District Staff Officer: DSO-CS D. Stearns
Auxiliary National Department: Information Technology (I)

As the auxiliary moves forward the dependence on computers and technology increases as well. This is difficult for many of our members to accept, however, with the CS office support, and technically proficent members we can ensure that these members are not left behind. We need to help these members feel comfortable and adequate using computers and technology to accomplish their needs and objectives in the auxiliary. I ask your help, as a technically proficent member to accomplish this top priority.

My primary objective for the CS program area is the ensure professional, timely and accurate information without duplication to members and the public for all units. I will accomplish this by developing a robust set of tools that empower your officers to maintain their information. This reduces the possibility for error and minimizes multiple efforts, while serving this collected information back to the unit website in a format that is suitable for display by the beginner to experienced webmaster. The currently targeted areas include: PE, VE, PA, MT, News, and Fellowship. For the technical members or those who what to learn more, this will be accomplished using a web services based Service Oriented Architeture using syndicated content from a centralized database respository, maintained using a web-based AJAX interface, served using JSON and XML via WSDL using the SOAP protocol. As well as predefined templates developed in CSS, PHP and Javascript to enable beginning to intermediate webmasters to include the information.