Our nominee has an outstanding
professional work ethic. In the short time that our nominee has been
employed by our department, he has attended numerous educational offerings and
conferences within the profession. These are not mandatory; however, he is
always willing to improve his skills to be a better employee. During our
current transition he realized how much our department would be overwhelmed, so
without much additional guidance he dove in created a plan of action and began
training the new employees on their responsibilities. Seamless is
how I would describe the transition of employees. He had thought of
everything: computer equipment, software, written materials, supplies, phones,
passwords, email accounts, etc. EVERYTHING. Each time his supervisor
questioned if a process had been included in the training the answer would be,
“I have already taken care of that”. Our nominee is always thinking of how
to make the process better for the end user as well as the department. He
takes constructive criticism and uses it as a positive to move forward. He
is an invaluable asset to the district. Since his start in our department,
he has realized the power of his professional network. He researches
projects assigned by reaching out to many other districts. Their headaches
become a useful tool in the toolbox. This allows him to retrieve
best value contracts that our district can implement. The outcome is at least a
five-year cost savings contract. Let’s just say that over the last
four years he has saved the district three times his salary.