’s done as our divisional move coordinator. Thank you so much, Kathy!
Nominated by Stephanie Minervino
Round of Applause: Xiaoyan Qi
Xiaoyan has, without missing a beat, picked up an entirely new workload as staff transitioned out of IT. She has provided the utmost quality of work and is one of the most dedicated employees in the organization. She is truly customer-focused, wanting to make sure the customer is provided the gains and that those gains provide a better experience overall. She is a rockstar that provides the magic to make things work.
Nominated by Allen Lakomiak
Round of Applause: Kevin Lloyd
Many thanks to Kevin for all of his assistance in processing payments for the NC Governor’s HBCU internship program. We appreciate Kevin’s extra efforts to ensure the corporate partners received their payments in a timely manner.
Nominated by Bethany Meighen