2001 Management Information Systems
Annual Professional Award
Clark Rainer

Congratulations to the new 2001 MISAPA winner – Clark Rainer from McDonough, Georgia and sponsoring agency, the Henry County Board of Commissioners!!!

For the short time that Clark has been with the Henry County Board of Commissioners he has accomplished a lot.  Some of his major projects include migrating Henry County from Win 3.51 to NT 4.0 server environment with an eye towards Win 2000.  Developed the county’s first web site.  Installed and maintained the county’s first countywide email system.  Migrated Internet access from dial-up to shared broad-band.  Installed and maintained 5 firewalls.  Established PPTP and IPSEC (SLIP) VPN to make the county’s first non-dial-up WAN.  Setup the county’s first comprehensive virus protection initiative and the county’s first network and disaster recovery initiative.  Played a major role in moving the entire administrative staff and 6 other departments into their new building.  Developed green-screen access to our AS400s via the web.  Worked with the Development Authority and numerous vendors to develop better infrastructure in Henry County.  Helped maintain and support over 600 nodes in an extremely hybrid network.  Served as top tier help desk/ technician, providing network engineering and administration service for all county entities.  Maintained continuity in network design and equipment purchased.  Generally responsible for keeping all networks fully functional and the Commissioners happy.

Mr. Rainer also has numerous outside activities and awards.  According to his boss, Clark is difficult to manage. Not that it is hard to do, but rather different in that you don’t want to bridle him in his enthusiasm or vigor in his daily work performance, because we all gain from his accomplishments.