UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO - Key Persons


Adam M. Bargnesi

Job Titles:
  • Fire Extinguisher Shop Supervisor

Alane Monell

Job Titles:
  • Office Assistant

Alex Borichevskiy

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Alexander Wehrlin

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator / Fire Safety Inspector

Alison Meadows

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Procurement Systems & Operations

Amanda Brandis

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Amy J. Beers

Job Titles:
  • Director of Policy, Compliance, and Internal Controls

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, professor of anthropology, has spent more than 24 years researching the Mapauche people, who comprise 80% of Chile's indigenous population.

Andrea Cesar

Job Titles:
  • Travel, Financial Management

Andrea Markelz

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Dept
Andrea Markelz, professor, Dept. of Physics, "The direction of the motion ... can really determine how well a protein performs its biological function."

Andrea Roy

Job Titles:
  • Director, Project Management

Andrew Koblich

Job Titles:
  • Asset Management, Financial Management

Andrew Talal

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Medicine, in Referencing Hepatitis C Virus - "We'Re Seeing Infection Hotspots, " and Says It 's Partly the Result of the Opioid Epidemic
Andrew Talal, professor, Department of Medicine, in referencing hepatitis C virus - "We're seeing infection hotspots," and says it's partly the result of the opioid epidemic. Talal is developing innovative ways to diagnose and treat HCV among substance abusers.

Angie Rzeszut

Job Titles:
  • Director / Financial Management

April DeCarlo

Job Titles:
  • Customer Success Specialist

Ashley Butcher

Job Titles:
  • Director / Financial Management

Ashley Goolsby

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Baker Chilled Water Plant


Barry Beebe

Job Titles:
  • Code Compliance Manager

Bethany Scibetta

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Breanna Totaro

Job Titles:
  • Laboratory / Radiation Safety Inspector / Environment, Health & Safety / 220 Winspear Avenue

Brendan Davis

Job Titles:
  • Director / Financial Management

Brian Foti

Job Titles:
  • Environmental Programs Manager

Brian Turner

Job Titles:
  • Fire Safety Inspector / Environment, Health & Safety / 220 Winspear Avenue

Bruce Buerger

Job Titles:
  • Director, Capital Planning & Deferred Maintenance

Cameron Ross

Job Titles:
  • Emergency Drill Coordinator / Safety Inspector

Carla M Persico

Job Titles:
  • Lease Coordinator / Real Estate and Property Management

Carmen Gonzalez

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President / Purchasing and Contract Services

Carol Michno

Job Titles:
  • Research Foundation Accounts Payable, Financial Management

Carrie Hutchins

Job Titles:
  • Director

Catherine Grace Scheda

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager / Facilities, Design and Construction

Cathy Hansen

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Charlene Hill


Charlotte Lindqvist

Job Titles:
  • UB Assistant Professors of Biological Sciences
Charlotte Lindqvist, PhD, UB assistant professors of biological sciences: "There were more unique variants in polar bear genes than in those of the other species."

Cheryl Zimmerman

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager / Facilities, Design and Construction

Chris Donacik

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director Skilled Trades / Facilities Operations

Christian Ruschel

Job Titles:
  • Architectural Planner

Christina Frears

Job Titles:
  • Mail Services / 1 Campus Mail Center

Christine Koniarczk

Job Titles:
  • Staff Associate

Christine Lamb

Job Titles:
  • Special Projects Coordinator

Christopher Michael

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineer

Chyna Ly

Job Titles:
  • Associate Radiation Safety Specialist

Cindy Kerr

Job Titles:
  • State Accounts Payable, Financial Management

Cory Nealon

Job Titles:
  • Director of News Content
  • Media Inquiries

Dan Freund

Job Titles:
  • Estimator

Dana Draper

Job Titles:
  • Hazardous Waste Technician

Daniel Seiders

Job Titles:
  • Landscape Architectural Planner

Daniel Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Project Site Representative

Darlene Brown

Job Titles:
  • State Accounts Payable, Financial Management

Darnell Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Mail Services / 1 Campus Mail Center

