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Business Analyst Positon - Baltimore, MD

2010-03-12T10:45:00.001-08:00

Matrix Systems & Technologies, Inc. is hiring Business Analysts to assist in the preparation and documentation of business cases, business processes, and system requirements [Please send resumes to info@msandtinc.com] .

The individuals for the Business Analyst positions should be familiar with business analyst methodologies that are consistent with the (Business Analysts Body of Knowledge) BABOK, Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide (PMBOK) and have at least 5 years in an SDLC environment working with two or more of the following:

Financial Systems
Budget Systems
Management Reporting
Document Management
Cash Flow Estimating
Business Process/Workflow Automation
Human Resource Systems

Duties will include:

Participating in the Project Preliminary Planning phases.
Development of business case and concept proposals.
Produce project feasibility and cost benefit analysis reports to assist the agency's executive management in determining whether a project should proceed.
Assist Project Managers with requirement identification and definition in Project Planning phase.
Assist with project scope definition and management plan
Work effectively with stakeholders and respective Subject Matter Experts (SME’s)
Facilitate an elicitation session with a large group of stakeholders
Requirements Management, differentiating between modeling techniques to determine which is appropriate for a project (ie use cases, workflow, swim lanes, context diagrams ….)
Developing and utilizing modeling tools and techniques to communicate with the stakeholders.
Developing, maintain and present a business, functional and technical requirements documentation.
Developing, maintaining and presenting test plans, test cases and test scripts.
Developing and maintain defect management.
Implementing and enforcing change management procedures for requirements documentation.
Discussing existing business models and the flows of data in the business with those involved.
Write, review and edit specifications, RFP’s, business processes and provide recommendations related to proposed solution.
Deliver informative, well-organized presentations.
Understand the role of the system in the big picture and provide ideas and recommendations regarding the evolution of the system and any project inter-dependencies to consider.
Architect effective business systems.
Identify the benefits of a project, potential project team members, project deliverables, and appropriate project performance metrics.
Identify initial performance measures that will be used to determine whether the project was successful.

Examples of such projects include the Electronic Toll Collection (ETC), Procurement Information Management, ETC 3rd Generation, Geographic Information System (GIS) Development, Identity Management, and several other Finance and Police initiatives.

Oracle Business Intelligence Software Developer - Baltimore, Maryland (Job)

2009-12-17T11:21:00.000-08:00

Oracle Business Intelligence Software Engineer: Baltimore, Maryland
Qualified Candidates Send Resumes to info<>msandtinc.com

Matrix Systems & Technologies, Inc. is seeking an Oracle Business Intelligence Software Engineer to perform:

- Complete BI lifecycle development from design of the Oracle BI architecture from data sourcing to the end target data structures and presentation of data through dashboards and reports
- Development of reporting framework within Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
- Define, Implement, and Setup of, Physical, Logical (business), and Presentation objects in OBI
- Create and modify Sales Analytics dashboards and reports
- Generate necessary templates for the required reports using MS tools as necessary
- Development of OBI Reports
- Development of ETL mappings
- Create custom reports and dashboards
- Perform unit testing of applications to ensure efficient execution and compliance with business and technical requirements
- Perform system tuning
- Review, release, and service pack notes issued by Oracle for OBI to identify changes to be applied
- Develop appropriate testing and implementation plans
- Work with business units to address reporting and analysis needs
- Participate in acceptance testing to ensure client/user needs are met
- Query management, query reformulation,query governing and prioritization
- Familiarity with Backroom presentation server infrastructure factors such as volatility, data size, number of users, number of business processes, nature of use, service level agreements

Qualifications:

* Four plus years of Oracle BI installation
* Five plus years experience developing Oracle BI Dashboards
* Six plus years using Oracle, Oracle Forms, and PLSQL.
* Six plus years experience developing applications with the following back-end databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Access, and DB2.
* Four plus years with at least two of the following connection tools: zConnect for IMS and DB2, Connect for DB2, ODBC and JDBC for Oracle and SQL Server, ADO for .NET using SQL
* Five plus years developing applications using Microsoft Active Directory

