Future home of Patrick's personal page on my site. He has
his own sites so
do not take this as his work. He is a professional at this type work and teaches
me as he can. I copied some data from him.
Patrick moved from the Court System in New Orleans to Tallahassee, Florida
in early 2001 to work with ASD
Advanced System Design as a Software Development Engineer. He currently
develops software for the Florida Department of Corrections.
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Patrick at New Orleans 4th Circuit Court
http://4thcir-app.state.la.us/it/
Webmaster / Web Developer /
Desktop Applications & User Support
Biography - the informal version
- I spent most of my childhood in Shreveport, LA surrounded by many of my
dad's neat
new computers. Let's see... there was the TRS-80 model 2 (? I think),
the Compaq "Portable" (286), my own Tandy Color Computer complete
with 5.25 in disk drives (my first computer!), a Compaq 386,
and finally the Packard-Bell 486/66 I later bought from him to build web
sites.
All of these I considered an annoyance used to create research papers
or play the occasional game.
- Graduated from Huntington High School (Shreveport, LA) in 1990
- After graduation I landed a "McJob" as a truck washer with Blue
Beacon International.
- In early 1992 I was promoted to Supervisor and shortly after
I was promoted to Assistant Manager of the Beaumont Texas location.
- During my time with Blue Beacon I trained employees and management in the
grand openings of Salt Lake City, Atlanta Georgia, and Reno.
- I transferred to the Hammond, LA location in 1995 and while there I began
designing personal web sites in my spare time.
- Early in 1996, I designed a few web sites under contract with
Custom Software and Services of Shreveport, LA.
- ...6 Months later I began working full-time for Productivity Point
International as
a web design instructor and consultant.
- Through working with PPI I had the opportunity to work extensively
with the Intranet design staff of Entergy and Shell Offshore Inc.
- In February of 1999 I began work with the Louisiana 4th Circuit Court of
Appeal,
as a desktop support tech. In addition to this role I would be
designing the public web site for the court as well as an Intranet.
- ...to be continued
- Moved from Court System to Tallahassee, Florida in early 2001 to work with
ASD Advanced System Design as a
Software Development Engineer. I currently develop software for the Florida
State Department of Corrections (under contract with ASD).
Current Roles in the court - by priority (from past
work)
- User Support for Microsoft Office & Windows 95/98/NT/2000.
- Installation and maintenance of desktop workstations (software, hardware,
etc.).
- Design and maintenance of the Court Intranet.
- Design and maintenance of the public web site.
- Design and maintenance of Extranet Applications. (not many...yet)
-
Court TimeLine
- 1981
- First PC Installed in the court<?xml:namespace
prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
- 1983
- Wang system on-line (accessible by Judge's secretaries)
- 1984
- Law Clerks gain access to Wang system
- 1985/86
- Clerks office gains access to Wang system
- 1992
- Novell 3.1 file server on-line.
- 1992
- Law Clerks & Judges staff are upgraded from Wang terminals to
DOS clients on desktop PC's. Begin using WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS and MS
Office 3.0.
- 1993/94
- Judges utilize dial-up access to the Novell server.
- 1997
- Kelly Russell begins the move to Windows 95 on the desktop PC's
for Judges staff - connecting to Novell file server.
- 1997
- Begin acquisition of new HP server machines and installation
of the Windows NT 4 domain.
- August
1998 - Central staff law clerks and all Judges staff are upgraded
to Windows 95, Office 97, and Outlook 97. These desktops are connected via a
Windows NT 4 domain, utilize Exchange server 5.5 for messaging, and an ISDN
line for Internet access.
- August
1998 - Access 97 - Case Management System is developed through
outside contract. Released for access by Judges staff and Central
Staff.
- 1998
- Novell file server is taken off line.
- September
1998 - "Beta" website is hosted internally for
public access to judges and office information.
- October
1998 - Development begins on a new Case Management System to
replace the Access 97 based system. This new system will encompass the
entire appeals process from beginning to end and will be accessible by all
staff. (named the Appeals system)
- February
1999 - Patrick Greene
takes position providing user support and website
design.
- March
1999 - Clerk of Court staff is moved from Wang system to Windows 95
clients on the NT domain.
- March
1999 - "Sherlock" Intranet released.
- November
1999 - Remaining files and records are transferred from the Wang
system to the new Case Management System. Wang system is permanently taken
off-line (a test reboot in 2000 results in a fatal error and shutdown of the
system due to incorrect internal clock) - Appeals Case Management System goes
on-line for the Clerk of Court staff.
- January
2000 - No Y2K problems!
- February
2000 - pre-release of Appeals program to Central staff law clerks.
- March
2000 - New website goes on-line providing real-time access to
information in the Appeals Case Management System (case record search,
dockets, etc.)
- August
2000 - Appeals System released to Judge's staff.
- October
2000 - Begin server upgrade to Windows 2000 Advanced Server