Daryl Ryan

Job Titles:
  • Campus Planning Manager

David Barnas

Job Titles:
  • Senior Physical Space Administrator

David Markey

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

David Sawran

Job Titles:
  • Utilities Accountant / Analyst

David Vasbinder

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Dawson Rieman


Demetrius Grant

Job Titles:
  • Staff Assistant

Dennis Sagliani

Job Titles:
  • Facilities Procurement Coordinator / FPMO

Derek Nichols

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director for Sustainability

Donna Czaja

Job Titles:
  • Director, Security and Customer Success

Dorothy Solomon


Dylan Lambert

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Emily Stoner

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Eric Krist

Job Titles:
  • Construction Site Superintendent

Eric Mrozek

Job Titles:
  • Hazardous Waste Technician

Erin Guiffrida


Erin Moscati

Job Titles:
  • Zero Waste Manager

Gabi Militello

Job Titles:
  • Travel, Financial Management

Hazel Pasco

Job Titles:
  • State Accounting and Financial Reporting / Financial Management

Henry Louis Taylor Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
Henry Louis Taylor Jr., PhD, professor of urban and regional planning: He believes the U.S. made it tough for Cuba but now may be what makes it better for the country and its people.

Jacqueline Montaldi

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

James Coppola

Job Titles:
  • Mail Services / 1 Campus Mail Center

James F. Nolan

Job Titles:
  • Estimator

James Kim

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

James Price

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineer

Janelle Toner

Job Titles:
  • Project Coordinator

Jean Fee

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to the Director

Jeffrey Lackner

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Dept. of Medicine
Jeffrey Lackner, professor, Dept. of Medicine: "Patient satisfaction ... metric that impacts reimbursement as health care emphasizes the value of care, not the volume of care." Lackner's study revealed: many factors of patient satisfaction are beyond the doctor's control.

Jennifer Glennon

Job Titles:
  • Director

Jennifer Pesany

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, Financial Management

Jennifer Russo

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Jennifer Smith

Job Titles:
  • Quality Assurance / Quality Improvement Administrator

Jerry Buchanan

Job Titles:
  • Mail Services / 1 Campus Mail Center

Jessica Bestine

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Jessica Smith

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Jill Durbin

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Accountant / Facilities, Facilities Finance

Jill Zolnowski

Job Titles:
  • Office Assistant II / Facilities, Facilities Finance

John Wojcik

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Utilities

Jordan Kayes

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Joseph Anthony D

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager / Facilities, Design and Construction

Joseph Bologna

Job Titles:
  • Property Manager / Real Estate and Property Management

Joseph Raab

Job Titles:
  • Director

Joshua Snyder

Job Titles:
  • Laboratory Safety Manager

June Sokolowski

Job Titles:
  • Director of Scientific Special Projects / Purchasing and Contract Services

Justin Friedman

Job Titles:
  • Hazardous Materials Supervisor

Justin Miller

Job Titles:
  • Safety Engineer

Karen Buchheit

Job Titles:
  • Travel, Financial Management

Karen Ferrilli

Job Titles:
  • Office Assistant I / Facilities, Facilities Finance

Karen Lyons

Job Titles:
  • Accounts Payable, Financial Management

Karen Mecca

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Karen Scott


Karin Crumb Kosmala

Job Titles:
  • Architectural Planner / Facilities, Campus Planning

Kate Schaal

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Kathy May

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Kathy Meloon

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President / Student Accounts

Katrina Marie Pruyn

Job Titles:
  • Mail Services / 1 Campus Mail Center

Kaylen Haimerl

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Kellie Kostek

Job Titles:
  • Director / Customer Service & Processing

Kelly Haidar

Job Titles:
  • Safety, Health & Environmental Specialist / Environment, Health & Safety

Kelly Hayes

Job Titles:
  • Director

Kelly Murray

Job Titles:
  • Safety Inspector

Kendra Hardleben

Job Titles:
  • Office Assistant

Kenneth Aaron Schmitz

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Manager

Kevin Cudney

Job Titles:
  • Hazardous Materials Manager

Kevin Fischer

Job Titles:
  • Mail Services / 1 Campus Mail Center

Kevin Godwin

Job Titles:
  • Customer Service Manager

Kevin Ragland


Kim Ferry

Job Titles:
  • Project Financial Analyst

Kim Navarroli

Job Titles:
  • Director

Kimberly Brunton

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Operations

Kione Zeigler

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Krishna Rajan

Job Titles:
  • Erich Block Endowed Chair of MDI, on Innovative and Cost - Effective Solutions to "Spur Advanced Materials Research That Powers Future Clean - Tech Vehicles."
Krishna Rajan, ScD, Erich Block Endowed Chair of MDI, on innovative and cost-effective solutions to "spur advanced materials research that powers future clean-tech vehicles."

