Town of Clinton, CT

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Town of Clinton, CT

PROPOSAL
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
NEEDS ASSESSMENT
SUBMITTED FEBRUARY 27, 2015 TO:
Town of Clinton, CT
SUBMITTED BY:
Bowne Management Systems, Inc.
235 E. Jericho Turnpike
Mineola, New York 11501
Richard Annitto
P: (516) 746-2350
F: (516) 747-1396
[email protected]
www.bownegroup.com
Town of Clinton
GIS Needs Assessment
TABLE OF CONTENTS
COVER LETTER
INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................... 1
COMPANY INFORMATION .......................................................................................................................... 2
TECHNICAL PROPOSAL ............................................................................................................................. 3
PROJECT MANAGEMENT ........................................................................................................................... 4
REPORT........................................................................................................................................................ 5
COST PROPOSAL........................................................................................................................................ 6
This proposal has been prepared for the Town of Clinton. All material contained herein is company
confidential and may not be divulged to anyone outside the Town of Clinton without the written consent of
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1.
INTRODUCTION
Bowne Management Systems, Inc. (Bowne) is a leading integrator of IT and GIS. Since 1983,
Bowne has been providing governmental and private sector clients with a broad range of
information systems solutions. The company is an IT consultancy that specializes in GIS and
all phases of spatial information system solutions.
We have reviewed the Town’s requirements in the RFP and understand the Town’s need for
technical expertise to develop a GIS Needs Assessment, Conceptual System Design, and
Implementation Plan. A Needs Assessment is one of the most important first steps in getting a
robust GIS system in place. Having functioned successfully as GIS consultant to dozens of
other similar size municipalities, we not only understand the types of GIS services that will be
most valuable to the Town, but are highly experienced with the issues the Town will likely
encounter in pursuing its GIS initiatives, the alternative technology and solutions available, and
the right solution for each situation.
The proposal that follows reflects the depth of our experience conducting GIS Needs
Assessments and our appreciation of the issues that must be addressed in order for the Town
of Clinton’s GIS initiative to be successful.
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2.
COMPANY INFORMATION
Bowne Management Systems, Inc. (Bowne) is a leading integrator of IT and GIS. Since 1983,
Bowne has been providing governmental and private sector clients with a broad range of
information systems solutions. Bowne services include:
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Geographic Information Systems and enterprise GIS
Web-based, desktop and mobile application development
Systems and network integration
Asset management and field data collection
Constituent response and complaint tracking (“311”)
Records management
Map and data products preparation
IT management consulting
Business continuity and disaster recovery
Staffing solutions
Bowne Management Systems is part of the Bowne AE&T Group, a solid and stable organization
whose roots date back to 1895. Bowne Management Systems was created in 1983 to deliver
quality Information Technology and GIS solutions to existing clients of its parent surveying and
civil engineering company, Sidney B. Bowne & Son, LLP. Over time, the company has become
one of the leading spatial information technology consulting firms in the New York metropolitan
area. Bowne services encompass full lifecycle consulting and management, ranging from
needs assessment, requirements definition and system design through acquisition assistance,
implementation, training and on-going support.
Bowne is exceptionally well-qualified to support the Town of Clinton in developing a GIS Needs
Assessment. This section details our credentials, including our proposed project team and our
relevant experience.
GIS Expertise
Bowne is an IT consultancy that specializes in GIS and all phases of spatial information system
solutions. While the firm’s roots are in engineering, we are not an engineering firm that uses
GIS as an adjunct or tool that only forms a small part of the firm’s business. Nor are we a
product vendor with a bias toward a particular technology platform. Rather we are an
independent, full-service IT firm that is nationally recognized in the GIS field. Bowne is an Esri
Business Partner, named Foundation Partner in 2005.
Bowne has extensive experience delivering GIS and related services. Applications and services
developed by Bowne include Geodatabase design, infrastructure management, parcel and
property information management, land records management, spatial data warehousing,
transportation modeling, global positioning systems (GPS), mobile GIS, cartographic
transformations, field data collection, data conversion quality control and integration with legacy
applications. Our range of GIS-related services includes geographic information systems,
database design and development, systems analysis, application development, network design
and support, hardware/software technology, document imaging, workflow analysis, and data
collection, conversion and quality control.
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Because we are first and foremost an IT company, we believe that we have a unique
perspective on solutions that involve spatial data and geographic information systems. This
perspective allows us to see GIS in the context of operational systems, business processes and
embedded IT architecture. It is our belief that this is a clear differentiator with respect to our
competitors and we have built our company and staff around this perspective.
Outstanding Project Team
Richard Annitto, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer - Mr. Annitto has a
wide range of competencies in Information Technology solutions and architecture. Although his
formal training is in Geographic Information Systems, he is equally capable in the analysis,
design, and implementation of many state-of-the-art information technology solutions. His
project experience includes geographic information systems, data warehousing, web based
applications, local and wide area networks, and legacy system conversions. Mr. Annitto’s
technical background and project experience give him an exceptional ability to accurately
translate client requirements into functioning solutions.
Christopher Kobos, PMP, Project Manager - Mr. Kobos is a Project Manager/Analyst and the
coordinator of Municipal GIS Services for Bowne. In that role, he coordinates the interaction of
municipal GIS activities occurring in the villages, water districts, fire districts, and other local
offices with GIS activities at the Town and County level. Mr. Kobos became a certified Project
Management Professional (PMP) in 2009 and a Certified Scrum Master in 2012. Mr. Kobos
has worked on several GIS User Needs Assessment projects for clients including:
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County of Orange, NY
County of Suffolk, NY
Town of Somers, NY
Village of Lynbrook, NY
Village of Pelham, NY
In addition, Mr. Kobos has managed multiple Bowne projects for Connecticut
municipalities. He is currently managing a GIS Clearinghouse development project for the
Western Connecticut Council of Governments (WCCOG) and was the project manager for a
GIS Implementation for the City of Bristol, CT.
Girk Cakmak, Engagement Manager. Mr. Cakmak is responsible for the development and
support of Bowne clients in the Upstate New York and New England Region. He is also a
technical consultant whose skills include user requirements gathering, functional specification,
logical and physical relational data modeling, database engineering and administration, GIS
application development, web design and security administration. Mr. Cakmak has worked on
many GIS User Needs Assessment projects for clients including:
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City of Oneonta, NY
Town of Eastchester, NY
Town of East Greenbush, NY
Town of Montgomery, NY
Town of Poestenkill, NY
Town of Rensselaerville, NY
Town of Somers, NY
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Village of Cold Spring, NY
Village of Naples, NY
Experience with Similar Initiatives
Bowne has enjoyed a long track record of success as a preferred vendor supporting clients’ GIS
programs throughout the New York metropolitan area. Since 1990, we have been the Nassau
County, NY GIS consultant, taking the County’s GIS from initial conception and architecture to
its current state as one of the most sophisticated Enterprise GIS Systems in the country. On a
smaller scale we play similar roles for Westchester and Suffolk Counties in New York, many
New York State and City agencies, the U.S. Army Reserve 77th Regional Readiness Command,
and dozens of local towns and villages on Long Island and Upstate New York.
We are currently supporting the Western Connecticut Council of Governments (WCCOG) in
their development of a GIS Clearinghouse development and had previously worked with the City
of Bristol, CT on a GIS Implementation.
The table that follows details representative GIS User Needs Assessment (UNA) project for
which Bowne has been responsible.
Client
City of Oneonta, NY
Details
 Bowne conducted GIS User Needs Assessment surveys,
interviewed Village staff, and wrote the technical report that
included a conceptual design and implementation plan.
County of Orange, NY
 Needs of twenty-eight (28) different County departments and
authorities and included an existing environment review; needs
assessment; analysis of County’s existing GIS resources;
recommendations for advancing the County’s GIS Program and
compilation of a phased GIS implementation plan.
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The Bowne Project Team worked on analyzing GIS needs and
resources using the following general categories:
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County of Nassau, NY
Geospatial and related data
Geospatial and related applications
Systems and network infrastructure
Organizational structure and staffing
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Bowne’s findings, recommendations and a phased
implementation plan were delivered as the Orange County
GIS Strategic Plan document.
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After the GIS Strategic Plan was delivered Bowne led
