Human Resource Services

2006 Prudential Financial Davis Productivity Award Winners


The Davis Productivity Awards honor individuals and work units for innovation, creativity, and smart work that measurably increase performance and productivity in the delivery of state services and products.

Cash Award Winner

Shane Rigdon, $250


Shane Rigdon with Supervisor Danny Grant

Shane Rigdon with his adjustable, portable safety shower testing unit

Distinguished Individual Award

Built an Adjustable, Portable Safety Shower Testing Unit

Shane Rigdon is a plumber in the Water Department. He built a portable and collapsible safety shower testing unit that allows the preventive maintenance task to be completed by one person instead of two people. For the number of work tickets needing to be done per week, the savings amounted to $480/week or $24,960/year.










Commemorative Plaque Awards

Individual Awards

James Lennon, Coordinator of Administrative Services - Department of Chemistry
Developed re-utilization program for laboratory renovations

Susan Luther, Accounting Coordinator 3 - Engineering Finance & Personnel
Achieved 31% productivity increase in processing vendor payments

R. Michael Stoufer, Computer Programmer/Analyst Manager
Automated Online Course Registration

Phoebe Wilson, Information Technologist Specialist - Bureau of Economic and Business Research
Ran entire publications program alone when severely understaffed

Team Awards

Custodial Services Chemical Technology Team
James Crocker, Billy Pogue, and Eddie Lumpkins
Implemented the latest development in cleaning chemical technology

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Posse - Office of the University Registrar
Antionette Marbray, Victoria Clifford, Kelley Conroy, Laura McCormack, Betsy Worley, Nolan Garrido, Michal Drewniak
Created educational university web site on student records privacy

Fee Task Force - Student Financial Services and the Office of the University Registrar
Patti Perkins, Carol Cohen, Cindy King, Armando Ramirez, Irma Velez, Andrew McDonald, Keith Hay-Roe, Dave Durrand, rick Ragan, Jonathan Peine, Raymond Averyt, Willie rechsteiner, Tim Hugus, James Shivers, Milie Raskin, Diane Hurtak, Dorothy Etienne, Bonita Young, Ward Wilson, Jerry Bingham, Elaine Stuckman, Mike Dugger, Victor Yellen, Sheri Austin, Merry Hess, Diana Hull, Linda West, Karen Adamson, Earl Robbins, Jacob Prater, Michael Lowe, Alan Cook, Anita Ellison
Developed flexible, tiered and granular fee assessment system

Financial Management Team - Clinical and Health Psychology
Andrea Burne and Shankar Manamalkav
Developed Integrated Finance Human resource management database system

Freshmen Decision Modeling Task Force - Office of the University Registrar
Earl Robbins, Alan Cook, Amy Hinkson, Ward Wilson, Karen Adamson, Linda West, Jean Burns, Jean Quay, Michael Lowe, Dave Durrand
Developed a User configuration freshmen decision solution

myACS Development Team - Office of Research, Animal Care Services
Mitchell Coulton, Jennifer Johnson, Evan Hochman
Developed myACS Bioresearch Interactive Management System