Ellen Dunn to Serve as MSO for the CDL

Starting July 1, Ellen Dunn will join the CDL as the Management Services Officer (II), providing financial, personnel, and administrative functions for the CDL.  will plan and manage the budget (currently over $5.5 million), including short- and long-term financial planning and analysis, oversee the allocation of financial resources, and set fiscal policies and guidelines.  She will also review and monitor contracts, grants, and outsourced services.  In addition to her financial and oversight duties, she will manage personnel issues as well as the work of the administrative staff.  She reports directly to Richard Lucier, Executive Director and University Librarian of the CDL.

Ellen has worked nine years with the University, most recently as a Management Services Officer I for New Standards at the Office of the President, where she managed an $8 million budget, prepared budgets and other materials for grant submissions, prepared personnel and consultant contracts, and supervised the administrative staff.  She has also worked with the California Mathematics Project and the New Standards Mathematics Advisory Committee at UC, and served as an administrative assistant at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson.