Heart to Heart Magazine - Summer 2016

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Life at BioBridge Global

A Ranger’s Story

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STARLiMS is coming

Sales and Marketing debuts

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Making a difference

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Rolling out a new world

table of contents STARLiMS is coming

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QualTex Accessioning leads the way with system implementation

Features

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A quarterly magazine for team members of BioBridge Global Chief Executive Officer Linda Myers

A donor’s story: Patty Garcia

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Editor David King

Why you matter

Corporate Communications Staff Jason Alvear Isabel Campos Roberto Esquivel Laura McGinnis Angelica Sandoval Mary Uhlig Julie Vera

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Published by Corporate Communications, BioBridge Global, 6211 IH 10 West, San Antonio, TX 78201.

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Letters and Notes |

From the desk of the CEO Last month, I had the privilege of joining the Values Blueprint Committee for a day and a half of intensive work on our Built on Values program.

The Donor Pavilion Auditorium was filled with team members from across the enterprise, taking on the task of examining, defining and focusing on our values as an organization. The group included a wide range of experience and age levels, as well as representatives of every level of the organization from COOs to front-line staff.

The Values Blueprint was the second step in the Built on Values process, following a series of focus groups that sought out input from dozens of you, chosen completely at random.

The team from People Ink, which is working with us on Built on Values, was impressed with the enthusiastic response in those focus groups. But they were even more impressed with the passion for our mission in every meeting.

They also appreciated your frank and honest input on the issues facing us in the coming months and years. Information from the focus groups helped shape discussions within the Vales Blueprint Committee.

The committee went through intense discussions of where we are as an organization and what we want to become in the future, a future where everything we do – from hiring to evaluations to business decisions – is focused on our values.

They looked at values statements from a variety of organizations and companies, and worked hard to find the key concepts, words and phrases that best fit us at BioBridge Global.

Members of the committee are now working on preparing our new values document, and they’ll be looking for your input later this month on a logo.

The new values and value statements will debut the week of the BBG Summit, July 18-22. Thanks to everyone for their input and efforts to focus our values as an organization.

Linda Myers Cheif Executive Officer

Our Vision Statement

Welcome to the BBG Bodega

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f you’re a regular visitor to the eConnect homepage, you may have noticed a big change in the last month. On May 9, the icon for the kaput Employee Directory was replaced by the two-toned green arrows of the BBG Bodega. (Find a directory in Outlook now.)

The BBG Bodega is the first high-profile project for the Engagement Committee, a group of employees brought together as a response to your feedback on multiple surveys. (Full disclosure: Yours truly is a proud member of the committee.) Committee members are non-managers from across the organization.

The BBG Bodega is designed to be like any other bodega – a place where you can find just about anything. And just like its brickand-mortar inspiration, it’s open to everyone.

Feel free to post anything from free kittens to volunteering opportunities. (About the only prohibitions are selling items and fundraising.)

The goal of the bodega is to get you to engage with each other. If you want that free couch or that really cute puppy, you’ve got to communicate with the person who has them, even if he or she works in a different building or for a different subsidiary. You might even have to deal with them (gasp!) face-to-face.

But the bodega is just the first step.

The Engagement Committee also wants to build communication up and down the organization, as well as across it. If you have an idea you think might improve communications among folks at every level of authority, feel free to pass it along to a member of the group. In the meantime, go find a new dog/ iguana/volunteer opportunity on the BBG Bodega. That’s why it’s there.

To be a global leader in human cellular services

Our Mission Statement To save and enhance lives through the healing power of human cells

- David King

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Cover story |

STARLiMS: Change is coming to QualTex

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aying STARLiMS is just software is kind of like saying the Alamo is just an old building downtown, or Coca-Cola is just another soda.

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The new laboratory information management system, which begins its rollout this fall at QualTex Laboratories, is far more than just a way to organize samples for testing.

“This is a culture change, a fundamental change in the way we do things,” said Iris Rodriguez, laboratory manager for sample management in San Antonio.

And it’s going to affect every bit of the process QualTex uses to test samples in both San Antonio and Atlanta.

