A Profile in Fiscal Responsibility

Ray Bechtel is a careful man. Although his idea of fun is trekking deep into the heart of an Amazon rain forest, when it comes to computer technology, Ray is as serious and meticulous an IT professional that one would ever meet.

"My office is held to a higher standard of fiscal and technical responsibility than are most of my fellow professionals." With 25 years information systems experience, Ray serves as Director of Information Systems for the Orange County Comptroller's Office, which provides fiscal support to Orange County with its multi-billion dollar budget. "When it's your job to audit other agencies, you better have your own house in order".

Of approximately 200 PC's on the comptroller network, more than 140 are Axon Computers and more Axon PC's are on order. The office utilizes four Axon file servers and two AxonRAID units. The Comptroller's Office is evaluating an AxonRAID storage solution for an ambitious imaging project. More than 10,000,000 official county documents, comprising more than a terabyte of information, will eventually be accessible to the public on the Comptroller web site, hosted on an Axon File Server.

Mr. Bechtel is pleased with the Axons and said, "We have torn apart a lot of Axon machines. We like the workmanship, we like the components, and we especially like Axon's conscientious and responsive service". His division has also achieved time savings because of the streamlined purchasing process encouraged by Florida Statute 413 and FAC 60E, which encourages agencies to purchase Axons without the cumbersome bid process.

The fiscal common sense of recycling tax dollars to employ Florida's disabled citizens, instead of sending it forever out of state, is not lost on Ray Bechtel and the Comptroller's office. "I believe in the program and it makes sense to give something back to the community", he said and then smiled, ̉But only as long as Axon continues to meet our very high technical and service standards".