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ACADEMIC OFFICE - GRADUATE OFFICE

Laura Alger

Academic Advising Manager
laura.alger@mse.gatech.edu
404-894-8414 | Love 298
  • Advise graduate students and track registration and student progress
  • Manage graduate office and support staff; work with the Graduate Committee
  • Monitor & award graduate fellowships
  • Recruitment of  prospective graduate students
  • Generate final reports for assessment
  • Coordinate graduate handbook changes and curriculum updates

Teresa Nelson

Academic Program Coordinator II
teresa.nelson@mse.gatech.edu
404-385-6315 | LOVE 297
  • Coordinate graduate application and recruitment processes
  • Coordinate graduate recruitment fair
  • Coordinate new graduate student orientation
  • Compile reports and statistics for OATS, Academic Program Review, Grad Committee, etc.
  • Graduate safety seminar coordinator, serve on safety committee
  • Coordinate graduate website updates

ACADEMIC OFFICE - UNDERGRAD

Tristen Jones

Educational Outreach Manager I
tjones388@gatech.edu
404-894-2430 | Love 290
  • Undergraduate recruitment lead, continuance of current recruitment activities, and the planning and implementation of new recruitment activities including representing MSE at on-campus recruitment events and in the metro-Atlanta high schools
  • MSE undergraduate scholarship program coordinator
  • Assist with the MSE Industry-Student Mentoring Program
  • Help coordinate and execute the MSE FASET sessions with Shirley
  • Meet with prospective students and their families to educate and inform about what MSE is and the opportunities they have as a student in our program

Shirley Manchester

Academic Advisor II
shirley.manchester@mse.gatech.edu
404-894-2850 | LOVE 292
  • Advise Undergraduate students on course planning and scheduling
  • Coordinate Student Awards Process
  • Degree Petitions (Backup)
  • Banner, Degree Works GT Reports
  • Change of Majors Process
  • FASET Coordinator
  • Career Services Liaison and Placement (uGrad)
  • Group Advisement Facilitator
  • MSE Minor Processing

Renita Washington

Academic Advising Manager
renita.washington@mse.gatech.edu
404-894-2852 | LOVE 294
  • Overall Management of Staff and academic processes in the UG office
  • Oversee UG Recruitment activities
  • Assessment and reports/ABET
  • Statistics
  • Recruitment Management, Planning and Assistance
  • Retention

ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT

Jorden Allen

HR Coordinator
jorden.allen@gatech.edu
| Love 286
  • Provide support to the School Chair
  • Coordinate activities of the Chair’s office, i.e. internal audits and program reviews
  • Human Resources Representative
  • Hiring processes of all personnel and researchers
  • Process J-1 and H1B visa requests
  • Supervise administrative, academic, and facilities support staff and activities

Xin (Coco) Ke

Administrative Manager II
coco@gatech.edu
404-894-1746 | Love 287
  • Provides primary administrative support to the School Chair
  • Provides primary administrative support to school-level committees
  • Administrative liaison between MSE and other School Chairs, and the College of Engineering
  • Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) Representative at MSE
  • Post Tenure Review (PTR) Representative at MSE
  • Manage official school visits, meetings, and seminars
  • Supervise the MSE administrative team
  • Coordinate School events
  • Serve as backup for Admin Professional Sr. and Admin Professional III

Desiree Oglesby

Admin Professional Sr.
desiree.oglesby@mse.gatech.edu
404-894-2888 | Love 286
  • Provide primary administrative support to the School Chair and Senior Associate Chair
  • Manage all school-level events, including room reservations, catering, contracts, Workday processes, and reimbursements
  • Manage all MSE student organization events, including room reservations, catering, contracts, Workday processes, and reimbursements
  • Oversee EMS desktop conference room management and approve bookings for MSE buildings
  • Supervise Admin Professional III, providing guidance and oversight for daily administrative activities
  • Serve as backup for Admin Manager II and Admin Professional III

COMMUNICATIONS

Anastasia Slaughter

Communications Officer II
aslaughter35@gatech.edu
404-385-1650 | Love 279
  • External communications: Newsletter and monthly e-News, media liaison
  • Marketing communications: Flyers, brochures, letters for Grad and UG programs
  • MSE Rep for CoE and Research Communications
  • Communications support to EAB and Development
  • Social media and online communications

DEVELOPMENT

Donna Peyton

Director Office of Corporate Engagement
donna.peyton@chbe.gatech.edu
404-894-0987 | Ford ES&T 1372
  • Major gift fundraiser
  • Develop and enhance relationships with corporations
  • Work with Chairs and faculty to enhance corporate relationships
  • Work with Central Development to enhance corporate relationships
  • Steward gifts to School

