Employee Spotlight Archive
Full-Time Staff
Shad Beckstrand
Shad is the CAD/GIS Facility Information Coordinator at Facilities Management which he has done for about four months. While attending SUU, Shad worked for Facilities Management doing work similar to what does now. He is married with three children and lives in Fiddler’s Canyon. He has lived in Heber City, Meadow, South Texas, and Fillmore. He has traveled to most of the Western States and has driven all the way from Cedar City to South Carolina for work. Shad would like to travel to Australia and his favorite vacation was when he went to Disneyland with his family.
Shad loves the outdoors--his hobbies include hunting, fishing, camping, and sports. He also enjoys spending time with his kids and family. His favorite food is steak, favorite sport to watch is football, favorite sport to play is baseball, and his favorite sports team is the Denver Broncos. He participated in high school football, baseball, and wrestling. In college, he received a Bachelor’s degree in CAD/GIS Engineering Technology and minored in Spanish. He served a two year bilingual mission to McAllen, Texas for the LDS church speaking English and Spanish. Someday, Shad would like to go to Fenway Park and watch the Red Sox play.
Ryan Coleman
Ryan is a Landscape Technician for the Grounds Department (in charge of mid campus) and has worked for Facilities Management for about nine years. He has lived in Enoch for about 14 years now, has two sons, and three dogs (all of which are Boxers). Ryan has lived in a number of places, some of those include: North Carolina, California, Saint Kitts Nevise (in the Caribbean), Haiti, and Guantanamo Bay Cuba.
Of all the places Ryan has vacationed he enjoyed Yellowstone the most. His hobbies include hunting, riding ATV’s, and spending time with his family and his favorite food is Italian. Ryan was a soldier in the Marine Corps where he played soccer for eight years; a coordinator for Toys-for-Tots for two years; owned a landscape company for five years; and received various awards through the Military. He has committed a large portion of his Military time to humanitarian service which he did in Saint Kitts Nevise and Haiti.
Ryan is currently a member of the Marine Corps League and a Constable Deputy for Washington County serving warrants and civil papers. He graduates from the Police Academy on July 30—Congratulations Ryan!
Cindy Moxley
Cindy is the Administrative Assistant to the Vice President of Facilities Management and Planning. She has worked for Facilities for five years. Cindy has three sons, a rat terrier named Cassie, and seven chickens. She currently lives just north of Three Peaks “in the middle of nowhere land!” Her home runs on solar power, wind, and water from a well. She has lived in Hawaii, Las Vegas, California, and would like to live in Italy someday.
Cindy has traveled to many of the western states, as well as Mexico and Canada and will be visiting the east coast (New York, Boston, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia) this fall! Cindy would like to see the British Isles, and her favorite vacation so far was soaring on zip lines through the tree tops in Durango, Colorado!
Cindy’s hobbies include floral design, sewing, reading, exercising on the Wii, gardening, writing, and traveling. She is an avid journal writer and has journals that go back as far as 44 years! She joined the Elks Club in Cedar City and last year received the Officer of the Year Award! She loves Chinese food and chocolate dipped ice cream cones from Dairy Queen. She loves to play golf and loves all the Wii sports.
You might not know that Cindy taught floral design to senior citizens in Las Vegas. She was a tandem surfer in Hawaii when she was young and was even on ABC’s Wide World of Sports. She grew up on the beaches of Waikiki, HI and attended Kauai Community College and University of Hawaii, and received her Bachelor’s degree in English from UNLV. A few items from Cindy’s Bucket List are: seeing all Seven Wonders of the World, experiencing weightlessness, reading all of the books on the “100 Greatest Novels of all Time” list, and participating in a flash mob. In the past, she sewed and donated 25 Guardian Angel dolls for the children in an AIDS daycare, and often seeks opportunities for continued service.
Marsha Rowley
Marsha is one of our Building/Area Supervisors for Custodial Services, covering the Sharwan Smith Center, as well as event setup on campus, and filling in wherever necessary. She has been employed at SUU for 13 years, all in Facilities Management. Her eight children and 12 grandchildren keep her busy, and although she grew up on a farm in Parowan (AKA Mother-town of Utah) and has lived there all her life, she wouldn’t mind moving closer to her children.
