Her Story
About Janis
Janis Williamson is a retired part-time consultant specializing in data analysis and fraud detection within government administration. She started her professional career with the state of Florida in late 1969. Her experience includes work at the Agency for Healthcare Administration where she licensed facilities and certified Medicare facilities while identifying fraud, a role at the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles in accident records where she implemented a program allowing officers to receive overtime pay, and positions with the Supreme Court and Osceola County court system focusing on DUI data tracking and automation of school submissions. She also worked at Florida State University in personnel creating data input screens and served on a committee reviewing faculty salary equity using her database access. Earlier, she taught elementary school and worked as a mainframe programmer at a university in Lafayette, Louisiana. Janis holds an AA degree from Chipola College where her emphasis was on math and statistics, and she took additional computer programming classes at TCC on Apple Yard to build her skills in data management.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Janis
01What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
One of the things that I recognized that I could do, and felt like I should do, was to take as many computer skill classes as I could. I at that point, I did not have a degree. I had an AA degree from Chipola college at the time. My main emphasis was on math and statistics and working with data and numbers. And then, as data management, computer science, capturing data and manipulating that data became primary focus for businesses, I pursued taking classes like at TCC on Apple Yard.
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