| Sumario: | Part of a special section profiling outstanding members of the corrections profession. The writer discusses the work of the Year 2K Team established by the Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration (JRA) of Washington state's Department of Social and Health Services. He notes that having successfully completed its task of avoiding a computer crash on January 1, 2000, under budget and ahead of schedule, the team was kept together as a unit to tackle other projects. He points out that, under the leadership of Dave Guthman, JRA's information services manager, the members of the Year 2K Team were collectively acknowledge by JRA as Outstanding Employees for 1999. He outlines the novel caveats under which Guthman established the Year 2K Team in 1997 and the programming challenges faced by the team.
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