Every year, the university's Finance & Administration Division Employee Recognition Program (ERP) awards one Employee of the Year winner for each of its three divisions (Engineering & Facilities, Finance and Operations).
  The winners are selected by the Rewards & Recognition Committee from all Employee of the Quarter winners from the preceding fiscal year. Each winner received a certificate, pillar and monetary award during the Aug. 1 Employee Appreciation Celebration.

Employees of the Year
Suzanne Bean (Finance)
Suzanne Bean
“When Suzanne took on a new position in our payroll department, she inherited a very large and old insurance reconciliation. She developed a way to “work” the old items and clear them in the fastest and most efficient way. She shared her ideas with management and co-workers. She was able to reconcile two years worth of insurance discrepancies in a two month time frame. This allowed us to collect premiums owed by departments and employees.”
Nominated by Angela Alford, fiscal manager

Stacey Haney (Operations)
Stacey Haney
“Working in the Workers' Compensation department requires one to wear many hats: initiating claims, scheduling appointments, handling temporary disability issues, assisting managers and injured workers, ergonomic evaluations and billing issues, to name just a few. In addition to these duties, Stacey accepted the responsibility of working with the MUSC OCIO to develop an online injury reporting system. This took many days and repeated tests.”
Nominated by Nancy P. Sifford, manager, Risk Management

Clifford Gibbs, Jacob Prevost, Allen Taylor and Joshua Turner (Engineering & Facilities)
Engineering & Facilities' Joshua Turner, from left, Allen Taylor, Clifford Gibbs and Jacob Prevost receive the Employees of the Year for the team category. The recipients received a certificate, pillar and monetary award during the Aug. 1 Employee Appreciation Celebration.

The team award was given due to an event that occurred on Friday afternoon, Jan. 16. On that day, a fuel tank for an emergency generator in the Hollings Cancer Center overflowed. Clifford Gibbs, Jacob Prevost, Allen Taylor and Joshua Turner stayed late helping to coordinate clean-up efforts. These employees were selfless in their efforts trying to mitigate the damage done to the lobby furniture, computers, and medical file folders on the floor below. Their unselfish contributions of manpower and teamwork helped MUSC save a lot of valuable assets, not to mention a lot of money.

Cindy Garmon PEER of the Year
The university's F&A Division PEER Postcard Program awards the Cindy Garmon PEER of the Year winner from all PEER postcard recipients received during the preceding fiscal year. The postcard is a cumulative program. Once an employee reaches the maximum number of postcards per fiscal year (24), the employee becomes eligible for the Cindy Garmon PEER of the Year Award. If however, a recipient does not reach the maximum number of postcards, the employee with the highest number of eligible postcards is named the winner.

Lynn A. Chajewski, Student Accounting (Finance)

Chajewski received the highest number of PEER postcards for fiscal year 2009. Excerpts of the comments made by her fellow employees include: “Lynn volunteered to exceed normal job duties and meticulously review '09 billing tables for A/R code charge accurately; volunteered to administer the department “WINS” bulletin board and events; completed NSG reconciliations during month and year end close-out; used AIDET when helping a student resolve a financial issue; and on and on and on.”

Employee of the Quarter nominee for July

Bouissey received a personal invitation to attend the monthly event  at which time the first quarterly winners will be announced.
 
The winners for the 2010 Employee of the First (fiscal year) Quarter will be selected by the Rewards & Recognition Committee from the eligible nominations received for July, August and September.
 
The winner will be announced at the Oct. 21 Employee Appreciation Event. 

PEER Milestone recipients for July 
Joe Boxx, Rebecca Bowman, Gloria Rivera, Monique Robinson, Sylvia Strickland, Tarsha Williams-Smalls and Eula Wise.
 
The Rewards & Recognition Committee is available to discuss the program with any other division or college interested in having its own program. In addition, staff members outside of F&A can present PEER Postcards, Applause and Employee of the Quarter nominees for an F&A staff member.
 
For information, e-mail Joyce Oltmann, oltmannj@musc.edu; Monique Robinson, robinsmo@musc.edu; Anthony Dunbar, dunbara@musc.edu; Melllie Klinger, klingerm@
musc.edu; Joseph Avant, avantj@musc.edu; or Jackie Boltin, boltinjc@musc.edu.
 
The next F&A Employee Appreciation event will be Sept. 16. All are welcome.

Friday, Sept. 4, 2009