For the people doing the testing, it’s going to be a move from manual to digital tracking, eliminating many of the laborious processes that tend to produce data errors.

But it will do something even more important: It’s going to put everyone on the same page.

“We’re going to build a dashboard, so every employee will know where you stand,” Rodriguez said. “You’ll be able to see what you’re doing, to track yourself and your work.

Expectations will be there, and you’re going to know where you are on a daily basis.”

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For the organization, the benefits also go far beyond a software upgrade from the current Surround system.

“We’re leaving money on the table because of Surround, which puts real limitations on the process of adding new clients,” said Guy Julien, director of business integration for QualTex and the leader of the STARLiMS implementation. “With STARLiMS, we will be able to configure customizations on the fly.

“If some company comes to us with a box it wants tested, we will be able to test it. Essentially, this is opening up the possibility of more business.”

It also helps fix a known problem with how data is made available to support billing.

STARLiMS will provide accurate information about every test performed on every sample.

“This system puts in place the kind of growth and speed that would have helped prevent last year’s backups,” Julien said.

When fully deployed, it also has another major benefit for customers

– the ability to locate and generate reports on any samples at any point in the testing process.

“The traceability feature will be key to provide timely and relevant information,” said Shanell Williams, laboratory supervisor for sample management in Atlanta. “Our clients can begin to build their trust again,

knowing QualTex has complete oversight of their samples from the time they are received until they are resulted.”

The rollout process already has begun. QualTex is working with Abbott Informatics, which owns STARLiMS, on what Julien called a layered approach to implementation.

Once the software has been thoroughly tested by STARLiMS, it will be delivered to BioBridge Global Information Technology. ITS will then conduct several rounds of testing, and the functionality will be shared with members of the QualTex team.

“We’ll be able to include everybody and we’ll get feedback from employees,” Rodriguez said. “They will be part of the process, especially when we are doing testing. We want people to play with it and give us their feedback.”

Training will follow, with a go-live target of the fourth quarter.

Work is underway on the next segment of the implementation, Batch Release, with a goal of getting Batch Release and Customer Operations all on STARLiMS in the first half of 2017.

The complete rollout will take about 18 months, Julien said.

“Any kind of organization that expects to have 24-hour-a-day operations needs this kind of a system,” Julien said. “It’s absolutely vital.” n

STARLiMS timeline u Release 1: Accessioning laboratories (fourth quarter, 2016) u Release 2: Supporting departments and processes (e.g. CHASE, Batch Release, Customer Ops, Billing) u Release 3: Production laboratories u Release 4: Remaining supporting departments and processes (fourth quarter, 2017) The aim is to go live all the way through Release 4 by the end of 2017.

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You said it |

Do you have a famous relative?

For this edition, we asked people across the enterprise if they were related to someone famous (or infamous).

Here’s a sampling of responses: Samuel Hillhouse Mar r ow r ec ruit m e n t c o n s ulta n t, Gen Cu re

My aunt is astronaut Shannon Lucid, who was the first American woman to fly on a space station – the Russian Mir, in 1996 – and the first woman to make a third, fourth and fifth spaceflight. At one time, she held the record for the longest time in space by an astronaut, as well as by a woman.

Shannon Lucid’s official NASA portrait

Jillian VanDamme R e c e pt ion is t, Corp orat e Commu n ic at ion s , BBG

Great-Uncle Rene placing at Vegetable Show / VanDamme Farms, D’Hanis Texas / Belgian Exhibit

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My great-grandparents and their children, which included my grandfather and two great-uncles, immigrated to the United States from Belgium after World War II. They traveled 18 days by boat and landed in Tampa Florida, eventually settling in Devine. After living and working with friends, they saved up enough to buy their own farmland. They went on to be very successful farmers in that area, receiving many awards at the South Texas Vegetable Show held annually in San Antonio. They became very well-known across Medina and Bexar counties, and expanded their farms to D’Hanis and Hondo.

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You said it |

Nathan Lawrence Di r ector of b us in e s s in t e g rat io n , Qu alTex Laborat ories

My many-greats-grandfather, John Lawrence, was one of the first settlers in the Dakota Territory. He wound up in Yankton in the Dakota Territory, and he served in a number of territorial and federal offices, including sergeant at arms of the U.S. House of Representatives and deputy U.S. marshal in the Dakotas, and he was the first treasurer of the county named for him in 1877.

