“Brenda has consistently demonstrated outstanding expertise, dedication, and a user-centric approach in her role as a UX designer consultant for the PhoenixAI project. Brenda’s expertise in refining our UI design for PhoenixAI has significantly contributed to making our platform intuitive and user-friendly as possible.

In addition to her exceptional design skills, Brenda’s commitment to meeting tight deadlines is truly commendable. She has often worked late to ensure that all design mock-ups, image files, and other artifacts are delivered on time, without compromising quality. Her reliability and work ethic have been crucial in adhering to our project timelines and delivering high-quality result. We can truly trust and depend on her.

Finally, Brenda’s dedication to our end users extends beyond PhoenixAI. Having worked close with her on other projects, such as the Intranet, I have a very high degree of respect for her skill sets and value her expertise. Brenda excels at managing the front end team’s ongoing accessibility efforts, coordinating with the CDA to help university sites on our supported platforms to achieve and maintain high levels accessibility.

I believe Brenda Janish exemplifies the qualities of a Star Award recipient.”

“Brenda’s leadership, guidance, and expertise during the Generative AI website project was exceptional. We were given an aggressive timeline to build the site, and she helped us every step of the way. She provided us with examples of sites that we could build in time as well as valuable input on UX and accessibility. She kept the project moving along and was always available when I had questions. I’ve worked on many projects with Brenda and in the past, and she consistently demonstrates professionalism, reliability, and collaboration throughout them. She’s a great colleague to have!”

“I wanted to recommend Flor for a STAR award. She has worked diligently and patiently as we’ve made multiple, multiple reviews and edits of the Service Now form for ITS Expense Requests. She has displayed patience and diplomacy despite the many iterative updates for language and workflow. She has been thorough and communicative throughout the process and we wouldn’t have as good of a product or as quickly if she had not been involved. Well done Flor.”

“For the post-go-live support of the FST project, we needed to onboard Deloitte swiftly to ensure their team could start working without any delays. Ren√© played a pivotal role in this process, handling the creation and processing of all their CNetIDs with an impressive turnaround time of just one day. His responsiveness and efficiency were crucial in enabling a smooth onboarding process for Deloitte’s team. Furthermore, even with his busy schedule, Renee’s ongoing support has continued to make it easy for us to onboard and off-board their resources as needed, streamlining the entire process. His dedication and commitment have been invaluable.”

“I’d like to nominate Kolleen for her outstanding leadership in the successful launch of PhoenixAI and the development of the new generative AI website. Although there were tight deadlines, Kolleen guided the communications strategy for both projects, while fostering collaboration across various teams which led to the successful launch of both PhoenixAI and the generative AI website. Kolleen’s dedication, strategic vision, and leadership throughout the projects make her an exceptional manager and team player.

“The headline for Kolleen is that she consistently and cheerfully assists when asked to help, and she’s usually asked at the last minute. While she’s shone in the PhoenixAI realm, she’s also helped prepare emergency communications for incidents. We never know when one of those are coming up, but when we do, she’s great at navigating the speed with which we need to get things out the door.”

“Since the ITS Prodshop has been downsized to one person (and Barbara Ellis and Anna Dembowski retired), Abe has stepped up to keep the lights on, helping Prodshop stay on top of daily, monthly, and yearly challenges that we have faced. He was a major player in the transferring of processes/applications from mvs1 (mainframe) to the DE servers (WorkLoadAutomation).

He is not only a great person, but his knowledge of shell scripting and streamlining our tasks is phenomenal, and he is widely respected throughout the University. I don’t think there is anyone at the University that does not know who he is. I personally admired him for his family values (both home and work).

“Dan has been great about advocating for digital accessibility during the PhoenixAI project development lifecycle. Specifically around coordinating accessibility testing and proactively including the CDA team in design and definition discussions so that potential issues can be identified as early as possible. On a complex and fast-moving project like this, his attention to detail and engaging us where necessary is very much appreciated.”

“Michael handled a lot of configuration that was unseen or not as public for the GenAI project and deserves recognition to match!”