ACADEMIC OFFICE - GRADUATE OFFICE

Laura Alger
Academic Advising Managerlaura.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 IIteresa.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

Tia Williams
Academic Program Coordinator Itia.williams@mse.gatech.edu
404-894-4253 | Love 296
- GRA Hiring
- Class Scheduling
- Registration holds, permits and overrides
- Textbook Ordering
- Coordinate MSE BS/MS Program
- Student visa processing and renewals
- Commencement coordinator
- Assist with Career Fairs
- Transfer Course Evaluation
- Grade Change Processing
ACADEMIC OFFICE - UNDERGRAD

Tristen Jones
Educational Outreach Manager Itjones388@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 IIshirley.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 Managerrenita.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

Dracy Blackwell
Assistant Director-Administrative Operationsdracy.blackwell@mse.gatech.edu
404-894-5823 | Love 285
- 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

Brandi Howard
Faculty Support Coordinatorbrandi.howard@mse.gatech.edu
404-894-2136 | Love 368
- Supporting: Alamgir, Danielson, Garrmestani, Jang, Kacher, Li, Liu, Losego, Ramprasad, Ratcliff, Thadhani, Toor, Vogel, Wong, Yushin
- Admin Support to faculty and their research groups for travel, BuzzMart and Workday
- Enter purchase orders through accounting system; Compile information and reports; Process check and foundation requests including support documentation; Coordinate monthly procurement statement reconciliation.
- Assist PI's regarding interpretation and application of administrative policies and procedures; Coordinate and participate in visits, meetings, seminars and video conferences, and conference room scheduling.
- Prepare outgoing packages for shipping/track package activity/control inventory of incoming shipments
- Organize Receipts and Invoices

Xin (Coco) Ke
Administrative Manager IIcoco@gatech.edu
404-894-1746 | MRDC 3505
- Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) Representative at MSE
- Supervising MRDC admin support activities and main office
- Supervising administrative staff, faculty support staff, and student assistants
- Supporting: Facchetti, Hu, Himani, Melkote
- Admin Support to faculty and their research groups for travel, BuzzMart and Workday
- Enter purchase orders through accounting system; Compile information and reports; Process check and foundation requests including support documentation; Coordinate monthly procurement statement reconciliation.
- Assist PI's regarding interpretation and application of administrative policies and procedures; Coordinate and participate in visits, meetings, seminars and video conferences, and conference room scheduling

Fonda Mason
Administrative Professional IIIfmason8@gatech.edu
404-894-2490 |
- Supporting: Gokhale, Jacob, McDowell, Singh, Speyer, Srinivasarao, Wang, Yao, Lectures, and Staff
- Admin Support to faculty and their research groups for travel, BuzzMart and Workday
- Enter purchase orders through accounting system; Compile information and reports; Process check and foundation requests including support documentation; Coordinate monthly procurement statement reconciliation.
- Assist PI's regarding interpretation and application of administrative policies and procedures; Coordinate and participate in visits, meetings, seminars and video conferences, and conference room scheduling.
- Prepare outgoing packages for shipping/track package activity/control inventory of incoming shipments
- Processing of reimbursements for MSE buildings
- Schedule travel and agendas for MSE Seminar Speakers
- Ordering and maintaining office supplies for all MSE buildings
- Manage the golf cart
- MSE Faculty Recruiting process; travel logistics, interview schedules
- Conference room confirming for MRDC and LOVE buildings

Hope Payne
Faculty Support Coordinatorhope.payne@mse.gatech.edu
404-894-0496 | MRDC 3506
- Supporting: Brettmann, Correa-Baena, Deneke, Garten, Gerhardt, Jayaraman, Kumar, Milam, Muhlstein, Qin, Realff, Shofner, Stingelin, Tsukruk
- Admin Support to faculty and their research groups for travel, BuzzMart and Workday
- Enter purchase orders through accounting system; Compile information and reports; Process check and foundation requests including support documentation; Coordinate monthly procurement statement reconciliation.
- Assist PI's regarding interpretation and application of administrative policies and procedures; Coordinate and participate in visits, meetings, seminars and video conferences, and conference room scheduling.
- Prepare outgoing packages for shipping/track package activity/control inventory of incoming shipments
- Organize Receipts and Invoices
- MSE Ambassador for the Georgia Tech Charitable Campaign
DEVELOPMENT

Sarah Flake
Development Assistant for ChBE and MSEsarah.flake@chbe.gatech.edu
404-894-4881 | Ford ES&T 1310
- Administrative support to Directors of Development for MSE & ChBE
- Participates in planning, promotion, donor interaction and record keeping and reporting
- Assist potential donor, donors or donor reps as required

Lauren Kennedy
Director of Development I , Individuals and Foundationslauren.kennedy@mse.gatech.edu
404-894-6345 | Love 354
- Major gift fundraiser
- Develop and enhance relationships with alumni and friends
- Work with Chairs and faculty to enhance alumni relationships while focusing on securing permanent endowment support for faculty, students and programs.
- Work with Central Development to enhance alumni relationships
- Steward gifts to School

Donna Peyton
Director Office of Corporate Engagementdonna.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 Managerfrank.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 Managermasood.ebrahimi@mse.gatech.edu
404-894-6020 | Love 173
- MSE Lab Manager
- Maintains and upgrades all MSE Labs
- Main instructor for MSE lab training

Kenneth Garrick
Building Coordinatorkenney.garrick@mse.gatech.edu
404-385-4364 | LOVE 181
- Review gas orders and place on-line orders; maintain inventory
- Assist with tagging new equipment
- Assist with master inventory of equipment
- Work within labs doing equipment setup
- Work with faculty on their projects and move equipment as needed
- Office space assignment
FINANCIAL SERVICES

Lola Foye
Grants Administratorlola.foye@mse.gatech.edu
404-894-2816 | MRDC 3507
- Research funding opportunities and disseminate results to applicable faculty
- Coordinate and manage proposal preparation and submission process
- Serves as department point-of-contact with MSE Accounting office, OSP, Legal, etc.
- Assist with coordinating and preparing paperwork to granting agencies involved with grant proposal submittals
- Review/Edit proposals Track upcoming and overdue deliverables

Jasmin Frett-Hodge
Assistant Director – Financial Operationsjasmin.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 IIjonathan.jones@mse.gatech.edu
404-894-6694 | MRDC 3513
- 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 Admin IIIcatherine.washington@mse.gatech.edu
404-385-5494 | Love, Rm 363
- 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 IIjames.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 IIkevin.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 Managerbill.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