Sam Houston State University AB1 106 Computer Services Department, Huntsville, TX Voice: +1 (936)294-1854 Fax: +1 (936)294-1231 E-mail: skohers@shsu.edu
About My Job
My area consists of one coordinator, 5 full-time programmer
analysts and 2 student programmers. Nina Cooper coordinates new development.
We are in the process of converting our programs to Acucobol and SP2.
SP2 allows a GUI interface to our programs and allows them to be more user
friendly. With Acucobol and SP2, we are not stuck with the OpenVMS
platform and can easily move from one platform to another. We are
also doing a lot of web program development. Those of us not working
in the new environment yet are maintaining our current system which is
in OpenVMS Cobol. We have 3000+ programs available under our current
system. The main departments I deal with and program for are: Administrative
Accounting (student receipt system), Residence Life, Human Resources, Payroll
(HRIS), Financial Aid (as it deals with the student receipt system), and
the Registrar. Some of our most recent projects that we have just finished
are online credit card payment for admission fee, department of music donations,
bearkat express meal plans and student receipt system charges including
tuition and fees. We also completed the automation of the Health
Clinic to the student receipt system, put the faculty evaluation by students
on the web and instituted an automated prerequisite system and check for
registration. Some of our upcoming projects are the rewriting of
the faculty grade entry program in SP2, automating the application and
approval of Emergency Tuition and Fees Loans, Short Term Loans and Housing
and Dining Loans, upgrading our EDI system, further automation of the Staff
Evaluation and Merit Raise request system, breaking down our graduate students
into more categories.
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