University of Tennessee College of Arts & Sciences

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Oversee and administer fiscal operations, facilities-related financial activity, and asset management for the Tickle College of Engineering
• Provide financial guidance and transaction support for purchasing, contracts, payables, receivables, cash handling, travel, procurement cards, sales tax, labor distribution, effort certification, payroll coordination, and sponsored projects
• Reconcile monthly ledgers, correct discrepancies, assist with year-end close, and prepare labor distribution and effort certification
• Coordinate college-level purchasing, including the annual Computer Upgrade Program, and manage centralized contracts
• Track and inventory college assets
• Oversee cash receipts with the Bursar’s Office
• Administer sponsored projects alongside Principal Investigators
• Maintain transaction compliance and audit readiness
• Review procedures and recommend efficiency, accuracy, and compliance improvements
• Guide administrative staff on financial practices and draft financial correspondence
• Assist with Planon key and scan access as needed
• Compile and analyze financial data, produce stakeholder reports, identify trends and risks, and support financial planning and forecasting
• Audit biweekly and monthly payroll documents
• Review electronic time entry, enter or correct student worker time, verify pay rates and funding codes, advise on troubleshooting, and reconcile payroll reports

Financial Specialist

• Provide strategic consulting, advising, and implementation leadership for private donor funding stewardship
• Serve as the college-wide subject matter expert on private donor funding spending, donor restrictions, allowability, and fiscal policies
• Establish goals, priorities, and operating standards for private donor funding administration
• Advise deans, department heads, directors, and other leaders on complex donor funding matters
• Maintain relationships with campus partners and college stakeholders
• Escalate risks, trends, and significant exceptions and recommend improvements
• Supervise the Scholarship Coordinator, including goal setting, delegation, coaching, and annual performance evaluations
• Direct administrative support staff on donor funding projects and processes
• Manage scholarship and restricted donor fund allocations, expenditures, balances, and financial activity
• Provide stewardship and forecasting for endowed and restricted funds
• Lead financial reviews and planning/forecasting processes
• Administer donor funding workflows, including intake, approvals, documentation, budgeting support, and issue resolution
• Oversee setup of new private donor funding accounts
• Perform monthly reconciliations and coordinate corrections
• Coordinate with campus Financial Aid on college scholarship assignments
• Manage the campus scholarship award management system, including training and troubleshooting
• Develop communications and lead training on donor funding processes and policies
• Develop recurring and ad hoc reports, forecasts, and projections for college leadership
• Manage annual scholarship projection reporting
• Develop metrics and implement process improvements
• Interpret and apply federal, state, university, and donor requirements
• Evaluate gift agreement terms and reporting requirements
• Monitor budgets and expenses for allowability and compliance and mitigate financial and audit risk

Private Donor Funding Manager, Finance & Administration

System Administrator

• Administer and maintain Linux operating systems, including security patches, kernel updates, OS enhancements, package repositories, compatibility, and performance monitoring
• Implement and enforce security best practices, including SSH hardening, Ansible playbooks, firewall rules, security policies, secure configurations, vulnerability scanning, remediation, and configuration compliance
• Provision, configure, and maintain Linux servers supporting Academic LAMP services and other applications
• Deploy, configure, and maintain Linux virtual machines in Hyper-V, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and other supported virtualization platforms
• Maintain high availability, clustering, reliability, and failover strategies for supported services
• Create, manage, and audit user accounts, roles, permissions, and application and Linux-system access
• Support Student Information System infrastructure through server installation, patching, upgrades, performance tuning, and decommissioning
• Advance infrastructure automation and AI-driven security enhancements, including Ansible-based provisioning, patch management, configuration-drift prevention, secure baseline enforcement, and automated vulnerability remediation
• Standardize deployment workflows for core application stacks to improve consistency, efficiency, security, and lifecycle management
• Lead and contribute to large-scale projects, implementations, and upgrades; mentor and train junior staff; and provide project leadership and work direction

Senior System Administrator

Data Analyst

• Report to the Director of Data Analytics & Technology Transformation
• Develop and maintain AI-driven applications and tools using Python and other relevant programming languages
• Design, implement, and manage APIs for system and platform integration
• Design and implement graph and relational database solutions, including Neo4j, MySQL, and PostgreSQL
• Train, fine-tune, and deploy AI/ML models, including LLMs and generative AI solutions
• Develop RAG pipelines and prompt-engineering strategies
• Design, deploy, test, and maintain medium- to large-scope projects
• Manage AI/ML product licenses and cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate with analysts, academic, finance, research, leadership, faculty, vendors, campus partners, and OIT
• Gather requirements and develop cost-effective AI solutions for academic, operational, and research needs
• Communicate project status and technical recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Provide regular project updates to the Director
• Conduct code reviews and troubleshoot deployed applications and AI models
• Evaluate emerging AI tools, frameworks, and platforms
• Create technical documentation, API specifications, database schemas, and user documentation
• Develop and deliver stakeholder training on AI tools and best practices
• Provide post-implementation support for deployed AI applications and solutions

AI Developer, Data Analytics & Technology

Research Analyst

• Sustain daily operations at the multi-cathode sputtering source for UT and other laboratory users
• Actively participate in experimental campaigns at Florida State University utilizing the sputtering source
• Lead the two-neutron transfer reaction campaign on light lithium and beryllium isotopes
• Use modern analysis tools and machine learning to analyze nuclear reaction data
• Collaborate with theorists at UT Knoxville and other institutions to interpret nuclear reaction properties
• Collaborate with group members and students to leverage modern analysis techniques
• Ensure compliance with environment, safety, health, and quality program requirements
• Uphold values and ethics in scientific research

Financial Specialist

Private Donor Funding Manager, Finance & Administration

Senior System Administrator

AI Developer, Data Analytics & Technology

Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Physics and Astronomy