Our fast-growing company and large projects gained much attention recently in The Sacramento Bee. A front-page story in the Business section detailed how partners Alex Castro, Chuck Czajkowski and Hung Lee started the company in Chuck’s garage but has grown into a major firm for state agencies in the region. Reporter Mark Glover started the story by focusing on the massive Employment Development Department project and later detailed some of our other projects. The story gives us great exposure to the community – and our current and potential clients. Please, take a few moments and read the story.
Lynn Jones has recently accepted a position with M Corp as our Engagement Manager! Lynn isn’t new to M Corp projects as she has been working with the EDD Team as the Communications Manager since earlier this year. She has proven to be invaluable in her contribution to our team and has now officially become an M Corp employee. She has more than 15 years’ experience providing engagement and project management services in both public and private sectors. Lynn was most recently with Alexan International where she served as the Sr. VP of Delivery Services. She has served as an engagement manager or project manager for several State of California Departments to include: Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), the Employment Development Department (EDD), California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), Orange County and the Department of Health Care Services Medi-Cal program. She was with Deloitte for almost 10 years prior to that providing project management for clients including: Etrade, Microsoft, Washington Mutual, Blue Shield, Sutter Health, PMI, Longs Drugs, McClatchy publishing and the State of California. Lynn obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Written Communications from California State University, Sacramento and is a certified project management professional with the Project Management Institute.
M Corp leadership continues to invest in the future success of M Corp!
M Corp is pleased to announce that on November 1, 2011, M Corp launched the First 5 California Practice, Research & Outcomes 0-Five data system, more commonly known as PRO0F. This release captures data and information related to First 5 California’s Teacher Signature Program, CARES Plus. In the coming months, the data system will be enhanced to include First 5 California Annual Report data collection and First 5 County Commission Case and Program Management functionality.
The Comprehensive Approaches to Raising Education Standards Plus (CARES Plus) Program is a matching-fund program with First 5 county commissions. It is designed to increase the quality of early learning programs for children ages 0 to 5 and their families by supporting the education and preparation of an effective, well-compensated, and diverse early learning workforce. The “Plus” represents an enhancement of earlier CARES components, such as a strong focus on outcomes and accountability, an expansion of the Early Learning Workforce Registry database, and expansion of Higher Education Quality Pathway Partnerships.
The M Corp solution for the Practice, Research & Outcomes 0-Five (PRO0F) resolves the challenge of collecting complete and reliable evaluation data from the County Commission on programs serving California’s children ages 0-5. The new PRO0F system will support the following functions:
- State Signature program management, case management and annual reporting,
- County program management, case management and annual reporting, and
- Funding application workflow and expenditure tracking.
M Corp has won the contract to provide the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) with programming services needed to develop and implement a travel and training authorization request and approval system. M Corp will be developing Intuitive screens for viewing and entering data, process workflows, e-mail notifications and alerts and reporting functionality. The scope of work includes:
- Requirements Review and Development
- Programming
- Test Plan Development
- Unit, System, Integration and User Acceptance Testing
- Knowledge Transfer
CPUC continues to rely on M Corp when it comes to offering exceptional resources for these types of projects. M Corp demonstrated these capabilities on the Telecommunications and User Fees Filing System (TUFFS) Project earlier this year.
M Corp has been awarded the RFO for Department of Finance, FI$Cal Project, for Data Architecture Services. FI$Cal is California’s major effort to modernize and reengineer the financial business operations of state government on an enterprise-wide basis. It is a business transformation project for state government and will prepare the State systems and workforce to function in an integrated financial management environment through the implementation of ERP software. FI$Cal is a partnership of the Department of Finance (Finance), State Controller’s Office (SCO), State Treasurer’s Office (STO), and Department of General Services (DGS). The state was seeking experienced contractors to provide general support for, and knowledge transfer of, general data architecture activities including Master Data Management (MDM), Business Intelligence (BI and reporting), Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), Legacy Systems Analysis; Data Analytics, Data Availability and services, Data Security and Master Data Management and Architecture. M Corp’s proposed staff and approach to the project resulted in a win for M Corp and for the FI$Cal Project Team.
