2006 Management Information Systems
Annual Professional Award
Brian D. Kelley

Brian Kelley

2006 MISAPA Winner

Written by: Janet Esposito, County Auditor

            “Brian Kelley has served as CIO of Portage County Information Technology Services (ITS) since 1991.  At the onset of his employment, our County had little in terms of computerization and networking between the various offices.

            “Today, under Mr. Kelley’s fifteen year-plus leadership, ITS now provides services to all eighteen elected officials, fifty departments, and over 600 users in over a dozen separate locations.  He has successfully built a reliable and dependable 24x7 IT operation with a staff of eight.

            “The end result of his endeavors have resulted in immeasurable benefits to our County operations and in improved service delivery to our constituents.”

His accomplishments include:

1.                Network and high-speed Internet connectivity between ALL offices and locations. E-mail services are provided internally and remotely across the organization on a single platform.  A VPN solutions provides remote access capability for our road warriors;

2.                Consolidated IT service delivery, operations, and support for ALL County offices;

3.                An integrated and decentralized financial, payroll, and human resource system utilized by ALL County offices. End-users electronically initiate all transactions;

4.                An integrated court and criminal justice system in which court and criminal justice records from seven separate courts (Municipal, Common Pleas, Juvenile, and Probate) as well as adult probation, jury commission, and juvenile detention are consolidated with a single database/system.  Our County is in the process of further integrating our adult correctional facility within this system.  This system includes document imaging and E-pay.  Our County is the only county in Ohio to achieve this level of integration between ALL court and criminal justice offices; and

5.                A single E-Government portal/web site for information and services which links the eighteen elected officials and their respective departments with our constituents.

Mr. Kelley has an M.P.A. degree from Kent State University.  He is currently and instructor at KSU and teaches a graduate level E-Gov/MIS course.

Mr. Kelley is also a commissioned peace officer with our Sheriff’s Department and assists with computer crime investigations.

He serves on the executive committee of the Ohio County Information Technology Association.  He serves on the Oho Supreme Court networking/security subcommittee.  He is also a member of GMIS, FBI Infragard, and NACITA.