Department of Art Studio/Art History/Technocultural Studies
Office Staff & Functions
Rose Mary Miller, Assistant Director/MSO III
- Department/Program Management
- Planning for Short and Long-range activities
- Supervision of All Departmental and Laboratory Staff
- Facilities Management/Space Planning
- Plan and Implement recruitment for academic personnel
- Instructional Program Administration
- Financial Administration
- Account Organization
- Authorization of Expenditures
- Coordination of Program Needs and Administration
- Departmental Contact for Dean's Office
- Safety Coordinator Management
Angus Chang, Office Manager
- Supervises Office Staff
- Faculty Personnel - merits/promotions/accelerations/tenure/etc.
- Payroll/Personnel processing - Faculty/staff/students
- Supervises Program Administration
- Supervises Accounts for Bookkeepers
- Student Payroll
- Faculty Recruitment Processes
- TRC Applications for Mini grant processing
- Faculty Grants
Ariel Abbott-Penny, Academic Coordinator
- Advising of Students
- Responds to inquiries on both UG and GR programs
- Processes New Student Majors
- UG and GR Registration
- Banner and On-Line Scheduling
- Maintain Student File/Records for Department
- Processing of Student Applications for Admissions
- Advises students of academic awards/scholarships
- Collect required information data for program reviews
- Financial support admin. for fellowships and scholarships & research grants
- Processing of Teaching Assistantships
- Course report processing/distribution
- Graduate Program administration
- Preview Day Coordination
Jesse Avitia, Lead Bookkeeper
- Requests for Purchases (i.e. POs/Furniture Orders/Equipment)
- Analysis and Reporting of account balances
- Purchasing & Processing
- Travel & Processing
- Fiscal Close of all accounts
- Ledger Reconciliation
- Nelson Gallery Purchasing & Reconciliation
- Research Grants
- General Office Duties
- Invoice Processing
- VISA Corporate Card Reconciliation
- Purchasing Card Reconciliation
- Physical Plant Requests
- Custodial Service Requests
Vivian Johnson, Bookkeeper
- Purchasing & Processing
- Travel & Processing
- Nelson Gallery Purchasing
- Research Grants
- General Office Duties
- Invoice Processing
- Physical Plant Requests
- Custodial Service Requests
VACANT, Front Desk/Administrative Assistant
- Assist in Grade processing
- Course Evaluations
- Program brochures & orientation handbooks
- Assists with Faculty Merits & Promotions
- Assists with Faculty Recruitments
- Places orders into Bookstore for classroom supplies for student purchases
- Reprographics Orders
- Processing of Class Materials
- Textbook and Desk Copy Orders
- Phone department listing
- Department receptionist
- Mail distribution
- Maintains bulletin boards in lobby
- Orders and maintains office supplies
- Photocopier
- Updates lobby directory
- Locker check out backup
- Key Managemnt
- PTAs/PTDs
Gilbert Menke, Shop Technician
- Manage Shop Facilities
- Shop/Lab inventory
- Loans for Shop Equipment
- Maintain Shop and Plaster Room
- Shop lectures on use of facility
- EH & S
- Manage Shop Courtyard
Michael Simmons, Digital Lab Technician
- Computing support for Macs within Department
- Equipment Management/Maintenance for Digital Lab
- Provide technical assistance to the Instructor and TA in lab
- Train and supervise students in proper and safe use of equipment and lab procedures
- Supervise and train volunteer lab monitors
- Backup to Photography Technician
Dominick Porras, Photography Lab Technician
- Technical assistance to the Instructor and TA for the Digital (IDEA) and Photography lab areas
- Train and supervise students in proper and safe use of equipment and lab procedures
- Supervise and train volunteer lab monitors
- Manage and maintain the equipment
- Maintain the black and white and color facilities
- EH & S Support in the lab
- Backup to Digital Lab Technician
Dan Quillan, Printmaking Lab Technician
- Provide laboratory supervision and technical support for the printmaking laboratory
- Designated Safety Coordinator
- Locker Checkouts
- Coordinating the evacuation plan
- Hazardous Waste Coordinator for the entire department
- Equipment Inventory for department
Walter Sysko, Computer Support / Programmer
- Departmental network administrator.
- Technical support lead in charge of hardware, software, network, and programming support.
- Jonathan Wong, Student Assistant
- ccjwong@ucdavis.edu
- Ali Qureshi, Student Assistant
- maqureshi@ucdavis.edu
Brian Perkins, Ceramics Technician
- Prepare and setup materials for the ceramics laboratory
- Clean up and maintain TB9 Ceramics Lab and Kiln Rooms
- Responsible for all maintenance of the ceramics lab and firing kilns.
- Maintain MSDS logs, inventory and use logs.
- Develop and distribute Laboratory Safety Plan.
Don Yee, Computer Technician
- Provide computing, server and technical support for TCS
- Manage and support TCS servers
- Maintain TCS databases
Lisa Zdybel, VRF - Library Assistant
- Provide administrative support to Visual Resource Facility
Art & Art History bibliographic / reference support
Provide image support for instruction and research
Provide and manage circulating audiovisual
materials for instruction
- Assist with Image Database
Leah Theis, VRF Librarian/Manager
- Visual Resource Facility Director
Art & Art History bibliographic / reference support
Provide image support for instruction and research
Provide and manage circulating audiovisual
materials for instruction
- Image database maintenance