Familiarity with the Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit. - Kimball Lifecycle - Project Planning - Extract Transform Load (ETL) System Design & Development - Business Intelligence Application - Design & Development - Dimensional Modeling - Requirements Definition - Quality Assurance - MetaData - Presentation Server - Normalization - Slowly Changing Dimensions - OLAP - Usage Monitoring - Application Architecture Plan Outline and Model - Source Systems - RDBMS - Fact Tables - Keys - Granularity - Star Schema - Dimension Roles - Logical Models - Physical Data Models - Snowflake - Data Marts - Slowly Changing Dimensions - Data Cleansing - Data Security - BI Portal Interface - Analytic Applications - Dashboard Development - Direct Access Queries - Scorecards - Monitoring Activity - ANSI SQL 99 Support - Data Mining - Anomaly Detection - Testing and Verifying Applications - Deploying and Supporting Business Intelligence DW/BI Systems - Aggregates - Oracle Business Intelligence - Oracle Data Warehouse - Oracle Aggregation Navigation - Oracle Materialized Views - Oracle Materialized Views - Securing, Partitioning, and Indexing Oracle Tables.

HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces Plans to Establish $235 Million Health IT “Beacon Communities” Grant

2009-12-02T12:40:00.000-08:00

HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces Plans to Establish Health IT “Beacon Communities”

$235 million set aside to fund nationwide Beacon Community Program

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Dr. David Blumenthal, HHS’ National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, announced today plans to make available $235 million to support an innovative Beacon Community Program. The program will work to accelerate and demonstrate the ability of health information technology to transform local health care systems, and improve the lives of Americans and the performance of the health care providers who serve them. The Beacon Community Program will include $220 million in grants to build and strengthen health IT infrastructure and health information exchange capabilities, including strong privacy and security measures for data exchange, within 15 communities. An additional $15 million will be provided for technical assistance to the communities and to evaluate the success of the program.

(Story Continued Here: HHS Plans $235 Million "Beacon Communities" Health IT Grant)

CAD RMS Project Manager - CAD RMS Program Manager - Baltimore, Maryland

2009-11-30T16:14:00.000-08:00

Project Manager CAD/RMS - Pikesville, MD 21208

Law Enforcement Project Manager CAD/RMS Position Description:

Matrix Systems & Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Project Manager to manage the Computer Aided Dispatch/Records Management System (CAD/RMS) major information technology project (MITP) for the State. The goal of this project is to create a single core CAD/RMS for all State Police agencies. Additionally to facilitate interoperability between State and Local agencies. The project covers all public safety and criminal justice partners to include police, fire, emergency medical services, aviation, courts, and other related systems. The State Police is in the RFP phase of the project and uses the State Interoperability Executive Committee (SIEC) and associated Practitioners Steering Committee (PSC) as a governance structure to authorize project level aspects. The MSP is seeking a dedicated Project Manager to oversee the MSP specific aspects of this project.

Duties:

Directing the work of a 4 to 6 person project team comprised of current State and to be hired contractual personnel. This team is responsible for coordinating the MSP specific aspects of the overall project. Responsible for planning, executing, and controlling the project and system development life cycles. Must apply PMI or other industry recognized PM methodologies in managing the project. Must apply the States SDLC methodology to system development.

Experience:

Ten years or more experience managing IT projects of similar value and complexity. PMI certification or equivalent training or education is required.

Should be proficient in: Standard Functional Specifications for Law Enforcement Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) Systems and Standard Functional Specifications for Law Enforcement Records Management Systems

Copy of PMI certificate, or equivalent evidence of required training or education (not mandatory but highly desirable)

1201 Reisterstown Road Pikesville, Maryland 21208

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Phone: 301.583.4625

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Hiring: DEPUTY PROJECT MANAGER (DPM) Job in Baltimore, Maryland 21201

2009-10-01T13:16:00.000-07:00

DEPUTY PROJECT MANAGER (DPM) - Baltimore, MD

Deputy Project Manager (DPM) Baltimore, MD

Send Resumes to info@msandtinc.com

The Deputy Project Manager (DPM) will serve as second in command to the PM, and shall perform the following: Manage and maintain the SPS Project Management Plan (PMP) which describes the processes and activities for the Statewide Personnel System project and how the project will be executed, monitored and controlled. The plan must define the managerial, technical, and supporting processes and activities and address topics such as Scope Management, Schedule Management, Financial Management, Quality Management, Resource Management, Communications Management, Project Change Management, Risk Management, Procurement Management and others deemed necessary to manage the SPS Project through completion.

