Director of Logistics Records and Asset Management, Gema Macklin, shares her experience on making an impact to the ECC community through positivity and teamwork.

Q: What is a Director of Logistics Records and Asset Management?

A: “I am responsible for all of the shipping and receiving for the college: all of the mail coming into the college, all of the records that the college holds, and all of our assets that the college has, and disposing it.”

Q: When did you become one?

A: “In 2008 is when I graduated from here [ECC]. I was a student worker for financial aid, and then from financial aid, I went to Foundation, and then from Foundation, finance took me in. When I finished my degree, here [ECC], purchasing business services, they opened a position, and then I applied, and I got it. I worked in purchasing for about eight years, and then I got my bachelor’s at Judson. Then, this position opened up.”

Q: Do you ever get to a point where you feel like you’re overwhelmed?

A: “I think I feel overwhelmed when I maybe have, like, a project due, then I’m trying to juggle everything else, and then try to still meet my deadline for my project.”

Q: How important is your job to the ECC community?

A: “Very important because we’re the three-way match. So, pretty much Purchasing Pay orders it, Accounts pays for it, and we receive it, and none of us can do our job. So, purchasing is not allowed to receive goods. That’s how the colleges protect. To make sure that nobody internally can do fraud.”

Q: What are the challenges of your occupation?

A: “Providing upper management solutions. You don’t get a lot of people that say this, but I’m very blessed to not have a lot of problems in my role, besides project deadlines.”

Q: How do you overcome those challenges?

A: “It just all depends, like what the need is… I wear a lot of hats. So, I mean, they could just come with some random thing, like during COVID. We have all this hand sanitizer delivered to these classrooms with masks and wipes, and, you know, during that whole situation, well, who’s gonna deliver them? And they have…the whole campus, you know? So we took the initiative, and…we stored everything. We kept count of everything…they would give me a list. I’d break it down. We’d get it all together.”

Q: What is your favorite thing about your job?

A: “Knowing that I’m going to make a huge impact when I am here, to board members, students, faculty, from everybody… all the way down to custodians.”

Q: What is your least favorite thing about your job?

A: “I wish we could have more Fridays, but there isn’t actually a least.”

Q: What is something about you that most people at ECC don’t know about?

A: “I played the violin. I was first chair, first violin.”