About - Meet the senior staff of the Controller's Office

Sharon Bell

Controller

p. 401.874.2378
f. 401.874.2589
sbbell@mail.uri.edu

Sharon is responsible for Financial Reports, Financial Systems, Accounts Payable, Travel, General Accounting, Payroll, Sponsored & Cost Accounting and Student Loan. Sharon is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner. She graduated from Bryant University with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. After graduation, Sharon worked in public accounting for 5 years and in private industry for 3 years. Prior to coming to URI in June 2004, Sharon was the Corporate Controller at the RI Airport Corp., a quasi state agency, for 10 years.

Christine Sullivan

Executive Assistant
p. 401.874.2378
f. 401.874.2589 cmsullivan@mail.uri.edu

Chris has an Associates Degree from CCRI and began her career with the State of Rhode Island in 1989. She transferred to URI in 2004. She is a resourceful and team-oriented senior administrator with more than twenty years progressive experience. She is also an active member of her community and enjoys spending time with her husband and three sons.

Cynthia Mace

Associate Controller

Financial Reporting
p. 401.874.4844
f. 401.874.2589
cmace@uri.edu

Cindy is a Certified Public Accountant and has been at URI for more than ten years. She graduated from the University of Maine and Bentley College. After college, she worked in public accounting five years and then private industry before joining the Controller's Office in 1997.

Patricia Casey

Associate Controller

Accounting
p. 401.874.4422
f. 401.874.2589
patriciacasey@uri.edu

Trish is a Certified Public Accountant with over 22 years of accounting experience and Certified Fraud Examiner. After graduating from URI where she majored in Accounting, she spent the next nine years in public accounting followed by eight years in private industry. She brings to the University experience in auditing, accounts payable, accounting, reconciliation, non-profit/fund accounting, cash management, financial analysis as well as budgeting and forecasting. Five of the eight years Trish spent in private industry was working with high technology companies where Trish was instrumental in raising over $160 million in start up funds. Trish has been at URI since 2002.

James Cacciola

Assistant Controller

Payroll
p. 401.874.5415
f. 401.874.2589
cacc@uri.edu

Jim serves as the functional subject matter expert in the areas of payroll and taxation on the e-Campus HCM Team. He has over twenty-two years of professional experience with Payroll at the University of Rhode Island, he also has eight years of experience in Federal grant accounting here at URI. Jim holds a B.S. and an M.S. from the University of Rhode Island.

Michele Wood

Assistant Controller

Sponsored & Cost Accounting
p. 401.874.2353
f. 401.874.7118
mgwood@mail.uri.edu

Michele is the Assistant Controller for Sponsored & Cost Accounting, a graduate of URI and Certified Public Accountant. She is responsible for financial compliance of sponsored projects, grant finance reporting module, billing and collection, development and negotiations of the University facilities and administration rate proposal, cost and service centers and implementation and maintenance of the PeopleSoft grants module.

David Hansen

Associate Director

PeopleSoft Financials
p. 401.874.4420
f. 401.874.2589
dhansen@mail.uri.edu

Dave has a Business Management Degree from Bentley College and an Associate Degree in Business from Middlesex Community College. Dave's primary function is to support the daily PeopleSoft Financials production environment and acts as a liason between the user community and UCS - University Computing Service. He also is responsible for testing the system during fix cycles and assisting with adding functionality and modules to our current environment. He worked in a Project Management capacity during our recent PeopleSoft Financials upgrade to V8.9. He brings over 10 years of PeopleSoft experience and many years of management experience to URI.