presentations with the County’s GIS Steering Committee and
other key County stakeholders.
 Presentation of a GIS sensitivity seminar for over 100 upperlevel administrators in over 45 County Departments. The
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seminar provided the attendees with an introduction to GIS
concepts and terminology, and to the project.
 Preparation, distribution, and analysis of a User Needs
Questionnaire, which was mailed to over 4,000 randomly,
selected County employees.
 Periodic publication of a newsletter that was distributed to over
4,000 County employees.
 Personal interviews of over 325 County employees in all
departments to identify specific GIS activities and requirements.
 Preparation of a final User Needs Assessment Report.
County of Suffolk, NY
 Conducted surveys and interviews with sixty-one (61) County
Departments and Divisions, analyzed the existing network
infrastructure, identified application requirements and the needs
of the departments.
 Following the analysis phase, Bowne prepared a Conceptual
GIS Design and an Implementation plan.
 The final report included a proposed strategy for an Enterprise
GIS implementation along with our recommendations on the
data, staffing, training, hardware, software, custom applications
and associated cost schedule.
 By following the recommendations of the User Needs
Assessment and Implementation Plan, the County of Suffolk will
have an opportunity to redefine its Countywide GIS System.
This will allow the County GIS staff to effectively serve spatial
data to both internal and external users in a very effective
manner taking advantage of the proposed enterprise GIS
architecture.
City of New Rochelle, NY
 Presentation of an introductory GIS seminar for Town
employees
 Preparation, distribution, and analysis of a User Needs
Questionnaire
 Interviews of personnel in approximately 10
departments/divisions to identify specific activities
requirements
City
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 Preparation of a final GIS User Needs Assessment Report, and
Design and Implementation Plan for a City Wide GIS.
 Quality control analysis of available data was also conducted to
determine suitability for use during the implementation phase of
the project.
 The needs assessment identified a significant requirement for
imaging and document processing associated with the GIS
requirement.
Town of East Greenbush, NY
 The Town previously developed a GIS User Needs
Assessment, however, most of the suggestions made in the
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GIS UNA have never been implemented due to the significant
staff change in the Town and funding issues.
 The Town contracted with Bowne to conduct another GIS UNA
updating the existing one.
 After delivering an educational seminar on GIS, Bowne
conducted departmental interviews and delivered a technical
report.
Town of Hempstead, NY
 Bowne performed an objective analysis of the Town’s
geographic information system processing requirements.
 Bowne personnel interviewed thirteen Town Departments. The
information collected related to the Town’s staffing, present and
desired applications needs, data requirements, and hardware
requirements.
 The final result was to present a GIS Needs Assessment and
GIS Implementation Plan to the Town of Hempstead. The plan
addresses organizational requirements, standards and
procedures, staffing, training, hardware, software, applications,
and both immediate and long-term requirements.
Town of Montgomery, NY
 Bowne was contracted to conduct the study that includes the
following sections: 1) Needs Assessment 2) Conceptual System
Design 3) Implementation Plan.
 Analyzing the information gathered through 10 Departmental
interviews with the Town’s Subject Matter Experts, Bowne
developed the GIS UNA and delivered a presentation to the
Town Board members and Departments.
 Bowne recommended that the Town pursue a GIS that will
spatially enable all Town Departments through use and
deployment of web-based GIS.
Town of Oyster Bay, NY
 Conducted Interviews with 13 Town departments to determine
what GIS data was currently being used by the department, the
GIS application currently being used by the department,
potential uses (not being realized) of GIS functionality within the
department and operational data that potentially can be
integrated with the GIS database repository.
 GIS Assessment - data collected as part of the interviews was
documented and used as inputs to future GIS related work
tasks anticipated in the following year. Future GIS related work
tasks include: development of a GIS data dictionary for all Town
GIS data, development of a GIS maintenance schedule for all
Town GIS data, and GIS training for GIS desktop software for
selected GIS users.
 GIS Recommendations – based upon the GIS assessment,
Bowne updated and presented the Town’s GIS Work Plan to
the Information Technology Steering Committee.
Town of Poestenkill, NY
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Town of Rensselaerville, NY
 The primary objectives for the Town in undertaking a GIS
Needs Assessment were to determine what the Town’s needs
are and how geographic information systems (GIS) technology
can be used to improve operations and support faster and
better informed decision making.
 Bowne conducted onsite work sessions with all Town
departments and documented the current state and use of GIS
technology at the Town.
 Bowne analyzed the information gathered and developed a
vision and design for an updated GIS for the Town. Bowne
presented specific recommendations and documented and
presented them in the final GIS Needs Assessment and
Implementation Plan report, which provides the Town with a
GIS roadmap for the future.
 The last step in the project involved Bowne presenting and
discussing the report to the Town’s Supervisor and GIS
Committee.
Town of Riverhead, NY
 Bowne conducted surveys and interviews with seventeen (17)
Town Departments.
 Bowne analyzed the existing network infrastructure, identified
application requirements and the needs of the departments.
Following the analysis phase, Bowne prepared a Conceptual
Design and an Implementation plan.
 The final report included a proposed strategy for an Enterprise
GIS implementation along with our recommendations on the
data, staffing, training, hardware and software, applications and
associated cost schedule.
Assessment and Implementation Plan, the Town of Riverhead
will have an opportunity to create a Town-wide GIS System that
will allow the Town staff to serve spatial data to both internal
and external users in a very effective manner taking advantage
of the proposed enterprise GIS architecture.
Town of Somers, NY
 Bowne conducted Departmental interviews with the Town’s
Subject Matter Experts, and developed a Needs Assessment,
Conceptual GIS System Design, and Implementation Plan.
 Bowne recommended that the Town pursue a web-based Land
Records Viewer application to be developed in order to
distribute spatial data to the Town staff and residents from a
central location.
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 The report made recommendations regarding hardware,
software, spatial data, staffing, and training requirements to
support the web based application as well as the associated
cost estimates and implementation schedules by three phases.
Town of Southampton, NY
 Bowne developed a strategic plan for GIS within the Town.
 The tasks for this project included: presentation of an
introductory GIS seminar for Town employees; preparation,
distribution, and analysis of a User Needs Questionnaire,
personal
interviews
of
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twenty
Town
departments/divisions to identify specific activities and
requirements and preparation of a final GIS User Needs
Assessment Report.
Village of Cold Spring, NY
 Bowne prepared a GIS User Needs Assessment as part of a
New York State Local Government Records Management
Improvement Fund (LGRMIF).
 After conducting surveys and interviews with the Village
Departments, Bowne analyzed the existing network
infrastructure, identified application requirements and the needs
of the departments.
 Following the analysis phase, Bowne prepared a Conceptual
Design and an Implementation plan. The final report included a
proposed strategy for an Enterprise GIS implementation along
with recommendations on the data, staffing, training, hardware
and software, applications and associated cost schedule.
Assessment and Implementation Plan, the Village will have an
opportunity to create a village-wide GIS System that will allow
the Village staff to serve spatial data to both internal and
external users in a very effective manner taking advantage of
the proposed enterprise GIS architecture.
Village of Naples, NY
 Bowne conducted UNA related surveys, interviews, and wrote
and reviewed the technical report that included a Conceptual
System Design and Implementation plan.
 Bowne conducted Departmental interviews with the Village’s
Subject Matter Experts, and developed a Needs Assessment,
Conceptual GIS System Design, and Implementation Plan.
 Bowne recommended that the Village take advantage of the
Westchester County’s GIS services such as web-based
application hosting and spatial data sharing.
U.S. Army Corps of
 Bowne was contracted by the Army Corps to identify the
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Engineers North Atlantic
Division
West Point, NY
requirements for a GIS within Directorate of Housing and Public
Works (DHPW), develop an Implementation Plan, and create a
prototype viewer to demonstrate the proposed system’s
features.
 One of the key findings was the need to expand the concept of
a DHPW GIS into an Enterprise system for use by the entire
Academy.
 Bowne’s recommendations to the Corps and the Academy
coincided with the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation
Management (ACSIM) of the Department of the Army releasing
a memorandum requiring Army GIS programs and offices to
begin establishing integrated GIS data and systems to allow for
sharing across functional areas and at all Army levels.
Although there was no advance knowledge about this
memorandum, Bowne’s recommendations were in total
alignment with the ACSIM’s directive.
Client References
County of Orange, NY - GIS User Needs Assessment
John McCaffrey, Former Commissioner of IT (now CIO of Westchester County IT)
75 Webster Avenue
Goshen, NY 10924
Phone: (914) 995-8161
Western Connecticut Council of Governments (formerly South Western Regional
Planning Agency)
GIS Clearinghouse
Alex Karman, AICP
888 Washington Blvd., 3rd Floor
Stamford, CT 06901
Phone: (203) 316-5190
City of Bristol, CT - GIS Services
Scott Smith, Information Systems Director
11 North Main Street
Bristol, CT 06010
Phone: 860-584-6279
Water Authority of Great Neck North, NY - GIS Services
