Staff Honored at President's Chapel Sharon Fernandez Staff Member of the Year Annual award made by the Staff Council High-tech employees often surf the job market like other people surf Web sites.
Competition is stiff to hire talented computer programmers.
The 2000 Staff Member of the Year is quietly responsible for much of the infrastructure that gives Seattle Pacific University a technological edge. Working with nine campus offices, she creates the high-tech solutions they need to serve students and others. To do that, she must often separate what they think they need from what they really need. Fernandez, she explains, listens closely to a department's request. Once she understands the principal need, Fernandez works with the department to build a specific program or suite of programs to meet that need.