Krista Macy

Job Titles:
  • ADA Facilities and Universal Design Coordinator

Lance Mahalic


Laura Reeves

Job Titles:
  • Office Assistant II / Facilities, Facilities Finance

Laura Stevens

Job Titles:
  • Director / Student Financial Systems

Lauren Fenush

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Leah Kerr


Leanne Martin

Job Titles:
  • Accounts Payable, Financial Management

Leanne Michelle Paradis

Job Titles:
  • Junior Project Manager

Lillian Damin

Job Titles:
  • Project Coordinator

Linda Deni

Job Titles:
  • Director of Procurement Operations / Purchasing and Contract Services

Linda Ferry

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Linda Morse

Job Titles:
  • Accounts Payable, Financial Management

Lisa Stelter

Job Titles:
  • Office Assistant II / Facilities, Facilities Finance

Lora Park

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
Lora Park, associate professor of psychology, "People don't often think of the possible downsides of wrapping their identity and self-worth around financial pursuits."

Malinda Keidel

Job Titles:
  • Project Coordinator

Margaux Benoit

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Finance

Marie Colella

Job Titles:
  • Director of Campus Services Procurement / Purchasing and Contract Services

Marjory Jaeger

Job Titles:
  • Fire and Life Safety Manager

Mark Frank

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Communication
Mark Frank, PhD, professor of communication: "Even after training, humans were accurate only 55 percent of the time. The computer ... 85 percent of the time."

Marty Spence

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Mary Kvetkosky

Job Titles:
  • Director, Web and Communications

Maryann Baron

Job Titles:
  • Office Assistant

Matt Cannon

Job Titles:
  • Staff Assistant

Matthew M. Owczarczak

Job Titles:
  • Architect

Matthew Schery

Job Titles:
  • Document Associate Document Library / Facilities, Campus Planning / 154 Beane Center

Meg Mitchell

Job Titles:
  • Director

Melissa Grabowski

Job Titles:
  • Learning and Design Specialist

Micaela MItchell

Job Titles:
  • Records Management & Access Administrator

Michael Herbst

Job Titles:
  • Radiation Safety Specialist

Michael May

Job Titles:
  • Mail Services / 1 Campus Mail Center

Michael Robert Nichols

Job Titles:
  • Junior Project Manager

Michael Schwallie

Job Titles:
  • CAD Designer

Michael Stoklosa

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineer

Michele Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Security Administrator

Michele Nixon

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Michelle D'Andrea

Job Titles:
  • Office Assistant II / Facilities, Facilities Finance

Michelle Griffin

Job Titles:
  • Accounts Payable, Financial Management

Michelle McCartney

Job Titles:
  • Director / Financial Management

Michelle Vandewalker

Job Titles:
  • Mail Services / 1 Campus Mail Center

Mike Walker

Job Titles:
  • Director, Campus Custodial Services / Facilities Operations

Molly Davis

Job Titles:
  • State Accounting / Financial Management

Nancy Kielar

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President

Natalya Dean

Job Titles:
  • Learning and Design Specialist

Nate Bolt

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Construction Delivery

Nathan Hilson

Job Titles:
  • Project Site Rep / Facilities, Design and Construction

Nathaniel Shaw

Job Titles:
  • Facilities Safety Coordinator

Nicholas Alba

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Nicholas Clay

Job Titles:
  • Fire Extinguisher Shop Inspection Supervisor

Nicole Mayer

Job Titles:
  • Asset Management, Financial Management

Nina Anders

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Nina Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Norma Nowak

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life
Norma Nowak, PhD, executive director, NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences, is a recognized leader in human genomics. She's helping guide the Buffalo Institute for Genomics and Data Analytics.

