What Happened?
Conway, AR-based City of Conway has Appointed Lloyd Hartzell as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
The City of Conway was founded by A. P. Robinson, who came to Conway shortly after the Civil War. Robinson was the chief engineer for the Little Rock-Fort Smith Railroad (now the Union-Pacific). Part of his compensation was the deed to a tract of land, one square mile, located near the old settlement of Cadron. When the railroad came through, Robinson deeded a small tract of his land back to the railroad for a depot site. He laid off a town site around the depot and named it Conway Station, in honor of a famous Arkansas family. Conway Station contained two small stores, two saloons, a depot, some temporary housing and a post office. Conway was designated the county seat of Faulkner County in 1873, the same year that the county was created by the legislature. In October 1875, Conway was incorporated and, at that time, had a population of approximately 200. When originally incorporated in 1875, Conway was just one square mile surrounding Conway Station on the Little Rock and Fort Smith Branch of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad. By 1959, Conway encompassed 6.9 square miles. During the next 30 years Conway grew rapidly annexing a total of 15.4 square miles. During the 1990's grew even faster, adding 12.2 square miles. Conway now encompasses approximately 45.63 square miles. Almost all area annexed has been through petition by the property owners. For many years Conway flourished as a trade center for a large rural agricultural area. Hendrix College was established in Conway in 1890. Three years later, in 1893, Central College for Girls was established, and Conway was on its way to becoming an educational center. The University of Central Arkansas was founded in Conway in 1907 as the Arkansas Normal School. Its economy was firmly established upon agriculture and the educational institutions until World War II. After the war, diversification of the economy was started by Conway businessmen, and several small industries were attracted to Conway. Subsequently, additional state institutions were located in Conway, including the headquarters for the Office of Emergency Services, the Human Development Center, and the Arkansas Educational Television Network. Conway has a sizable industrial / technological base. Industry located in Conway includes Kimberly Clark, Hewlett Packard, Virco, Acxiom, and Snap-on. Computer database giant Acxiom calls Conway their headquarters.
About the Person
Lloyd has 26 years of Law Enforcement Experience; he began his career in 1978 in Russellville, Arkansas as a dispatcher, and retired as Chief of Police in 2000. During his Law Enforcement career, he was the project manager for a 3.5 million dollar Law Enforcement Center and several technology advances within the Russellville Police department. For the past 13 years, Lloyd has worked for the City of Conway. He currently holds the position of Chief Technology Officer, overseeing all technology, public safety and telephone communications for the city. He was the project manager for a 2.8 million dollar Emergency Operations Center, which included a hardened technology data center for the City’s WAN and Public Safety Communications. He served as the technology advisor for the city’s 8 million dollar Law Enforcement Center, which included LAN, Physical Security, and CCTV. Present day, the City of Conway operates a network utilizing VMware and HP Blade Servers and 3 Par SAN storage environment with 50 TBs of storage and a Hot DR site made up of identical equipment. The City currently has 43 virtual servers, 250 desktops, 65 mobile data units and 400 users. Lloyd presently lives in Conway and is married to his wife Sherrie of 34 years, he has two children, Amber Lenderman and Andrew Hartzell. He currently has 3 grandchildren Lauren and Landon Lenderman, and Luke Hartzell, and will welcome Madison Hartzell in April of this year.
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