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EMPLOYEE AWARDS
"Good leaders start as good followers"
John S. Richard, Director of DCS |
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EMPLOYEE OF THE QUARTER
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CY 2008-Q3
Lisa Bradley
all nominations
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Lisa was asked to assist in the operations of Oklahoma Emergency Management during the time of Hurricane Gustav as it played out its life striking the Louisiana coast and sending several thousand refugees to other parts of the United States for a period of time. Lisa worked over 65 hours with Emergency Management assisting them including a holiday, weekend, and evenings, while maintaining her current work assignments in Central Purchasing. Lisa is an example of good "customer service" utilizing her talents to assist another state agency at a time when the need is there to assist others. |
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CY 2008-Q2
Vicki Spivey
all nominations
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Always willing to help; goes far beyond her job description; her work efforts need to be recognized;
ends up helping all areas if needed; willing to take on work that will require her to learn something new to complete; always there when you need her. Vicki has recently taken another position in Central Purchasing replacing Gretta Lee as an Administrative Programs Officer handling vendor complaints, assisting Kathy Cox with the CPO program, and assisting Gretta Lee with the State Purchase Card Program. During this transition she is still assisting the contracting officers from her previous position as a Contracting Assistant until the position could be filled. |
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CY 2008-Q1
Julie Mathis
all nominations
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Going above and beyond the call of duty, Julie manages the large amount of work
I with a consistent error free goal. This allows my work to flow easier. I appreciate her commitment
and believe it is she this honor is due. |
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CY 2007-Q4
Owen Grimes
all nominations
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Owen has been working for the State Leasing office for 12 months and has shown strengths in
customer service, teamwork, achievement and dependability. Owen is on time. Never calls in sick. Wants to work, I have to make him go home. Agencies compliment about how nice Owen is and how willing he is to help them. Owen strives to do a perfect job. Owen is very responsible and is capable of handling difficult tasks. Owen's interest in working hard has been a tremendous help as it has allowed me to get more work done to satisfy the customer. |
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CY 2007-Q3
Doyle Bargis
all nominations
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Doyle was assigned the task of clearing out surplUS equipment left from the former Asbestos crew,
in the DCS Warehouse. He supervised a crew of Galt Temporary employees to clean up, transfer equipment, and material to State Surplus. Many items were sold by computer on-line auction. Doyle acted as freight manager, as he made sure the customers paid receipts from on-line purchases matched inventory, to what the customers picked up. Doyle supervised the Galt Temporary Crew in the erection of several chain link fence storage areas inside the DCS Warehouse. Doyle has completed the above additional job tasks, while in his spare time, he kept up and satisfied the maintenance request from the tenants of Denver Davidson Building. Jobs well done. |
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CY 2007-Q2
Terry Zuniga
all nominations
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During her first summer at DCS Terry organized a team of twelve to conduct an audit of all state
agency owned vehicles. This audit was completed in a timely manner and met all requirements outlines by the State Auditor’s office. She designed a database for the entire state inventory and reviewed all information submitted. She has been the lead on organizing the Motor Vehicle Advisory Council formed for all agencies who own motor vehicles to collectively develop statewide uniform standards for their operations, identified the committees necessary, assigned members from all agencies, and collected the results. Terry has also been the lead for the implementation of our new fleet software package. The data migration promised by the vendor has been the development of spreadsheets from our old database by Terry and our ISD Dept. She has spent countless hours with no lunch or breaks during the transition period. Terry has outstanding computer skills, and is always available to help anyone in the Division with spreadsheets or other functions. |
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CY 2007-Q1
Tim Harvey
all nominations
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Since Interagency Mail's postal supervisor retired in February, Tim Harvey has stepped in during
this time of transition and has been taken on the responsibilities of the daily, weekly and monthly reports as well as billing. He has done this without neglecting his normal duties and with a great "no problem" attitude. One of the IA Mail couriers needed to take time off during spring break. Again we went to Tim for help. He learned the route in one day and has been doing a splendid job since. Tim is always pleasant and helpful, constantly looking to improve the process, striving to learn all he can, and is a great asset to Central Printing/IA Mail and DCS as a whole. |
CY 2006-Q4
Doug Kellogg |
On Christmas Eve, Doug was called out to the Mansion to respond to a problem with the
heating boiler not providing any heat to the First Family. Realizing that he could not get the motor fixed until after Christmas, he called a local vendor and purchased 12 portable heaters plus making sure the motor installed in a timely manner |
CY 2006-Q3
Jeni Adams |
In the last quarter, Jeni has overseen CAP’s commitment to cut processing time of Pay Apps to
5 days. In 2 ½ months Jeni has seen the percentage of on-time payments improve by almost 25% with 0 over 15 days for Sept. She has independently taken the initiative of finding out the details of the move by the Post Office and has proposed a viable solution so that it doesn’t adversely impact CAP or Facilities. Jeni quietly takes on an additional workload in the event that a co-worker is absent and never skips a beat as seen earlier in the year when her supervisor was off work for 2 months. If anyone at all has a problem, she's the first one to help. She organizes the monthly birthday luncheons for CAP and FS; as well as serves on, and works tirelessly for, the PERC committee. As an employee who consistently goes above and beyond her realm of responsibility, and a person who is always cheerful and positive, Jeni is located in the heart of the CAP office in more ways than one. |
CY 2006-Q2
David Howard |
Central Printing would like to nominate David Howard, Press Operator for CP as Employee of
