All in the CU Anschutz Family

How long have you worked at CU Anschutz and what do you do here?

I've worked here for seven years, since 2018. I'm currently the parking program assistant for Facilities Management. I oversee our parking program on campus. I handle our vendor, I oversee the contract and I also handle a lot of the back-end auditing and numbers for parking.

Can you tell us a little bit about your career journey and how you found yourself at CU Anschutz?

I was working in a music store for a while. Then my parents were just like, "All right, we're going to kick you out, or you got to get a full-time job, start paying rent." A job posted here. My mother, father and brother

already worked here. 

So, I applied for a driver position for CU Print Services and I got the job. I handled checks to start, and did production, bindery and helped with printing. And I did most of the deliveries.

I worked there until around 2021. During COVID, I was repurposed to a few different roles. 

I spent some time in grounds, and I went downtown to CU Denver and managed the COVID checkpoints and those student workers. Then I came back to CU Anschutz after COVID slowed down a little bit.

I worked in custodial for a little while, and kind of cut my teeth, improving processes and making things move a little smoother. Eventually, I worked my way into my position with parking now.

Why CU Anschutz? Why do you like it here?

I love the people that I work with, and I like feeling like I can be part of something bigger, providing education for the next generation of physicians, nurses, dentists, and everything they do on campus.

I've worked in a lot of different areas on campus. I interact with so many different kinds of people, so many different worldviews and ideas, and it's a really beautiful amalgamation of so many different minds.

Probably my favorite thing about working here is all of the different perspectives and getting to talk to people about their thoughts and ideas. 

Also, the benefits are great. 

I am working towards a bachelor's degree at CU Denver currently with the tuition assistance benefit. 

What do you like to do when you're not working?

I'm a musician. I play guitar, bass and piano.

I run sound for a few different bands around town. My main group is Groove N’ Motion. They're a 15-piece corporate band that plays all over the place. They play everything from top-40 to ’70s funk. They even have a five-piece horn section. They're a blast.

What three words would you use to describe CU Anschutz?

Family, in more ways than one. Obviously, my whole family works here, but also, the people that I work with feel like family. It feels like a very cohesive group of individuals that operate on campus. 

My second word is compassionate.

And finally, purposeful. It feels like everyone on campus is all working towards a greater good, and that fuels all the missions we have on campus, especially in the climate we're in now, where there's more and more skepticism about science, doctors and researchers.