CIO Support & Governance

Enterprise-wide capabilities to drive business success.

ArdentMC assists Federal CIO customers with defining investment strategies, establishing consistent processes and practices through Quality Assurance, creating an Enterprise Architecture tied to an Agency’s Strategic Objectives, and also delivers portfolio management systems to make consistent and improved decisions about information technology programs.  CIO Teams face difficult standardization and implementation tasks to ensure adherence to Federal laws, regulations, other Federal Agency Oversight (OMB/GAO) as well as internal polices to facilitate evolving CIO practices.  To meet these challenges, ArdentMC evaluates processes and performance indicators based upon detailed data elements that can be rolled up to various performance levels to review project, program, division, or related program types.

ArdentMC works with the staff of Chief Information and Chief Technology Officers to support strategic planning and the implementation of key CIO standards and processes. To support key Federal CIO initiatives, ArdentMC provides consulting expertise to DHS and the Department of Defense, and other Federal Civilian agencies such as Social Security Administration, Small Business Administration and the Department of Justice.

ArdentMC CIO Support Services

CIO IT Strategic Planning
Establishing critical success factors and repeatable measures to identify success help ensure transparency and accountability.  Further, ArdentMC Technical experts help CIO’s develop a clear landscape and roadmap for technology implementations over the long term.

Portfolio Management & Accountability
ArdentMC brings leading vendor technologies to bear to ensure Federal client programs maintain accountability and transparency.  Through an integrated project management approach and a complimentary toolset, ArdentMC supports CIO’s by ensuring they can quantify, validate, and manage their technology decisions by investment portfolios.

Quality Assurance
Information Technology projects bring an inherent risk due to the localized nature of performance.  Changing the requirements for a software developer, always seems easier than changing the requirements of a project that has a physical result (bridge or airplane).  Ensuring IT projects have quality mechanisms configured within to deliver reliable results is how ArdentMC helps client increase successful outcomes by implementing a combination of proactive guidance, active controls, and reactive corrective action QA practices

Governance
IT Governance in the Federal space is the key to ensure successful projects over the long term.  Ensuring stakeholder representation to a CIO shop is both active and engaged is the only way to accelerate buy-in from the user community, and encourage ownership of a project.  ArdentMC brings many years of developing and implementing governance processes to assist CIO’s in solidifying their organizations.

Many ArdentMC Consultants have served CIO organizations within DISA, DHS, Department of the Army, and the White House Communication Agency (WHCA), as well as Federal Civilian organizations such as the National Institutes of Health, Department of Justice, Social Security Administration, and the Small Business Administration.

Meet the Experts

Michael Matechak
Michael Matechak

Vice President, Federal Civilian Division

Michael Matechak serves as Vice President of ArdentMC’s Federal Civilian Division, supporting clients including the Department of Justice, Social Security Administration, Small Business Administration and others.  Michael brings well over a decade of experience supporting Federal contractors through business process re-engineering, compliance and validation, and information technology implementation.

Oracle

Ardent Management Consulting is proud to be an authorized business partner of Oracle, the leading provider of technologies supporting government clients in the areas of Database Management, Application Servers, and Human Resources / Financial Management.