the Quarter. David has worked for CP for ten years, and currently produces most of the full color, complicated printing for Central Printing. This being an election year, CP is responsible for printing the final results of the candidates filing for office to the Election Board. The job order for this book is provided to CP at 10:00 pm the evening after it's deadline. Printing occurs overnight, and the results are due no later than 12 noon the following day. Arrangements had been made for the printing of this book, and David was one of the team members. Two days prior to the printing of the book, David had a death in the family and the services were to be held the same day as the printing. David, knowing how important the job was, and knowing how desperate he was needed to meet the critical deadline, still reported to work at 11pm the same evening of the funeral to fulfill his part. Without David's teamwork, CP would not have been able to meet the deadline. For this type of dedications to a team, CP believes David should be Employee of the Second Quarter. |
CY 2006-Q1
Jason Doss |
I felt he deserved recognition for the contributions he made while with Central Printing/IA Mail. I am not alone in appreciating Jason’s great work ethic and helpful attitude; he received the majority of the Employee of the Quarter nominations from his peers as well. Here are some of the ways Jason’s co-workers describe him; Very courteous, quick to learn, reliable, always ready to lend a helping hand, friendly, dependable, always early, smiles while doing his job. Jason is a bright young man who has served his agency, division and customers well, and I feel confident he will continue to do so in his new position. |
CY 2005-Q4
Wendy Simpson |
Wendy is a hard working individual who has went above and beyond her job duties,
Willingness to fill in the gaps where there is a need and has assumed responsibilities of recently vacated position to ensure that unit continues to operate smoothly. She is a joy to work with and lightens up my morning each day with a warm greeting. Willingness to fill in the gaps where there is a need and has assumed responsibilities of recently vacated position to ensure that unit continues to operate smoothly. |
CY 2005-Q3
Tina Balmer |
Tina had leave scheduled for two days in September. When Hurricane Katrina did so much
damage to the State of Louisiana many agencies were called in to help them out. Two of the agencies from
Oklahoma, the Military Department and the Health Department were called. In order to get things quickly, they needed to order additional P/Cards. Tina came in on the 1st day and worked the afternoon to get the Military Department taken care of. Tina came in on the 2nd afternoon and waited at least 3 hours for the Health Department to deliver paperwork in order for Tina to do her part with the P/Cards. She is always ready to do whatever she needs to do in order to help out state agencies. For Tina to volunteer to come in the office on her scheduled days off is truly going the extra mile. |
CY 2005-Q2
Theresa Howell |
With the retirement of Jean Fraley, Theresa has filled two positions to assist Risk Management in keeping up with its workload. While successfully filling these two roles, she has maintained her exceptional level of customer service for Risk Management’s Fire District Program and was instrumental in enabling the Risk Management team to deliver to the Fire Districts an insurance renewal with savings of over 20%.
In addition, Theresa is assisting in educating Risk Management’s new Manager of Administration and Underwriting, a position to which Theresa will report in the future. Always a dependable team player, Theresa volunteers to assist others. Going beyond expectation, Theresa obtained her CPO certification late last year in order to prepare her for future opportunities. Theresa’s attitude and hard work make her a model for others to follow. The Risk Management team elected Theresa as its Employee of the Quarter and is proud to nominate her for DCS’s Employee of the Quarter. She deserves the honor. |
CY 2005-Q1
Amber Ezekiel |
Amber Ezekiel began as a Galt temporary employee working in Accounts Receivable. Amber was
encouraged to apply for a permanent position at DCS because she excelled in every duty she was asked to perform. Amber became a full-time employee in Accounts Payable in October 2003. While transitioning to the CORE PeopleSoft Financial systems, Amber not only learned to operate both the old and new financial systems, she quickly became one of the most knowledgeable persons for these systems. Amber is probably one of the few persons in state government with a broad knowledge of the interrelationships of the new Accounts Payable, Procurement and General Ledger systems. Her work ethic and ability to sort out what is relevant and more importantly, what is not, is exceptional. She has become the "go to" person for many highly visible special projects. When division personnel have questions about invoices or their purchase orders, most often it is Amber they seek out. Amber is always customer oriented and wants very much to please everyone and help them resolve their problem. If Amber has a fault, it is that she sometimes wants to take on too much. All of this would be quite
amazing for even a 20-year employee, except that Amber has less than two years experience, with little formal training. |
EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR
CY 2007
Doyle Bargis |
Doyle took his crew to the State Warehouse and took down & rebuilt metal shelving, to move file
boxes for Central Purchasing into another area. Doyle and his crew worked this last week or so in the hottest, dirtiest place there was, until now. Doyle and his crew took it on themselves to sweep & hosed down the floors at the warehouse. (It's at least not as dusty as it was before.) They have moved thousands of file boxes from one area the other. They have torn down metal fencing along with the shelving to make one area for all those files. The working conditions that he has been in over at the warehouse have been less than ideal. It's the hottest & dirtiest place to be in the summertime but Doyle and his crew have improved Central Purchasing's storage area for those files by a 1000 percent Doyle has done a wonderful job of arranging everything so we might actually find a file in a certain box over there. He was in there working just as hard, if not harder, than the guys he had with him. Thank you, Doyle for all your hard work and the leadership you have shown in completing a very difficult task that was assigned to you. |
CY 2006
Jimmy Pham |
Jimmy begins each day with a great attitude. He 'IS pleasant to everyone, fellow employees as
well as our customers. He meets every new task with a positive outlook. He has had to learn to navigate
Microsoft Access databases, new spreadsheets, and reporting systems. His input helped develop some of those reporting systems. His observant review of the Fuelman reports has assisted FMD in identifying issues that, needed to be addressed. We count on Jimmy. He is in the office, on time, and ready to contribute every day. |
CY 2005
Janet Hall |
Janet has demonstrated exceptional leadership in CAP. She has assumed the duties of recently retired Nancy Boydston in addition to her own without complaint, and has taken on the role of training two new employees while continuing with her own duties. She has worked extra hours in order to meet deadlines, yet has still saved the time to volunteer for the PERC committee. |
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