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Mr. Chip Collins will be the day-to-day project manager for this study. Mr. Collins has a <br />iVlasters Degree in Business Administration and over eight years professional experience <br />with data processing. Mr. Collins has extensive experience with the data processing needs <br />of municipal and county governments. He recently directed engagements to identify and <br />select the management information software and associated hardware for five <br />municipalities, and the Grayson Governmental Data Center data processing planning <br />study. These studies included evaluating many commercially available local government <br />utility billing, financial accounting, and payroll/personnel systems. Currently he is <br />involved with the implementation of the selected systems and of the data processing plan. <br />Based upon current and past engagements, Mr. Collins has developed an in-depth <br />understanding of the data processing needs of local government. He will be actively <br />involved with reviewing the utility billing system and identifying city management's <br />information needs. Also, he will be responsible for conducting the data processing <br />selection process of the study. <br />Mr. Lewis McLain is aself-employed consultant who has worked on many of LWFW's <br />municipal engagements. He is a member of the Municipal Finance Officers' Association <br />and has extensive experience in municipal finance, including accounting, budgeting, rate <br />making, financial planning, utility billing, and computer applications. Mr. McLain was <br />Dallas County's first Budget Officer, and developed the County's first long-range plan. <br />Mr, McLain also teaches Public Finance at the graduate level at Southern Methodist <br />University. He recently assisted with developing the data processing plan for Grayson <br />Governmental Data Center and directed the City of Duncanville project. <br />Mr. Bruce Zak has nine years of professional consulting experience in information <br />processing. His specialties include information system design and implementation, <br />computer hardware and system software planning, on-line systems, and data base <br />management systems. Mr. Zak has participated in projects to select packaged software <br />and hardware systems, develop long-range information system plans, analyze computer <br />system capacity and performance, and develop and implement on-line applcations using <br />data base management systems. Mr. Zak holds the professional credentials of CDP and <br />CCP conferred by the Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals, a Bachelors <br />Degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is currently a <br />candidate for an MBA in Management Information Systems at the University of Dallas. <br />Mr. Zak will be responsible for evaluating the City's word processing needs. <br />Ly~FW Group <br />-13- <br />1 .Z <br />