Steve Moriarity
50 Water Mill Lane
Great Neck, NY 11012
Phone: 516-487-7973
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Richard N. Annitto
Executive Vice President / Chief Operating Officer
SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL LIFE:
Mr. Annitto has a wide range of competencies in Information Technology solutions and architecture.
Although his formal training is in Geographic Information Systems, he is equally capable in the analysis,
design, and implementation of many state-of-the-art information technology solutions. His project
experience includes geographic information systems, data warehousing, web based applications, local
and wide area networks, and legacy system conversions. Mr. Annitto’s technical background and project
experience began in 1987 and gives him an exceptional ability to accurately translate client requirements
into functioning solutions.
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:
GIS Environment
RDBMS
Hosting Environments
Operating Systems
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ArcGIS Suite (ArcView, ArcEditor, ArcInfo,) 8.x, 9.x, 10.x
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ArcSDE 8.x,9.x, 10.x
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ArcGIS Server 9.x., 10.x
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Oracle 10g, 9i, 8i. Clustered technology using RAC and
FailSafe.
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SQL Server 20003, 2008 including MSCS
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Microsoft Access
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Oracle 9iAS
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IIS (multiple versions, including load balancing)
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Windows 2000 Server Family, 2003 and 2008 Server
Family, Windows XP and Windows 7
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HP/UX 11.x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Structured Analysis/Design
Microsoft Visio
Office Automation
Microsoft Office Suite, including Project
REPRESENTATIVE ASSIGNMENTS:
Geographic Information Systems
Suffolk County Real Property Tax Service Agency – Mr. Annitto is the account manager that supports the
County’s tax map maintenance program and its Internet based platform for public and subscription based
services. The system maintains over 450,00 tax lots in Suffolk County is a major source of County
revenue in terms of verification and economic development (2011 – present).
New York City (NYPD, FDNY) – Public Safety Extraction Transform and Load (ETL) – Mr. Annitto is both
a project management and senior design analyst role in the design and build of the ETL routines to
transform and load the City-Wide Street Centerline (CSCL) into the NYPD Computer Aided Dispatch
System (Intergraph I/CAD) and the FDNY EMS Computer Aided Dispatch System (Northrop Grumman
Altaris™). This activity involved requirements definition, design, build and continuous quality assurance
activities. The work resulted in the City achieving its goal of using a single geographic data source to
feed its public safety computer aided dispatch systems (2009-present).
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New York City (DoITT, Department of City Planning, FDNY, NYPD) – City-wide Street Centerline (CSCL)
– Mr., Annitto was Bowne’s project manager for the design and implementation of the City Wide Street
Centerline, which is an integrated dataset that supports FDNY and NYPD dispatch and emergency
response activities. As project manager, Mr. Annitto oversaw a technical staff that successfully migrated
the Department of City Planning LION centerline to a revised data model, incorporating thousands of new
segments, virtual intersections, and almost 1 million address points. Mr. Annitto was instrumental in
developing the quality assurance plan for the data and the specifications for field verification of almost
100,000 addresses, using mobile computing and GPS technology (2007-2011).
Federal Express Ground Package Systems– Daily Route Prototype System – Working with RouteSmart
Technologies (a Bowne AE&T Group company), Mr. Annitto developed the DRPS Architecture Plan for
the implementation of a high density routing prototype to assist FedEx Ground in providing sequences
routes for its delivery operations. The plan addressed the deployment of RouteSmart Solver services into
a complex FedEx Ground IT environment and the required data models to support the deployment. (8/10
– present)
New York City Economic Development Corporation, Waterfront Mapping – Mr. Annitto was Bowne’s
Technical Coordinator, responsible for delivery of GPS based field data collection and the development of
Task 4 (WMS Design Protocol). In addition, Bowne has worked on Phases II and Phase III of waterfront
mapping, including data collection, post Superstorm Sandy. (5/06 – present).)
New York City Department of Finance, Account Manager – Mr. Annitto was the account manager on the
system integration project to Digitize Surveyor Tax Maps. Mr. Annitto has been working on the Tax Map
Conversion Specification, Data Model, long term Esri maintenance issues, client liaison, and prime
contract coordination. This work is being done as part of a subcontract to BearingPoint. (4/05 – 11/08)
Fire Department New York, GIS Project Lead – To support the City’s Emergency Communications
Transformation Project (ECTP), Mr. Annitto directs the Bowne Team on a variety of tasks related to
computer aided dispatch and automatic vehicle location (AVL). Specific examples include the creation of
EMS ATOM boundaries, the production of alarm box maps for field verification, GPS collection alarm
boxes, and EMSCAD and StarFIRE geofile analysis. This work is being done as part of a subcontract
with Hewlett-Packard and Northrop Grumman. (4/05 – Present)
New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), Account Manager – As part
of HPD’s GIS initiative, Bowne has been working with HPD’s IT and Planning Units on a variety of GIS
and IT projects. Some of the key initiatives include the conversion of the City’s Urban Renewal Area
(URA) maps, Enterprise GIS Model design and planning, and the implementation of a multiuser editing
environment. One of the most exciting initiatives that HPD has undertaken is Lead Inspection Routing,
which will help HPD achieve better customer service. This initiative has been expanded to include all
HPD inspection types. (10/04 – 11/07)
Fire Department New York, Thematic Mapping, Project Manager - To support the Thematic Mapping
Project, Mr. Annitto worked with the Bowne Team to create an FDNY GIS Repository, which included
NYCMAP, DCP data, and orthophotography. This data was all loaded into an Oracle 9i based ArcSDE
environment. Mr. Bailey also worked on the Team that implement the FDNY hosting environment, which
included Oracle 9iAS, and ArcIMS 4.01 (using load balanced spatial servers). This work was completed
as part of a subcontract to Plangraphics. (4/03 – 10/05)
United States Army Reserve 77th Regional Readiness Command (RRC), Project Manager – Mr. Annitto
was the Project Manager for the implementation of an Enterprise GIS for the 77th RRC. This
implementation was compliant with the Federal Spatial Data Standard and conformed to the October
2001 memorandum issued by the Assistant Chief of Staff Installation Management. The GIS
encompassed the 77th’s facilities in New York and New Jersey and contained both natural resource and
facilities management data layers. Also included were multiple raster data sets contained from
commercial or government sources. The dataset also integrated CAD site plans. The 77th’s GIS was
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based upon Esri’s ARcSDE Geodatabase model. Applications were deployed using web based mapping
(Esri’s ArcIMS product) and desktop GIS (Esri’s ArcGIS product). (7/04 – 5/06)
New York City Department of Transportation, Spatial Data Warehouse, Solution Architect – Mr. Annitto
participated in user needs assessment, high level and detailed designs, implementation, and mentoring
and training. He also participated in multi-agency design meetings to meet DOT requirements for LION
and NYCMap. He was responsible for the implementation of NYCMap and LION in Esri’s ArcSDE
product, and the loading of DOT operational datasets, including capital projects, sign orders, signal
messages, truck routes, traffic counts and NYPD accident data. Mr. Annitto supervised the development
of an ArcIMS Viewer, which integrated all components of the Spatial Data Warehouse and the
development of the GeoSupport Object, which allowed web-based applications to directly communicate
with the mainframe GeoSupport System. Working with the firm’s Esri Solutions Group, Mr. Annitto
designed and implemented the fault tolerant architecture for the data warehouse environment, including
clustered and load balanced servers. (11/00 – 12/04)
Department of City Planning, Project Manager – Bowne was selected to assist DCP in its Synercom to
Smallworld migration project. This project was undertaken to move DCP from a DEC environment to a
Microsoft/Oracle environment to support its internal GIS activities (e.g. LION and COGIS maintenance).
As part of his activities, Mr. Annitto developed workstation and server hardware specifications, developed
a comprehensive network design and high speed switching fabric, and provided specifications for large
volume CD creation to support the public distribution of DCP GIS data. (1/98 – 5/99)
Nassau County GIS, Project Manager - Since 1990, Mr. Annitto has worked to implement one of the most
advanced municipal GIS environments in the United States. As part of his work activities, he has
supervised and conducted User Needs Assessment interviews, authored portions of the aerial
photography and photogrammetric compilation specifications, co-designed the Accelerated Basemap,
authored portions of regular GIS newsletters, developed Conceptual Design specifications, and
participated in all phases of Project Oversight. Mr. Annitto also supervised the initial implementation of
over 341 GIS seats in nine departments and 31 sites. Products used included Oracle 7.x, Esri’s Spatial
Database Engine (ArcSDE) product, Windows NT and HP/UX, and Esri’s ArcView product. Since that
time, Mr. Annitto has overseen two (2) upgrades to the system architecture, which has resulted in an
Oracle 10g RAC solution that support high availability and disaster recovery. This scenario includes
delivery of services to desktop, intranet, and internet clients (My Nassau Property). (4/90 – Present)
United States Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, Technical Project Manager (Execution of
Delivery Orders 25 and 26) – This project involved the design of an integrated GIS system for the
Operations Division and a pilot project for the implementation of an integrated GIS System. The design
