Steve Kneizys
Senior Business Process Engineer

Before entering the world of IT, Steve was an Electronic Technician and held an FCC Class B General Radiotelephone license. Programming in 6502 assembler, he began turning Commodore Vic-20s into printer controllers using the game ports and custom controller cartridges. After writing the printer control program for the Burroughs Mainframe in Algol, he suddenly realized he jumped to IT without actually trying. Soon after that he was the System Administrator on that mainframe. Working his way through college doing a lot of IT and Electronics work on the side, he obtained a Bachelor’s in Chemistry at Franklin and Marshall. Then, as Director of Academic Computing at Ursinus College, he wrote an Ethernet IP-based network operating system in Turbo Pascal to control the switches. In his spare time he also earned a Bachelor’s in Psychology at Ursinus, and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

Steve has been working with Datatel’s Colleague and Benefactor products since 1998. He was the sole author of the XLIST package that won the Datatel User’s Group Award for Innovation at the 2003 DUG Conference. In addition, Steve has developed many other freely distributed helpful utilities and procedures, such as the safe and secure HAL colon prompt replacement for R16-R18 and tutorials for installing Tomcat/Apache/IIS WebAdvisor servers. He has also developed the SQLizer, a commercially available near real-time Unidata/Universe to SQL Server/MySQL/Oracle ETL package. His TMI Open Architecture Listener has been implemented for a variety of uses far beyond the original plans as a simple helper to the SQLizer. TMI is now used for Web Ajax, cross-platform SSL file transport, and XML interfaces for a variety of Operating Systems and Databases. Steve has extensive experience installing/programming Colleague R18 on SQL Servers, Unidata, and Oracle in both UNIX and Windows environments.

While working in the private college and community college environments, Steve has spent a great deal of time engineering business processes. The goal of the process design is to allow the technology to make the business rules work while eliminating unnecessary burdens on IT and office staff. “Technology should work for the people, not the other way around!” is Steve’s credo.

Subject Matter Expert:  Admissions/Enrollment Management, Financial Aid, Registration, Degree Audit, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, WebAdvisor, Envision Programming, System Administration, Database Management, Data Marts.