Cy Woods Automation

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Posted by November 3, 2017John Crumbley, Director of Information Services and Applications

On Friday, November 3, 2017, John Crumbley and Eric May met at Cy Woods High School

with the Principal, Gary Kinninger and his staff. The team met to discuss how ISA could partner

with Cy Woods to deliver Best of Breed paperless solutions.

The team is working to further eliminate paper and implementing digital initiatives that will save

money and provide better efficiency.

This is transformational for CFISD.

Programming Services Team Meeting

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Posted by October 31, 2017Eric May, Assistant Director of Information Services and Applications

The ISA Programming Team held

their T5 Team meeting on

Tuesday October 31, 2017.

Todays T5 we watch at demo of Telerik

Developer Tools from Progress. The new User

Interfaces (UI) tools will transform how we

develop applications in the future.

We also discussed new development and how

documentation will be manage with new

projects.

Business Services

Son Nguyen

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Son Nguyen, Senior Programmer AnalystPosted by

Son’s Contributions this week include:

eFinancePLUS Supports• Work with Finance to reconcile/balance the Campuses' Funds-Activities

due to Funds-Activities were duplicated in the Expenditure Ledgers and

the Fund Accounting (John H., Mable, Melissa). Investigate Process

Payable error caused by Payroll create Payable Batches with the same

Control # and Ending date (Christy). Investigate Vendor-Employee

having Bank Account changed in Human Resource (HR) but not

interfaced to Vendor in Payable. This cause issue with the Payable

Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) processes (Annette, Mable, Christy).

A day in the life of an ISA’er at Cy-Fair ISD• Mastering the Art and Science of Enterprise Application (EA) Development

- The EA must be able to share across Enterprise to Support and Improve

the productivity of the Enterprise's business processes. The EA must

implement Best-Practice technologies and trends. Simply put, the EA must

work seamlessly and beautifully! So what are the challenges with building

such beautiful EAs?

• Application Security Architecture - Simple to Implement and Maintain,

Flexible Roles & Privileges-based Security Architecture

• User-Friendly with Modernized and Smart User Interface (UI) Designs –

the UIs that are consistent through-out the systems - Beautiful, Easy-to

Use, and High Performance

• Developer-Friendly Application Framework Architecture – the Framework

that provides Plug-and-Play Built-in Utilities & Functions, Easy-to-Build

Maintain and Deploy, Standardized Coding & Documents

November 03, 2017

Son Nguyen

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Rich Crishock

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Richard Crishock, Senior Programmer Analyst, Information Services and ApplicationsPosted by November 2, 2017

Rich’s contributions this week

include:

• Imported 1,048 staff and 16,036 new student

photos from Lifetouch for 17 campuses.

• Continued Development / Testing of new

features in the Campus Badge-In Android app.

• Met with Colleen Wechsler to discuss

improvements to the 457 / 403b data loading

process.

Rich Crishock

Met with Joe Hartley, Assistant Principal and Eric May

at Cypress Ridge High to discuss automating some

improvements to attendance data entry using barcode

scanners to read student ID badges as the enter non-

classroom offices (principal, counselor, clinic, etc.).

17,084

New photos loaded!

Operation Onboard

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Dava Clark, Programmer/AnalystPosted by November 3, 2017

The Operation Onboard team for Substitutes held their final meeting on Wednesday, November 1st.

While the Substitute Office had been using the digital Onboarding form, we hadn’t brought closure to the

project. During this meeting we had a final walkthrough of the entire process for the team and gave it the final

stamp of approval.

The next Milestone of Operation Onboard will be Nutrition Services.

Stefanie Bates Dava Clark Kimberly Wood Katy Corbett Kala Holler

Business Services

Neetha Chada

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Posted by November 03, 2017

• T5 with our team where we were

able to over some prime features of

Telerik.

• Had a meeting with Dorothy Tong

along with John Crumbley, Eric

May and Rodney White to go over

the Resignation program and Exit

Manager program. Going forward I

will be taking care of those two

programs.Neetha Chada

Eric May, Assistant Director of Information Services and Applications

• Science Resource Center application is used

for teachers and other staff to check in and check

out items from Science Resource Center, maintain

the resources, check needed certifications, schedule

the pickups and deliveries and do more things to make

it automated and easy for teacher, parents volunteers

and other staff who work there. Before we used add

campuses into a route and have schedules for drop off

an pick up for each route. We used to get the schedule

at the end of the school year for the next school

year. Starting this year they decided not to have any

routes or schedules so had to rewrite the application to

make it route and schedule free. This according to

them is a better/easy way for them to schedule the

delivery and pickups.

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Wrap Up

Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Posted by November 03, 2017Eric May, Assistant Director of Information Services and Applications

Eric May

This week I reflected on how fast the

year is going by.

The team is thinking about holidays and

what needs to be completed by year end.

Before you know it, it will be a new year

with new opportunities and ideas to save

time for CFISD employees.

- Eric May