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Thank you Christa Vrabel!

As mentioned in the divisional meeting, Christa Vrabel’s final day with ICIT will be on Friday, December 3rd. On behalf of the entire ICIT organization, we would like to wish Christa the very best in her next opportunity.

Christa started at ICIT a little over 8 years ago as Web Coordinator. Three years ago, Christa transitioned her role to Manager of Web Operations. Some of her proudest accomplishments over the years include building strong relationships with content owners across campus and improving UW-Whitewater’s web presence. Christa’s most recent and fulfilling project has been optimizing the website for recruitment, enrollment and retention.

In her new opportunity, Christa will be working with Gibsons Restaurant Group. Her role will focus on optimizing their web presence and managing their e-commerce website.

Please take some time this week to congratulate Christa on her new opportunity!

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Thank you flowers!

As you heard at the Divisional Meeting, ICIT received this lovely thank you from Beverly Kopper. Thank you for all that you do for the UW-Whitewater Community!

“Thank you Elena and Staff for all of your help! You are and always have been AMAZING Warhawks and the role model for IT at it’s best!

Always Purple, Bev Kopper”

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Thank you Bryan!

Bryan Allen’s final day with ICIT will be on Friday, November 19th. On behalf of the entire ICIT organization, we would like to wish Bryan the very best in his next opportunity.

Bryan joined the ICIT team 4.5 years ago, working in the Helpdesk area. Some of Bryan’s proudest accomplishments include providing excellent customer support, helping to migrate the helpdesk from HPSM to Service Now and helping transition the Helpdesk to all remote support during COVID and then re-opening to in person support.

In his new opportunity, Bryan will be working for managed service provider Access Systems in Des Moines, IA . His role will focus on Windows server management. Bryan is looking forward to living closer to his brother and sister-in-law in Iowa.

Please take some time this week to congratulate Bryan on his new opportunity!

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Welcome, Alexa Haase!

On behalf of the entire ICIT organization, we are excited to welcome Alexa Haase as the new ICIT Student Office Assistant. Alexa will provide administrative assistance for ICIT HR and Finance. Her main responsibilities will include:

  • Providing support related to the ICIT personnel recruitment process, including requesting approval for new recruitments and ensuring each step of this process is tracked and completed accurately
  • Support our student employee recruitment process, including posting positions on Handshake, submitting new-hire requests, and ensuring new-hire paperwork is submitted timely and accurately.
  • Assist with the payroll approval process, including student employees.
  • Assist with tracking of ICIT GPR and PR financial accounts
  • Assist to timely and accurately process chargebacks for purchases equipment, software, and technology.

From Alexa:

“Hi everyone! My name is Alexa Haase and I am excited to join the ICIT team. Two fun facts about me are that I have one dog and am an only child. I grew up in Galena, IL, which is about two hours away from Whitewater. I am a transfer student from UW-Platteville, majoring in human resource management.”

You can find her in the front office. Stop in and say hello! 

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Welcome, Rachel Drettwan!

Rachel Drettwan first joined  ICIT in February of 2021, as a Student PeopleSoft Developer. Under Mike Olson’s mentorship Rachel completed over 20 assignments to improve student facing WINS functionality, including: SF screen shows wrong enrollment reason, legal name change error, resize popup for Additional Ways to Search, and add more department associates to Academic Org. Rachel graduated from UW-Whitewater in May 2021 with a degree in computer science and Spanish. She is currently pursuing a graduate degree in computer science at UW-Madison.

We are pleased to announce that Rachel has decided to continue her work for UW-Whitewater in a position of PeopleSoft Developer Associate starting in September 2021.

In this role Rachel will continue development of WINS features and functionality. For example, she is currently working on a project for Student Financials to address tuition calculation issue with ONLINE BBA students. 

We wish Rachel a continued success in her career and academic pursuits.