Sr. Data Conversion Developer for Catalis since July 2023.
Sr. Data Conversion Developer, IT Director, Database Administrator, and Application Developer with over 25 years of experience in the Information Technology field. Previously, I was the IT Director of small team of individuals providing stability, guidance, and leadership. I am a quick learner with an aptitude for retaining and applying knowledge obtained.
Migrate customer legacy databases to CCMS (Court Case Management System) platforms in our Courts & Land Records vertical including PTG Benchmark, ICON CMS360, and ICON Jury360. Utilize my court knowledge and previous experience to help drive innovation and ensure customer satisfaction.
Serve as department director for staff of six employees across two separate divisions, computer technical support and data entry clerks. Court Information Systems serves the Hall County Courts and Northeastern Judicial Circuit. Our primary responsibility is to provide computer technical support for courts employees and allow them to perform their job more efficiently through the use of technology. Provide support for over 400 employees and over 25 departments across two counties in Georgia. Maintain VMware ESXi server infrastructure providing access to Microsoft Windows servers, Microsoft Active Directory and DNS, and Ubuntu Linux servers. Helped develop and maintain online web portals and websites for both the Hall County Courts and Northeastern Judicial Circuit. Developed policy and procedures for court case management systems and ancillary projects including designing forms and reports. Installed, configured, and secured firewalls and networking infrastructure for wireless access points across multiple locations.
Duties include database and application analysis; administering and maintaining the document imaging system (OnBase by Hyland Software) for Hall County and making changes as required. Oversee the Hall County Comprehensive Justice Information System (i.e. CJIS) which is used by law enforcement and courts personnel. Other databases including the county’s Tax Assessors Personal Property, Geographic Information Systems (i.e. GIS), Tax Commissioner, Business License, Building Inspections, Landfill, Fire Services, and Animal Control databases. Administer and maintain the county backups of all servers located in the Hall County Management Information Systems server room. Included in this function is a periodic check of the backup data to check for data integrity and validity. Manage a team of three people (two application programmers, web developer) providing for a healthy, high morale, and “team player”environment. Other benefits of managing include watching employees grow in both skill and overall effectiveness of job.
Converted an Oracle 7.2.3 Database with a COBOL application front-end to an Oracle 8i (8.1.6) database with an Oracle Developer 6i front-end. This application serves various Hall County Government departments allowing for a seamless and fluid transaction from the time of an offender’s arrest to his or her court date. This application consists of 5 different subsystems. These subsystems (i.e. Criminal, Civil, Financial, Records Management System, and General Reports) must be inter-connected to allow for all departments to operate at peak efficiency. Maintained the Hall County Detention Center’s offender-based electronic photography system, allowing for a digital image of an inmate to be stored in a central computer system (i.e. database). This provides the ability for visual identification of any inmate at the time of his or her booking by any department. Upgraded an Oracle 8i database on the DG/UX platform to an Oracle 10g R2 database on Red Hat Linux Enterprise Linux release 4.0.
Trained as a technical support apprentice with Hall County Management Information Systems. Set up Personal Computers (i.e. PC) with the correct network settings and installing/setup of a terminal-based emulation package (SmarTerm Office) which was needed after the county phased out 500 thin client workstation terminals. Provided support for end- users by fixing software problems (e.g. forgotten passwords, driver incompatibilities, and Windows Registry problems) and diagnosing malfunctioning computer hardware. Documented and installed networking devices located around the county; including 10BaseT/100BaseTX bridges and switches, 56K and T1 routers, 802.11b wireless bridges and fiber optics network transceivers.