STAFF SPOTLIGHT

Staff Spotlight with Freddy Orozco

In each issue, the FOCUS Newsletter spotlights an ABA staff member whose work deserves mention. This issue features Freddy Orozco, with several questions focused on the President's renewed emphasis on graduation rates and the graduation initiative.

How long have you been with Sac State? 
Since September 2002.

What is your job title?
Coordinator, Parking & Shuttle Services

How long have you held this title?
The title and scope of duties have changed once or twice but I’ve held this position for about nine years.

What are your major responsibilities/duties?
Overseeing the Hornet Shuttle program and parking enforcement operation.   

Who are your primary customers?
As with UTAPS as a whole, students, faculty and staff are my main customers, although I work with visitors, guests and outside vendors on a daily basis.

What are your biggest, yet most rewarding challenges in the workplace?
Every semester start-up is a unique challenge. There’s a lot of preparation leading up to the first few days of school. It’s satisfying, at the end of the first week of the semester, to know that our collective preparation got us through the busiest time of the year.

When the President announced his commitment to focus on student success, diversity in the workplace/classroom, and graduation rates, how do you feel those initiatives apply to your position and/or office?
UTAPS supervisors and management, myself included, repeatedly get called upon by faculty and students to provide real-world parking issues and/or information related to parking conditions specific to our campus and surrounding neighborhoods. 

We work with students on their assignments and projects. They in turn submit their finished product for a letter grade. Our audience varies from entire classrooms to small work groups to individual students, depending on the topic at hand. Students in Journalism, for example, are given an assignment to write an article about current parking conditions. Their assignment starts with my mock press interview. Then they go off and interview faculty, staff and other students. This is just one example. We will continue to look for new ways to work with academic departments.

How does your position help support student success?
One of my responsibilities is the management of the student commuter pass program. We, the University, offer one of the best alternative transportation programs that I know of in the student commuter pass program. Many students don’t necessarily have to drive to campus and purchase a parking permit if they don’t want to. Instead, students may pick up a commuter sleeve, which they’ve already paid for through tuition fees. The Sac State student commuter pass allows students to ride Sacramento Regional Transit (RT) anywhere and anytime it is in service, as well as neighboring transit agencies with which RT has transfer agreements. Students can come to campus, go downtown, shopping or to the movies on the RT bus and light rail systems at no extra cost. This seems like a great way for students to save some money. 

Speaking of money, Hornet Shuttle drivers are all Sac State students. We hire them. We train them, and at the end of their training they have a Class B license to drive our shuttle buses with passenger and air brake endorsements. We accept applications year-round.

What is your favorite aspect of working on campus? 
I enjoy the variety of my daily schedule. The nature of my duties requires that I spend time in my office, but it also offers the luxury of allowing me to roam the campus, often, at my convenience. It’s a beautiful campus and having a job that allows me the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors while conducting business with UTAPS and other campus employees and students is pretty sweet.

Why and how would someone contact you? 
Anyone may contact me with questions about the Hornet Shuttle, parking on campus, campus alternative transportation efforts and general inquiries about UTAPS.  I can be reached at 916 278-5242 or email orozcoa@csus.edu.

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