phase consisted of interviews with the various units and personal of the NY District, a formal requirements
definition, and pilot project alternatives. The selected alternative was the development of a web-based
application that used the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Division’s Project Book as its primary
interface. This pilot allowed viewing scanned documents, project maps and supported the integration
Microstation DGN files in their native format. This pilot laid the groundwork for the development of an
Integrated Spatial Data System (ISDS). (7/98 – 8/00)
United States Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, United States Military Academy at West Point,
Project Manager – As part of an overall BMS Team, Mr. Annitto participated in the development of a User
Needs Assessment and GIS Implementation Plan for the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Work items included on-site interviews at West Point, a review of existing IT and GIS architecture, and the
development of an implementation model that blended the requirements of the Directorate of Housing
and Public Works, Integrated Training Area Management, and the Academy. This plan complied with the
Department of the Army’s directive for Enterprise GIS. (8/01 – 1/03)
Suffolk County Department of Public Works, Project Manager – Mr. Annitto was part of the
implementation team for the installation, testing, and loading of a clustered Oracle 9i Failsafe/ArcSDE
database. This GIS database supports most of DPW’s GIS and application initiatives, including the
DRIVE System. (1/04 – 5/05)
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New York State Department of Public Service, Electric Outage Reporting Project, Solution Architect – The
goal of this project was to produce a Phase I system to standardize and automate outage reports from the
seven major utilities in New York State. The initial task was a Requirements Definition, which
necessitated interviews and meetings at DPS and all the utilities. Based on these interviews, BMS
completed the following tasks: 1) Design and implementation of a geographic basemap (Esri format) to
support state-wide reporting; 2) Design and implementation of utility data send utility; 3) Design and
implementation of an Oracle-based receive and load application; and 4) Design of an Internet-based
reporting methodology. The system was successfully tested as part of the state’s Y2K Preparedness
Test, and produced Outage Reports and Maps for the Governor’s Office. As part of Phase IV of the
project, the geographic database is being enhanced to include utility operating division data, which is
critical for outage reporting. Phase IV also involves the development of an ArcView-based Map and
Analyze application that will be used by Electric Operations to produce standard maps, reports, and
charts from the Oracle database. (7/99 - 5/00)
City of New Orleans, Project Manager – Mr. Annitto has served as the New Orleans GIS project manager
since 1997. The most current activity regarding this project is the definition and implementation of a
robust GIS architecture to support the Mayor’s City-wide GIS initiative. As part of this initiative, a
comprehensive Geodatabase model was implemented to support land records, economic development,
public safety, and infrastructure management. (3/97 – 11/03)
Systems Integration
Town of Brookhaven Voiced over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Implementation – Mr. Annitto is the project
manager for the Town’s implementation of a modern VoIP system to replace its outdated Centrex system.
Bowne wrote and managed the RFP process, performed network design and enhanced switching
services, and served and the oversight vendor for the implementation of large, multi-site VoIP system.
This system is projected to save the Town over 1.6 million dollars over the next decade (2013-present).
Town of Brookhaven Tax System Migration – Mr. Annitto is the project manager for the Town’s effort to
migrate its “tax system” from a mainframe based system to a web based system. This project involved
modules for relevy, banks, tax bill printing and an advanced grid based query system to eliminate the
needs for custom reporting and custom program development (present).
Town of North Hempstead 311 System Constituent Response System, Technical Project Manager Bowne designed and implemented the Town’s Constituent Response system (CRS). Mr. Annitto was
instrumental in the design of a new constituent services function, along with the necessary structure of
policies, procedures and operations for interacting with constituents, delivering services, monitoring
performance and effecting positive change. Mr. Annitto assisted in analyzing issues and requirements,
scoping the CRS, assessing the state of current technology and operations in the Town related to the
CRS, defining the technical components and operational model, selecting technology vendors,
developing implementation plans and implementing an operational CRS system and call center. (4/04 6/07)
City of New Orleans 311 System, Technical Project Manager – This type of system, usually used for
Police non-emergency calls, is used by both the City and the Sewerage & Water Board (SWB) to
implement an integrated infrastructure tracking and management system. The first step in the process
was the development of a requirements definition, which involved interviewing key City agencies and
SWB personnel. The resulting system, based upon RJN’s CASS WORKS system and Oracle, accepts
citizen calls, assigns unique service request numbers, and issues work orders as required. (10/99 – 8/02)
Nassau County Police Department – Mr. Annitto assisted with the development plan for the Integration of
Computer Resources. Systems to be integrated included IBM 3090 applications, local area networks, and
a proposed Computer Aided Dispatch System. Tasks included the design of a Category 5 wiring and fiber
optic infrastructure, design of a wide area network, and specifications for standard local area hardware
and software. (5/95 – 6/99)
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Town of Oyster Bay – Mr. Annitto designed and implemented a Town-wide network to service major Town
facilities. The network integrated Town computer resources into a single network, including Novell and
Windows NT servers and an AS/400 computer. Tasks included the specification of switched 100Mbit and
10Mbit components, routers for both 10/100Mbit and Frame Relay, the integration of legacy Token Ring
devices and routers, the establishment of a TCP/IP addressing scheme, and the design of a network
management platform. (11/00 – 2/01)
Nassau County Frame Relay Network – Mr. Annitto assisted with the definition and design of a Countywide WAN utilizing frame relay technology. Tasks included the development of an overall concept for a
single network as opposed to separate departmental networks, identification of required sites and
bandwidths, and preparation of bid specifications. (5/95 – 6/99)
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:
M.S. / Geographic Information Systems / University of Connecticut / 1987
B.A. / Geography / University of Connecticut / 1985
CONTINUED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
- Certified GIS Professional (GISP®), number 90102
- NASA Independent Verification and Validation Workshop, West Virginia University
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), issued by the ScrumAlliance
- Member, Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Leadership Training, ACE02 Consulting
- Esri SDE Administration Training
- Novell NetWare 4.X Upgrade
- ARC/INFO Training Course (Environmental Systems Research Institute)
- AMS Workstation Operations, Training Course, (GeoVision Corporation,Ltd.)
- AMS Database/System Manager, Training Course, (GeoVision Corporation,Ltd.)
- Data Communications, Workshop (Stevens Institute of Technology)
SOCIETIES AND AFFILIATIONS:
Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
Implementing Shared Municipal Services to Improve Local Government Efficiency – Presented at the
2010 New York State Geographic Information Systems Conference.
GIS and Public Safety – More Than a Pin Map. Presented at the Twenty Seventh Annual New York State
Geographic Information Systems Conference. (2010)
GIS and Computer Aided Dispatch Integration. Presented at the Twenty Fourth Annual New York State
Integration of Pictometry and County-wide GIS. Presented at the Twenty Second Annual New York State
Integration of Enterprise GIS with Desktop Routing Dow Jones WebGIS. Presented at the RouteSmart
User Conference. (2005)
77th Regional Readiness Command Building a Standards Based Geodatabase.
Northeast Arc Users Group Conference. (2004)
Presented at the
Christopher Kobos, PMP
Project Manager / Analyst
Mr. Kobos is a Project Manager/Analyst and the coordinator of Municipal GIS Services for Bowne. In that
role, he coordinates the interaction of municipal GIS activities occurring in the villages, water districts, fire
districts, and other local offices with GIS activities at the Town and County level. Mr. Kobos became a
certified Project Management Professional (PMP) in 2009 and a Certified Scrum Master in 2012.
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ArcGIS Server
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ArcSDE
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ArcGIS Desktop Suite (ArcView, ArcEditor, ArcInfo)
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ArcPad
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Trimble’s Geo XT, XH & Pro XR GPS Units
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AutoCAD/Autodesk Map
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Microsoft Access
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SQL Server
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Oracle 10g
Operating Systems
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Windows 7 Professional 2000, XP, CE, Mobile
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Microsoft Visio
Office Automation
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Microsoft Office Suite, including Project
GIS Environment
RDBMS
Town of Oyster Bay GIS Support, Project Manager – As Project Manager, Mr. Kobos coordinates all
Town GIS activities with the GIS Technical Committee and Information Technology Steering Committee.
Support for the Town has included GIS data creation, spatial analysis, integration, mapping, and
maintenance of the required ESRI software and the Town’s supporting server environment. Mr. Kobos
also manages the coordination and assignment of GIS tasks to qualified resources. In 2012, Bowne
successfully migrated the core functionality of the Town’s existing ArcIMS GIS viewers to an ArcGIS
Server, Flex viewer environment. During a trial period, Bowne coordinated with each department for
