MCS Staff
ES&H/QA Representative: Judy Stickels
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MCS: Directory
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Ian Foster
Computation Institute Director, Argonne/Univ. of Chicago
Head, Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS, Room D156
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James Feigl
Assistant to the Assoc. Laboratory Director - Computing and Life Sciences (CLS), Room A231
Jim manages administrative and financial
functions for the Computing and Life Sciences (CLS-ALD). He provides
leadership, strategic planning, and organizational oversight in the areas
of research budgets, proposals, and grants to the MCS division and to
start-up CLS divisions, institutes, and centers.
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Administrative Staff and Duties
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Judy Beumer
Editorial Specialist, Room A201
Judy provides editorial assistance to MCS staff, handling clearance issues and the preparation of technical manuscripts for journals, conference proceedings, or reports and on the Web.
Travel Responsibilities: Morozov, Hassanein, Park, and Allain
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La Joyce Bullock
Administrative Secretary, Bldg. 203, Room C234
La Joyce provides administrative support to the Laboratory for Numerical Simulation (LANS) and a subset of Radix Laboratory staff.
Travel responsibilities: Anitescu, Balaji, Balay, Bardhan, Buntinas, Hovland, Jacob, Karpeev, Kaper (at NSF), Kim (LOA), Larson, Leyffer, Li, Lottes, Loy, Malusare, McInnes, Min, Munson, Norris, Shin, Thakur, and temporary staff, joint appointees, and guests, including Cattaeno, Lyness, J. Norris, Sarich, Utke, Wright, and Zhang
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Karen Cobb
Financial/Budget Administrator, A228
Karen supports division management in the areas of financial and budget administration and forecasting, cost control, procurement, and effort reporting. She prepares program budgets and coordinates related budget/financial activities in support of both ongoing programs and new initiatives.
Travel responsibilities: No travelers
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Mary Dzielski
Administrative Secretary, Room D235
Mary provides support to the deputy division director, project lead, and other members of Center for Nuclear Simulation group. She also acts as liaison with Argonne/Biosciences and UC administrative staff in coordinating travel and meetings for Integrated Genomics and Systems Biology (IGSB) scientific staff.
Travel responsibilities: Nowak, Siegel, Tautges. Caceres, Kaushik. Thomas. Sheeler, Alkhafaji, and IGSB staff including White, Barbano, and Hurley
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Susan Gregurich
Administrative Secretary, Room A241
As secretary to the director of MCS's Laboratory for Advanced Numerical Simulations (LANS), Susan's responsibilities include maintaining the director's calendar and monitoring his correspondence. Susan also provides administrative support for LANS-related meetings and workshops and maintains databases and Web-based information of the group's proposals.
Travel responsibilities: Moré, Fischer, Smith, Konkashbaev, Eisenberg, and Knepley
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Jan Griffin
Senior Staff Assistant, Room A228A
Jan manages human resource activities for the Associate
Laboratory Director for Computing and Life Sciences (CLS) directorate.
She also provides oversight for human resource activities for MCS and for
future start-up divisions, institutes and centers within CLS.
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Kathy assists assists MCS's building manager. Activities include processing shipping orders, supply and book orders, and requests for reimbursements.
Travel responsibilities: Jedlicka, and UC and FIG staff and guests such as Overbeek, Vonstein, Pusch, Bartels, and Wilke |
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Tamra completes a variety of administrative and clerical tasks in support of the personnel activities for the MCS Division. Also provides administrative support to staffing assistant for interviewees, including itineraries for travel by arranging ground and air transportation, overnight accommodations as well as, coordinating the interview schedule. Gathers, compiles, and organizes MCS staff attendance records which includes data entry of time off into the Kronos time and attendance program. Also assists the division administrator for education-related (DEP) appointments. Acts as back-up to TMS Representative.
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Darlyn Mishur
Accounting/Financial Assistant, Room A241
Darlyn provides support for the division’s procurement actions, programmatic purchases, and subcontracts. She also assists a subset of the division with travel arrangements.
Travel responsibilities: Meyer, Disz, Edwards, Hereld, Insley, Leggett, Marland-Glass, Uram, and temporary staff and guests including E. Olson, Hudson, Cohoon, Kubal, Zinner, Best, and DeJongh
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Tom Morgan
MCS Program Manager, STA, Room A247
Tom coordinates many of the division's proposals and
projects, participates in strategic planning and policy development, and represents the
MCS Division Director in such areas as policy implementation.
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Pat Pepper
Staff Assistant I, A240
Pat administers the personnel-related activities for the Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division. She provides advice, support, and counsel to division management, staff, and potential hires on personnel policies and procedures which includes employment status, job classification, grade, promotion and adjustment increases. She also acts as the division administrator for education-related (DEP) appointments.
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Carolyn Peters
Administrative Secretary, Room C112
Carolyn is administrative secretary for the director of the TeraGrid project including the establishment and operation of the national Grid Infrastructure Group. In this role, Carolyn closely interacts with 13 partner TeraGrid institutions.
Travel responsibilities: Skow, Navarro, and UC TeraGrid staff including Lathrop, Heinzel, and McIlvain
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Gail Pieper
MCS Coordinator of Writing and Editing, Room A228
Gail edits all our preprints and technical reports,
prepares newsletters and other nontechnical documents, and coordinates all aspects of
technical writing and editing for the division.
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Tina acts as the Help Desk Customer Support Representative. She monitors the Support Group request queue and ensures appropriate assignment of requests and assignment and tracking of loaner equipment.
Travel responsibilities: Bradshaw, Stacey, C., Raffenetti, Ressman, Valdes, Trefonides, Cerny, and Winkler
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Judy Stickels
Manager, Building Operations, Room A240
Judy is responsible for space allocation, procurements,
property management, telephone moves/installs, keys, cardkeys, and records management. She
acts as Environmental Safety, Health and Quality Assurance (ESH/QA) representative and
Building Manager.
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Lori Swift
Administrative Secretary, Room D235
Lori is administrative secretary to managers and staff responsible for the division's advanced computing technologies, scientific applications, and high-performance networking R&D projects.
Travel responsibilities: Beckman, Desai, Iskra,
Krishna,
Lang,
Latham,
Peterka,
Riley,
Ross, R.,
Gupta,
Yoshii,
Goodell,
Nadella, Wang, & other Radix guests and temps
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Lynn Valentini
Distributed Systems Laboratory, Room B151
Lynn is administrative secretary to manager of the Distributed Systems Laboratory (DSL) and other members of the group.
Travel responsibilities: Foster, Anathakrishnan, Bester, Blau, Bresnahan, Childers, Fraser, Keahey, Kettimuthu, Liming, Martin, Madduri, Nefedova, Rohder, Schopf, Siebenlist, and DSL and Computation Institute staff and guests including Karonis, Toonen, and Welch |
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Janet Werner
Executive Secretary, Room A247
As executive secretary to the MCS and ALCF division directors, Janet maintains directors’ calendars, travel schedule, and correspondence.
Travel responsibilities: Bair, Lusk, Brooks, Chan, and Butler
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