Human Resource Services
2003 Prudential Financial Davis Productivity Award Winners
Outstanding Individual Award Winner
The department’s associate chair praised Mr. Hinnant for thinking outside the box and taking considerable initiative, adding, “his overall performance has been absolutely outstanding.” A Florida TaxWatch evaluator commented that Mr. Hinnant’s intelligence, job performance, and contribution to UF appear to substantially exceed his job title. |
Jim Hinnant, $2,000Telecommunications Online Billing Team, $600
Developed online billing format for telecommunications services. This team developed an electronic format for all telecommunications services, saving the $175,000 that would have been required to purchase a billing program. The new system eliminates more than 20,000 paper invoices annually and saves a recurring $30,000 in labor, materials, and software agreements.
Department of Emergency Medicine Administrative Support Team, $600
Created new department’s support services infrastructure. A team of four clerical members designed and implemented systems and processes that played an important role in establishing the Department of Emergency Medicine in the College of Medicine. The department’s business manager wrote, “Because the college had not established a new department for more than two decades, no guidelines, templates, or other resources were available to this team. One of the team’s most outstanding characteristics is the collaborative use of each member’s strengths and talents to further the department’s goals. Our department has learned that the quality and character of support staff have a direct influence on the productivity and success of the whole department.”
Water Reclamation Facility Operational Staff, $600
Performed preventative maintenance while inspecting plant operations. This four-member wastewater maintenance team reduced the average time to complete a work order from 45 days to 10 days and reduced a backlog of work orders created by former employees from 200 to 10. One of the team’s five major projects produced a $30,000 cost avoidance. UF’s maintenance and construction superintendent wrote, “I can assure anyone the lift station operations area is in better shape than in the past ten years. This is due mostly to these highly motivated nominees.”
Scott Gapinski and Chuck Rowland, $300
Replaced specialty air conditioning system. Some air conditioners in the College of Engineering are considered research equipment and thus are not maintained by the Physical Plant Division. When one of these units failed, and outside contractor’s bid to replace it was $750,000. Scott Gapinski and Chuck Rowland, whose job descriptions do not include air conditioning maintenance, volunteered to build the needed unit, saving a net $550,000.
Donna Balkcom, $300
Performed administrative tasks for summer research program. In addition to her regular job, Program Assistant Donna Balkcom volunteered to handle administrative tasks associated with a National Science Foundation summer research grant for undergraduate physics students. Her department chairman commented, “Ms. Balkcom exhibited unparalleled professionalism and enthusiasm in performing these tasks that enabled our department to avoid spending nearly $5,000 to hire a temporary program assistant.”
Commemorative Plaque Recipients
Individual Award Winners: Larry Smith, Kenny Eubanks, and Paul Zoltek
Developed innovative maintenance techniques
Team Award Winner: Water Reclamation Facility Operational Staff
Performed preventative maintenance while inspecting plant operations
Certificates of Commendation
Individual Award Winner: William Hopper
Performed chemical treatment and analysis of chilled water systems
Individual Award Winner: Anna Studstill
Resolved billing overcharges
Team Award Winner: Jacksonville Campus Grants Process Committee
Developed standard procedures for research administration
Team Award Winner: Fiscal and Travel Productivity Team
Utilized split-screen data entry methodology