Operations Management Palo Alto Manages Volunteers & CERT with VEOCI July 11, 2016 by Sukh Grewal Our OES manages a large volunteer program, and one that we hope to grow even more. Having an information system that can grow with us is important in being able to not only effectively manage our membership but to also provide a means to utilize them in a day to day and emergency response role. Read more »
Veoci News Updates Software Procurement: The Agile Way April 19, 2016 by Sukh Grewal The Agile Manifesto published in 2001 is now an accepted commandment for software development. Our own adventure with Agile began in August 2000 at GE, where on the SupportCentral project we initiated a 2 week deployment cycle - a new version of the software, complete with bug fixes, updates, languages, and new features, every two weeks. Read more »
Emergency Management If Wayne Gretzky Was Buying Software… March 22, 2016 by Sukh Grewal Software appears to be moving at the speed of a slapped hockey puck. Currently, the established players and their offerings are good. However, these days, software evolves rapidly, and it is more important to know if the software will keep up and adapt in a year, two years, or even ten years down the road. Read more »
Emergency Management Winter Storm Losses: $35 per Resident per Day March 5, 2015 by Sukh Grewal The Blizzard of 2015, which in January inaugurated a series of winter storms across the northeastern US that continue to this day, is estimated by various experts to have cost the economy between $500 million and $1 billion. Read more »
Business Continuity Sony Hack Lesson – Sensitive Content, Get out of Email, FAST January 9, 2015 by Sukh Grewal An article in Businessweek summed up the main vulnerability exposed in the big Sony hack of 2014: "The simplest takeaway from the debacle pertains to e-mail hygiene. Read more »
Operations Management YouthStat & Veoci: Wraparound Intervention for School Children in Crisis September 16, 2014 by Sukh Grewal Continuing a long tradition of invention and innovation, the City of New Haven, under the leadership of Mayor Toni Harp, has launched a program called YouthStat which seeks to use technology to manage and deliver social services to several hundred at-risk youth in the New Haven school system. Read more »
Emergency Management Virginia Tech Tragedy: Five Lessons For You July 8, 2014 by Sukh Grewal The death of 32 students and staff on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, shook up the higher education world because of the scale of the massacre and the possibility that it could happen at "my" institution. Read more »
Emergency Management Tornado Center of the United States – Springfield, Missouri June 10, 2014 by Sukh Grewal From the data for all recorded tornadoes since 1950* (over 57,000 recorded), it appears that the tornado center of the United States is on State Highway 60, twenty miles east of Springfield, Missouri (pop. 159,498). Read more »
Emergency Management Tornadoes and the Fujita Scale May 16, 2014 by Sukh Grewal Tornado intensity is classified on the Fujita Scale – named after Dr. Ted Fujita (aka Dr. Tornado) who in 1971 developed a rating methodology. Read more »
Emergency Management Why So Quiet? The 21st Century Emergency Operations Center April 3, 2014 by Sukh Grewal Last week Yale University and the City of New Haven completed a joint four-day Disaster Response training exercise for a "Active Shooter Mass Casualty Incident Drill" in conjunction with FEMA. Read more »