direct input into the viewer for modifications and available functionality. In addition, Mr. Kobos supports
the Town’s IT Project Management Organization by participating in weekly meetings to review ongoing
projects, obstacles and their respective status.
Nassau County Drainage Inventory, Project Manager - BMS created a comprehensive GIS dataset
containing spatially accurate surface drainage structures and a digitized distribution system for the
conveyances under all County rights of way. BMS’ field technicians used sub-meter GPS receivers
equipped with laser rangefinders to physically locate and attribute over 19,000 individual surface
structures. Building upon this field work, GIS specialists extracted information from County plans to
create the network of pipes connecting the structures collected in the field. All pipes were digitized
according to the direction of flow, enabling the future development of a geometric network, if the County
so chooses. Upon completion, BMS loaded the final data into the County’s existing GIS enterprise
database.
Suffolk County Sewer Capacity Study, Project Manager – Mr. Kobos is responsible for leading a technical
team in GIS data development, mapping and analysis to support other project activities. Covering a
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nearly 40 square mile extent for 7 buffered critical areas of need, Bowne researched, catalogued and
reviewed over 1,500 individual sewer plans, georeferencing over 400 of the most applicable plans. From
these plans, Bowne digitized nearly 800 manholes and over 45 linear miles of existing sanitary sewer
mains, attributing them based on the information depicted on the plans. Bowne also created GIS data
representing existing pump stations, and sewer treatment plants. The digitized data will provide the basis
for team analysis of existing sewer capacity and the feasibility of creating new Suffolk County Sewer
Districts to better support the rehabilitation and growth of local communities. In addition to data
development, Bowne supported the team with as-needed data analysis and reporting. Bowne also
incorporated the sanitary sewer data into professional map-based project graphics.
Suffolk County Sanitary Sewer Mapping, Project Manager – Mr. Kobos is responsible for leading a GIS
technical team in the research of existing data in order to locate the information required to build a
comprehensive database. BMS researched, extracted and assembled available digital plans and CAD
data to use as reference material during the data collection tasks of the project.
Fire Department New York Emergency Communications Transformation System (ECTP), Project
Manager - As part of the City’s Emergency Communications Transformation Project, Mr. Kobos served as
Project Manager and lead data analyst for the development of EMS Atom boundaries and Fire
Department Alarm Box Areas intended to validate and improve the response time and accuracy of the
City’s current emergency dispatch system.
Working closely with the Prime Contractor, HP, Mr. Kobos lead the development of the data processing
procedures, which interpreted complex algorithms used during emergency dispatch. All development
policies and procedures were documented for the client in an evolving reference manual. Mr Kobos lead
a team of GIS specialists during the development of the Citywide Alarm box areas, during which, Mr
Kobos also provided regular Quality Assurance and status reports to the client. Mr Kobos also assisted
with the management of the budget and other financial aspects of the project.
During the development of the FDNY EMS Atom boundaries, Mr. Kobos worked closely with the Fire
Department and HP to manage the process of refining the boundaries by which EMS emergency
response vehicle are located, via automatic vehicle location (AVL). Recognizing the need for data
beyond the five boroughs, Mr. Kobos also lead the development of outer areas for nearby Nassau
County, Westcheter County and New Jersey. Additionally, to account for wayward AVL GPS locations,
Atoms were extended 1000 over the water. The updated Atoms boundaries are now in use by FDNY
EMS AVL.
Fire Department New York Emergency Communications Transformation System (ECTP), GIS Specialist –
As part of the City’s Emergency Communications Transformation Project, Mr. Kobos provided database
maintenance and support services, data loading and quality control functions. Primarily, Mr Kobos
oversaw the Citywide location and digitization of over 16,000 emergency alarm boxes. This effort
included a staged outreach program to nearly 300 Fire Admin Companies throughout the City. Mr. Kobos
continually communicated the project status, issues, and resolutions to the FDNY GIS unit (formerly
called the Phoenix Unit). This work was completed as part of a subcontract to Hewlett-Packard.
New York City Department of Finance Digitization of Tax Maps, GIS Specialist – Mr. Kobos was part of
the Bowne Team who worked on the system integration project to Digitize Surveyor Tax Maps. Mr.
Kobos provided technical insight into the feasibility of integrating 3D data into city parcels. Mr. Kobos
created several sample 3D models of NYC parcels and mock buildings to determine the feasibility and
practicality of using Esri’s 3D tools. Additionally, Mr. Kobos provided database design, data loading
and editing support for NYC Digital Tax Map. He utilized Geodatabase Diagrammer to develop Data
Model in Microsoft Visio format to support database design. This work was done as part of a subcontract
to BearingPoint.
New York City DoITT Citywide Street Centerline Project (CSCL) Phase III, GIS Specialist – Mr. Kobos
provided technical expertise related to the use of ArcGIS’s Maplex extension, map templates and general
mapping guidance. He also managed the design and development of the GIS map templates, which
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required the use of ArcGIS and its extensions to replicate complex maps, originally developed in
SmallWorld. Each map is available for sale to the public from the NYC Department of City Planning.
Village of Freeport Records Management Needs Assessment, Project Manager – Mr. Kobos was
responsible for the coordination of the budget, tasks assignment, development and delivery of a Villagewide records management needs assessment. While gathering information on records management at
the Village, Bowne interviewed 20 individual departments to determine the primary objectives and
obstacles related to records management at the Village. Based on the results of the interviews, we
developed a needs assessment, which included a full description of the current records management
environment, current problems, concerns and recommended actions. Bowne also assisted the Village
with the completion and submission of a NYS Archives grant application. The basis of the application
reflected the recommendations in our needs assessment.
Town of North Hempstead Port Washington GIS Study, Project Manager - Mr. Kobos is responsible for
the management of all phases of the project, coordination between the client and technical staff, providing
regular status updates to the Town, and informing the Town of any current or anticipated problems and
our recommended solution. The project involves the coordination of ideas and interests from 6 local
Villages and the Town. The project centers around the development of a GIS web-portal which will
enable access to the Town’s single GIS data repository by 6 local Villages. Mr. Kobos also collected and
created GIS data representing the storm drainage structures and light poles within the 6 Villages of the
Port Washington Peninsula. The GIS web-portal is a Town initiative to share available data to the
Villages included in its Shared Vision Plan, a community-based program to foster inter-municipal
initiatives. The Web-portal is designed to provide information that will facilitate projects developed under
the Shared Vision plan.
City of Long Beach Drainage Mapping, Analyst – Mr. Kobos provided general oversight and coordination
for GIS & GPS data collection activities as well as technical direction for GIS staff. The project focused on
the development of a City-wide drainage map in GIS. Initially, survey crews collected the revised
locations of all storm drain structures in the City. Phase two focused on the cross reference of existing
data to the structures. Phase three involved the inspection of every structure for verification of subsurface attributes. The final deliverable of the project will be a complete GIS for the City’s drainage
system.
Town of Brick New Jersey GIS Architecture Design, Project Manager - The project centers around the
assessment, analysis, recommendation and implementation of an updated GIS network architecture. As
Project Manager, Mr. Kobos managed the budget, resource assignment, communication coordination,
and delivery of an architecture needs assessment. Based on the recommendations within the needs
assessment, Bowne provided technical support during the implementation of the new system
architecture.
Village of Port Washington North GIS Implementation, Project Manager – Mr. Kobos acted as the Project
Manager for the Village’s GIS implementation project, funded by a New York State Records Management
grant. Mr. Kobos was responsible for project budgeting, task assignment, and quality control of all GIS
activities within the Village. This included the development of an extensive GIS data repository,
maintenance of their GIS database, GPS data collection, application development, user training, and
continued user support. The Village utilizes its robust GIS to reduce the response time related to resident
inquiries.
United States Army Reserve 77th RRC GIS Implementation, GIS Specialist – Mr. Kobos provided
database design, data conversion, and data loading services for the United States Army Reserve, 77th
Regional Readiness Command. All data was processed in compliance with the Army’s Spatial Data
Standards / Facility Management Standards (SDS/FMS).
United States Army Reserve SWP3 Updates, GIS Specialist - In the second phase of the project, Mr.
Kobos was responsible for updating the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWP3) for 18 US Army
Reserve Facilities in New York and New Jersey. This involved the inspection and verification of the
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facilities’ existing stormwater drainage systems as well as the documentation of all hazardous materials
stored on site. Based on this information, Mr. Kobos then updated the SWP3 for each of the 18 facilities.
Village of Garden City GIS Services, Project Manager – Mr. Kobos served as the Project Manager for the
Village. Currently, Mr. Kobos is responsible for the needs assessment, budgeting, work assignment, and
