Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that Lori Pope will join the Department of Development as the ADRA for the West on Monday, December 3^rd. Lori is a graduate of Michigan State University where she received her B.A. in Political Science.  After graduation, Lori joined IBM in Atlanta, GA where she held a variety of roles over her nine year tenure, including Advisory Information Analyst and Training and Implementation Specialist.  Her experiences encompass not only providing advisory sales and forecast analyses to IBM Sales Executives, but also conducting business needs analysis with peer groups, testing code, designing test scenarios, and validating code efficiency and accuracy.  While at IBM, Lori received the IBM Leadership Award, the highest honorary the company awards, for designing and implementing a successful training program.

In 2007, Lori joined the Notre Dame family as the Ticket Office Manager for the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Her role included managing ticketing software implementation, reconciling financial records, advising executives on the success rate of the event season, and developing and running report metrics to analyze sales as well as forecast reports to determine potential sales.

Please join me in welcoming Lori to the Development team!

My best,                                                                                                                                               Micki