"The new design possibilities with A5V5 are endless. They are going to
allow me to put out a much better looking product than I ever thought I
could. Combined with the ease of integrating many new features, using
Version 5 should allow me to leapfrog my competition."
Dr. Wallace Honeywell brings over thirty years experience in computing to his company, Honeywell Administrative Consulting Services (HACS). As a professor of engineering, he taught computer programming in the days when computers were as large as entire rooms. Then, as personal computers (PC's) became just as powerful, Dr. Honeywell directed his attention to using them in a church environment.
After almost twenty years in teaching and administration at the University of Houston, Dr. Honeywell went to work for the Catholic Church in the diocesan office. He supervised seven departments in pastoral ministry while also serving as building administrator for the Chancery at St. Dominic Center. In this latter capacity he managed for twelve years a network of fifty computers in pastoral administration.
In 1995 Dr. Honeywell became increasingly concerned about the level of administrative sophistication in churches. As Peter Drucker, sociologist, expresses the problem, "With respect to the management of the nonprofit organization we are in many ways pretty much where we were fifty or sixty years ago with respect to the management of the business enterprise: the work is only beginning."
Out of this concern Dr. Honeywell formed his own company, HACS, to "assist churches in managing their scarce resources, through the efficiencies of computers." His company now specializes in providing a full range of computer services to churches, from new built-to-order computers to software installation and sharing of programs and printers on computer networks. Additionally, he customizes database software to meet the record-keeping and reporting needs of individual schools and churches.
Dr. Honeywell is active in family life ministry with his wife, Winifred Honeywell, who is currently the Director of Family Life Ministry for the Catholic Diocese. They minister out of the experience of raising a family of four sons, all of whom are grown now and beginning to raise families of their own. Dr. Honeywell admits to the delight of babysitting his local five-year-old granddaughter. He says he is "doing much better parenting now than I did with my own children."
walhoney@hal-pc.org