The following winners were announced at the October 25, 2011, ceremony:

Bringing out the Best

Collaboration, Innovation, and Everyday Leadership throughout UFIT

The 2011 winners of the Bringing out the Best award are members of UF’s Career Resource Center

  • Farbod Fakhraee
  • Bill Lewis
  • Cory Monteiro

For their work developing and implementing the CHOMP Program

Serving the Client

Providing Consistent and Exceptional UFIT Service

The 2011 winners of the Serving the Client award are members of the High Performance Computing Center

  • Jon Akers
  • Craig Prescott
  • Charles Taylor

For their work on the Phase IV Cluster Configuration and Installation

The CIO’s Service Excellence Award

The 2011 winners of the CIO’s Service Excellence award are members of Academic Technology, Enterprise Systems, and the UF News and Public Affairs Office

  • Chris Cuevas
  • Robert DeCespedes
  • Bruce Floyd
  • Robin Marrin
  • Armando Parra
  • Jacob Prater
  • Martin Smith
  • Daniel Westermann-Clark

For their stellar job completing the UF Mobile project in time for the fall 2011 semester

Unsung Heroes

Working Behind the Scenes of UFIT

The 2011 winners of the Unsung Heroes award are members of e-Learning Support Services, the UF Computing Help Desk, and the Open Systems Group

  • John Boekenoogen
  • Anthony Giardino
  • Adrian Gritz
  • Chris Gross
  • Sanghyun Seo Jeon
  • JoLaine Jones-Pokorney
  • Melody Kaufman
  • Carl Perry
  • Anchalee Phataraloha
  • Narasi Ramachandran
  • Martin Smith
  • Mike Stoufer
  • Saee Subramanian
  • Todd Williams
  • Bill Wood

This group worked on the successful conversion and deployment of the university’s CMS transition from Blackboard Vista to Sakai