MIS is very pleased to announce that Al Arnold has accepted a promotion to Systems Analyst. Al has worked for MSU for 15 years and has been involved in nearly every development platform we've adopted during that time. He has been heavily involved in supporting Residence Life, his primary area as a new SA, for much of that time. Al helped set up the early web application … [Read more...] about MIS Promotion: Al Arnold, Systems Analyst
MIS recently welcomed a new Programmer Analyst, Shawn McComb. Shawn is an MSU graduate and comes with great recommendations from several of our professors in the College of Business. This isn’t Shawn’s first exposure to higher education; he previously worked as a Red Hat Linux server administrator with the University of Missouri in Columbia. Shawn now works with the Grails … [Read more...] about MIS Welcomes: Shawn McComb, Programmer Analyst
Recently the Management Information Systems (MIS) team kicked off a project to improve new employee onboarding in the department. The project represents a collaborative effort among several analysts that have been identified as “gurus” for tools, applications, or topics that the team utilizes internally. The gurus will create a brief overview of their tool, application, or … [Read more...] about Welcoming New Staff to the MIS Team
Developing applications quickly that exceed our customer’s needs is one of the goals that we have in MIS. To accomplish this, we take advantage of several tools that help us organize our work, prioritize tasks, test for defects, and deploy our code. We use Atlassian JIRA to help us organize and prioritize our work. JIRA allows us to create issues, which we then use to … [Read more...] about Letting our Tools do the Heavy Lifting
Roommate compatibility is one of the most important aspects of a good on-campus living experience. A positive experience can improve grades and the likelihood that a student will return to Missouri State for future semesters; whereas, a bad experience can create frustration and dissatisfaction for students. With student success in mind, the Office of Residence Life, Housing … [Read more...] about MIS and Residence Life Launch New Roommate Matching Algorithm