August 2008

Governor's office of Employee Relations (GOER)
Consilium began work with GOER to establish the requirements definition for an enterprise Learning Management System. Focus group sessions included representatives for many state agencies including CIO/OFT, Homeland Security, Civil Service, Labor and Health to name just a few.


May 2008

New York City Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT)
Consilium partnered with KPMG to provide analysis services for the common client index phase of the HHS-Connect project. This project will link more than a dozen NY City health and human service agencies.

March 2008

New York State Department of Health
Consilium has contracted with DOH to conduct a Gap Analysis of its Contract Management System (CMS) with program and IT staff. The outcomes of these sessions will allow OCFS and DOH the ability to agree on future development of the application.

January 2008

New York State Department of Health – January 2008
Consilium partnered with Genesys Consulting, Inc. and delivered two fully functional Java applications. The first is the pharmacy website that compares drug prices/providers. The second is a legislative comments application.  http://rx.nyhealth.gov/pdpw/

June 2008

Office of Children and Family Services – June 2008
Consilium has contracted with OCFS to provide Phase VI activities that will include the development of the front-end procurement module.

June 2008

GHI Workforce Team Challenge
For the second year in a row, Consilium was awarded 1st Place for the Most Creative T-Shirt. See links below of the 2007 and 2008 award winning shirts.
 

January 2007
Office for Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA)

Consilium began quality assurance work with KPMG on the Statewide Welfare Management System (SWMS). This joint effort by OTDA, the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) and the Department of Health (DOH) involves data transformation from the existing WMS to the Cúram architecture.

October 2006
Office of Children and Family Services

The Contract Management System (CMS) that is currently being used by OCFS and the contracting community was awarded the New York State Workforce Champions Award presented by the NYS Governor’s Office.


October 2006
Office of Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD)

Consilium was awarded a Project Manager II position at OMRDD through Genesys Consulting’s MASA contract to provide enterprise-wide project management support.


October 2006
New York State Education Department

Consilium was awarded a Programmer/Analyst II position working on the Office of Professions On-line License Renewals system. This Java programmer will develop the EVTA module of the renewals system.

August 2005
The New York State Forum for Information Resource Management

The New York State Forum for Information Resource Management has announced that the 2005 Best Practices Award has been given to the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) for the development of a web-based Contract Management System. The Bureau of Contract Management in the OCFS Division of Administration partnered with isConsilium in the two year design and development of the system which went live in December 2004.

The new CMS system successfully replaced separate legacy contract tracking and expenditure tracking and merged them into a single comprehensive system. CMS standardized the contracting process across OCFS Program Offices by providing an automated tool set for creating contracts and generating associated forms, as well as providing resource scheduling and contract review timetables. A key component of the project was the agreement with the Office of State Comptroller to accept electronic payment vouchers in lieu of paper.

Enhancements to the CMS system are continuing, with an emphasis on the development of functionality that would provide the vendor community direct on-line access . The long term vision for the project is a full service paperless procurement system – from the development of Request for Proposals; through the bid and selection process, contract generation; to payment.

The Consilium project team, headed by Michael Turner and Rich Connell, drew on staff expertise in both the technical and business analysis arenas. The Consilium team, working at OCFS offices in Albany and Rensselaer, is currently staffed by Satish Busurapu, Mandy McCord, Mark Rich and Chris Malone.  

This is the second Forum award for Mr. Connell. As the project manger for the NYS Education Department, the Child Nutrition System was cited as a Best Practices project in 2001. The Child Nutrition System was the State’s first system which allowed external customers direct access a secure on-line payment transaction system.

August  2005
New York State Department of Education
Consilium awarded the Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision (BPSS) Requirements and Design Project

July 2005
Five Year Anniversary

This month marks the 5th anniversary of Consilium providing consulting services to the Tech Valley region.  Consilium management and staff are proud of the various clients they we have met and worked with through these first five years.

June 2005
The New York State Office of the State Comptroller
Consilium awarded the Vendor Responsibility System Business Process and Data Requirements Project

June 2005
Cúram Software

Consilium invests in staff training of
Cúram Software

June 2005
New York State Education Department

Consilium has been chosen to continue work on the web-based State Assessment Tracking System (SATS). In this Phase II project, Consilium staff will work with end-users and ITS staff to enhance the existing application and provide additional work management processes for the printing operation.

