Manager, Administrative Services
Dawn supervises two administrative support assistants who, in turn, support 12 Tech Licensing staff members. She assists Jim O’Connell, who directs Tech Licensing and the umbrella organization, UF Innovate. She also assists Jackson Streeter, Director of UF Innovate | Ventures. And in those ways (and many more), Dawn assists all members of the organization.
She schedules and prepares agendas and handouts, coordinates internal meetings as well as meetings with high-level visitors. She coordinates travel, arranges for business meals, prepares reports and presentations, handles the office budget, reconciles expenditures, assists in planning and implementing investor and innovator events, maintains the UF Innovate van and golf cart, keeps office and break room supplies ordered and available, and otherwise keeps the office running like a well-oiled machine.
Before joining UF Innovate | Tech Licensing in 2003, Dawn worked as a legal secretary for a law office and as a bank accounting clerk.
Dawn studied accounting at East Stroudsburg University and Northampton County Community College in Pennsylvania.