Board of Commissioners of Cook County - File #: 16-0870

• File #: 16-0870
• Version: 1
• Name: CELEBRATING THE CAREER OF MARY JO HORACE
• Type: Consent Calendar Resolution
• Status: Approved
• File created: 12/29/2015
• In control: Board of Commissioners
• On agenda: 1/13/2016
• Final action: 1/13/2016
• Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION CELEBRATING THE CAREER OF MARY JO HORACE WHEREAS, after twenty-nine (29) years of dedicated service to the Bureau of Technology (BOT) Ms. Mary Jo Horace has retired from her position as Deputy Chief Information Officer and Director of Geographic Information Services (GIS) effective December 31, 2015; and WHEREAS, early in her career she helped consolidate various IT resources under the Office of the President into what would eventually become the Bureau of Technology; and WHEREAS, she helped to create the County's first department focused on providing desktop services to thousands of users; and WHEREAS, her efforts to consolidate a large number of mid-range computers into a single system has helped reduce the cost of managing important judicial, financial, and property data, and has also simplified county-wide operations considerably; and WHEREAS, she was a leader in the establishment, consolidation, and continued improvement of the Bureau of Te...
• Sponsors: TONI PRECKWINKLE (President), LUIS ARROYO JR, RICHARD R. BOYKIN, JERRY BUTLER, JOHN P. DALEY, JOHN A. FRITCHEY, BRIDGET GAINER, JESÚS G. GARCÍA, GREGG GOSLIN, STANLEY MOORE, SEAN M. MORRISON, JOAN PATRICIA MURPHY, TIMOTHY O. SCHNEIDER, PETER N. SILVESTRI, DEBORAH SIMS, ROBERT STEELE, LARRY SUFFREDIN, JEFFREY R. TOBOLSKI

Date	Ver.	Action By	Motion	Result
1/13/2016	1	Board of Commissioners	approve	Pass

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PROPOSED RESOLUTION

CELEBRATING THE CAREER OF MARY JO HORACE

WHEREAS, after twenty-nine (29) years of dedicated service to the Bureau of Technology (BOT) Ms. Mary Jo Horace has retired from her position as Deputy Chief Information Officer and Director of Geographic Information Services (GIS) effective December 31, 2015; and

WHEREAS, early in her career she helped consolidate various IT resources under the Office of the President into what would eventually become the Bureau of Technology; and

WHEREAS, she helped to create the County's first department focused on providing desktop services to thousands of users; and

WHEREAS, her efforts to consolidate a large number of mid-range computers into a single system has helped reduce the cost of managing important judicial, financial, and property data, and has also simplified county-wide operations considerably; and

WHEREAS, she was a leader in the establishment, consolidation, and continued improvement of the Bureau of Technology Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO) which has successfully managed hundreds of projects and requests for proposals that improved efficiency and cross-agency collaboration; and

WHEREAS, she has championed collaborative GIS in Cook County since the 1980's, and in 1996 was a leader in the procurement of the county-wide GIS system; and

WHEREAS, in September 2015, she was awarded the Dahlberg Distinguished Achievement Award by the Illinois Geographic Information Systems Association. This award is presented to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the development and advancement of geographic information systems; and

WHEREAS, under her direction Cook County's Department of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) was also honored this year with a Special Achievement in GIS Award for establishing an enterprise approach to GIS which provides a framework for County departments to collect data, share information, collaborate, and conduct cross-d...