Berkeley Administrative Management Professionals (AMP formerly ABOG)

Mission and Purpose

Berkeley Administrative Management Professionals (AMP) is an organization of business officers from academic departments and research organizations. Formerly known as the Academic Business Officers Group or ABOG, it is one of the oldest staff organizations on campus, and was established as a system-wide group in 1968. The Berkeley chapter, with about 150 members and affiliates, is the only group of its kind that brings together the staff leadership of academic and research units through voluntary association.

Goals

Our specific goals are to improve communication among teaching, research, service, and administrative offices of the Berkeley campus; provide a forum for discussion; study administrative problems for the purpose of finding ways to improve and simplify operations at all levels; provide the administration with a broad-based staff resource that is closely involved with the teaching and research mission; support our members by sharing best practices; and promote and recognize the professional identity of department and unit administrators and managers.

Sponsors

Benjamin E. Hermalin, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost

Contact

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Emily Best - Chair
Assistant Director, Berkeley Law
ebest@law.berkeley.edu 

Management Council

Cruz Grimaldo - Past Chair
Associate Vice Chancellor, Financial Aid and Scholarships & Cal Student Central
ma_cruz@berkeley.edu 

Nicole Lowy - Chair Elect
Department Manager, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (ESPM)
nlowy@berkeley.edu

Jan Crosbie-Taylor
Change Manager, Timekeeping Replacement Project
j.crosbie-taylor@berkeley.edu 

Latara Harris 
Manager of Business Operations, Procurement, Onboarding, ProS Region
latara_harris@berkeley.edu 

Jolie Lam
Program Director, CITRIS and Banatao Institute 
jolie.lam@citris-uc.org 

Barbara Montano
Project Manager, African American Studies
bmontano14@berkeley.edu

Harumi Quinones 
Director of Student Services, Department of Psychology
harumi@berkeley.edu 

Patrick Reedy
Executive Director, Berkeley Regional Services BEARS Region
plreedy@berkeley.edu

Jennifer Siecienski
Associate Dean of Students and Executive Director, ASUC Student Union
jen.s@berkeley.edu

Mark Shaw
Department Manager, Music
mshaw@berkeley.edu

Yanni Zhang
Manager of Finance and Business Operations, Berkeley Center for Health and Technology
yanhongzhang@berkeley.edu