Texas 2019 - 86th Regular

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1	1	86R15026 JGH-D
2	2	By: Flores, et al. S.C.R. No. 55
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5	5	CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
6	6	WHEREAS, The Honorable Ken Mercer is retiring from USAA on
7	7	February 28, 2019, drawing to a close an outstanding career in the
8	8	insurance and financial services industry that has spanned nearly
9	9	three and a half decades; and
10	10	WHEREAS, Mr. Mercer earned a bachelor's degree in biology
11	11	from The University of Texas at Austin, a bachelor's degree in
12	12	business administration from UT San Antonio, and a master's degree
13	13	in business administration from St. Mary's University; he joined
14	14	USAA in November 1984, and over the course of his 34-year career in
15	15	information technology, he has played a leading role in
16	16	implementing the first information engineering workstations,
17	17	processes, and procedures, and he has served as lead internal
18	18	consultant for the company's first use of rapid application
19	19	development (RAD) technologies; and
20	20	WHEREAS, Later in his career, Mr. Mercer led projects to
21	21	develop financial systems, telecommunications accounting, disaster
22	22	recovery, and enterprise software and hardware asset management,
23	23	and he helped implement new acquisition processes to select
24	24	company-wide software suites and hardware; he is retiring as a
25	25	project manager for critical enterprise-wide migrations of several
26	26	important software systems; and
27	27	WHEREAS, From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Mercer represented District
28	28	117 in the Texas House of Representatives, and he served on the
29	29	Higher Education, House Administration, and Transportation
30	30	committees; during his tenure, he worked to ensure that children of
31	31	military families serving overseas could pay in-state tuition, and
32	32	he played an instrumental role in legislation that created the San
33	33	Antonio campus of Texas A&M University and brought Toyota to San
34	34	Antonio; he also helped create the city's Memorial Highway in honor
35	35	of the U.S. Army's 2nd Indian Head Division, and he became only the
36	36	second civilian to be made a "Lifetime Member" of the division; and
37	37	WHEREAS, Currently, Mr. Mercer is serving his fourth term as
38	38	a member of the State Board of Education, where he represents 13
39	39	counties and 1.6 million Texans; as chair of the board's Charter
40	40	School Committee, he helped establish the first dual-language
41	41	Hebrew-English immersion program in Texas and the first trilingual
42	42	Spanish-English-Mandarin program; he has also worked to ensure that
43	43	history and government curriculum includes the contributions of our
44	44	men and women in uniform; and
45	45	WHEREAS, In all his endeavors, Mr. Mercer enjoys the love and
46	46	support of his wife, Rosalia, his daughters, Rebekah Mercer and
47	47	Sarah Fisher, and his son-in-law, Ryan Fisher; and
48	48	WHEREAS, Ken Mercer's dedication, professionalism, and
49	49	commitment to excellence have earned him the respect and admiration
50	50	of his professional peers, and he may indeed reflect with pride on
51	51	his outstanding record of achievement; now, therefore, be it
52	52	RESOLVED, That the 86th Legislature of the State of Texas
53	53	hereby congratulate the Honorable Ken Mercer on his retirement from
54	54	USAA and extend to him sincere best wishes for the future; and, be
55	55	it further
56	56	RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
57	57	prepared for Mr. Mercer as an expression of high regard by the Texas
58	58	House of Representatives and Senate.