We have a database manager. The people that use the school Blackbaud
databases are all in the administration building so that is where the
database manager is housed. (The teachers only access it to put in
attendance and grades.) The database manager reports to the Asst. to
the Headmaster.
I, as the Director of Technology, am in charge of ensuring everything
works. I do all Blackbaud updates. I also deal with issues and
problems relating to Blackbaud. I also do all backups and restores.
There are several people in the Development department. They all use
Raiser's Edge. The Dir. of Development oversees how it is used by her
people. At the moment, Raiser's Edge is not integrated with our
Education or Financial Edge databases, so the database manager doesn't
deal with this database at all.
There are several people in the Finance department. The Dir. of Finance
oversees how the Financial Edge database is used. =20
Education Edge is fully integrated with the Financial Edge. Our
database manager is the organizer of Education Edge. She creates all
the queries when we need them (so they are organized), she cleans up the
database, she ensures data entry consistency, etc.
I hope this helps.
Renee Ramig
Director of Technology
Seven Hills School
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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. John
Powell
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From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Hart
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:37 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: School databases and the staffing for managment of those
databases
Hi Fred,
We are examining this as well. This year Technology has been given the
responsibility of managing the school Database systems. The role is to
oversee, provide support and document practices. We work with each
department which maintain their own Data and continue to use on a daily
basis.=20
Technology also has the task of Web management. We have just recently
launched our new website and we are in the process of putting an
organizational structure in place.
I would love to see someone who has Database Management skills and the
ability to work on Web site management. I believe the website requires
the distributed responsibility structure, which needs to be overseen by
project management.
Hope this is helpful,
Tom
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Fred Bartels
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:54 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: School databases and the staffing for managment of those
databases
I'm very curious what independent schools are doing in terms of database
management staffing. How many positions, where the positions are located
within the organizational structure, and what the impact is on staffing
of
various approaches to providing database services... are the major
questions I have. Before creating a survey I thought it would be helpful
to brainstorm the idea a bit to help clarify what information would be
most helpful to collect... and of course share.
Thanks for any thoughts you are willing to share on the subject.
Fred
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