IT Stars

About the STAR IT Program

STAR IT is a program designed to recognize outstanding achievement by DoIT Student employees. Anyone at SBU can recognize and submit a STAR IT nomination. Nominations are meant to encourage a proactive professional culture that is meant to align with the university's mission.

STAR IT will be awarded during the Spring and Fall semesters to four students.

All nominations will be published.

 

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WHAT'S BEEN SHARED


Spring 2023 Semester

From: Vanessa Ma
To: Mason Ma ★
He brightens up the office with his cool magic tricks.
 
From: David Ecker
To: Jadyn Carruthers ★
Jadyn is one of the top students that we have working within DoIT. On many occasions, I have heard her interact with students to help with laptops, and technology or even just to give them directions. She takes on a leadership role and always handles each situation in a professional manner. Without her diligence, the students using our services could be lost. I am honored to work near Jadyn on a regular basis.
 
From: Jarrod McFarlane
To: Cathy Ma ★
Cathy Ma is one of our Senior Assistants in Classroom Technology. Cathy's knowledge, ability to troubleshoot, customer service, and follow through are among the highest order of students we've employed. Cathy is a great teammate - she cares for her fellow employees and supports all staff. Cathy has a great sense of humor, and her laugh brings joy to the office. She also works all the time and has solid knowledge of all DoIT resources and services, so the professional staff relies on her!

Fall 2022 Semester

From: Angel Zou
To: Joyce Xie ★
Joyce has been an excellent leader as well as a consultant at the SINC site. She is always eager to help and provided wonderful services. She is patient and would explain what went wrong thoroughly. Extremely caring and friendly. She is also very responsible for her team and those that work alongside her.

 

From: Tracy Su
To: Joyce Xie
I am nominating Joyce because she has always offered a helping hand with a smile to all the SINC Site Consultants that she oversees. Beyond just managing us, she became our friend. She always puts in 100%, even on her worst days.

 

From: Xuecen Wang
To: Haruka Oshikawa ★
She is a diligent and productive worker as what I've seen as a coworker. She helped me troubleshoot difficult problems on my job and has so much patience to teach me what I don't know. She also is very generous about her career advice and helped me build some confidence in my major and school. I am very grateful to work beside her.

 

From: Daniel Kogan
To: Dylan Scott
Dylan is a first class lead student technician at client support. One of the most truly knowledgable and hardworking people I've ever met. To say it is a pleasure to work with him is an understatement of the highest order. He is quick on his feet when it comes to troubleshooting issues and twice as swift resolving it.

 

From: Jadyn Carruthers
To: Joyce Xie
Joyce goes out of her way every. single. day. to assist her co-workers. She is kind, knowledgeable, and overall amazing. As a bonus her dogs are adorable.

 

From: Sae Zhang
To: Aditya Jindal
Aditya is a superb Lead Student Technician who goes above and beyond to help others. He ensures that students on our team are equipped with the necessary knowledge, skills, and resources to succeed. Showing great enthusiasm and patience in teaching, his consistently makes a positive difference at Client Support and throughout the university.

 

From: Eve Hernandez
To: Winnie Chen
Very talented person. Became a lead after only 2 semesters, meaning he completed all DoIT Client Support Demos at the fastest rate of all students thus far in this department. Is very helpful and knowledgeable in training new staff and always shares his ideas. Overall a very kind person.

 

From: Sandra Jansson
To: Tianxin (Lance) Lin ★
As one of our lead students at the Service Desk, Lance is a great role model for our student technicians. He is reliable and is always willing to do whatever we need done, whether it be phones or Cherwell tickets, remote sessions with customers or training new students. He has been doing an amazing job teaching many of our new students in everything from creating Cherwell tickets to policies and procedures.. Even when things get crazy, he keeps calm and gets things done. Lance plays a major role in our success! Thank you :-)

 

From: Aman Rahman
To: Jing Liang Guan
Jing is great at his job: organized, consistently patient, always kind and helping. As a senior consultant who I share a shift with he has helped me enormously to familiarize myself with protocols and skills and never made me feel insufficient or dumb for not knowing (sometimes basic) work things. I admire his knowledge of resources at Stony Brook, but more so his ability to work with people. His efforts go beyond just basic task fulfillment-- he made new individualized badges for the consultants which made me feel part of something, like I had a real place working for DoIT.
 
