Overview

Janis uses her strong technical background to assist ECG clients with systems solutions.  She has significant experience with SCT Banner and was one of the leading members of the SCT Banner implementation team at Drake University.

Key Experience and Skills

Janis's information technology (IT) experience in the private and public business sectors includes project management, testing coordination, and system design and development.  At Drake University, she was the assistant director of student financial planning-technical, providing overall technical support to the financial aid office, including report development, file management, tracking setup, and transfer monitoring.  She also managed the installation and testing of Banner releases, and coordinated the importing/exporting for EDE transmissions.

Highlights of Accomplishments

Since joining ECG in 2007, Janis has completed several key Banner projects for ECG clients:

• Set up auto-packaging and satisfactory academic progress (SAP) processing.
• Set up C code processing with customized letter messages for several institutions, including instructions for yearly maintenance.
• Researched and resolved issues with tracking group rules.
• Automated tracking letters and set up subsequent letter processing.
• Trained users on Banner loan application processing.
• Set up intuitive budget groups that use previous enrollment levels to predict future enrollment; and coordinated SAP setup.
• Created report development specifications for IT development to be used for management reporting, IPEDS, auditors etc.

Education

MEd in Secondary School Counseling, Iowa State University
BA in Psychology/Linguistics, Northwest Missouri State University
AS in Business Computer Programming, Indian Hills Community College