Woodcut of Col. John Lawrence.

Mikki Kilgore A p h e res is p lat elet p roc es s in g s u p ervis or, STBTC

James “Black” Douglas is the third figure from the left in this photo by William Brassey Hole of detail from a frieze in the entrance hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

James Douglas, my many-times-great grandfather, was the leader of Clan Douglas and known to those who feared him as The Black Douglas. During the 12th century, he was one of the chief commanders in the Wars of Scottish Independence, earning a reputation for his tactical brilliance. At one point, he surprised the garrison of a tower by disguising his warriors as the sheep that were supposed to be grazing nearby.

Liese Teneyuca-Arias S eni or e m p l o y m e n t m a n a g e r, H uman Res ou rc es , BBG

I am the niece of Emma Tenayuca; she is one of my dad’s sisters. Our names are different because hers was misspelled at birth, and she decided to keep it that way. She helped lead the famous Texas pecan shellers’ strike in 1938, when the company cut their pay and forced them to work in poor conditions. Aunt Emma tried to get better pay and more humane working conditions for the workers. She ended up going to jail many times, was blacklisted and labeled a communist, and eventually had to leave town. She came back many years later and taught in the Harlandale ISD until 1982.

Undated photo of Emma Tenayuca.

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Feature |

Patty Garcia: Making blood donation a habit

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or Patty Garcia, making her regular platelet donation is like taking a spa day.

“They put a warm blanket over me, I get to watch a movie,” she said. “It’s like spa day. They come over a check on me, I love it. It makes me feel like someone’s paying attention. It’s very relaxing and it makes me feel good.”

Those spa days – and a history of whole-blood donations before them – are a regular occurrence for Garcia. She started going to blood drives when she came to the city to attend the radio-television-film program at San Antonio College, and she has been giving ever since. A recent donation put her at seven gallons.

“I’m really happy to do that for the community, and I look forward to hopefully donating another seven gallons,” she said.

“That would be great.”

That dedication followed her through a career in local radio – she worked on the air for several stations, including Y100 and KONO – as well as time with KSAT-TV. For the past three years, she has served on the staff of Councilman Cris Medina.

Working for the councilman keeps her busy, but she still manages to make her regular trip to the Donor Pavilion – and get others to donate, in her own way.

“I’m not sure how I encourage people to go, but I can tell

you that it works because I found out not too long ago that two of my nephews have started donating blood because they knew that I was doing it,” she said. “I think it’s just by example – I’ve led by example, particularly to my friends and family.”

She posts about her donations on Facebook, and she has a group of friends who will challenge each other to give.

“If I don’t remember and a friend of mine goes, they nudge me and I nudge another friend,” she said. “It’s sort of a chain reaction.”

And kind of like a spa day, getting away from it all for a couple of hours. She also makes sure to heed the advice to eat a good meal after a donation.

“I remember as a child, my grandfather doing it. So I had an impression that it was a great civic duty to go and donate blood.

So I followed in his path.”

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“It’s like my reward to myself,” Garcia said. “I don’t drink and I don’t smoke, so it’s like the easiest thing to do because I don’t have anything that holds me back.”

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Don’t be a stranger – help this Texas Ranger

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ne of Al Cuellar’s passions when he was a Texas Ranger was taking care of the quiet victims of

crimes.

“There are people who have never asked anything of the state of Texas,” Cuellar said in an interview for the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009. “When they become victims, you just work day and night because they deserve that help.

“They’re the people who really need the help, and they’re the people who ask the least of you.”

But now it’s Cuellar’s turn to need help.

Cuellar, a member of the state’s elite law enforcement agency from 1978-96, is suffering from a serious bone marrow disorder known as myleodysplastic syndrome (MDS). His best chance for recovery is to have a bone marrow transplant.

Currently, there is no bone marrow match available for Cuellar on any of

the global registries. That’s why the GenCure marrow donor program

is scheduling a series of registration drives across South Texas.

