Karen West

Education

1979 - 1981 BBA, Accounting, West Georgia College Carrollton, GA

1977 – 1979 AS, Accounting, Dalton Junior College Dalton, GA

Honor Graduate

Employment

1981 – present State University of West Georgia Carrollton, GA

2002 – present Assistant Director for Software Development

Responsible for on-going daily projects such as Campus One-card, SEVIS compliance and

Schedule 25/Resource 25 as well as Banner programming requests.

1998 – 2002 Programming Manager

Responsible for overseeing a team of programmers during major upgrades in Banner and

conversion to the semester system from the quarter system. This includes major conversions

to in-house written Banner programs, both batch and web-based.

1987 – 1998 Management Information Specialist

Wrote many programs for student accounts and financial aid prior to the implementation of

Banner and was responsible for converting our financial data and student data to Banner.

Provided technical support to the Student Accounts and Financial Aid offices since the

implementation of Banner in Fall of 1996. This included any additional programming

needed to meet the offices’ requirements, as well as trouble-shooting problems in Banner.

Responsible for implementation of the first instance of Banner Web for Student in the

University System of Georgia.

1984 -1987 Programmer III

The primary contact and programmer for the Student Accounts and Financial Aid offices for

internally written system using Cincom’s Environ/1 and Total database system.

1982 - 1984 Budget Analyst

Prepared budget amendments and kept the budget database up to date.

1981 – 1982 Programmer I

Wrote programs in PL/1, COBOL and Easytrieve with ISAM and VSAM files. Began writing

conversion programs to Cincom’s Total Database system.