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Category: Ad Hoc

  • Event: Ad Hoc at Code for America 2018

    Event: Ad Hoc at Code for America 2018

    This week Ad Hoc is at Code for America 2018 with 10 team members, four speaking engagements, one product launch, and one happy hour. I created the approach for the conference, developed content strategies for various elements, and ran operations for the week.

  • Publication of The Ad Hoc Government Digital Services Playbook

    Today marks the publication of The Ad Hoc Government Digital Services Playbook, by Kaitlin Devine and Paul Smith, my colleagues at Ad Hoc. The Ad Hoc Playbook “compiles what we’ve learned from four years of delivering digital services for government clients. Our playbook builds on and extends the Digital Services Playbook by the United States Digital Service.” I…

  • Communications: Blue Button Launch at HIMSS Conference

    Today the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched Blue Button 2.0,  a “developer-friendly, standards-based API that enables Medicare beneficiaries to connect their claims data to secure applications, services and research programs that they trust”. Ad Hoc is working to develop this product as a subcontractor. I was responsible for the business development, capture, proposal development, and…

  • New Role: Director of Marketing

    New Role: Director of Marketing

    Today I started a new role at Ad Hoc: Director of Marketing and Communications. Almost two years after I helped create the business development function at Ad Hoc, I am now moving over to kick off the marketing and communications department. Ad Hoc has grown from 6 to 120 people since I started, and I…

  • Blue Button API Subcontract

    Blue Button API Subcontract

    Today Ad Hoc was awarded a subcontract under prime contractor Fearless Tech (8424693) to improve the Blue Button API. Here’s the award notice: cms-blue-button-award-january-218 and here’s the full description: Blue Button Api Contractor Will Be Responsible For The Primary Development Of The Django Server, Implementing A Developer Portal, And Any Other Integral Components Of The Blue Button…

  • California Multiple Award Schedules (CMAS) Contract

    California Multiple Award Schedules (CMAS) Contract

    Today Ad Hoc was awarded  California Multiple Award Schedules (CMAS) contract number 3-17-70-3437A. This CMAS contract, along with our previous placement on California’s Agile Development Pre-Qualified (ADPQ) Vendor Pool, allows Ad Hoc to bid on a number of opportunities in the state of California. I helped lead the contract team on this project, compiling past…

  • Corporate Photographer: Ad Hoc Retreat III

    Wherever I go, I take pictures. Here’s images from Ad Hoc Retreat III, which wrapped today. I have fond memories of the Executive Office Building. UPDATE: Here’s a snip from the blog post I wrote summarizing retreat On Wednesday afternoon, our Vets.gov team took a tour of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, led by our…

  • California’s Agile Development Pre-Qualified (ADPQ) Vendor Pool

    California’s Agile Development Pre-Qualified (ADPQ) Vendor Pool

    Ad Hoc was selected for the California’s Agile Development Pre-Qualified (ADPQ) vendor pool. Here’s how the California Department of Technology describes the selection: The California Department of Technology has announced the selection of 13 vendors who are now part of the State’s expanded Agile Development Pre-Qualified (ADPQ) vendor pool. Along with 11 companies that were…

  • Subcontract Award: Hospital Quality Reporting

    Subcontract Award: Hospital Quality Reporting

    Ad Hoc won a subcontract award for Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR). The prime contractor, Bellese, is relying on Ad Hoc to provide all User Experience Research for the project, including four full-time researchers. This allows Ad Hoc to build its capacity in this area and build out a larger team. bellese-hqr-award-notice My role was to…

  • Cohorts: incisive research on government digital services

    Cohorts: incisive research on government digital services

    I conceived and launched Cohorts, a service of Ad Hoc that allows us to conduct incisive research with groups of relevant people to make government digital services work better for all. Here’s some snips from the launch blog post: There are two components to Cohorts — finding the right people and conducting the right research. On…