quality control of all GIS activities within the Village. This includes the maintenance of their SDE
database, development of an ArcIMS viewer, GPS data collection, application development and
continued user support. Initially, he provided weekly ArcGIS training to Village employees in the
engineering department. The training focused on practical use of ArcGIS in conjunction with the SDE
database created for the village by BMS.
Baldwin Fire District GIS Map, Project Manager – Mr. Kobos was responsible for the client needs
assessment, project budgeting, work assignment and quality control. Working with the District
Supervisor, he reviewed all available GIS data in order to create several large wall maps and an 11”x14”
map book, designed to be carried in all fire trucks and emergency vehicles to aid in locating, and thereby
reducing response times to, all emergencies.
Town of Oyster Bay Floodplain Management and All-Hazard Mitigation Plan, NY – Mr. Kobos prepared
maps and provided GIS services for the preparation of the All-Hazard Mitigation Plan for the Town. The
plan was used as a tool to obtain funding by the Town’s Department of Intergovernmental Affairs to
prepare for and mitigate natural, technological, and man-made hazards through FEMA.
Plainview Water District GIS Implementation, GIS Specialist – Mr. Kobos assisted in the Development
and Implementation of a custom GIS to house the District’s data. District specific data, including Water
Mains, hydrants and valves, was converted from exiting CAD drawings into GIS data. This data is
currently used by the District to reduce the response and resolution time of any Water related issues.
Village of Lynbrook GIS User Needs Assessment, GIS Specialist - Bowne worked with the Village of
Lynbrook, NY, to develop a GIS User Needs Assessment (UNA). Mr. Kobos was the GIS Specialist on
this project conducting the UNA related surveys, interviews and writing the technical report that includes a
conceptual design and implementation plan.
Nassau County Assessment, GIS Specialist – Mr. Kobos was responsible for accessing and refining
county tax databases in order to create updated fire department district boundary maps for the entire
county. These boundaries were then compared to the existing fire boundary data to verify their accuracy.
He assigned district numbers to all buildings found within each police, fire, ambulance, and legislative
district within the county. Mr. Kobos also assisted with the correction of village boundaries and Fire
District lines.
Wantagh Fire District GIS Map, Project Manager – Mr. Kobos provided GIS support including the
development of the District’s address information, hydrant locations and further GIS mapping to aid in the
response to all emergencies.
Hempstead Village GIS Map, GIS Specialist – Mr. Kobos provided the Village’s Fire Department with a
detailed Wall Map that included updated address information as well as specific hydrant locations. The
wall map will be used by the Fire Department’s Dispatch to aid in locating and reducing the response time
to any fire-related emergencies.
Jericho Fire District GIS Mapping, Project Manager – Mr. Kobos was responsible for project budgeting,
work assignment and client communication. Working with the District Supervisor, he created several
large wall maps, smaller district maps, and ten 11”x14“ mapbooks designed to be carried in all fire trucks
and emergency vehicles to aid in locating and reducing response times to all emergencies. (6/04 – 8/07)
Town of North Hempstead COPS Grant, GIS Specialist – Working in conjunction with the project
manager, Mr. Kobos aided in the development, design and implementation of a custom geodatabase
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focused on public safety for the Town. Mr. Kobos also assisted in the development of two intranet data
viewers for the Town.
Meteorological Evaluation Services, USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, GIS Specialist – In conjunction
with the American Horticultural Society, MES and the USDA, Mr. Kobos created the May/June 2003
version of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map. This involved the conversion of tabular data into
geographically registered data points and the subsequent creation of isopleth hardiness zones which
were based on these points. Mr. Kobos then manipulated the zones to correct for any calculation errors
associated with the algorithm initially used to produce the hardiness zones. Mr. Kobos, working closely
with the client, also designed of the overall layout for the final map. The map was published in the May/
June 2003 issue of The American Gardener, as well as the May1, 2003 issue of Newsday.
Training – Mr. Kobos participated in Authorized Esri ArcGIS training classes for Suffolk County. He is
also currently mentoring the Department of Public Works for the Villages of Garden City and Lawrence on
an as needed basis.
PRIOR EXPERIENCE:
Colgate University, Senior Project 2002 – Mr. Kobos created a GIS-based model of Madison County, NY
to determine viable locations for potential wind farms using ArcView 3.2. The resulting model identified
locations that matched the placement of actual wind farms.
Colgate University, Senior Project 2002 – Mr. Kobos participated in the Metropolitan Flora project,
managed by the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. He mapped the spread of invasive plant species in the
NYC metropolitan area over the last several hundred years using ArcView 3.2.
B.A. / Environmental Geography / Colgate University / 2002
CONTINUED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
The Scrum Alliance® - Certified Scrum Master (CSM) 2012
Project Management Institute (PMI)® - Project Management Professional (PMP) 2009
Esri Instructor-Led Training / Cartography with ArcGIS / Albany, NY / March 2005
Esri Instructor-Led Training /Introduction to ArcGIS II / March 2003
Esri Instructor-Led Training /Introduction to ArcGIS I / March 2003
CONFERENCES:
Exhibitor: Long Island & NYC Emergency Management Conference / Melville, NY / May 2009
Exhibitor: Long Island GIS (LIGIS) Meeting / October 2009
Exhibitor: Long Island & NYC Emergency Management Conference / Melville, NY / June 2006
Esri User Conference / San Diego, CA / July 2005
Long Island & NYC Emergency Management Conference / Melville, NY / June 2005
Girk Cakmak
Managing Director
Mr. Cakmak is a managing director and technical consultant whose skills include user requirements
gathering, functional specification, logical and physical relational data modeling, database engineering
and administration, GIS application development, web design and security administration. Mr. Cakmak is
responsible for development and support of Bowne clients in the Albany/Capital Region.
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ArcGIS Server
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ArcGIS Suite (ArcView, ArcEditor, ArcInfo) 8.x, 9.x, 10.x
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ArcIMS 4.x, 9.x
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ArcSDE 8.x, 9.x
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Oracle 10g, 9i, 8i
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SQL Server 2000, 2005
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Microsoft Access
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IIS
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Apache / Tomcat
Operating Systems
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Windows 2000 Server Family, 2003 Server Family,
Windows XP
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Microsoft Visio, Oracle
Enterprise Architect
Office Automation
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Microsoft Access Suite, including Project
Web Design Tools
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Adobe CS3 Dreamweaver, Fireworks
GIS Environment
RDBMS
Hosting Environments
Designer,
Rational
Rose,
Putnam County, eParcel, Project Manager - Mr. Cakmak is the Project Manager for this Enterprise GIS
and eParcel front-end application development project for Putnam County, NY. The project is supported
by New York State, Office of Real Property Services, Real Property Tax Administration Technology
Improvement Grant Program (RPTATIP). Mr. Cakmak is leading the Bowne project team designing and
implementing and Enterprise GIS and eParcel that will store and serve parcel level data from Putnam
County’s servers. This project has been implemented using Esri’s ArcSDE product with SQL Server 2005
environment.
Southern Rensselaer County Consortium, Project Manager - This is the second round enhancements
project. Enhancements included adding new functionalities, new RPS data for two new consortium
members (City of Troy and Rensselaer). Pictometry was also added to the project.
Schoharie County, Real Property Assessment Information System (RPAIS), Project Manager - Bowne
worked with Schoharie County’s, Real Property and Tax Agency to develop an Enterprise GIS. Mr.
Cakmak was the Project Manager of RPAIS, which is a web-based Geographic Information System (GIS)
that combines Schoharie County’s digital tax parcel and Real Property System (RPS v4) data in order to
provide the public with invaluable just-in-time Tax, Comparables (Assessment and Sales), and Property
Inventory information. The RPAIS application utilizes the County’s Java-based Listener to retrieve
changes in RPS v4 data and join with the digital tax parcels on the fly.
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City of Troy Crime Analysis Mapping, Project Manager -Bowne developed a Crime Analysis Mapping
(CAM) application utilizing Esri’s ArcGIS Server product for the City of Troy, NY. The goal of the project
was to design and implement crime analysis capabilities for the City’s Police Department Crime Analysts.
Mr. Cakmak worked with the City of Troy Police and IT Departments in all phases of this application
development project including, data extraction, transformation, and loading process using MS SQL Server
(2005) Integration Services from the City’s Emergitech system, and design and implementation of the
Enterprise GIS using ArcGIS Server.
City of Oneonta GIS Needs Assessment, Project Manager - Bowne worked with the City of Oneonta, NY,
to develop a GIS User Needs Assessment (UNA). Mr. Cakmak served as a Project Manager and GIS
Analyst, conducting the UNA related surveys, interviews, and writing the technical report that includes a
City of Newburgh GIS Needs Assessment, Project Manager - Bowne worked with the City of Newburgh,
NY, to develop a GIS User Needs Assessment (UNA). Mr. Cakmak served as a Project Manager and GIS
Analyst, conducting the UNA related surveys, interviews, and writing the technical report that includes a
Village of Naples GIS Needs Assessment and Implementation, Project Manager – Bowne worked with the
Village of Naples, NY to develop a GIS User Needs Assessment (UNA). Mr. Cakmak led the Bowne
