Information Technology Services

Accomplishments and Awards

Fiscal Year 2011-2012

  • Achieved 3rd place nationally in the Center for Digital Government’s “Digital Cities” survey, a measure of the quality and efficacy of the department’s efforts to reach strategic objectives as compared to other cities with a population of 250,000 or greater.
  • ITS employeesLed, in cooperation with Mayoral advisory committee, the creation and implementation of several Metro-wide security policies addressing the appropriate use of systems, information classification, confidentiality agreements, disaster recovery, information encryption and mobile computing.
  • With HR and General Services, developed the Basic Security Awareness Training course, an original web-based training course for Metro government employees. Created, developed, distributed and tracked the completion of this training on an individual employee basis with over 50% of Metro employees successfully completing in first 4 months..
  • Installed Voice-over-IP digital phone systems for Criminal Justice Center and Lentz Public Health facility to include improved call center functionality and call recording to better serve the public.
  • Migrated Metro Purchasing to a new in-house implementation of Oracle iProcurement.
  • The 24/7 ITS Technical Support Center assisted Metro employees with over 96,000 service requests.

Awards

Digital Cities LogoIn the Digital Cities Survey, the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County placed 3rd in 2011 .