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People

Jeff Stiers
Director of Strategic Initiatives, McCormick School of EngineeringPhone: 847-467-6391
Office: Seeley Mudd 3305
Email Jeff

- Handles all financial oversight and financial inquiries
- Manager for all Computer Science staff
- Point of contact for facilities and space matters
- Backup to Financial Coordinator and Financial Assistant for payroll

- Purchasing
- Blanket POs for Subcontracts
- Payment requests
- Reviews grad student expense reports
- Monitors open encumbrances
- Processes receivers
- Assists with space relocations and moves
- Assists with reconciliation of department accounts

- Manages all proposal preparation and post-award management
- Local subject matter expert and compliance monitor for all sponsored research activities
- Processes no-cost extensions
- Processes REU supplement requests

Melissa Duong
Academic AdvisorPhone: 847-467-7745
Fax: 847-491-4455
Office: Seeley Mudd 3546
Email Melissa
- Undergraduate program student advising
- Undergraduate program student support
- Course permissions and registrations
- Supports Computer Science DUS

Judith (Judi) Hernandez
Program Assistant II/Graduate Affairs CoordinatorPhone: 847-491-8174
Office: Seeley Mudd 3546
Email Judith (Judi)
- Graduate student admissions and support
- Graduate student registration, GSTS entry, and assistant to department DGS
- Backup for permissions and registrations
Financial Coordinator - Vacant
Phone: 847-491-2959Office: Seeley Mudd 3506
Email Financial Coordinator -
- Post-Award financial support, including projections
- Sponsored and Non-Sponsored faculty account reconciliations
- Research and Post-Doc staff payroll and appointment processing
- Backup to Financial Assistant for payroll

- Graduate student funding/payroll
- SES entries and updates
- Temporary and Peer Mentor payroll
- Assists Financial Coordinator

- Development, oversight, and execution of all CS and CS+X events
- Manages and plans externally-funded conferences and workshops
- Coordinates faculty recruiting
- Oversees and prepares promotion and tenure cases
- Reconciles seminar and faculty recruitment budgets
- Assists BA with summer salary planning
- Assists with department marketing initiatives