team as both GIS Analyst and Project Manager, conducting UNA related surveys, interviews, and writing
and reviewing the technical report that includes a Conceptual System Design and Implementation plan.
Southern Rensselaer County Consortium, Enterprise GIS and Land Records Viewer, Project Manager –
Mr. Cakmak is the Project Manager for this Enterprise GIS and a Land Records Viewer development
project for the three Towns located in the southern portion of Rensselaer County: Town of East
Greenbush, Town of Sand Lake and Town of Schodack. The project is supported by New York State,
Office of Real Property Services, Real Property Tax Administration Technology Improvement Grant
Program (RPTATIP). Mr. Cakmak is leading the Bowne project team designing and implementing and
Enterprise GIS that will store and serve Real Property and Assessment data from Town of East
Greenbush. This project is being implemented using Esri’s ArcSDE product with SQL Server 2005
environment. Once the project is delivered, Bowne will provide mentoring/training services for the
application for the three municipalities Information Technology and Assessment staff. (2/08 – Present)
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Title V GIS, GIS Analyst - Mr. Cakmak
worked on all phases of the Locational Accuracy Improvement Plan, which is a comprehensive report
prepared for NYS DEC facilities under Air Title V. Responsibilities included conducting interviews in the
project vision workshops with various NYS DEC division and bureaus (IT, GIS, Division of Air,
Department of Environmental Permits) and business process analysis, reviewing Federal and other
States' Standards, developing new standards, designing and planning new Desktop and Mobile GIS tools,
and managing client relationships.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, ArcGIS for AERMOD, Project Manager – Mr.
Cakmak performed a requirements definition and provided application development and training and
documentation to create a customized ArcGIS application that created input files for the two AERMOD
modeling pre-processor applications: Meterological and Mapping. The applications were developed using
Esri’s ArcObjects.
Village of Homer 2005 GIS Services, Project Manager – Mr. Cakmak’s responsibilities included,
performing requirements analysis for the cemetery application for the Village Clerk and GeoDatabase
design and development for the Village's Water/Sewer Department. Mr. Cakmak managed the
development efforts and delivered and installed the project and trained the Village staff on the cemetery
application.
Town of East Greenbush GIS User Needs Assessment, Project Manager – Mr. Cakmak conducted
another GIS UNA, updating the existing GIS UNA study. Mr. Cakmak delivered an educational seminar
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on GIS and conducted Departmental interviews as part of the study. Mr. Cakmak also analyzed data
gathered through Departmental Interviews and delivered the technical report in 2007.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Hudson River Historic Map, Project Manager
– Mr. Cakmak served as Project Manager and was responsible for overseeing the digitization and update
of the Hudson River Historic maps for the years 1890 and 1907-1911.
Schoharie County ArcSDE Training, Project Manager – Bowne providing On-site GIS, ArcSDE based
mentoring/training consulting services to Schoharie County’s Central Data Processing Unit and the
Department of Planning. Mr. Cakmak served as both the trainer and a mentor supporting the client in its
enterprise GIS initiatives. Mr. Cakmak assessed the existing GIS environment, architecture and
infrastructure, trained County staff on GeoDatabase Concepts, and administrated ArcSDE and SQL
Server Database.
Village of Lynbrook GIS Needs Assessment, GIS Analyst – Bowne worked with the Village of Lynbrook,
NY, to develop a GIS User Needs Assessment (UNA). Mr. Cakmak served as a GIS Analyst, conducting
the UNA related surveys, interviews and writing the technical report that includes a conceptual design and
implementation plan.
County of Tioga Department of Social Services Job Point Program, GIS Analyst – Bowne has developed
Job Point, a custom GIS application for Tioga County Department of Social Services (TC DSS), which
allows Temporary Assistance for Needy Family (TANF) clients the ability to search for jobs within Tioga
and adjourning Counties. Mr. Cakmak provided consultant services for required upgrades and training to
the County.
New York State Department of Public Services Electric Outage Reporting Project (EORS), GIS Analyst Bowne provided consultant services for modifications to Electric Outage Reporting System. Mr. Cakmak
provided ongoing support, testing and troubleshooting as part of the firm’s maintenance agreement at
both DPS and SEMO, and installed, reviewed, and updated revised version of EORS project, updated
GIS (Esri) format datasets.
M.B.A. / Management Information Systems / University at Albany, SUNY / 2002
M.S. / Regional Planning / Institute of Science and Technology, Istanbul / 1998
B.S. / Urban and Regional Planning / Istanbul Technical University / 1993
PRIOR EXPERIENCE:
NYS Department of Health, Institute for Advanced Health Care Management – Mr. Cakmak was
responsible for writing and delivering Training Courses to teach local health department of social services
(LDSS) staff. The training classes were:
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How to use Health Provider Network (HPN) application called GeoAccess
How to use a decision support tool (DST) developed by Medicaid Encounter System (MEDS)
Fulton Montgomery Community College - Mr. Cakmak was an adjunct professor teaching classes on
Microcomputers during 2003-2004. Mr. Cakmak was also a guest speaker in Advanced GIS classes
(Spatial Information Technology Center) covering ArcIMS, HTML, JavaScript, Web Based GIS
Architecture during 2003-2004.
NASA Funded Spatial Technology Center, FMCC - As operations manager, Mr. Cakmak was responsible
for designing, implementing, and administrating spatial and non-spatial databases; developing, updating,
manipulating GIS data including performing QA/QC procedures and writing data processing reports.
Identifying user requirements; defining external data sources, analyzing data, and developing databases
for GIS applications. Developing and defining the technical requirements and functional specifications for
new GIS applications and systems, conducting wide range of GIS activities; needs assessment, system
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analysis and testing, application design and cost analysis for internal and external projects. Mr. Cakmak
designed and developed enterprise GIS architecture and spatial data warehouse, web-based GIS and
spatial analysis development projects, SDE/oracle and MS SQL Server database design and deployment.
Mr. Cakmak was responsible for implementing and introducing new technologies, providing systems
analysis support especially web based applications and database development tools that include internet
based GIS applications (ArcIMS) and ArcSDE on MS SQL Server and Oracle. Writing business plans to
reflect both short term and long term goals and to help generate revenues for the center. Identifying and
preparing applications for the federal and state grants.
NYS Department of Health, Office of Health Care Management – as an IT Consultant, Mr. Cakmak was
responsible for the development and administration of a relational database on MS Access application.
This project required the design of a database that generated reports and kept track of fund raising plan
for the Institute of Advancement of Health Care Management. Mr. Cakmak was responsible for managing
a Training/CD development project. As project coordinator, he managed all facets of the development
project to meet NYS DOH and Counties’ educational requirements within time and budget limits. Mr.
Cakmak’s responsibilities included writing and delivering training courses to NYS Health Office Agencies
on MS Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, MS Excel 97/2000, GeoAccess Database, and a Decision Support
Tool, revising and updating the department’s website, developing various databases using MS Access
2000, and the preparation of a feasibility study to Brain Injury Association’s website - Geographic Service
Locator and Resources Directory.
Esri, California Regional Office – As an intern, Mr. Cakmak worked with a technical consultant to create
datasets with ArcSDE on MS SQL Server and Oracle using different hardware and network settings to
address performance related issues. Mr. Cakmak’s work has been published in Esri’s ArcUSER and can
be reached at http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0403/arcsdegroup1of2.html.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
Enhancing ArcSDE Layer Display Speed. With Danny Krouk. Published in Esri’s ArcUSER, April-June
2003, Esri, California.
Using Parcel data and GIS in the Planning and Zoning Process. Presented at the 2010 Planning and
Zoning Summer Schools in Albany, Binghamton, Geneseo and Middletown. The Association of Towns of
the State of New York (NY, 2010).
Town of Clinton
3.
TECHNICAL
Proposed Scope of Work:
The following sections define our proposed scope of work to meet the Town’s requirements that
as outlined in the RFP. We recommend that this GIS Needs Assessment consist of three tasks:
Task 1: GIS Activity Status and Assessment Review (Introductory Seminar, Interviews, and
Needs Assessment)
Task 2: Recommendations (Conceptual System Design and Implementation Plan)
Task 3: Project Conclusion (Presentation of Results)
The following sections describe our activities within each task.
Task 1: GIS Activity Status and Assessment Review
Introductory Seminar, Interviews, and Needs Assessment
Based on the initial information provided in the RFP, the following Town Departments will
participate in the GIS Needs Assessment:
 Public Works
 Zoning and Land Use
 Building Department
 Assessor
 Town Clerk
 Tax Collector
 Finance Department
 Technology
 Police Department
 Clinton Public Schools
 Parks and Recreation
 Social Services
The Town also has numerous Boards and Commissions as follows:
 Fire Department (volunteer)
 Planning and Zoning Commission
 Zoning Board of Appeals
 Inland Wetlands Commission
 Water Pollution Control Commission
 Board of Finance
 Economic Development Commission
 Historic District
 Conservation Commission
 Police Commission
 Board of Education
 Municipal Building Committee
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Kick-off Meeting
The first activity in the Town’s GIS Needs Assessment is a Kick-off Meeting which will be held
on-site with the appropriate Town Personnel and the Bowne team. The goals of the Kick-off
Meeting are the following:

