Antonius Douglas
Assistant to the Chair

Job Duties

• Handles the chair’s calendar, purchasing and travel arrangements
• Takes minutes for faculty meetings
• Coordinates departmental events
• Coordinates promotion and tenures
• Coordinates faculty hiring and folders

Sarai Hernandez
Administrative Assistant

Job Duties

• Receptionist to department main number and office
• Assists others with filing and faxing
• Distributes mail and packages
• Assists with ordering office supplies
• Other duties as assigned

Marsha Braxton
Program Manager

Job Duties

• Creates travel requests
• Processes travel reimbursements
• Field camp travel arrangements
• Field trip travel arrangements
• Manage Concur Travel approvals and reports for faculty, staff, and student sprior to travel.
• Manage Concur post-travel expense and reimbursement reports for all internalclients in the department.
• Manage all department travel credit cards (T-cards) and all T-card receipts andreports; oversee the resolution of declined transactions with multi-use of T-cards.
• Make travel arrangements for faculty, staff, and students by completing hoteland flight reservations; manage all travel amendments to reflect changes intravelers' schedules.
• Administrate the use and documentation of department vehicles, fuel cards,accidents, and repairs per university policy to coordinate department travel.
• Manage travel for field trips by completing Concur reports, processing waivers, and coordinating the use of department vehicles
• Create reimbursement vouchers and pay invoices for faculty purchases and department events.

Keshia Groggs
Program Manager 1

Job Duties

• Purchases research and teaching supplies
• Pays invoices
• Processes non-travel reimbursements
• Processes monthly P-card reconciliations
• Manages property/space inventory
• Processes work orders
• Other duties as assigned
• Handles cash deposits

Mariela Raudales
Asst. Dept. Business Administrator - HR/Payroll

Job Duties

• Posts vacant positions (staff)
• Submits I-9 Process
• Submits CHRI for background check
• Handles Effort Reporting
• Submits NTT Reappointment Agreements
• Hires RA/TEs, Postdocs and TAs
• Creates and submits requisitions in Taleo for Faculty & Staff and submits offers
• Processes Master, TT and NTT Agreements
• Processes Courtesy Appointments
• Handles Effort Reporting
• Processes ePRFs for funding, ePOIs, ePARs, and eRAFs
• Runs 1074 reports
• Processes Journals, Vouchers and SC Vouchers
• Coordinates and maintains Monthly/Biweekly payroll
• Processes paperwork for new hires, job changes and terminations
• Processes time sheets
• Submits Professional Master's Agreements
• Processes New Hire paperwork, Terminations and more...
• Runs several payroll queries and more...

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Financial Coordinator 2

Job Duties

• Posts vacant positions (staff)
• Submits I-9 Process
• Submits CHRI for background check
• Handles Effort Reporting
• Submits NTT Reappointment Agreements
• Hires RA/TEs, Postdocs and TAs
• Creates and submits requisitions in Taleo for Faculty & Staff and submits offers
• Processes Master, TT and NTT Agreements
• Processes Courtesy Appointments
• Handles Effort Reporting
• Processes ePRFs for funding, ePOIs, ePARs, and eRAFs
• Runs 1074 reports
• Processes Journals, Vouchers and SC Vouchers
• Coordinates and maintains Monthly/Biweekly payroll
• Processes paperwork for new hires, job changes and terminations
• Processes time sheets
• Submits Professional Master's Agreements
• Processes New Hire paperwork, Terminations and more...
• Runs several payroll queries and more...

Jasmine Brumfield
Asst. Dept. Business  

Job Duties

• Serves as a resource in determining allowable grant expenditures
• Reconciles grant cost centers
• Assists with no-cost extensions and following up on anticipated amendments or awards
• Assists with close outs and transfers to residual

Keah Walker
Program Director 3

Job Duties

• Manages department business, IT, and administration staff

Summer Crawley
Academic Advisor 3

Job Duties

For all Geology graduate students:

• Advises current and prospective graduate students
• Provides information on application status, financial aid and prerequisites
• Provides course information
• Processes student petitions

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Academic Advisor 1

Job Duties

For all Geophysics and Atmospheric graduate students:

• Advises current and prospective graduate students
• Provides information on application status, financial aid and prerequisites
• Provides course information
• Processes student petitions

Jason Ognosky
Microsystems Analyst 2

Job Duties

• Handles all desktop support for faculty, staff and student offices
• Assists with annual software updates
• Assists with IT equipment on departmental property inventory list
• Other duties assigned

Jay Krishnan
Sr. Systems Administrator

Job Duties

• Departmental direction and full design, installation, implementation, support, training, systems and IT security administration, management authority for computational facilities/staff
• Administration of datacenters with several high-performance compute clusters, large capacity storage farms and numerous computer labs and a myriad of other IT equipment
• Management of Help Desk Support for over 300+ users and junior IT staff
• Interface with senior management to formulate budget, direction of IT, purchasing decisions