Staffing Work

 

CQuest: Women, Infant and Children .NET System Upgrade

CQuest’s primary focus is to support the delivery of quality health care to the medically underserved through technology and management services. CQuest provides information technology solutions and services focusing on developing and supporting Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) program activities at both the state and local levels.

Challenge

The original WIC system was written using PowerBuilder and a Sybase database. CQuest wanted to modernize the system and eventually move over to a SQL Server database.

CQuest’s existing staff did not have the appropriate resources for this large enterprise-wide rewrite, and therefore they reached out to MSF&W for their specialized IT needs.

Solution

MSF&W provided two senior .NET developers, one junior .NET developer, one business analyst, and one tester. Data and project management was performed by the client. The team handled all application phases from conceptualization through testing.

The development team designed the application as a multi-tiered WPF windows based application written in C#. The application was built around Model View View Model (MVVM) architecture and WCF service architecture.

Once the WIC system was upgraded to .NET technology, it went into production in Kansas, New Hampshire, and the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona (ITCA).

 

DOI: .NET Staffing Initiative

The Illinois Department of Insurance serves as the regulatory body responsible for protecting consumers. The agency provides assistance and information, regulates the insurance industry's market behavior and financial solvency, and fosters a competitive insurance marketplace.

Challenge

The Illinois Department of Insurance issued an RFP for staff resources with expertise in Microsoft programming technologies including C#, ASP.NET, and SQL Server.

Solution

MSF&W was awarded the contract for this initiative and was able provide three full-time senior developers for a year, with one of them staying on in a support and maintenance role for an additional year after the project was completed.

 

Academic Development Institute: IndiStar Software

Academic Development Institute (ADI) is an organization providing services and software for educational development and school improvement. The organization has a software platform called Indistar that is in use by multiple school districts and educational agencies across the United States. Indistar is a web-based application designed to guide schools and school districts through restructuring processes in order to improve the overall quality of education provided.

Challenge

Indistar is a web-based system implemented by a state education agency, district, or charter school organization for use with district and/or school improvement teams to inform, coach, sustain, track, and report improvement activities. ADI approached MSF&W with a need for a staff resource capable of providing support and maintenance to the Indistar system.

Solution

MSF&W was able to provide ADI with a qualified staff resource to make enhancements to its existing Indistar product. These enhancements included the addition of features and product support for ADI’s customers.

 

ISBE: Special Education Reporting System

The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) serves as the policy-making body for public education within the State of Illinois. The agency is responsible for statewide curriculum standards, high school graduation requirements, and standards for teaching professionals. ISBE also maintains multiple data systems that track various aspects of the performance and competitiveness of public education.

Challenge

ISBE issued an RFP seeking a senior programmer to serve as a project leader for an upcoming development effort. The agency hoped to build upon three existing systems related to special education reporting. The goal of the initiative was to aggregate data from legacy systems into a user-friendly format for reporting and analysis.

Solution

MSF&W provided a senior .NET developer to serve as project leader on a team of four developers. This resource was responsible for the design and development of the Windows application and the web pages, as well as mentoring the other development staff.

The system, which incorporated data from multiple legacy systems at ISBE, required specialized technical skills and MSF&W was able to provide a highly qualified resource who saw the project through to completion.