Staff Profiles

Student Spotlight: Armin Bozorgi

For Armin Bozorgi, web development is most meaningful when it gives people useful information and a way to make a difference. As a web development intern with UC Davis Facilities Management, he helps create digital tools that make campus energy data easier to understand and use.

Customer Spotlight: Makayla Rojas

As the Facilities Coordinator for the National Biomedical Research Institute (NBRI), formerly known as the California National Primate Research Center, Makayla Rojas plays an important role in maintaining a safe, functional, and welcoming environment for the institute’s employees.

Staff Spotlight: Dan Goodwin

After 25 years at UC Davis, Dan Goodwin continues to find new ways to improve the campus’ facilities and support their long-term success. As an Inspector, Planner, Estimator (IPE) with Building Maintenance Services (BMS), Goodwin develops project scopes, prepares cost estimates, and coordinates mechanical system repairs and upgrades across campus.

Team Spotlight: Lock Shop

Mention a lock shop, and most people picture keys, cylinders and a quick lock change. Those services are part of the work—but for the UC Davis Facilities Management Lock Shop, they are only the beginning.

Team Spotlight: Instrumentation & Controls

Behind many of UC Davis’ essential utility systems is a highly skilled team working behind the scenes to keep campus operations safe, reliable, and running smoothly: the Instrumentation & Controls Team.

Business Partner Spotlight: Emerson David

Emerson David’s career at UC Davis is one that has come full circle, starting as a student assistant and growing into a leadership role that helps shape the university’s technology systems today.

Staff Spotlight: Lance Hamilton

Although Steven “Lance” Hamilton wasn’t in a leadership role when he first joined UC Davis Facilities Management nearly 13 years ago, he has since grown into one that keeps him constantly engaged with both people and complex systems as the supervisor for fire systems and security alarms.

Team Spotlight: Sports Turf Team

When student-athletes step onto a perfectly groomed baseball, softball, soccer, or football field, most never see the countless hours of specialized work that happen behind the scenes. For the Grounds & Landscape Services Sports Turf Team, creating and maintaining high-performance athletic fields is both a science and an art.

Team Spotlight: Business Intelligence Group

The Business Intelligence Group (BIG) is helping transform how Facilities Management (FM) uses data to support decision-making, improve operations, and solve complex organizational challenges. The team consists of Mallory Gatchalian, Eddy Johnson, Daniel Colvin, Kiernan Salmon, Nate Rodriguez, and Kim Arthur.

Team Spotlight: Customer Experience Center

Long before a technician arrives on site or a repair is completed, many campus issues begin with a single point of contact: the Customer Experience Center (CEC). Led by Customer Experience Supervisor Mallory Gatchalian, the team works behind the scenes to coordinate responses and guide requests from initial report to final resolution.