Mark Walter is a tremendous resource for our campuses. Mark is a DBA with the Banner Hosting team and he provides such valuable expertise – both from a technical role but also from a leadership perspective. He is always willing to get involved and help see issues through to their resolution. The most recent case of this was when NCCU had an issue with an ancillary application. He was able to step in quickly and aid in troubleshooting and resolving the issue to get the system functional again.

Nominated by Aaron Meyer

Terry recently bowled a 300, i.e. a perfect game! They raised a banner for him at the bowling alley he frequents!

Nominated by Chris Stefanick

Blake unselfishly shared his time and expertise when I hit a road block during a project I was working on for ECSU to improve their academic standing rules in Banner. Blake willingly jumped in and adjusted a baseline job submission process that calculates GPA to point to transfer credit instead of residential credit so that a GPA could be calculated on transfer credit. This adjustment automated moving transfer credits to count in attempted hours. This automation saved countless hours of manual data entry. The long term effect is improved customer service administering academic standing to students leading to student success. Blake is my hero.

Nominated by Karen Boulas

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

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

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

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

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

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