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  Lucy Davison
Office Administrator
ldavison@uwf.edu
Lucy Davison has been the Office Administrator for the Florida SBDC Network State Director’s Office for the past six years of her sixteen years with the University of West Florida. She manages the daily administration and management functions of the State Director’s Office and serves as liaison between the Director, Assistant Directors, Program Managers, staff, and the Provost’s Office. She also serves as department liaison, communicating with UWF Departments to solve issues and problems. She is the first point of contact for the State Director’s Office and the Director throughout the university and with the general public. She provides assistance and support to the State Director, Assistant Directors, Research Associate, Managers, Program Specialists, Office Specialist, and OPS Students, and supervises the College Work Study students. She prepares sensitive and confidential correspondence to the national SBDC program personnel, funding agencies, FSBDC State Advisory Board members, national and state legislators, university administrators, and private business owners. She works with the Assistant Director of Budget to coordinate and prepare the operating budget, and tracks budget statistics and expenses. She reviews and reconciles the sixteen SDO budget ledgers and maintains budget correspondence files for the SDO and Special Programs including VBOC, PTAC, DETA and the Academy. She monitors accounts and deals directly with the appropriate financial services personnel to correct improper charges. She supervises the development and maintenance of office programmatic and financial files, trains and works with support staff regarding UWF and FSBDC operational guidelines and trains staff on how to complete UWF generic forms. She manages all personnel and payroll files. She performs other duties as required to achieve FSBDC-SDO goals and mission. She anticipates a degree in Psychology and Business Administration. Her primary expertise is in accounting, recordkeeping, computer software systems, financial reports, personnel/human resources, EEO and legal aspects of office management. She recently received the 2004 Employee of The Year Award at the annual FSBDC Network Professional Development Conference.