April 28, 2005

Role of Technology in Government

Alderman Reed will discuss the role of technology in government, including running government, holding elections, and the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

Our Speaker

Lewis E. Reed
CEO of Q-technologies and St. Louis City 6th District Alderman

Alderman Reed is a native of Joliet, Illinois with a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science at Southern Illinois University and is currently an Alderman in the city of St. Louis, representing 12,000 residents in the central corridor and western half of downtown. Reed served as the chairman of the St. Louis Port Authority (overseeing riverfront property lease agreements, and riverboat gaming tax revenues), served on the board of directors of the St. Louis Development Corporation (overseeing city business development issues and minority business certification compliance), Vice President of the 6th Ward Democratic organization, co-chair of St. Louis City Ways & Means committee (overseeing St. Louis City 420+ million dollar budget), member of St Louis Public Utilities committee (which oversees & negotiates cable franchise agreements and technology issues facing the city), serves as a member of the Regional Justice Information Systems (REJIS) board of directors (which leverages technology to monitor and track criminal data and statistics), co-chaired Cardinal Baseball stadium hearings in St. Louis, board member of Downtown Now and Downtown Partnership.

As an Elected Official, Reed drafted and passed into Law a Technology Bill reorganizing all St. Louis City technology departments, decreasing cost and increasing efficiency. Sponsored and passed first Community Improvement District (CID) in St. Louis with assessed properties value of over 334 million and raising millions of dollars for numerous initiatives to rebuild and market downtown. Drafted and passed the first neighborhood TIF in the history of the city, raising over 8 million dollars to support neighborhood development plans.

Mr. Reed was also a founding member of Q-technologies Services Inc. Developed an application called the RunningMate released in late 2004 that provides voter identification and campaign management capabilities including post election office administration/constituent support.