April 2005
New York State Education Department

Consilium was selected to provide data mapping and conversion services for the Office of Profession’s Professional Licensing and Discipline system.  Consilium staff will utilize the Oracle toolset including Oracle Warehouse Builder to complete the requirements of this project.

April 2005
Office of Children and Family Services

Consilium awarded Phase II development of the OCFS Contract Management System (CMS)

February 2005, The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO)
NYISO implemented their new market design, SMD2, on February 1st. All NYISO systems were impacted by this major market change including Decision Support System (DSS). The DSS was changed to incorporate the new design and structures, with close to one thousand elements added. In addition, most of the hundred corporate reports were altered based upon the structural changes.

January 2005, New Hampshire Department of Health
Consilium joined with FOX Systems to provide Quality Assurance Services to the State of New Hampshire for the development of their new Medicaid Management Information System.

December 2004, Office of Children and Family Services
Phase I of the Contract Management System (CMS) went live to OCFS users on December 29th. Work has begun on the next phase which will include submission of contract information by contractors and contractor certification.

October 2004, New York State Education Department
Consilium performed the requirements analysis and custom development of the web-based State Assessment Tracking System (SATS) application to allow OSA the ability to track each test product included within their test development process.

March 2004, Capital District Physicians' Health Plan
Consilium provides project planning, technical and strategic resources for the implementation of the new 'Spectrum' Data Warehouse.

December 2003, New York State Insurance Fund
Consilium has worked with NYSIF to develop functional requirements on the following systems over the previous year: Independent Medical Exam Tracking, Premium Calculation Engine, Deposit Premium Review, Disability System Rewrite and the Quality Assurance Management System.

December 2003, Siena College
Consilium completed the requirements definition for the Variable Information Processing system (VIP).

November 2003, New York State Education Department
Consilium and BearingPoint begin work on the State Aid Management System (SAMS).

July 2003, Office of Children and Family Services
Consilium completed the requirements definition for OCFS Central Accounts Payable System (CAPS).

July 2003, New York Independent System Operator
IS Consilium provided various resources in support of the release of NYISO's Decision Support System.

February 2003, Office of Children and Family Services
Consilium is currently working with OCFS to design and develop their Contract Management System (CMS).

June 2002, Albany, New York
IS Consilium receives a write up in VISIONS - a publication of the Albany-Colonie regional chamber of commerce.
» Artical.pdf «

March 2002, Capital District Business Review
Consilium makes Tech Valley page
» March 22-28 2002 vol 28 #51 «

May 2002, New Jersey Department of Health
Awards Consilium with ABIE Data Warehouse project.

January 2002, New York State Insurance Fund
Requirement definition for claims intake project.

December 2002, New York State Education Department
Consilium Awarded re-design of COHORT tracking system.

November 2001 Center for the Disabled
Consilium begins providing professional services for DBA support.

November 2001, The New York State Education Department awards Consilium GED Scoring Project.

August 2001, Yonkers, New York
Consilium provides technical support and training to the City of Yonkers for the custom development of the City Permit System using Oracle tools.

July 2001, Albany, New York
The New York State Education Department awards Consilium LDAP Implementation project.

July 2001, Rochester, New York
Consilium invited by Oracle Corporation to preview Oracle 9i new features along with suite of new development tools. Including EDW.

July 2001, Albany, New York
Consilium moves into new facility located at 16 Computer Drive West, Albany, New York 12205.

May 2001, Albany, New York
Consilium awarded New York State Back-Drop Contract, Contract CMS050A.

December 2000, Albany, New York
Consilium and KPMG are awarded the TANF Reporting and Control System project for the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA).

November 2000, Trenton, New Jersey
Consilium and Unisys are awarded the New Jersey Medicaid Management Information System Decision Support System project for the New Jersey Department of Health.

October 2000, Albany, New York
Consilium and KPMG partner on New York Medicaid Management Information System Data Warehouse for the New York State Department of Health.