May 26, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 3
Posted by Alexa Rivetti, UCB Student Intern, UCOP. Mark Cianca is the type of person you can never forget. He’s leading the biggest business transformation in UC history, fundamentally changing the way we do payroll, HR, and benefits. If you…
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May 4, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 1
Posted by Yvonne Tevis, ITS chief of staff, UCOP. Paul Weiss got into IT because he was living in Los Angeles, and he needed money to afford a car. That’s quite a concession for a biking fiend. But the path…
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Featured in UCOP Link newsletter. Over two dozen volunteers from 10 UCOP departments* collaborated on the successful design and staffing of two well-received interactive booths at the 2016 Oakland Youth Careers Expo on Feb. 26. More than 1,200 high…
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March 16, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
Posted by Lisa Bono, IT Communications Manager, UCSC. New this year to the UC Computing Services Conference (UCCSC), first-time attendees may qualify to have the conference registration fee ($250) waived! To generate new faces and energy at the conference…
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March 11, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
Date: Wednesday, March 23 Time: 2-3 p.m. Presenters: Jonathan Kahn, Enterprise Application Architect, UCOP; Jerome McEvoy, Enterprise Architect, UCOP This is our second webinar in a three-part series on process mapping. You will learn about the value proposition and differentiators…
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Posted by Larry Delaney, Sr. Applications Manager, UCOP. The IT department at UCOP enhances and maintains UC’s very complex Payroll and Personnel System (PPS). During 2015, this system paid 286,918 UC employees across the university, of which 190,311 were at…
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February 2, 2016 All Articles 0
Posted by Danielle McNamara, Communications Coordinator, Diversity and Engagement – MESA, UCOP. Hands-on learning and project-based learning have become buzz terms in the STEM education world recently. But students involved in the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) program have been…
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January 22, 2016 All Articles 0
Date: Thursday, January 28 Time: 3 – 4 p.m. Join Terrell McQuitta, UCOP service desk supervisor, to learn about the tools used when telecommuting including, VPN, cloud computing, and Jabber softphone! Here’s how to join: Log in to readytalk.com…
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January 12, 2016 All Articles 0
Posted by Brian Tharp, program manager, UCOP. UCOP moved its mainframe work load over four weekends between September 5 and October 11, 2015, with 70% of the applications moving on October 11. The movements were practically flawless, due to the…
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December 10, 2015 All Articles, Spotlights 0
Posted by Leah Burns, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. Donna Yamasaki and her applications team at UCOP make sure their UCOP business partners can successfully use technology to manage systemwide online web services and benefit systems. “We support applications including At…
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