She has vacationed in many places, like Hawaii, Florida, Philadelphia, and Chicago (her favorite), but she would also like to travel to Rome, Denver, and San Francisco. Her many hobbies include: quilting in the Parowan quilting club, crocheting, traveling, spending time with her family, cooking new & unique meals, and doing nails. Her favorite past-time activities are walking, going to movies, and enjoying her favorite foods, such as pasta of any kind and chocolate! She loves basketball – her favorite team is Parowan High.
Marsha was on the Parowan High drill team and after graduating, became certified at Red Rock Nail School. She earned her Bachelor’s degree with a 3.4 GPA while working at SUU, and was recently one of SUU’s T-Fit challenge Winners, receiving a new pair of running shoes! She’s afraid of heights even though one item on her bucket list is to bungee jump or sky dive. One of Marsha’s funnier stories took place when she was younger during a slumber party where they played “Truth or Dare.” Marsha took the dare because she didn’t want to tell the truth and discovered she could fit her mouth over a door knob. The only problem was that she couldn’t get it off because her jaw locked up. Her friend had to wake up her dad who massaged her jaw until she could release the doorknob – that’s Marsha!
Ralph Savage
Ralph Savage is Southern Utah University’s Director of Custodial Services. Ralph does various tasks including; managing the work order system, coordination of campus cleaning, and oversees event set ups. Ralph has worked for SUU’s Facilities Management for about seven and a half years now.
Ralph has five children and enjoys living in southern Utah he has lived in Cedar City, near campus for about seven years now. He has lived in Wisconsin, Provo, Idaho, and served a 2 year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in West Virginia. Ralph has traveled to Hawaii and the Bahamas, he would really like to travel to Tahiti, or New Zealand one day. Ralph’s favorite vacation was to Hawaii, because he was able to spend lots of time with family and was able to participate in many fun activities such as; snorkeling, jungle hiking, visiting Pearl Harbor…etc. Ralph really likes to go camping, which is also his favorite past time activity. He loves Dutch oven dinners and his favorite sports include basketball and football; BYU is his favorite team. Ralph has served as the Scout Master for his church calling, and is indeed an Eagle Scout, and also enjoys repelling and snow caving. Ralph also earned his Educational Facilities Professional Certification Award through the APPA organization.
Student Staff
A Mumin Abubikari
Mumin (aka Kenya) grew up in Ghana, Africa and started school at age 10. He received a National Athletic Scholarship in Middle School and later graduated from Ghana High School receiving the Best Student of the Year Award and Best Athlete three years in a row.
Kenya is currently working on his Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Business and intends on going to graduate school to receive his Master's in Public Administration. He is currently in the SUU Agriculture Club and enjoys playing tennis, soccer, running, and watching any political show. His favorite sport is Track and Field, favorite sports team is Real Salt Lake, and favorite food is Ghanaian. He has worked for Facilities Management for four and a half years and currently works in the Custodial Department.
Kenya has traveled to many places including the United States, the Netherlands, and would like to go to Italy or Germany someday. His favorite vacation was when he took his wife with him back to Ghana two years ago. When Kenya graduates, he hopes to influence and change the lives of the Ghanaian people in a positive way.
Mitch Bayles
Mitch is a student employee who has worked in the Paint Shop for about two years. His job includes painting on campus from red curbs to the T-Bird logo on the football field. He is majoring in Biology/Zoology. He’s married, has a two-year-old son named Jay, and lives in Cedar City near East Elementary school.
Mitch has always wanted to go to New Zealand and loves fishing up in the mountains which he does often. Some of his favorite past times include hunting and fishing. His favorite food is Shepherd’s pie and his favorite sports team is the Dallas Cowboys. He participated in Summer Games, competing in paintballing where he won a gold medal! In high school, Mitch was an honor student, played football and participated in track meets at Parowan High. One of Mitch’s goals is to graduate with his degree in Biology.
