Steve Mello

Dec 1, 2010

Dear Steve,

You are our December Employee of the Month, but due to a delay in engraving your plaque we are acknowledging you in January. What a wonderful "Mello" way to both end and start a year.

First, I have to quote from your nomination letter:
"How do you express in words the impact that one person makes on the entire agency with his daily efforts? Well, the word and the person for whom we give thanks is Mello, Steve Mello. Our stress for billing is mellowed 100% because of his knowledge and applications in Total Record. Most departments rely on this program in one way or another and Steve transforms the ideas into reality and the reality into measurable data collection tools. He has a waiting list for project requests!"

Quality Assurance and Professional Development rely on you for a variety of data collection tools and they are always amazed that you can listen to their ramblings in insufferable detail and miraculously produce a vehicle to enable them to organize system issues and collect needed data. The quality of your work is laudable, but the real measure of your value to SPIN is your "can do" attitude and your kind, patient, understanding presence in work groups and project teams. Even though you don't support individuals directly, your work is often responsible for keeping people safer or improving their quality of life by making information and data available to staff who need it to make good decisions. Your support of the SPIN mission through the team process is a wonderful example of the power of working together.

So it is a pleasure to honor you as Employee of the Month and to thank you on behalf of the SPIN Board of Directors, your fellow employees and all of the people SPIN supports for doing and giving your best every day. You may be "mello" but you are also mighty!

In appreciation,

Trina Losinno
Executive Director