January 2022

From Our Regional Vice President

As we start the new year, I would like to tell you a personal story.  I contracted Covid soon after the new year.  Fortunately, I and the rest of my family had very mild cases, and I attribute this to all being vaccinated.  I encourage everyone to get vaccinated and boostered as it has been shown to minimize the severity of the virus. Thank you for all the hard work and dedication that our associates have shown throughout this crisis, and we know it will continue.  Remember we are an important part of making the Spring semester a success for TAMU!  God Bless and work safe

— Richard Gentry


Maintenance Christmas Lunch and Service Awards

The Maintenance department enjoyed a Christmas lunch stocked full of prizes donated by Willbanks, ACO, H&S, MLN, Grainger, and Encore. Cotton covered the cost of catering to food for the department. LeTisha Pitre and Jeff Daniels coordinated the efforts with the vendors to make this a success. A huge thank you to the vendors, Jeff and LeTisha for taking the initiative to celebrate our department.

Being together again, in person, gave us the opportunity to catch up on service awards. Thank you to Kate Goodman for preparing the service awards and gifts.

Congratulations to all! You are appreciated!

5 Years Service

William “Joe” Berry - AMPT

Bradley Lenz - Athletics

Eboni Daniels - Comm Center

Richard Longley - FSW

Robert Welch - Graphics

Kiley Smith - Graphics

Darian Hunter - Graphics

Matthew Abbott - HVAC

Roman Miranda - HVAC

Cade Phillips - IMS

Barbara Musgrove - Admin

Faleen Mahoney - Admin

Roger Hermeling - Admin

Paul Tisch - Admin Maintenance

Roman Moore - Admin Maintenance

“Mondo” Carpio - Trades

Michael Benavidez - UCC

Paul Vasquez - Zone B

Robert Hulse - Zone B

Cody Poncik - Zone D

William Leonard - Zone D

James “Wolf” Henderson - Zone R

Richard Castle - Zone R

Rosa Duran - Zone R

Mikey Oquain - Zone R

40 Years Service

Antonio Morales - Zone C

35 Years Service

Lyn Boriskie - FAS

Albert Macik - HVAC

“JP” Jonathan Payne - Trades

Jeffery Sidles - Zone D

30 Years Service

“Pat” Patricio Rosas - Graphics

“Manual” Mendez

Jack Arnall

25 Years Service

Teresa McCarver - Comm Center

20 Years Service

Ernest Kluge - Trades

15 Years Service

Sam Price - Comm Center

“Gerry” Keefer - Zone R

Angel Gonzalez - Zone R

10 Years Service

Jim Atkinson - FSW

Chalhukya Reddy Reddy - IMS

Jeff Daniels - Trades

“Rusty” Piper - Zone R

EDCS was able to get together and enjoy their annual ornament exchange.

A note from Andrea Wienen. “So glad we could get together again for fun and the 20+ year tradition of the Christmas Ornament Exchange. Hope everyone enjoys the season and time with family and friends!”

Annual Ornament Exchange- EDCS


Congratulations to our Work & Win Grand Prize Winner

The SSC Corporate home office has held quite a few incentives for our associates over this past year.

“Work and Win” gave away $200,000. of prizes celebrating 7 weeks of smaller prizes including gift cards, coolers, speakers, ipads and TVs.

Week 8 concluded with the Grand Prizes being drawn and we are proud to announce our own custodian Jason Hernandez was the winner of the “Yeti Bundle”

Congratulations Jason!!


Michael Mahoney Receives a Promotion

Michael Mahoney joined SSC Services for Education at TAMU in July 2019 as our Help Desk Supervisor and recently promoted as Supervisor of the Technology Department.  Michael brings with him experience in Systems Administration in both Linux and Windows. Currently holds certifications with CompTIA (Network+) and Microsoft’s Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).  Recently Michael has been pursuing a Cisco Certified Network Associate certification (CCNA) while working at SSC @ TAMU.  While he does have approximately ¾ of his BSIT completed, he is determined to enroll back in school to finish out the degree.

Michael’s passion is to help others explore technology and mentor all who are interested in learning how Information Theory through technology improves the lives of everyone, whether they admit it or not.

Michael is a native Texan from San Antonio who currently resides in Brenham, Texas with his wife.  He has three amazing children, two of which have been accepted at Texas State University. The youngest has just entered 6th grade and accepted into an MSU robotics clubs for STEM focused children.

Please join SSC in congratulating Michael Mahoney on his promotion to IMS Systaems Manager.


December New Associates

CUSTODIAL NEW ASSOCIATES

Charlie Allsbrooks

Elideisy Beltran

Reknisha Carraway

Raymond Davis

Marvin McDonald

Kaila Phillips

Telvin Rice

DeAntoinette Roberts

Vicky Shivers

Keasia Taylor

GROUNDS

Jorge Bustos

Bobby Kelley

Sidney Smith

David Zarate

MAINTENANCE NEW ASSOCIATES

Phillip Estes

Christopher Polak

Kristopher Josenberger

Paul Tisch Jr.

Kevin Treybig

December GEM Winners

Custodial

Tina Allen

Maryuri Castellon

Hortencia Limon

EDCS Quarterly

Lisa Gray

Grounds

Corey Fillip

Susan Stansberry

Maintenance

Robert Adams

Andrew "Drew" Gray

Joshua Hauschild

Justyn Lleverino