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HCDE Staff Org Chart

Administrative

Julie Kientz

Julie Kientz
Department Chair
View faculty webpage

428 Sieg Building 
hcdechr@uw.edu
 

Summer Dela Cruz Parkes

Summer Dela Cruz Parkes
Administrator

428 Sieg Building 
sldc@uw.edu
(206) 685-3465

In office: Tu/W, 7:30 – 4 pm
Remote: M/Th/F, 7:30 – 4 pm

  • Strategic Planning
  • Department operations and finance
  • Human Resources
  • Staff recruitment/hiring
  • Budgeting and projections (non-sponsored budgets)

Stacia Green
Assistant to the Chair

428 Sieg Building
greens6@uw.edu
(206) 221-1666

In office: M/W, 8 am – 4 pm
Remote: Tu/Th/F, 8 am – 4 pm

  • Appointments with the Chair
  • Academic human resource requests
  • Instructor appointments
  • Adjunct and affiliate new and reappointments
  • Faculty and visiting student visa requests
  • Faculty and committee meeting scheduling

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Jane I. Skau
Office Manager and Building Coordinator

428 Sieg Building
janei@uw.edu
(206) 616-0121

In office: M/Tu/W/Th, 9 am – 5 pm
Remote: F, 9 am – 5 pm

  • Mailing/shipping/receiving
  • Office equipment (e.g. copier, water dispenser, office supplies)
  • Building access, keys, building safety
  • Equipment check-out 
  • Conference rooms scheduling
  • Facilities requests (e.g. custodial, surplus, moving)
  • HCDE front desk student assistants
Academic Services and Advising

Advising appointments

Kathleen Rascon

Kathleen Rascon (she/her)
Director of Academic Services

423 Sieg Building
khorenst@uw.edu
(206) 543-4257

In office: Tu/W/Th 9 am – 5pm
Remote: M/F, 8 am – 5pm

  • HCDE student services events and programming
  • PhD academic advising
  • PhD, MS, UCD, and BS program and admissions committees
  • Handshake and MyGrad administrator
  • CoE and UW graduate school liaison and DEI staff representative

Alex Llapitan

Alex Llapitan
Academic Counselor, Senior

423 Sieg Building
alex310@uw.edu
(206) 221-6230

In office: Tu/W/Th, 10 am – 6 pm
Remote: M/F, 10 am – 6 pm

  • MS and UCD academic advisor
  • MS and UCD programs and admissions committees
  • COE staff liaison
  • Oversee MS peer advisor program
  • Staff advisor to the HCDE Graduate Student Association

Meghan Oxley

Meghan Oxley
Academic Counselor, Senior

423 Sieg Building
what@uw.edu
(206) 543-1798

In office: M/W, 8 am – 5 pm
Remote: Tu/Th/F, 8 am – 5 pm

  • BS academic advisor
  • BS program and admissions committees
  • CoE and ABET staff liaison
  • Oversee BS peer adviser program
  • Staff adviser to HCDE Student Association
     

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Alanna Robins Daniels
Program Coordinator

423 Sieg Building
alannard@uw.edu
(206) 221-4866

In office: Tu/W/Th, 9 am – 6 pm
Remote: M/F, 9 am – 6 pm

  • Time schedule planning and submissions
  • Ordering textbooks, track and dispersing course evaluations
  • IASystem Coordinator
  • HCDE admissions
  • Academic services events

 

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Dion Tzortzis (he/him)
Admissions & Fellowships Specialist

423 Sieg Building
tzortzis@uw.edu

In office: W, 7:30 am – 4 pm
Remote: M/Tu/Th/F, 8 am – 4:30 pm

  • BS, MS, PhD, and UCD Admissions
  • Student Scholarships
  • Outreach

 

Industry Partnerships & Events

Melissa Ewing

Melissa Ewing
Outreach & Strategic Partnerships Manager

428 Sieg Building
mewing3@uw.edu
(206) 221-0997

 

  • Alumni, corporate, and industry relations and outreach
  • Outreach to industry and non-profits for Capstone sponsorship
  • Mentor programs
  • Department and alumni events
Communications

Leah Pistorius

Leah Pistorius (she/her)
Communications Manager

428 Sieg Building
lepisto@uw.edu
(206) 543-7108

In office: W, 9 am – 6 pm
Remote: M/Tu/Th/F, 9 am – 6 pm

  • HCDE website and social media
  • HCDE newsletter and Designing Up magazine
  • News about HCDE students, faculty, and researchers
  • Branded swag and printed materials
Computing

For IT support, email hcde-it@engr.uw.edu.

