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Global CMMI Level 2 Infrastructure Team - OneDrive for

Assessment at DoS business implementation project

With help from the Quality Team at MIL, the State Department MIL’s Infrastructure Team at ITA completed the final steps of
(DoS) received a CMMI Level 2 Global Assessment on October implementing OneDrive for Business in November 2016. The
28th. MIL coordinated the effort and completed all of the work team migrated 2,300+ users to OneDrive, including all ITA users
required to accomplish this goal including authoring processes, globally. The project moved all ITA users from its shared drive: H
training users, and completing the majority of the required drive to OneDrive, making their files highly accessible from any
work products for the focus projects. MIL staffer Brian Ayala, device and they are hosted in the cloud. The OneDrive project
in particular, was a key member of the assessment team; several began in the spring of 2016. The first phase, user rollout, began in
other MIL leads were also interviewed during the process. June and was completed August 2016. The next phase was placing
The CMMI assessment has been a Department initiative since the drives in read only, which occurred for about two months
2002, and MIL has been actively working to achieve this goal and was completed October 2016. The final phase was disabling
for the last two years. This is a big win for both DoS and MIL. the H drive, so users could no longer access it and solely work on
In all, there were over 3,000 tasks that MIL completed over the OneDrive.
last six months in order to realize this milestone achievement.
Congratulations and our thanks for everyone that made this
customer goal a reality!

IT sector staff take on HDI’s Annual

Professional Development & Upcoming Events

Vendor Expo

AGA FINANCIAL SYSTEMS SuMMIT
MIL takes pride in providing employees with professional Jan. 13, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
development opportunities year round. On October 21st, MIL MIL will participate as a Platinum Sponsor at this year’s
sent Channing Trent and Nicolas Curran from the Department of AGA The Financial Systems Summit (FSS), which unites
Treasury contract team as well as Zach Wilkins from the Library federal financial managers and private-sector executives to
of Congress CRS team to attend HDI’s Annual Professional discuss the near-term and future prospects of federal financial
Development and Vendor Expo. Since 1989, HDI has been a management systems in a budget-constrained environment.
worldwide professional association and certification organization The summit will provide new insights into the burgeoning
for the technical service and support industry. Furthermore, HDI federal financial systems modernization strategy over the
has consistently been a key resource for professional development, coming decade — and beyond.
industry networking, and promotion of superb customer service
through effective communication and problem solving. HDI’s AGA National Leadership training
annual Professional Development and Vendor Expo provides a Feb. 15-16, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
space for industry peers to come together to learn, network, and MIL will attend and exhibit at AGA’s National Leadership
gain inspiration from experts in the industry via extraordinary Training (NLT), an event for developing and training
keynote speakers and a myriad of instructive sessions specific to government financial professionals to excel as leaders in
the needs of today’s support organizations. MIL has sponsored today’s competitive market. MIL will attend to share best
HDI for the better part of two decades, and we’re ecstatic that practices, find solutions to shared challenges, network with
this event was successful again. When Zach Wilkins was asked peers, and learn from the top financial management leaders
how the event affected him, he responded, “From informative and industry experts.
keynote speakers to providing a unique environment to engage
and network with peers in the industry, without a doubt, the HDI
Vendor Expo was a beneficial and key networking opportunity
for me and my colleagues that could attend.” MIL is proud to
sponsor such a worthwhile event and support a progress oriented
organization like HDI that moves the people making a difference
forward professionally.

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