Business Contacts

Send additions or corrections to the Front Office or call 858-534-1927.

Fiscal Management

 

Chay Mendoza (cpmendoza@ucsd.edu), Financial Manager

  • Supervision Pre & Post award
  • Internal Controls
  • Core Funds
  • Fiscal Planning and Budget
  • DSA

Fund Managers: Pre- & Post-award Administration

  • Proposal preparation
  • General ledger reconciliation
  • Financial Report
  • Project numbers
  • Establish fabrications
  • Close out
  • Agency Reports
  • Cost Transfers
  • Award allocation
  • Projections
  • Orbit Center
  • UCPath Funding
  • Business Contracts/Service POs
  • DSA, Financial Systems
     
Jeffery Kleve (jkleve@ucsd.edu) – Senior Fund Manager – Pre-Award
Earth Section
 
Christine Coulibaly (ccoulibaly@ucsd.edu), Senior Fund Manager – Post Award
IGPP PIs: Babcock, Bock, Borsa, Brown, Fan, Fialko, Fricker, Greenbaum,  Masters, Morzfeld,  Orcutt, Sandwell, Shearer, Staudgiel, Zumberge
 
  James Pollock (j2pollock@ucsd.edu), Senior Fund Manager – Post Award
GRD
 
Sydney “Matt” Willoughby (smwilloughby@ucsd.edu) – Post Award
IGPP: Agnew, Armi, Berger, Constable, Constable, Davis, DeGroot-Hedlin, Dzieciuch, Gabriel, Haase, Hedlin, Laski, May, Mellors, Parnell-Turner, Vernon, Worcester
 
  Deniesse Vankat (dvankat@ucsd.edu) – Post Award
GRD: Aarons, Aluwihare, Anderson, Barbeau, Charles, Day, DAlpoim Guedes, Diaz, Keeling, Rivera Collazo, Schartup, Stegman, Tauxe
 
Sharyn Gold (skilpatrick@ucsd.edu) – Post Award
GRD: Chin, Driscoll, Gee, Meth, Harding, Kilb, Leinen, Manizza, Muhle, Norris, Severinghaus, Stocks, Weiss, Wright
 

Travel/Purchasing/Miscellaneous Reimbursements

Sofia Palofox (siocard@ucsd.edu) - Fiscal Assistant/RA1
 
  Evelin Mendoza (siocard@ucsd.edu) - Fiscal Assistant/RA1

Human Resources

Stephanie Sapalicio Rhoten (srhoten@ucsd.edu), HR Manager
  • Academic & Staff Personnel Oversight
  • Academic Recruitments
  • Visa Policy
  • Faculty Voting
  • AP File Review
  • AP/HR Team Supervision
  • Staff Hiring Salary & Job Description Reviews & JD Prep
Megan Strachan (mstrachan@ucsd.edu), HR Generalist (staff personnel)
  • Staff Hiring | Career Positions
  • Job Descriptions
  • Staff Leave of Absences
  • Disability Management & Job Accommodations
  • Graduate Students | IGPP
  • Ecotime | Undergraduate Students, Grad Students, Staff, and Postdocs
  • Timekeeping/Payroll | Staff (Primary Timekeeper)
  • UCPath | Position Management, Smart HR Templates, LOAs, PayPath, etc.
  • OnBoarding | Career Staff Employees
Noelle Hardy (nlhardy@ucsd.edu), HR Generalist (academic personnel)
  • Academic Appointment and Review Files (non-professorial titles)
  • Post Doc Appointments, Exceptions & Recruitments
  • Academic RTADs
  • Graduate Students | GRD
  • Visiting Scientist/Scholars/Graduate Students
  • Academic Leave of Absences
  • UCPath | Position Management, Smart HR Templates, LOAs, PayPath, etc.
  • OnBoarding | Researchers, Specialists, and other full-time faculty
Tina Silva (tisilva@ucsd.edu), HR Generalist (staff and students)
  • Undergraduate Student Employee Hiring & Compensation
  • Timekeeping/Payroll | Staff (Backup Timekeeper)
  • Short Term Exception (STE) Staff Hiring
  • Staff Volunteer Appointments
  • Service Credit Pin requests
  • OnBoarding | Undergraduate Students, Grad Students, Postdocs, Visiting Scholars, Volunteers, limited & STE staff employees
  • J-1 Visa management
  • Staff Performance Appraisal Coordination
  • Training Compliance Tracking
  • SIO People Database Entries

Facilities/Safety Officer

Megan Smith (mas006@ucsd.edu)

  • Department Safety Administration
  • Equipment Inventory
  • Building Maintenance
  • Building Access
  • Office-lab Access
  • Furniture

Management

Rose Madson (rmadson@ucsd.edu), Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) | Earth Section

  • Supervision and leadership for IGPP administration
  • Human Resources (Academic/Staff), Financial
  • Space Management
  • Facilities
  • RES, PI Exceptions, Advance Approvals
  • Campus Liaison, SIO Liaison, OP Liaison
  • Policy and Procedures, Internal Controls
  • Proposal and Award Notices
  • Green Foundation