Urban Area Security Initiative – Mississippi Gulf Oil Spill
In the early days of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Mirliton was called into support the Regional Coordination Center’s efforts to coordinate, centralize, and disseminate information among all of the critical agencies involved in the recovery efforts. The Mirliton team faced unprecedented challenges as they developed an emergency system in live production, with ever changing specifications as the needs of the emergency efforts evolved.
Department of Social Services
During the Fall 2009, members of the Mirliton management team were directly involved in the planning and development of the DSS Modernization plan; specifically the development of the new Common Access Front End (CAFÉ) System RFP. The RFP encompassed the design, development and implementation plan of a large scale, web-based system that would be a single web-front end for the entire Department of Social Services multitude of legacy systems.
Challenges of the project include: user ‘buy-in’, aged legacy systems, and complexity of systems and processes. The Mirliton management met with the DSS Modernization team to reorganize their approach to the project. Mirliton management led the requirements gathering for the project, RFP development and preparation for vendor responses.
In addition, the Mirliton management worked with other consultants for the ‘One DSS’ implementation, SACWIS development and other consultants and vendors for the DSS modernization project.
Tulane University, Department of Housing and Residence Life
Members of the Mirliton team were directly involved in the planning and development of several custom web-based projects to enhance the student experience at Tulane University. Student resources were used to plan and develop the projects to ensure student Some of these projects included:
- Palm-Pilot Based Inventory System with Residential Management System (RMS) Integration
- Roommate Profiling System
- Service Desk Management System
- Service Desk Inventory System
- Online Surveys and Report Systems
- Student Programs Budget and Membership System
- Judicial Integration Module with Residential Management System (RMS)
- Student Organizational Community Service System
- Blackboard Integration with University Processes
- Custom Reporting System Integrated with Residential Management System (RMS)
Pepperdine University, Department of Housing and Community Living
In an effort to move the California-based university’s Department of Housing and Community Living forward in its use of technology to interact with the campus population. Several days of meetings, planning and analysis gave the new and growing staff a baseline to begin moving the department forward to keep up with the needs and expectations of their growing ‘tech savvy’ student population
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