Introduce the Bowne Team and establish the project schedule

Define and discuss project requirements, expected outcomes, roles and responsibilities
of the Town personnel, board and commission members and Bowne team.

Review departments to be interviewed, identify subject matter experts (SMEs) and
review the sequence of the interviews

Present an overview of the major components of a municipal GIS, including relevant
demonstrations of GIS and related technologies, current trends in municipal
governments, and how GIS can be utilized in the Town of Clinton.
Information Collection
The Information Collection activity is a key component of the Town’s GIS Needs Assessment.
Interviews will be conducted with relevant Town personnel by the Bowne Project Manager and a
GIS Analyst. The Bowne Project Manager will be supplemented by Bowne subject matter
experts to analyze the information collected and help write the final report.
In addition to the departments already listed in Task 1, we anticipate interviews/meetings with
any resources that can contribute to the GIS Needs Assessment will also be interviewed such
as relevant Board and Commission members.
The Needs Assessment interviews can be held in two ways - a group setting with representative
from each department or on an individual or small group setting (e.g., one or two departmental
SMEs). This decision should be made with the participants prior to the kickoff meeting.
During the interviews, we generally collect the following information:

The organization of the department and relevant facts regarding its business operations

Workflow analysis on how critical work is performed within each department

Typical critical indicators used within the department to measure efficiency and
productivity (e.g., number of building permits issued)

The current role of GIS in the department and any tools or resources currently being
used. These can be from within the Town or from an outside source, such as the State.

The types of paper maps used on a regular basis or maintained by the department

The overall extent of automation and IT resources within each department
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Current staffing levels in each department and the overall computer training/proficiencies
in the department

Staff comments and ideas on how GIS can be effectively used in the department
In preparation for Task 2, data will be provided by the Town (e.g., parcels and associated tax
roll information, planimetric data, etc.). This data will be evaluated and analyzed during Task 2
for incorporation into a Town-wide GIS. We will also gather information from relevant external
entities (e.g. regional and state agencies) regarding their GIS capabilities and available data to
see if it can be utilized, used, or consumed by the Town.
We will spend a considerable amount of time with the Town’s Technology Department to
determine what is needed to support the Town’s future GIS. This will include hardware and
software (including any existing Town assets that might prove useful to the effort), IT standards,
operating systems, WAN/LAN environment, web standards (including internet portals), potential
IT resources and support levels, utilization of different, newer technologies (e.g. Cloud) and
core IT competencies. We will also review all databases and datasets that are relevant and
useful to Town GIS such as Assessor, Clerk, Land Use.
We have allocated time for 12 interview sessions, one for each department. After each
interview is completed, the compiled notes will be returned to the interviewees to ensure that the
information collected is accurate.
Bowne will also review existing datasets – Assessor maps, Land Record Maps, States Maps
and the River COG Regional GIS Support.
Needs Assessment:
Using information collected during the interviews, the Bowne analysts will prepare a Town GIS
Needs Assessment that will include our analysis and a series of proposals for the Town’s
consideration. Bowne will also describe recommendations that address the organization of GIS
within the Town. Included in these organizational recommendations will be:

Town’s GIS goals and objectives

A GIS management and organization model

Opportunities for future grant funding
Upon completing the Needs Assessment report, Bowne will share the report with the Town for a
review and mid-project update with the GIS Taskforce.
Task 2: Recommendations
Conceptual System Design and Implementation Plan Recommendations
Conceptual System Design:
Based on the findings of the Needs Assessment, Bowne will prepare the Conceptual System
Design to describe a general framework for structuring a GIS implementation Plan as required
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by the RFP. In order to meet the GIS needs of the Town, Bowne will evaluate various system
design alternatives (at least three different approaches) in terms of data, software, hardware,
infrastructure, and personnel. Bowne will discuss these alternatives’ advantages and
disadvantages from different perspectives such as security and short and long term cost of
ownership, and prepare a proposed GIS Architecture and Deployment presenting specific
recommendations regarding the current deployment and possible expansion of GIS within
operational units. The proposal for GIS Architecture and Deployment will include:

Presentation of the proposed GIS Hardware and Software Architecture and Data Model

Data needs and sources (Master Data List)

GIS expansion scenarios

Priority activities for GIS expansion within the Town

Conceptual Database Design

Data sharing, integration, and cooperation with other Town functional units and external
entities

Records management issues in GIS (including metadata)
Implementation Plan: A high level Implementation Plan will provide the Town with steps needed
to accomplish its goal of a Town-wide GIS. Bowne will identify these steps, by years, to
establish a robust Town-wide GIS, taking short and long-term implementation needs into
account. Each step of the Implementation Plan will include the following:

Organizational structure

Hardware, software, and service (e.g. Cloud, XaaS) acquisition

Data creation and acquisition

Hardware and software installation

Application development

Staffing and training needs

Ongoing maintenance and support
Bowne will prepare all related cost estimates for each step and include them in the
Implementation Plan to support the Town’s future budget preparation. These cost estimates and
schedules can also be used to pursue grant opportunities from external resources such as
federal and state entities. The Town can also use the Implementation plan steps as the basis for
the scope of future RFPs.
Task 3: Project Conclusion
Presentation of Results
A PowerPoint presentation will be prepared and presented to the Town at the end of the project
detailing the findings and Town-wide GIS recommendations.
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4.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Mr. Chris Kobos (PMP) will be the Bowne’s Project Manager who is responsible for all aspects of
the project from Bowne’s end, including the project’s scope, schedule, quality, budget, and
deliverables. He is the single Bowne point of contact for the Town.
Bowne assumes that the Town will assign a Project Manager who will be available to the Bowne
Project Manager for regular meetings, conferences, technical discussions/decision points, and
other normal project management activities. The Town Project Manager will also be responsible
for sign-off on all Bowne deliverables.
The Town’s Project Manager will assist the Bowne project team by facilitating contact the Town
Departments, Boards, and Commissions as well as other external entities as required. The role
will include setting up project meetings, disseminating information, obtaining relevant information,
and communicating internally regarding project schedule and progress.
Critical to the success of this project is an open channel of communication between Mr. Kobos
and the Town’s Project Manager. Throughout the project, we will report any issues that arise that
might present risk to the project. As we have done with our other municipal clients, we will work
quickly and carefully with the Town to offer alternatives and help the Town select the most
appropriate solution. Our experience and knowledge of municipal processes will aid in overall
communication, information and data transfer, reporting and other key aspects to this project.
Project Deliverables
The formal deliverables for this project will consist of the following items:

Kickoff Meeting and introductory presentation

User Needs Assessment Report incorporating an inventory and analysis of available data

Conceptual System Design Report

Implementation Plan Report

Final Presentation
Project Schedule
Bowne can begin work within ten (10) business days of Town’s authorization to proceed.
Assuming a commencement date of Monday, March 16, 2015, Bowne will deliver the project by
Friday, June 19, 2015. The project schedule is shown below:
Deliverables
March
April
May
June
Kickoff Meeting (Presentation/Info. Collection)
User Needs Assessment Report
Conceptual System Design Report
Final Presentation
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5.
REPORT
Project Deliverables
The formal deliverables for this project will consist of the following items:

Kickoff Meeting and introductory presentation

User Needs Assessment Report incorporating an inventory and analysis of available
data:

Conceptual System Design Report:


Final Presentation
Our technical response in Section 3 describes the content and associated activities of each of
the project deliverables in detail.
A Microsoft PowerPoint presentation will be prepared and presented to the Town at the end of
the project detailing the findings and Town-wide GIS recommendations. Upon completion of the
project all files will be delivered to the Town in hard copy, in their native digital format, and as
pdf files.
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6.
COST PROPOSAL
Our lump sum fee for this scope of work is $10,000, inclusive of travel and other out of pocket
expenses. The breakdown of the tasks and associated proposed costs is shown below:

Kickoff Meeting (Presentation/Info. Collection)………………………..$1,600.00

User Needs Assessment Report …………….…..………………….….$2,400.00

Conceptual System Design Report……………..………………….…..$2,400.00

Implementation Plan Report …………………………………………….$2,000.00

Final Presentation ……………………………..…………………….…...$1,600.00
If necessary, additional services can be provided. Upon request, we will submit a task estimate
for the additional services for the Town’s approval. Additional services will commence following
your written authorization to proceed.
Cost Proposal – Page 1
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Town of Clinton, CT

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