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SUNY Canton dedicated employee promoted and looks forward to retirement

Posted 4/29/21

CANTON – SUNY Canton recently promoted dedicated employee to the position of payroll examinaer 1 and is proud to call her daughter an alumna. Amber Riordan has established her career through two …

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CANTON – SUNY Canton recently promoted dedicated employee to the position of payroll examinaer 1 and is proud to call her daughter an alumna.

Amber Riordan has established her career through two separate positions at SUNY Canton, as a Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) employee and she came to SUNY Canton as an Agency Service Representative in 2008 and worked in the college's Student Service Center until 2011.

She then left the college for another state agency for a payroll assistant position. She came back to SUNY Canton in 2015.

Outside of her day-to-day responsibilities, Riordan said one of her favorite moments during her career was when her daughter, Michelle Riordan, received news from the college.

"I got a call from my daughter that she had been accepted in the Legal Studies program here at SUNY Canton," she said. "My favorite memory was attending her graduation and seeing so many of the students who I got to know through the Student Payroll office also graduate. I felt so proud of all of them.

Michelle is now continuing her education for a law degree at Mitchell Hamline School of Law.

Riordan said she is now looking toward retirement. "I hope to travel with my husband and spend more time with our six grandchildren," she said. "I like to paint and draw so I am looking forward to having more time to devote to that."

In 2018, Riordan received the SUNY Canton College Council's Employee Recognition Award for her outstanding customer service skills. She led an initiative to train the college's classified administrative staff on new time and attendance procedures and implemented an online timecard system for student employees.

Riordan lives in Heuvelton with her husband, Larry. She earned her associate degree from Mater Dei College.