ATS has a staff of highly qualified, highly experienced and highly trained personnel. This staff is backed by an organization with a strong management team, mature management systems, and established business partnerships with key vendors. The ATS management team has strong experience in the management of resources, projects and tasks for government contracts and is actively engaged in maintaining progress and mitigating issues before they arise.

Our program and project managers have had diverse experiences in project management of various Information Technology (IT) systems from long-term State contracts to consulting for commercial organizations. All program and project management resources staffed by ATS are PMI-certified Project Management Professionals with both knowledge and experience utilizing the PMBOK. In addition, ATS has PMI-certified Project Management Professionals staffed on a full-time basis to provide mentoring support for all processes and throughout the project lifecycle. Applied Technology Services is dedicated on the ongoing training and development its staff. All PMI-certified resources are required to maintain their certification and opportunities are provided to earn the required PDU’s to maintain this status.

State and local government projects are staffed through a number of avenues. ATS utilizes its broad array of networks to identify and recruit highly qualified resources. ATS has ongoing relationships with local, technical staffing firms as well as PMI certified training organizations across the region.

SDLC Understanding

All resources provided by Applied Technology Services are familiar with the System Development Life Cycle issued by the State of Maryland’s Department of Information Technology (DOIT). This and other similar SDLC’s have been applied in a broad array of projects at numerous State and Local government organizations.

Proposed Project Management Methodology

Applied Technology Services understands the importance of a project management framework and processes within that framework in the success of a project. Having defined processes within your methodology allows a project to be properly managed in terms of scope, cost, time, quality, risk and customer satisfaction. ATS utilizes the standard PMI project framework to structure and manage programs and projects of all sizes.