Judy Montgomery has seen technology come and go on campus. She graduated from Sacramento State in 1982 with a degree in computer science and has worked here since as a computer software specialist.
She is a software developer/analyst in Student Information Systems with Information Resources and Technology and is responsible for modifications and problem solving for the records area and system maintenance of the PeopleSoft computer system on campus.
With more than 25 years of campus history, Montgomery has helped the University go through two major software conversions, each taking two or more years and commanding the attention of 50-plus people every day. “Millions of records had to be transferred and made accessible, but first we had to ‘learn to make it fit,’” she says.
Montgomery was also part of a team that changed the way registration is handled on campus. “When I first started here, there was no online registration, there wasn’t even telephone registration,” she says. “People came to campus and stood in line to register for classes. Now, we are fully on the web for everything that students need to do. That’s a huge improvement.”
Although Judy and the administrative computing staff have an important role to play in supporting the campus function, they are fairly anonymous to the campus. “Few people understand the teamwork required, the constant updating, the problem solving and the troubleshooting that keeps our system running,” she says.
The recognition may not always be there, but as technology continues to come and go, her efforts will help keep the University going forward.
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