1997 GMIS Professional of the Year
Diane Woodley
Northhampton County, Pennsylvania

The Government Management Information Sciences (GMIS) 1997 management systems Professional of the Year Award is to be presented to Diane Woodley from the Information Services Division of the County of Northhampton, Pennsylvania.

Diane has been with the County of Northhampton for more than 12 years. She began there as a junior programmer and advanced to Programmer/Analyst, Senior Programmer Analyst, Lead Analyst and lastly Finance consultant. Diane has participated in the development of numerous systems for the County. She has designed, developed and implemented systems such as Recorder of Deeds Indexing, Criminal Costs/Fines Collections and Real Estate Installment Billing and Collections to name just a few. She also has worked closely with third party software vendors customizing Finance and Payroll/Personnel packages for the County.

Diane's recent major accomplishment has been the development of an RFP for client/server based financial systems for the County. Because of the county-wide impact of the system, Diane conducted 26 separate divisional interviews to gather needed information. Although she was still responsible for maintaining existing legacy systems while developing the RFP, by working numerous 12 hour days and many weekends, she delivered the RFP document on schedule.

Diane is a graduate of West Chester University with a BS in Mathematics.

Diane will be honored with an expense paid trip to the National GMIS Conference in Mobile, Alabama in June 1997 where she will receive her award.

A very sincere congratulations!