CU Innovation & Efficiency Awards finalists announced
CU employees have good ideas that they put into practice every day, saving time, money and hassles across the system. The CU Innovation & Efficiency (CU I&E) Awards Program is designed to recognize these practices.
The Office of University Controller (OUC) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2024 CU I&E Awards Program. The voting committee, composed of the campuses’ controllers and deputy controllers, have selected 10 outstanding submissions to move forward for award consideration.
This year’s finalists are:
- Accessibility Resource Guide for ALTEC - Anne Hudson and Mackenzie Teepen (CU Boulder, Anderson Language and Technology Center)
- CU-SIS TDClient Automations - Rick Rowcotsky, Rakesh Vangapati, Brad Baker and Mayank Mittal (System Administration, University Information Services)
- Fix Bloody Mess: Developing an On-Call Provider Dashboard - Chandra Beard, Jacky Bonds and Zachary Eliason (CU Anschutz Medical Campus, Vascular Surgery)
- Flow Magic: Quantifying Business Value and Time Saved With Salesforce Automations – Kelly Stritzinger and Jessica Sharley, Ph.D. (CU Boulder, Student Success Technology)
- Fund 80 Chartfield Setup Automation - Hart Jarrell (CU Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, Finance Office)
- Implement Conflict of Interest Management Solution for UCCS HR - Kelly Kim, Valerie Carricato, Jordan Wight, Joshua Hernandez, Manali Agrawal, Kaley Espindola, Cindy Rhoads and Nancy Mars (System Administration, University Information Services, and UCCS, Human Resources)
- Leveraging Automation to Improve the Online Flexible Course Experience - Bryan Melville, Jason Black, Quang Do, Anita Antony Samy, and Ahman Woods (CU Boulder, Division of Continuing Education and Professional Studies Academic Technology Development)
- Multicampus Security Log Monitoring - David Capps (System Administration, Information Security Office/University Information Services)
- ODIN Subscriptions - Kevin Sarsen, Karthik Chigururu, Allmond McDermott and Faraz Ali (System Administration, University Information Services)
- Onboarding Program for Office of Contracts and Grants - Niki Spaeth and Jessica Trowbridge (CU Boulder, Office of Contracts and Grants)
What happens next?
The OUC’s Financial Services & Solutions (FSS) Digital Design team is conducting audio interviews with the finalist teams. Information shared in the interviews – including inspirations, problems solved and future plans – will form the basis for a series of short, animated videos that elaborate on each team’s accomplishments and facilitate award judging later this month. Award winners will be announced in June.
So many excellent submissions this year!
We recognize all the innovations that were shared during this year’s award program. CU employees have good ideas that they put into practice every day. Learn about many of these by checking out the current and past submissions on the OUC’s CU I&E website.
- Submitted by the Office of University Controller