FACILITIES

Frank Moss

Senior Facilities Manager
frank.moss@mse.gatech.edu
404-894-6763 | Love 271
  • Facilities maintenance upkeep/prevention operations for MSE buildings, UG labs, and offices
  • Building renovation, lab fit-up/upgrade, and office buildout projects
  • MSE Space Utilization Surveyor and a member of MSE space committee for faculty office/lab assignments
  • GRA office space assignment and coordinating lab, office, and large equipment moves
  • Building safety/security manager, Right-to-know coordinator, and assistant lab safety manager for UG labs
  • Asset manager for MSE inventory equipment
  • MSE keys/door access controls system and coordinator for proxy reader installations
  • Telecommunications coordinator for phone repairs, upgrades, and installations
  • Event logistics, staging, audio/visual, and coordinating equipment set-up/break down

Masood Ebrahimi

Lab Manager
masood.ebrahimi@mse.gatech.edu
404-894-6020 | Love 173
  • MSE Lab Manager
  • Maintains and upgrades all MSE Labs
  • Main instructor for MSE lab training

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Jasmin Frett-Hodge

Assistant Director – Financial Operations
jasmin.frett-hodge@mse.gatech.edu
404-894-5792, 404-894-5791 | MRDC 3512
  • Head of Finance Office
  • Reconciliation of all projects
  • Processing of budget amendments
  • Proposal preparation
  • Salary distribution
  • Portfolio project management

Jonathan Jones

Financial Admin lll
jonathan.jones@mse.gatech.edu
404-894-6694 | MRDC 3506
  • This position has critical responsibilities, which involve compiling financial data and conducting analyses, reconciliations and projections in support of MSE
  • Prepare financially related reports.
  • Perform, analyze and resolve compliance reviews. Areas of involvement may include costs studies, budget forecasts.
  • Collaborate with Asst Director of Finance Op to provide recommendations on effectiveness of existing processes for the unit.
  • Interacts on a consistent basis by advising and counseling MSE Leadership

Catherine Washington

Financial Manager I
catherine.washington@mse.gatech.edu
404-385-5494 | MRDC 3506
  • Portfolio project management (Garmestani, Gerhardt, Jang, Parachuru, Realff, Shofner, Singh, Russo, Jayaraman)
  • Prepare data for use in budget amendments
  • Perform financial records maintenance, report preparation and reconciliation
  • Post transactions to internal ledgers
  • Processing of all travel
  • Processing of bi-weekly time documents
  • Processing / approving of purchase orders

COMPUTING SERVICES

James Cagle

Computer Systems Manager, Research Scientist II
james.cagle@mse.gatech.edu
404.894.3454 | LOVE 178
  • Provide hardware and software computer support
  • Oversee computing capability and the connectivity for those systems to the resources on the network
  • Assist in the selection and configuration of new computers
  • maintain functionality of desk computers and computer lab
  • Support x-ray lab, used for research and instructional purposes
  • First tier support for OIT accounts, services & software.

Kevin Green

IT Support Professional II
kevin.green@mse.gatech.edu
404.894.2851 | MRDC 4403
  • General maintenance and technical support of daily IT operations
  • Software upgrades, disk back-up, utility maintenance, repairs, technical and network support, testing of new equipment
  • Directory organization
  • Web content updates and modifications
  • Assists in maintaining main & secondary MSE websites (back-end software).
  • Primary support of Apple products and software (ipad/osx/imac/laptops)
  • First tier support for OIT accounts, services & software.
  • Research and procurement of IT and AV related equipment

Bill Miller

IT Support Professional Manager
bill.miller@mse.gatech.edu
404.894.3287 | Love 172
  • General maintenance and technical support of daily IT operations Software upgrades, disk back-up, utility maintenance, repairs, technical and network support, testing of new equipment
  • Directory organization
  • First tier support for OIT accounts, services & software.
  • Research and procurement of IT and AV related equipment
  • Provide hardware and software computer support for faculty/staff/students.
  • Oversee computing capability and the connectivity for those systems to the resources on the network.
  • Assist in the selection and configuration of new computers; maintain functionality of desk computers.
  • Administers MSE specific servers and databases. Creates and maintains MSE online systems and services (mseforms, etc).
  • Assists in maintaining main & secondary mse websites.
  • Manages MSE computer support personnel