Fiscal & Grants

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Fatin Almaroof
Human Resources Coordinator

fatin@uw.edu

  • ASE and student appointments
  • Staff recruitment, payroll, and appointments
  • Overpayments/Underpayments
  • Timesheet support

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Susan Carpenter-Brandt
Grants Manager

428 Sieg Building
sbrandt2@cs.washington.edu

  • Pre/post award management
  • Effort reporting (GCCRs/FECs)
  • Grant/gift processing and tracking
  • Startup/RCR tracking
  • WorkDay costing allocations
  • Budget reconciliation
  • Budget/PCA code assignments
  • Purchasing (blanket POs only)

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Laura Davis
Grants Manager

428 Sieg Building
ldavis@uw.edu
(206) 543-5342

In office: Tu/W, 9 am – 6 pm
Remote: M/Th/F, 9 am – 6 pm

  • Pre/post award management
  • Effort reporting (GCCRs/FECs)
  • Grant/gift processing and tracking
  • Startup/RCR tracking
  • WorkDay costing allocations
  • Budget reconciliation
  • Budget/PCA code assignments
  • Purchasing (blanket POs only)

Katia Jossa-Jouable

Katia Jossa-Jouable
Program Operations Specialist

428 Sieg Building
katiaj@uw.edu
(206) 685-5289

In office: M/Tu, 7 am – 4 pm
Remote: W/Th/F, 8 am – 5 pm

  • Department operations and finance
  • Non-sponsored budgets financial reporting
  • Budget reconciliation
  • Budget approval and worktag assignment
  • Pre/post award management
  • Effort reporting (GCCRs/FECs)
  • Payroll, fiscal and human resources administration
  • Gift processing and tracking
  • Workday Funding approver
  • Faculty costing allocation

Allen Lee

Allen Lee
Fiscal Supervisor

428 Sieg Building
alee168@uw.edu
(206) 685-1558 

In office: Tu/W/Th, 8:30 am – 5 pm
Remote: M/F, 8:30 am – 5 pm

  • ProCard/CTA (student travel) administration
    • For help with travel arrangements and itineraries, please contact one of the preferred UW Travel Agencies.
  • Research subject payments 
  • Reimbursements (travel and non-travel), email hcdefiz@uw.edu

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Katie Markert
Fiscal Specialist II

kmarkert@uw.edu

In office: Tu/W/Th, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Remote: M/F, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm

  • Email hcdefiz@uw.edu:
    • Procurement
    • Student Travel Inquiries and Reimbursements
    • Research subject payments
    • Reimbursements (travel and non-travel)

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Irina Mironyuk
Human Resources Specialist

mironyuk@uw.edu

  • ASE and student appointments
  • Staff recruitment, payroll, and appointments
  • Overpayments/Underpayments
  • Timesheet support

Crystal Welliver

Crystal Welliver
Senior Research Development Officer

428 Sieg Building
welliver@uw.edu
(206) 221-7446

In office: Tu/Th, 9 am – 5 pm
Remote: M/W/F, 9 am – 5 pm

  • Funding opportunity prospecting
  • Proposal development strategy & grantsmanship support
  • Feedback on proposal narratives for clarity and responsiveness to review criteria & requirements
  • Broader Impacts and workforce development plan support
  • Ancillary document drafting and coordination
  • Project management for large and/or complex proposals
Advancement

Caitlin Christian

Caitlin Christian
Associate Director, Individual Gifts

301Y Loew Hall
caitlk2@uw.edu
(206) 616-0403

  • Philanthropy and individual giving with a focus on Human Centered Design & Engineering, Aeronautics & Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering

Liz Young

Liz Young
Associate Director, Corporate & Foundation Relations

014D Loew Hall
youngl9@uw.edu
(206) 685-0167

  • Engineering industry and foundation partnerships with a focus on Career Center, faculty, and research programs
Research Center Staff

Center for Collaborative Systems for Security, Safety and Regional Resilience (CoSSaR)

Brie

Brie Yost
Program Operations Specialist

423 Sieg Building
byost41@uw.edu

Center for Collaborative Systems for Security, Safety, and Regional Resilience (CoSSaR)

Pacific Marine Energy Center (PMEC)

Judy Twedt

Judy Twedt
Program Operations Specialist

308 Sieg Building
jtwedt@uw.edu

Pacific Marine Energy Center (PMEC)