GenCure also has set up a website to promote the effort, at GenCure.org/ RangerCuellar.

Cuellar is a native of South Texas, and he lives in Helotes. He was a state trooper for 10 years in East Texas before joining the Texas Rangers’ Company D, based in San Antonio.

He worked on a wide range of cases during his 16 years as a Ranger, from livestock theft to murder, in a five-county area. He believed that a big part of his job was helping people.

“Whether you pay state taxes in San Antonio or state taxes in Utopia … and a crime happens, you’re entitled to the same kind of service as anybody else,” he said in the 2009 interview.

One of Cuellar’s other duties with the Rangers through the years was serving on the security details for governors. In the oral history, he said he had pleasant experiences with all of them.

“Ann Richards was a very nice lady,” he said. “She had a lot of people with her all the time, and they were all real friendly. After her business, they would say ‘Cuellar, let’s go east

somewhere, pick a place for us.’

“I’d call a restaurant and I’d say ‘I’m going to be down there, can you clear a table? I’m coming with Ann Richards, the governor.’ They would say ‘You’re kidding me!’ And I’d say ‘No, I’m serious, and I’m going to be there in a few minutes.’ ” Cuellar was diagnosed with MDS in 2013, and then acute myeloid leukemia in 2014. After chemotherapy and an extended hospital stay, he went into remission at the end of 2014. The MDS returned in late 2015, so he is undergoing chemotherapy again and searching for a compatible bone marrow donor. n

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Events |

Take a walk Participants in the National Walking Day at BBG gather in the Headquarters Building for snacks after their brisk walk around the grounds.

In the Fiesta spirit

Fiesta medal winner

The winning team shows off its entry in the Corporate Materials and Services competition to create a mini Fiesta parade float.

Roberto Esquivel and Isabel Campos show off the BBG Fiesta medal they designed, which won the Express-News competition.

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Events |

Play ball Aida and Kalli Cordeau hang out with Harry Hemoglobin during STBC night at Wolff Stadium. Aida, a leukemia survivor, got to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the game.

Lab week Team members in San Antonio took advantage of a sunny day in April for a picnic, as part of Medical Laboratory Professionals Week.

Corporate Cup BioBridge’s team took on the city at the Humana Corporate cup competition.

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News |

Read all about it!

Sales and Marketing opening new doors across enterprise When the GenCure/ “Once we have South Texas Blood & SalesForce, it’s going BBG Sales & Marketing organization Tissue Center depot in to be like, ‘How did we TOM JOHNSON Executive Vice President the Rio Grande Valley ever function without opened this spring, it it?’ ” Thompson said.

ANNE THOMPSON JOSE GA RCIA OP EN FREDDIE CERVERA MARY UHLIG Director of Marketing was more than just those “It’s going to change how VP Sales Director of Sales Director of Sales Director Corporate QualTex, STBTC, QualTex STBTC GenCure Communications doors that opened. we do things as much as GenCure “It’s an example of the voicemail and email did.”

MIC HA EL OPEN MEDIA CAMPAIGNS MA RY WILLIAMS OPEN LI NDENBAUM multibusiness approach The biggest advantage QualTex Marketing STBTC CAE GenCure CAE QualTex CAE Product Manager (Plasma) we want to take,” said of SalesForce is that INTERNAL EDUCATION Tom Johnson, executive it will allow users to LA RRY F RA NZO I CHRIS TURNER QualTex CAE STBTC Marketing vice president for sales organize and track all COMMUNITY (WB) Product Manager EDUCATION and marketing. “We communications with were able to get it done current and potential P RO MI SE BRYA NT KEVIN BARTON QualTex CAE GenCure Marketing because we had a sales customers, across the (HCT/P) Product Manage and marketing team on entire enterprise. It also board.” will enhance outbound By leveraging STBTC content to BBG with GenCure in plans customers, including and Communications. for a new building, the organization targeted marketing communications.

The agreement with the two was able to add business for BioBridge hospitals in the Valley, negotiated by Another example of a multifaceted Global. approach to sales is the recent Chris Turner, is expected to generate The facility, which combined an expansion of agreements with Bone an additional $1.5 million for STBTC existing operation for the GenCure Bank Allografts, a San Antonio and enhance GenCure operations in tissue program with one that will company that has its own line of bone the Valley. distribute blood products to hospitals and soft-tissue allografts.