From: Ayumi Nakagawa
To: Jadyn Carruthers
Jadyn has helped me immensely anytime I ran into a problem or had questions. She never hesitates to lend a helping hand and her receptive, bubbly attitude towards the new DoIT consultants transitioning into a regular consultant is greatly appreciated.
 
From: Joyce Xie
To: Katie Chen
Katie has the ability to bring people together and offers a great asset to our team
 
From: Joyce Xie
To: Johanna Skinnider
Johanna has been nothing but helpful. Throughout the semester, she has offered multiple times to assist me on difficult and strenuous projects. Thank you!
 
From: Joyce Xie
To: Alicia Wong
Alicia is a newly employed Sr. Consultant who displays a great amount of talent and organization skills. With her on projects with me, I feel that someone always has my back and would always be there if I needed support. Thank you for all your work!
 
From: Joyce Xie
To: Timothy Shum
I've only met Tim this summer and works with him throughout the semester. We don't work on the same team, but from interactions and working on projects with him; I can tell that he is a very well-conducted person. His charisma is beyond his age. In addition, he is very professional and deserves to be recognized! Thanks!
 
From: Joyce Xie
To: James Gluzman
James is one of the pillars here in DoIT SINC site team. His presence and contribution are not to go unnoticed. With his ability to work on things behind the scene, he has been one of the biggest support for our team. His presence is one of a kind and is a great addition to our team.
 
From: James Gluzman
To: Joyce Xie
Joyce has been working for DoIT for the past 5 years, and has constantly shown her dedication towards the success of SINC Sites. She has always taken the most initiative in any student worker that I've seen in my time working for DoIT, ranging from fostering the growth of consultants/senior consultants to personally assisting many staff members in DoIT. Joyce has helped lead 4 internship classes, which led to many cohorts of successful senior consultants who were able to pass on their knowledge and skills to other regular consultants. This has always been more than a part time job for her; rather, she has taken personal interest in successfully serving the users of Stony Brook University, as well as teach consultants how to do the same. Even now, she is dedicating much of her time and energy in merging the SINC Site and CES groups - a task that will difficult to accomplish, yet subsequent generations will be able to enjoy the fruits of her labor. It is an understatement to say that Joyce has been truly outstanding, and I can say with absolute certainty that the students and users that she has graced with her knowledge and assistance can say the same.
 
From: Katie Chen
To: Joyce Xie
Joyce has always been the pillar of strength for the SINC sites. Her dependability can be attested to the fact that most people often seek her advice and recommendations for anything. She is knowledgeable and trustworthy. Her presence will be sorely missed when she graduates.
 
From: Jin Li
To: Joseph Khanimov
Joseph is very proactive in helping other students, and he has helped to clean the computers and remind me of different meetings. Joseph is happy to work with other people, and should be nominated.
 
From: Joseph Khanimov
To: Jin Li ★
Jin is amazing at helping users who need help. Always on top of her work and makes sure 99.99% of the people who she helps are satisfied with her customer service skills.
 
From: Mei Hua Yang
To: Maggie Li
I am nominating Maggie Li because she has helped me in so many ways. She introduced the job position to me and helped me answer questions I had. She was also very welcoming on my second day.
 
From: Joseph Khanimov
To: Joyce Xie
Joyce is always there when you need her. Out of everyone who is nominated she should win. She has helped me out since the start and is always nice to all of the people who work under her. She doesn't mind lending a helping hand, knows how to properly talk to the consultants while maintaining both a friendly and professional tone, and is overall one of the best people that I have worked with. I hope she wins! -Joseph Khanimov