Danielle Deleeuw
Danielle has worked for Facilities Management for about 7 months now as a Business Building Custodian. Danielle is a sophomore at SUU and is currently in the pre-nursing program.
Danielle has traveled all over the United States, but her favorite vacation that she’s been on was when she went to Sea World and the beach in California. Danielle would one day like to travel to Europe, France and Austria. Danielle enjoys golfing and watching basketball. She also likes watching movies, spending time with her friends, scrapbooking, and finding fun spontaneous things to do. In her spare time she really enjoys reading good books. Her favorite food is pretty much anything that has potatoes in it and she also loves cucumbers. Danielle was a member of the NHS, and Student Council in high school, and is currently a CNA. Danielle graduated third in her class and was o the Honor Roll. Danielle wants a pet lion.
Emilee Eager
Emilee is majoring in Broadcast Journalism at SUU. She is currently an Office Assistant at in the Facilities Management Administration Building helping with Risk Management and Auditing for the past 5 months. Emily is from Mapleton, Utah, and has a beta fish named Baby. She has traveled to Hong Kong, China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, South and North Korea, and Canada. She would really like to travel to Greece, and her favorite vacation was to Korea with her group of friends for fun.
Emilee’s hobbies are shopping, reading, running, chilling with her friends, watching movies, and playing the piano. Her favorite past time activity is watching movies, and her favorite food is Korean food. Emilee enjoys playing volleyball and watching basketball and her favorite team is the Lakers. Emilee is the First Attendant for Miss Iron County, recently received a college Journalism Award, and received a Service Award several years ago from UVU. She is currently the president of the Lambda Pi Eta club at SUU which is the Honors Society of the National Communication Association. Emilee wants to walk on a red carpet before she dies, be on the Amazing Race TV show, speak another language, and play with a tiger. She has been sky diving which she loved and she can do the ‘bar hang’ for 2 minutes which she received an award from the military for.
Benjamin Harris
Ben has his degree in Management and is currently working on his BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts). He currently works for Custodial Services on the North end of campus cleaning carpets and windows, waxing floors, etc. He has worked for Facilities for about a month and a half. Ben has two pets, a Love Bird and a Bearded Dragon. He currently lives on Cedar Ridge Golf Course, but hails from Alaska where he grew up and attended NAU for three years before moving to Cedar City.
Ben has traveled to many of the United States as well as Paris, Europe, London, Barcelona, a cruise to the Mediterranean, and Berlin. In addition to these, he would like to go to Australia and Thailand. His vacation to Florida, which included Disney World, was his favorite vacation of all. Ben enjoys video games, board games, and role playing. Currently, one of his favorite games is War Hammer 40K. He also enjoys gardening roses, motorcycling, volunteering at USF (also being an assistant to the fight director), and being cast in the Neil Simon Festival. Ben’s favorite past times are theatre (which his entire family is involved in), writing, and poetry. His favorite foods are pizza, Thaifood, cheese, and spicy food. He enjoys swimming (which he did for 10 years), fencing, and filming sports at NAU.
Ben is a certified Food Manager and Beverage Server and he received National Security Association Certification. He was Valedictorian of his senior class in high school and graduated Magna cum laude in 2011. A few items on his bucket list are: invest in Massage Certification, publish a book, start a hobby shop (modeling, gaming), and start a Shakespearean-themed globe theatre restaurant.
Elijah Rono
Elijah is majoring in Business and has worked on the Custodial crew for Patrick Terrones since January 2010. He lives in Cedar City, close to SUU, and grew up in Kenya where he lived for 14 years. He has been in the U.S. since 2006 and has visited Oregon, California, and Nevada. He would most like to visit Papua New Guinea because it’s tropical there and his favorite vacation was to California because he loves the ocean.
Among other things, Elijah enjoys reading, biking, hiking, and running and is currently on the Cross Country team for SUU. One of his favorite past time activities is watching movies (action and comedy), his favorite food is Chinese (Panda Express), his favorite sports are track and soccer, and his favorite basketball team is the Boston Celtics.