Since Johnson joined BBG late last in Weslaco and Harlingen, is just QualTex already was doing testing year, he has expanded a successful the start of a variety of projects for Bone Bank Allografts, but now model developed by Jose Garcia, undertaken by the new BioBridge GenCure will be providing the QualTex vice president of marketing Global department of Sales, Marketing and customer relations, customer company with materials for a dental product. operations, to STBTC and GenCure.

“We’re looking at this as establishing Johnson has been building a team to more avenues to go to market for new fill out that model (see accompanying customers, ” Freddie Cervera said. chart).

“We’re looking at product lines that The department also has expanded can make us a one-stop shop, offering marketing efforts, with Anne lab services, blood and tissue. We want Thompson, director of marketing for to be a top-of-mind provider, where BBG, leading a full implementation of companies won’t have to go anywhere the multifaceted SalesForce customer else.” relationship management system.

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Global Blood Fund lets donors make double the difference

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Educating the media and the community about the need for blood is an important part of our mission.

As we all know, a single blood donation can help up to three people in South Texas But STBTC also has a way for donors to have a global impact, to join a worldwide community dedicated to building a safe blood supply around the world.

It’s done through the Global Blood Fund. The GBF works with organizations in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and South America to ensure the safety and suitability of blood supplies through a variety of methods.

The Global Blood Fund was founded in 2008, and it is operated almost exclusively by volunteers from the blood banking industry here in the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom.

Joining forced with the GBF is simple. Donors log into or set up their Donating for Life accounts, then donate accumulated from blood donations to the Global Blood Fund.

“From the tens of millions of blood donors to the network of medical, scientific and management professionals working to ensure their donation gets to the patient in need, people seem to recognize that there is something magical about blood donation,” the GBF notes on its website.

“People giving blood so that strangers they will never know might live is a shared experience across the planet, and its humanity unites us.

GBF works to create opportunities for individuals and organizations to help others within this shared community.”

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Announcements | Birthdays

June

Richard K. Fournier....................................................... 1 Vanessa Vallejo............................................................. 1 Roxanne Morales.......................................................... 2 Julie Kristin Ramirez...................................................... 3 Thomas Scott Jones.................................................... 4 Robert Thomas Gartner................................................ 5 Lila Rodriguez............................................................... 5 Melissa Zepeda............................................................ 5 Patricia J. Cappelli........................................................ 7 Paul Moran Gonzalez.................................................... 7 Monique Espinoza........................................................ 7 Estrella Lopez Luna...................................................... 9 Neil Anthony Houser................................................... 11 Jeffrey Keith Moore..................................................... 11 Rebecca Limon Reyes................................................ 11 Meredyth Renee Denise Harada................................. 11 David Hernandez Jr.................................................... 11 Sara A. Valdez Nava................................................... 12 Maritza Seineke.......................................................... 12 Carlos R Rodriguez.................................................... 13 Christine Sarah Mayambala........................................ 14 Kenneth Abram.......................................................... 14 Patricia R. Juarez........................................................ 14 Cesar Jesus Romero.................................................. 14 Amanda R De La Garza.............................................. 14 Sebero N De Leon...................................................... 15 Fixon Abbiw Owoo..................................................... 15 Anna B. Gonzales....................................................... 15 Shannyn Arthur Lee King Jr........................................ 15 Pablo Garcia............................................................... 16 Alicia Dorado Sanchez................................................ 16 Ernest Hernandez....................................................... 17 Maria De Los Angeles Fifer......................................... 18 Adebanjo O. Ewedemi................................................ 18 Julie Ann Vera............................................................. 18 Mark A Saldana.......................................................... 19 Sean David Allan Thompson....................................... 20 Jeannette Moreno-Rodriguez..................................... 20 Brenda Ann Flores...................................................... 22 Richard Thomas Miranda............................................ 22 Brent Vierk.................................................................. 22 Christina Nicolette DeJesus........................................ 22 Megan Lynn Phelps.................................................... 22 Sandra F. Francis........................................................ 24 Hoang Tuan Bui.......................................................... 24 Sonya Laverne Gomillion............................................ 24 Latoya Denise More.................................................... 26 Myrl A. Abbott............................................................ 27 Veronica Ramos Braidfoot.......................................... 27 Barbie Sherwood Noll................................................. 27 Ricardo Guadalupe Corpus........................................ 27 Theodore Lambert Cantrill.......................................... 29 Melissa Guajardo Tamez............................................. 29 Jose Raul Garcia........................................................ 29 Yvonne Blalock........................................................... 30 Claudia E Maltos Abonce........................................... 30

