West Virginia Department of Transportation (WVDOT): Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementation
Mr.
Robert Cooney of eVision Partners, Inc. was the Transportation Lead for the
pre-implementation planning phase of the State of West Virginia’s ERP project. Under subcontract to Information Services
Group, Inc., Mr. Cooney was responsible for defining business requirements and
architecting a set of application solutions for the West Virginia Department of
Transportation (WVDOT) within the context of the State’s overall Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) project. Mr.
Cooney’s responsibilities included reviewing As-Is business processes and the existing systems supporting
these business processes; defining a conceptual systems architecture for
replacing WVDOT specific systems within the State’s proposed ERP application;
defining functional and technical requirements for the new WVDOT systems;
authoring a significant part of the statewide ERP RFP, which included the
various DOT specific system components and facilitating the State through the
RFP, software selection and negotiations process. Mr. Cooney defined functional requirements
for the following areas: transportation asset inventory, maintenance
management, fleet/equipment, facilities management, program and project
management, right-of-way acquisition, utility relocation, real estate, bridge
management, safety management, and pavement management. Mr. Cooney also defined requirements for
integrating the new ERP system with various other WVDOT systems including the
AASHTO Trns•port preconstruction
management system, the AASHTO Trns•port SiteManagerTM construction
management system, the Bentley ProjectWise electronic document management
system, Application XTender, the department’s electronic document management
system for non-engineering functions and Bentley’s ProjectWise among other
systems.
Mr.
Cooney is continuing to assist the State during the implementation phase as the
Transportation Team Lead providing independent project oversight for the
transportation-specific elements of the new statewide ERP system.
Metropolitan
Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA): Project Delivery and Project Controls
Improvement Initiative
As
a subcontractor to Intueor Consulting, Inc., eVision Partners, Inc. serves as Project Manager and Lead Functional Analyst
for the Project Controls/Project Delivery Improvement Initiative. The scope of this project is to review
and assess MARTA’s enterprise-level capital project delivery and project
control processes, prepare recommendations and action plans based on this
assessment and then assist MARTA with the detail design and implementation of
various process improvement, organizational transformation and systems
requirements initiatives recommended in the initial assessment.
Phase
1 of this project consisted of an assessment of MARTA’s project controls and
other project delivery processes, preparation of recommendations for
improvement and development of a supporting implementation plan. Phase 2 which was completed in June 2012
included the design and implementation of a new project controls organization;
definition and implementation of a new project delivery governance structure;
and design of an enhanced project scoping and screening process. The process
will result in more detailed project scope definitions and more accurate high-level
project schedules, cost estimates and cash-flow models for use in CIP
programming decisions. Phase 2 also
included developing recommendations for streamlining MARTA’s procurement,
contract management and close-out processes; defining requirements and
preparing implementation plans for project controls and document control
systems; and evaluating staffing levels and resource requirements to support delivery
of the capital program across various MARTA disciplines: project management,
procurement, finance and internal audit.
Phase
3, which began on July 1, 2012, includes implementation of many of the
recommendations and detail designs established during Phase 2. These include implementation
of a new scoping and screening tool; implementation of a new decision analysis
tool, Comparion ExpertChoice for prioritizing capital projects for funding;
extending the implementation of Oracle Primavera P6 to support cost loaded
schedules; and implementing Oracle Primavera Contract Management to support
MARTA’s job order contracting program.
Commonwealth
of Massachusetts Transportation Agency Consolidation: Project Management Services
eVision
Partners, Inc., as a subcontractor to Accenture, provided project management
services for the financial systems consolidation in support of the creation of
the Massachusetts Department of Transportation from five independent
transportation agencies. The scope of
work included transitioning the operations of the former Massachusetts Turnpike
Authority from the Turnpike’s Oracle E-Business suite application to the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ CGI AMS statewide accounting system. The project involved developing and
maintaining a detailed work plan for the financial systems consolidation; tracking
project issues and project risks; and coordinating the efforts of numerous
stakeholders from the various transportation agencies, the Executive Office of
Administration and Finance and the Office of the Comptroller.
State
of Maryland Department of Budget and Management: Development of RFP for the
State of Maryland Human Capital Management (HCM) Project
As
a subcontractor to APV Ventures, eVision Partners, Inc. led preparation of the RFP
to select a Software as a Service (SaaS) HCM solution to serve as the new
Statewide Personnel System (SPS) for the State of Maryland. This RFP is one of the first applications of
cloud computing for an ERP application at the statewide level in the United
States. The SPS project also includes a significant
organizational change management program and business process re-engineering
component. The scope of services included preparing a draft of the RFP
document, reviewing the draft RFP with the SPS project team and representatives
of the Department of Information Technology and the Department of Budget and
Management and updating the draft RFP to reflect inputs from various
stakeholders.
Adult
Case Management System (ACMS) Information Technology Strategic Plan for Texas
Conference of Urban Counties
eVision
Partners, Inc., as a subcontractor to Information Services Group (formerly STA
Consulting), led the preparation of a strategic systems plan for an ACMS for
the Texas Conference of Urban Counties. The
scope of the project involved defining high-level needs for an integrated adult
criminal justice management system and establishing a multi-year systems
development plan to address these needs. This project was jointly sponsored by seven large Texas counties and
involved coordinating input from key stakeholders from the justice community in
each of the participating counties.
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