MIT Assistants Slack Workspace

• I developed the structure and initial content for the MIT Assistants Slack workspace.

• The development of this community also addressed the need for a safe and collaborative environment where MIT administrative professionals can come together to tackle important issues, ask pressing questions, or casually communicate with each other.

Schmidt Futures AI2050 Convening

• Working alongside Gordon Kramer from Schmidt Futures, we successfully moved their AI2050 Convening event from a separate event space in Boston to MIT.

Fireside Chat
Daniel Huttenlocher & Eric Schmidt

• Planned and executed a fireside chat with Dean Daniel Huttenlocher and Dr. Eric Schmidt during MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP). This event featured an in-person audience comprised of MIT students along with a livestream for the general public.

Fireside chat YouTube recording

Empire Star Public Service Award

• Nominated by my peers for the Empire Star Public Service Award. This award is for those who have distinguished themselves through their dedication to serving the public with a high level of performance, integrity, and pride.

• Awardee selection put on hold due to COVID-19.

Electronic Internal Review Form

• Developed, tested, implemented, and maintained the browser based Electronic Internal Review Form application using Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft InfoPath.

• Worked hand in hand with stakeholders, project managers, and team members to define the project scope of work, task assignments, and related scheduling.

• On June 2, 2021, the New York State Office of Information Technology Services officially transitioned over to the Electronic Internal Review Form (e-IRF) application.

• As of August 24, 2021, my application has successfully processed 125 e-IRF forms and facilitated $101,000,000 in payments.

ITS Administrative Community

• I developed the structure and initial content for the Microsoft Teams ITS Administrative Community in response to the Google Workplace pilot program.

• The development of this community also addressed the need for a safe and collaborative environment where ITS administrative professionals can come together to tackle important issues, ask pressing questions, or casually communicate with each other.

NYS Forum Invited Speaker

• Invited to speak at the November 2020 NYS Microsoft Office 365 - Community of Practice session.

• Topic: NYS Office of Information Technology Services Power Automate volunteer group.

Return to work Tracker

• In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, I developed our division’s responsive return-to-work staffing arrangement tracking spreadsheet as well as supplemental space planning documentation.

• This helped ensure an orderly return that adhered to organizational policy and procedures, and was accomplished through staggered scheduling tiers and formula driven calculations.

IRS Safeguards Automation

• The Quality Assurance team asked me to help them with a task related to the IRS Safeguards Review. Specifically, they wanted me to manually type in the name of hundreds of file attachments in a separate column within many Microsoft Word tables.

• This manual work would have taken weeks to complete, so I instead automated it by developing a Microsoft Word macro using the Visual Basic language. This implementation of process automation turned weeks worth of work into a simple click of a button.

Outlook Meeting Automation

• In order to solve the problem of expiring recurring Outlook meetings without any notification of their upcoming end dates, I developed an automated notification system using Microsoft Power Automate. Doing so guarantees that any user can protect against recurring meetings that have upcoming end dates from expiring without having the chance to extend or change the meeting invitation.

• Details about this implementation of process automation can be found on my blog.