Kormassah Budy.......................................................... 5 Daniel F. Kindla............................................................. 6 Edward JR Perez.......................................................... 6 Natalie Rene Watkins.................................................... 6 Mark Patton Alkire........................................................ 7 Roxanne E. Fuentes..................................................... 7 Bethany Gail Urrabazo.................................................. 7 Leonardo Sergio Flores Jr............................................. 8 Mohammed Alaa Sayed............................................... 9 Andrew I. Quinones.................................................... 10 Jennifer Lehnert.......................................................... 10 Cynthia Solis............................................................... 11 Jessica Jo Glassco..................................................... 11 Bianca Nicole Mccumbers.......................................... 11 Jose Alfredo Cabrera JR............................................. 11 Naomi Yoho Herrera................................................... 12 Cara Celeste S. Arancillo............................................ 12 Ryan Duke Farias....................................................... 12 Christopher Pratt Johnson.......................................... 15 Felita Diane Settle....................................................... 15 Melody Rose Valdez................................................... 15 Edgardo Jose Avelar................................................... 17 April Eva Roselle Akins............................................... 17 Angela Nicole Johnson............................................... 17 LaMoniqca Denisa Lashaun Greenwood.................... 17 Melissa Sanchez Ybarra............................................. 18 Julio C. Benavides...................................................... 18 Maribel Carreon.......................................................... 18 Becky Marie Cap........................................................ 19 Jennifer P. Cobos....................................................... 19 Roxanna Lee Adams.................................................. 19 Dennysa Marie Medina............................................... 19 Ariel Renee Lopez...................................................... 19 Sandra Francisca Harada-Mendez............................. 20 Fallon Antonella Hampton........................................... 20 Osarieme Omoregbe.................................................. 21 Flor Rubio Navarro...................................................... 21 Ann Michelle Stout...................................................... 21 Mariana M. Garcia...................................................... 22 Fabiola Samantha Fernandez..................................... 22 Alfredo Garza Lopez Jr............................................... 23 Melissa Anne Walker................................................... 23 Thomas H. Parrish...................................................... 24 Pedro Hernandez Jr.................................................... 24 Kevin Perez Rodriguez................................................ 24 Courtney Marie Arsuaga............................................. 24 Maria Isabel Campos.................................................. 26 Norma Juanita Torres................................................. 27 Erin Butler................................................................... 27 Dennie L. Hawkins...................................................... 28 Yvonne Zapata........................................................... 28 Alexander Charles Roberts......................................... 28 Christopher Espinoza................................................. 28 Abraham Lopez.......................................................... 30 Charlotte Yvette VanDyke........................................... 31 Neil Osmar Gonzalez.................................................. 31 Victor Manuel Castillo-Maldonado.............................. 31

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Laura Carla Eickhoff...................................................... 1 Nikolette S. Ortegon..................................................... 1 Kimberly Jana’l Jimenez............................................... 2 Michelle Monroy Mendoza............................................ 5 Stephanie Marie Rivas.................................................. 5 Shyamil Chandrakant Nana.......................................... 5

Karmen Martinez James............................................... 1 Rene R. Vasquez.......................................................... 1 Lisa Marie Juarez.......................................................... 1 Izekial G. Butler............................................................ 1 Gabriela Aguilar............................................................ 1 Karla Lynne Wenzel...................................................... 2

