Legislative Services Office

Information Technology Division

The Information Technology Division is the primary technology support group for the Legislative Services Office and the Idaho Legislature. The services provided by the IT group include design, development, maintenance and support of custom legislative systems such as legislation drafting, bill status and chamber automation. IT supports over 300 personal computers in the Legislature and within the Legislative Services Office. We also operate a legislative data center including Microsoft and Linux servers, in addition to supporting other related facilities.

Staff / Contact

Email: ITContact@lso.idaho.gov

Norma Clark

Division Manager
208-334-4849

 
   

Jeff McFarland

Deputy Division Manager
208-334-4870

 
   

Soren Jacobsen

Senior IT Specialist
208-334-4848

 
   

Chad Sherfick

IT Systems Analyst
208-334-4877

 
   

Sean Boyer

IT Network Specialist
208-334-1291

 
   

Denis Djokic

IT Systems Analyst
208-332-1296

 
   

Kelly Reister

Senior Software Developer
208-334-4744

 
   

Shanna Gipson

Software Engineer / Web Developer
208-334-4879

 
   

Ian Hill

Senior Software Programmer/ DBA
208-334-4878

 
   

Kirill Malevich

Software Developer II
208-334-4734

 

Information Technology – Help Desk

Help Desk 208-334-4747 

The Legislative Services Helpdesk’s mission and responsibility is to provide assistance and support for all legislators, committee secretaries, and Legislative Services Office employees. We provide a centralized helpdesk phone number as well as a web based support request application. The Helpdesk is staffed by trained analysts who provide application support for services such as word processing, legislation tracking, E-mail, LAN/WAN, servers (Windows, Linux and related applications), and Internet issues.

All analysts provide quality service within a timely manner by entering all reported problems and requests into our helpdesk tracking software. This software doubles as a knowledge base reducing the time spent on similar support requests in the future.

Information Technology – Training

Norma Clark, Division Manager 208-334-4849NClark@lso.idaho.gov

The Information Technology staff has developed a training room, and a program which offers specialized instruction to legislators, committee secretaries and the staff of the Legislative Services Office to ensure that the computer facilities available are effectively utilized. Idaho legislators have access to personal computers and laptops to assist them in their daily business, and these systems are upgraded and maintained by Information Technology.

Information Technology – Application Development

Norma Clark, Division Manager 208-334-4849NClark@lso.idaho.gov

Application Development staff is responsible for providing and maintains custom computer application solutions, website development and maintenance for the Idaho Legislature which includes analyzing, designing, integrating systems, programming, training and implementation.

These seasoned professionals have specialized in various platforms, such as Linux and Windows and have created custom applications utilizing JAVA, XML, Visual Basic, C, C++, PHP, WordPress, and SQL programming languages which access databases, such as Oracle, MS Access, MySQL and Microsofte SQL, for the retrieval and storage of data.

Legislative Services Office
Information Technology Division
700 W. Jefferson St. • P.O. Box 83720
Boise, ID 83720-0054
P: 208-334-2475 | F: 208-334-2125