City Manager Lori Ann Farrell Harrison presented IT Programmer Analyst II Phoebe Jin with the City Manager Leadership Award winner for the month of October.

“Phoebe’s dedication to her job has resulted in better IT systems for both City employees and the residents we serve,” City Manager Lori Ann Farrell Harrison said. “Additionally, Phoebe has a positive attitude and always treats everyone with respect. She genuinely loves helping her co-workers and these are always traits that we value here in Costa Mesa. We are so thankful she is part of our team.”

Jin works on a variety of programming projects, collaborating with multiple City Department. Her projects include the intranet system, the Homeless Information System, IT Inventory, Waitwhile, and SeamlessDocs.

Every year, Jin participates in the support of the City’s Open Enrollment. For a long time, employees submitted their enrollment forms manually to HR. But, in 2020, she collaborated with HR and designed an online submission process through SeamlessDocs.

For this year’s Open Enrollment, Jin designed a new process – Employees can now submit their forms through an online system, greatly reducing HR’s workload.

Jin started to work for City of Costa Mesa IT Department in June 2013 as an intern and later was promoted to Programmer Analyst I. In April 2015, she and her husband, Shiji (she-gee) moved to San Francisco. They relocated back to Orange County in May 2019, and she was rehired as Programmer Analyst II.

Originally from Shanghai, China, Jin finished her Master’s degree in Computer Science from Cal State Fullerton in 2014.