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James Samuel Alolong Corrales................................... 2 Cilla Olateju Abiola Agbator.......................................... 3 Alfred Pardo................................................................. 3 Jennifer Jean Beasley................................................... 5 Renee Lynn Luellen...................................................... 5 Ryan J. Shoquist.......................................................... 5 Maria Elizabeth Soto..................................................... 5 Samuel Benjamin Hillhouse........................................... 5 Debra L. Borghei-Movahed.......................................... 6 Kelly Carol Washington................................................. 7 Jesse Y. Chavez........................................................... 7 Stephen Javier Ybarra.................................................. 7 Alyssa M. Persinger...................................................... 8 Debbie Davila............................................................... 9 Ryan L. Connor............................................................ 9 Evan Michael O’Mahoney............................................. 9 Frehiwot T. Getnet........................................................ 9 Kevin P. Bracewell...................................................... 10 Rudy Flores................................................................ 10 Jai Michelle Henry....................................................... 10 Salvador Eduardo Pulido Castaneda.......................... 11 Rene Lopez Jr............................................................ 12 Rebecca Ann Madere................................................. 12 Carlos Alberto Gutierrez-Garza................................... 12 Erica Martwick............................................................ 12 Ana Flores.................................................................. 13 Oluwafemisi Adunbarin Avalos.................................... 13 Pedro V. Martinez Jr.................................................... 14 Marigrace Andria Kunath............................................ 14 Joe A. Carrasco......................................................... 15 Tesha Orungbohun..................................................... 15 Ana Maria Nunez Hernandez...................................... 15 Randy Alexander Cunningham................................... 15 Amanda Denise Reyes............................................... 15 Sandra Ramirez Myers............................................... 16 Sarah Johns Champlin............................................... 16 Cody Ray Ginn........................................................... 16 Rene Rosendo Arteaga.............................................. 17 Genovia Griffin............................................................ 17 Alberto Guerra Sanchez Jr.......................................... 17 John E. Kipp............................................................... 17 Rosanna G. Esquibel.................................................. 18 Cheyenne Ashley Saenz............................................. 18 Lisa Marie Kisley......................................................... 19 Christa Urbiola............................................................ 20 Jorge Michael Veliz..................................................... 20 Tyronika Bird Wright.................................................... 20 Herlinda Garza Williams.............................................. 21 Henry Edward Chase Jr.............................................. 21 Richard Lee Juarez..................................................... 22 Naitasha Leighann Harris............................................ 22 Michael Cardenas....................................................... 24 Victor Eustacio Alvara Gomez Jr................................. 24 Sandra Dunn Cordell.................................................. 25 Niekirk P. Rose........................................................... 25 Christopher James Reiter........................................... 25 Wilona Alex Wilhite..................................................... 26 Delia Teresa Sanchez-Watkins.................................... 27 Aleida Nicole Garza.................................................... 27 Devon Alexander Contreras........................................ 27 Rebecca Ann Trevino.................................................. 29 Randal Stanley Birkelbach.......................................... 30 Ysmael Muniz............................................................. 31 Ursula Alvarado.......................................................... 31 Yvonne Iris Ybarra....................................................... 31

Announcements | Work anniversaries June

April Eva Roselle Akins........................... 3 years Tiffany Hajovsky Rodriguez..................... 3 years Fanyin Wang........................................... 3 years Cody Ray Ginn....................................... 5 years Debbie...................................................... Davila 10 years Christina Marie Garcia.......................... 10 years Michelle Lynn King................................ 10 years Melissa Guajardo Tamez....................... 10 years Patricia K. J. Perez............................... 15 years Kimberly Kay Cantwell.......................... 25 years

July

Patrick Dean Porter................................ 3 years William Eugene Keener........................... 3 years Charlotte Yvette VanDyke....................... 3 years Earl Ernest Amaya Jr............................... 3 years Louis Carl Gardella................................. 3 years Sonya Laverne Gomillion........................ 5 years Ernest Hernandez................................. 10 years Zabrina Lynn Marchant Laughner......... 10 years Loretta Acuna-Anderson....................... 10 years Denise Marie Alva................................. 10 years Rosalinda Soliz..................................... 10 years Roxanne Morales.................................. 10 years Gilbert J. Martinez................................ 15 years Sylvia De La Cruz................................. 15 years Olga Riojas........................................... 15 years