Olivia Mccarthy

Job Titles:
  • Sustainability Operations Coordinator

Otto Holly

Job Titles:
  • Accounts Payable, Financial Management

Pam Hyman

Job Titles:
  • Director

Pamela Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Operations

Pamela Lojacono

Job Titles:
  • Policy Manager

Paras Prasad

Job Titles:
  • SUNY Distinguished Professor
SUNY Distinguished Professor Paras Prasad is a recognized expert in optics and photonics, leading him to be named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

Patrick Joseph Niedzwiecki

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Paul Frank DeSantis

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Paul Garesis

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director

Paul Michael Kinney

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Paul Murawski

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director

Penny Jenkins

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Rhonda L Ransom

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Richard J. Karalus

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research Compliance

Richard Lamb

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Learning and Instruction
Lamb has set up the multidisciplinary Neurocognition Science Lab, home of UB's VR activity, to understand how we can teach and learn better. Richard Lamb, associate professor of learning and instruction: "The brain does not differentiate between reality and virtual reality."

Richard Reardon

Job Titles:
  • Planning Engineer

Richard Salvi

Job Titles:
  • SUNY Distinguished Professor
Richard Salvi, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, "...people with this type of damage have difficulty hearing in certain situations, like hearing speech in a noisy room."

Robert Adams


Robert J Rychlik

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director / Real Estate and Property Management

Rodney Hogg


Ronald Van Splunder

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Architectural Support

Ryan A. McPherson - CSR

Job Titles:
  • Chief Sustainability Officer

Ryan Plewinski


Samina Raja

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Urban Planning
Samina Raja, PhD, associate professor of urban planning: "Local governments in the U.S. are finally beginning to recognize the need to invest in food systems."

Samira Sheikholeslami

Job Titles:
  • Architectural Planner

Sanjay Sethi

Job Titles:
  • Medical Director

Sara Burris

Job Titles:
  • Office Assistant II / Facilities, Facilities Finance

Scott Kuebler

Job Titles:
  • Senior Architect

Scott Pochron

Job Titles:
  • Director, Reporting and Systems

Sean Brodfuehrer

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director for Campus Planning Facilities Information Resources Manager ( FIRM )

Sean Gardner


Sean Wong

Job Titles:
  • Cost Accounting / Financial Management

Shannon Beaton

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Shauna Sauberan

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Sonia Giansante-Rosen

Job Titles:
  • Travel, Financial Management

Stacey Modicamore

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Building and Grounds / Facilities Operations

Stefan Kothe

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Stephen Scarpello

Job Titles:
  • Staff Assistant

Susan Larimer

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Suzanne Gentz - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Finance

Taylor Barszcz

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Theodore Diamond

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Project Quality

Theresa Dames

Job Titles:
  • Lab Safety Inspector / Environment, Health & Safety / 220 Winspear Avenue

Thomas E. Okon

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President

Thomas Radomski

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Facilities Engineering

Tiffany Rutherford

Job Titles:
  • Customer Success Specialist

Timothy Coughlin

Job Titles:
  • Hazardous Waste Technician

Timothy Odell

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Tina Conrad

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Tonga Pham

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice President

Tonya Paulk

Job Titles:
  • Research Foundation Accounts Payable, Financial Management

Travis Wright

Job Titles:
  • Content Specialist

Tricia Canty

Job Titles:
  • Internal Control Coordinator

Tricia Kandler

Job Titles:
  • Director of Facilities and Construction Procurement / Purchasing and Contract Services

Tyler Reynolds

Job Titles:
  • Geospatial Data Coordinator

Tyler Wiese

Job Titles:
  • Inspector

Valerie Bailoni

Job Titles:
  • IRB Administrative Assistant

Valerie Dennis

Job Titles:
  • Director / Financial Management

Victor Albert

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Biological Sciences
Albert and an international research team - what makes a birch tree hardy in different environments to meet industry needs. Victor Albert, professor of biological sciences: "Others, like spruce, pine and poplar, all have genome sequences, but birch did not - until now."

Walter Pryor

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing and Contract Services

Zachary Polvino

Job Titles:
  • Fire Extinguisher Shop Inspection Supervisor

Zachary Root

Job Titles:
  • State Accounting / Financial Management