In addition, the PMP shall define the organization and infrastructure required to execute the project through completion. Manage the SPS Project team including any contractors. Track all current and pending project related activities including project management activities, contractor activities and agency activities using the SPS Master Schedule. The Master Schedule shall include project milestones, deliverables, times of performance, degrees of completion and resources for all activities. Incorporate subsequent SDLC phases from gap analysis and detail requirements to implementation into the Master Schedule. Expand and maintain the Project Communications Management Plan (CMP) for all project stakeholders.

The CMP shall include a stakeholder contact list, distribution structure, description of information to be disseminated, schedule listing when information will be produced and the method for updating the communications plan. The CMP shall ensure all appropriate stakeholders have been identified and their requirements and expectations have been documented and managed within the scope of the project. Expand and maintain an ongoing Master Risk Management Plan (RMP) and Risk Registry. The RMP identifies and prioritizes potential risks to successful completion of the project and includes recommendations and responses for addressing potential risk. A Risk Registry shall be kept as part of the RMP and shall be updated throughout the project. Manage the issue escalation and resolution processes for the project; document and facilitate the processes with all project stakeholder and team members. Manage and maintain the Project Change Management Plan. The plan describes the processes for assuring that the project has adequate control over changes to all items (scope, requirements, and cost) necessary for creating or supporting the project deliverables.

At a minimum, the plan addresses the change management procedure, approvals process, and tools used (i.e. change request form, change order). Manage and maintain the Quality Assurance (QA) Plan. The plan captures the processes and procedures necessary to ensure that all steps of the project from procurement through the State’s SDLC phases are monitored with proper acceptance criteria defined for each stage of the SDLC. The plan shall also define signoff procedures for various milestones and deliverables. Responsible for providing QA by evaluating and providing critical comments on all project deliverables.

The QA evaluation process shall be based on a comparison of deliverables against the detailed requirements solicitations and the DPM’s industry expertise. Schedule and facilitate regular weekly status, risk and issue discussions with the TO Contract Manager covering all pending and current project activities. Project status, hours worked, project financials, risk and issue dispositions for the past week, and action items for week pending, shall be captured and tracked in table format in a Master Status Report. The Master Status Report also shall have sections describing DPM activities, updates to the Integrated Master Schedule and Master RMP.

The Master Status Report shall contain a section on lessons learned and any other pertinent status information; and schedule variances must also be documented in the Integrated Master Schedule and the Master Status Report. Collect, organize, store, and manage project artifacts and information. This includes maintaining current and archival project files (electronic and paper), collecting and distributing project information to and from project stakeholders, updating internal weekly status reports, and project tracking systems, and recommending ways to optimize Department of Information Technology’s project management office in support of the project. Function as a liaison between Department of Information Technology personnel; project Stakeholders and contractors. Participate in procurement process for any solicitations for the project.

Duties shall include: updating procurement schedule; writing scope of work and requirements and evaluation criteria, assisting procurement officer with amendments and questions/responses, and serving as an evaluator of proposals. Coordinate and manage appropriate product-related training for users.

MUST HAVE: six years of experience in the field of human resource, including three years of experience in a consultant role implementing human resource systems of similar size and complexity; Must have served as an human resource functional lead on at least two full implementations.

At least five (5) years of experience in project management, with full accountability, for implementing at least two enterprise applications of comparable size and complexity within the last 5 years, from inception to complete implementation.

Must be a Project Management Institute (PMI) "Certified PMP."