August

Melissa Zepeda...................................... 3 years Valery Freeman-Allen.............................. 5 years Estrella Lopez Luna.............................. 10 years Ricardo Guadalupe Corpus.................. 10 years Ho Jason Rolf....................................... 10 years Jennie Valle.......................................... 10 years Robert S. Medina................................. 15 years Belinda Anna Flores.............................. 15 years Suzanne Dominguez............................. 30 years

New hires (Through April 22) Edward Herbert.........................................................................Carter III Chief Operating Officer, QualTex Labs Rosalinda Rios...........................................................................Component Laboratory Technologist Margaret Flora Hall....................................................................Process Integration Manager Adrienne Blevins Mendoza........................................................Quality Assurance Director - QTL Abraham Ramirez......................................................................Support Coordinator Fallon Antonella Hampton..........................................................Clinical Laboratory Scientist GA Adebanjo O. Ewedemi...............................................................Clinical Laboratory Scientist GA Mark Patton Alkire.....................................................................Technician II Michelle Monroy Mendoza.........................................................Donor Recruitment Consultant Fabiola Samantha Fernandez....................................................Technician II Celiciah Deseree Garcia.............................................................Tissue Consent Coordinator Cesar Jesus Romero.................................................................Tissue Center Site Coordinator Herve Egbe Nyenti.....................................................................Clinical Laboratory Scientist - IRL Tech Marc Almal Douglass.................................................................Sr. Director, Strategic Operations Raymond Martinez....................................................................Hospital Services Representative I Guillermo Jose Valadez..............................................................Tissue Distribution Technician I Korey Arlon Ray Henderson.......................................................Technician I Jeannette Moreno-Rodriguez....................................................Scheduler Nazul Humberto Grimaldo Garcia..............................................Applications Developer Brenda Ann Flores.....................................................................Donor Advocate Nurse Steven Michael Stacy................................................................Procurement Surgical Specialist/ On Call Steven Andrew Beeler...............................................................Vice President, Operations Rogelio Zamilpa.........................................................................Director, Cord Blood Operations Lauren Isabeau Mills..................................................................Component Laboratory Technologist Ana Flores.................................................................................Technician III Amear Teimor Kitson.................................................................Senior Component Technician Mary Lee Cardenas...................................................................Technician II Valeria Martinez.........................................................................Technician II Jose L. Vargas Collado..............................................................Network Architect Robert Thomas Gartner.............................................................Requirement Analyst II Elizabeth Ann Carrion................................................................Community Engagement Representative Anand Srinivasan.......................................................................Senior Scientist

Promotions Juan Lee.................................................Senior SAP Developer Sylvia Estrada..........................................Cord Blood Data Entry Specialist Becky Cap..............................................Chief Operating Officer, GenCure Anita Martinez..........................................Donor Chart Coordinator Sarah Champlin.......................................Assistant Director, Cord Blood Operations Guillermo Robles.....................................Tissue Recovery Supervisor Azarias Lopez..........................................Tissue Processing Supervisor Maritza Seineke.......................................Tissue Donor Services Manager Adriana Villafana......................................Lead Laboratory Technologist Mohammed Sayed..................................Production Planning Manager Christina DeJesus....................................Lead Clinical Laboratory Scientist Bergette Gardner.....................................Clinical Laboratory Scientist Delia Sanchez-Watkins............................Laboratory Services Assistant Director, Processing Laboratory Alicia Gonzalez........................................Donor Historian Alexa Soto...............................................Lead Component Technologist/Trainer Anna Gonzales........................................Component Processor II Courtney Arsuaga....................................Technician III Michelle Perez.........................................Technician III Naomi Herrera.........................................Lead Donor Advocate Nurse Sofia Sanchez.........................................Technician III Tracy Sommer.........................................Donor Recruitment Mobile Supervisor Rebecca Reyes.......................................Apheresis Technician Shawn Agee............................................Apheresis Technician Jessica Medina........................................Technician II Thalia Menchaca.....................................Technician III Pedro Hernandez....................................Apheresis Technician Fabiola Fernandez...................................Technician II

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