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Harford County Tour Recommendation

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:26 +0000

Visit Harford â€” Harford County, Marylandâ€s destination marketing organization â€” would like to improve its Visitor Tour Planning Application to enhance the touring experience for people visiting the county. The current application shows each point of interest individually and lacks an integrated way to show visitorâ€s a tour of all the points of interest (museums, breweries, and monuments). As a result, visitors have to find and map every point of interest one by one. To improve this experience, this project aims to attract tourists to the county and make them aware of the various activities happening in the county. The county envisions a web and mobile-based user application that will provide visitors with tour recommendations based on sitesâ€ locations and business hours, and the visitorâ€s time preference. This tool will benefit visitors by providing intelligent tour recommendations for visiting points of interest based on location, time preferences, and selected categories (landmark, art, sports, lodging, etc.). The visitors will have the freedom to seamlessly plan personalized tours based on the categories they select and without switching back and forth between details of each point of interest. To achieve this, data from GIS classâ€”points of interest (POI), address, category (landmark, art, sports, lodging, etc.), contact, business hours, descriptions, and geocoding details (mainly longitude and latitude information)â€”of the various attractions will be made available to the app development team, which will then use it to map tours using either Google Maps or other openly available mapping application programming interfaces (APIs).

Inspector District Management Process Flow Study, Harford County Department of Inspections, Licenses, and Permits

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:26 +0000

The Department of Inspections, Licenses, and Permits (ILP) in Harford County, Maryland works to create streamlined and efficient processes for inspections, licenses, and permits for the construction in the county. The inspections vary depending on the geo-location of the building, the type of construction, and its size. The ILP inspectors are certified experts, each specializing in a specific type of construction. Currently, assigning inspections to ILP inspectors is done manually, based on the location of the inspection request and the type of skill required. However, an increasing number of inspection requests, rapid development in the county, and the complexity of resources to be managed, the manual process of assigning inspections is becoming cumbersome and inefficient. Without a system to prioritize inspections, inspectors spend time traveling to different sites and allocating time toward inspections that may not be as important. This projectâ€s objective is to redesign the process flow for administrators and ILP inspectors to help manage the inspections with minimal overhead. The project approach is to first study the existing process to understand the roles and responsibilities of each individual and the system, and how they collaborate. Based on that knowledge, a new process flow will be designed to optimize the process of inspection management.

Making Parks Attractive to New Generations: Montgomery County Scavenger Hunt Website

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:22 +0000

There are neglections on the ample park activity resources within Montgomery County, MD. As a result, park visitors are missing out the opportunities to discover and enjoy various points of interest in parks that would optimize their outdoor experiences. It is therefore, essential to examine what needs to take place for exposing the points of interest in parks to park visitors and encourage them to engage with the activities associated with those points of interest. Inspired by PokÃ©mon GO, a game developed by Niantic uses the mobile device GPS to locate, capture, battle, and train virtual creatures; the Montgomery County Department of Parks worked with a graduate student from iSchool at University of Maryland, College Park in developing a GPS enabled mobile first gaming website for park visitors to locate, engage with points of interest and compete each other by score. The website strives to bring all points of interest together to park visitors with a common purpose: to fulfill their right to experience a physically active life.

Montgomery County Parks: Engage Millennials in Parks

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:22 +0000

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Performance Metrics Plan for the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:22 +0000

DHHS found that they were inefficiently recording data used to create their necessary reports. With more than 130 direct service programs and contracted services from 700 different providers, the data from those services werenâ€t always properly recorded. For example, data for some reports, such as the Monthly Trend Reports (MTRs), was recorded and tracked on both spreadsheets or paper reports. This variation causes inefficiency in creating reports; it took longer than necessary. After learning about and examining the data contained in several DHHS reports, we realized one way to help DHHS employees correctly record information would be to provide them with a data dictionary. A data dictionary allows users to quickly find different service programs and attributes recorded throughout DHHS, including items such as variable name, variable description, data type, and more. Furthermore, the data reports were all in a static formatting, meaning that the information could not be edited or updated. As a result, we decided to take all the data in those reports and import them into a database that could then be used to input, update, edit, or report information.

System Architecture for the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:22 +0000

This design-oriented, community service project has the potential to improve productivity in Montgomery County’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) by providing a central standardized management system. The project goal is to evaluate and assess existing cloudbased data storage systems for a future developer to implement. Client: Noune Sekhpossian, Noune.Sekhpossian@montgomerycountymd.gov DHHS collects ongoing data to regulate whether its programs are following through with actions and results. It is important to frontline staff and to their managers, administrators, commissions, and elected officials. DHHS collects numerous metrics from its more than 130 direct service programs and its 700 contracted service providers. To improve productivity of DHHS staff, the team will design a way to more easily access and track performance measures and reports. The new system will be a cloud-based storage system that is archivable and compatible with industry-standard browsers. This storage system will provide adequate security and tools to perform any analysis or filtering DHHS may need. The proposed project will include an evaluation and assessment of existing cloud-based data storage systems that a future developer (e.g., MIM capstone students) will use as a first step in implementing the cloud-based system. The final document will be one component of a system synthesis that will include comprehensive cloud-based data storage, as well as user interface (UI) and business intelligence (BI) solutions for DHHS performance metrics.

UI / UX Proposal for the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:22 +0000

Montgomery Countyâ€s Department of Human Health and Services (DHHS) is the countyâ€s largest government agency and is responsible for public health and human services that help address the needs of the communityâ€s most vulnerable children, adults, and seniors. DHHS delivers services at more than 20 locations in Montgomery County and has over 130 direct service programs. Any organization of this size would face difficulty in managing its performance metrics, especially without using updated technology. Montgomery County DHHS faces this exact dilemma as it collects metrics from over 700 providers across 130 service programs without any central or standardized management system. Metrics are currently reported to their respective directors and administrators via mail; an outdated method that makes organizing difficult, especially for a director overseeing a large program with many different metrics to assess. Noune Sekhpossian is a program manager within the DHHS Planning, Accountability, and Customer Service (PACS) whose responsibilities include â€œdeveloping and refining DHHS program and system measures, consulting and capacity building on appropriate performance metrics for service areas, programs, grants, etc., and leveraging advanced integrated technology, data systems and innovative analytical tools.â€ She represented the DHHS as our client and was our primary contact while we developed the interface.