Elijah has received many awards and recognitions, some of which include: All State, Athlete of the Year, State Champion, Student of the month, and many cross country awards. He aspires to be a professional runner and hopes to one day compete in the Olympics. Something interesting about Elijah’s background is that growing up, he didn’t have running water or electricity, he didn’t ever wear shoes to school, and didn’t own a pair of shoes until he was ten years old.
Nicole Schmutz
Nicole grew up in Cedar City and has a border collie named Jake. Her grandfather was a Water Witch in Cedar City, and he located water on Cindy Moxley's property for her well. Nicole currently works in the Lock & Sign Shop and has worked for SUU Facilities for three and a half years. Recently, she graduated from SUU’s Nursing program and was named the University's Valedictorian and awarded Academic All State. Nicole has traveled to several places including: Hawaii (her favorite), Fiji, New York, and bungee jumping in Australia. She would love to go to the Bahamas and to every MLB Stadium in the United States.
Nicole loves going to her cabin, hiking, Mexican food, playing softball, basketball, and volleyball. Her favorite sport is softball/baseball and her favorite sports team is the New York Yankees, whose stadium she’s been to. In her spare time, Nicole enjoys watching Grey’s Anatomy, participating in City League Softball and SUU’s Intramurals program, and being a member of the Student Nurses Association.
Hunter Utley
Hunter is a Construction Management major here at SUU and has worked as a student electrician for about three months now. He has lived in Cedar City for the last four years but is originally from Salt Lake. Hunter has also lived in Uganda and Ethiopia for over a year, and has traveled to a lot of different places including Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, and Europe. One place he would like to visit is Egypt.
A favorite vacation that Hunter went on was salmon fishing for the steelhead runs in Northern Idaho. Hunting, fishing, boating, camping, and shooting his bow are some of Hunter’s hobbies. Football is his favorite sport and the University of Utah Utes football team is his favorite. In high school, Hunter was awarded All-State in football. After high school, he served in the Uganda, Kampala mission for the LDS Church. One of Hunter’s Bucket List items is to go fishing and hunting in Alaska.
Dallin Wilson
Dallin is currently a student worker for Facilities Management –Business Operations, where he has been working for about two years. He does invoicing, audit preparation, and data entry for all of Facilities. He is a Biology Major, working towards becoming an Optometrist and he currently resides in Cedar City near the campus.
Dallin lived in Brazil for two years while serving an LDS Mission and would like to visit there again someday. He has also been to Jamaica and Alaska, his favorite vacation being to Jamaica. Dallin loves to play sports and also loves to take long walks on the beach with his wife, Reagan, who also works at Facilities. His favorite food is rice and his favorite sport is basketball. Dallin’s favorite sports team is BYU. Something most people don’t know about Dallin is that he has participated in racquetball competitions. He is in the Optometry Club at SUU, he hopes to graduate from Optometry school, and have his own Optometry practice one day. Something interesting about Dallin’s past is that he once shot a fly out of the air with a blow gun.
Luke Wilson
Luke is currently a student worker for Facilities Management –Business Operations, where he has been working for two years. Luke is the Sprocket Technician and also deals with invoicing, data entry, and audit preparation. Luke has one dog named Diesel and currently resides in Cedar City.
Luke has traveled to most of the states around the country and has also visited the Caribbean which was his favorite vacation. He would like to visit Europe, Alaska, and Cancun. Luke’s hobbies include bowling, football, and volleyball. He loves to play sports which he has done his whole life. Luke’s favorite sport to play is volleyball and his favorite sport to watch is football, with the Dallas Cowboys being his favorite team. His favorite food is crab and he is currently in the Volleyball Club at SUU. Luke has earned his Eagle Scout award and was on the Honor Roll in high school. One day, Luke would like to have Dallas Cowboys season tickets and to move out of Cedar City after finishing school. Luke admires his father for his dedication to the military where he served in Iraq for a year.
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