City CIO LLC Experienced IT Consulting for Smaller Cities Awards and Recognition The City of Marietta & Marietta Power utilized technology to increase productivity and hold down head count. The head count actually dropped between 1998 and 2007 although the departmental responsibilities increased over that period of time. Marietta won a number of local and national awards during the time Gene was Director of Information systems. Here is a link to the Marietta website awards section. Marietta gained national attention when it became the first agency in the country to send XML crime data to the FBI as part of N-DEx, the National Data Exchange Program. Gene Estensen was appointed Chairman of one of six N-DEx focus groups and conducted numerous meetings in Washington, DC. .