GEB/HiRise is a full service consulting engineering firm encompassing the areas of construction management, design, planning, real estate due diligence, grant services and general contracting through all project development phases from conception through completion, and beyond.

Providing management consulting services that include:• Providing RFP analysis and proposal development services for public and private sector clients.• Providing research for, preparation and production of, winning proposals and statements of qualifications.• Implementing indexing software and search functionality to capture information from the company’s data stores.• Enhancing and maintaining a knowledge base of ‘boilerplate” templates.• Identifying ways to improve the quality, consistency and efficiency of the bid response process.• Working with firm personnel, preparing project schedules and costs estimates.

Provided management consulting services that included:• Application Production Control system implementation• Business development and office automation• Corporate Data Center review• Disaster recovery review and response time tuning• Network performance and tuning• Office automation• Operating system installation and migration• PC hardware and software inventory system implementation

Provided management consulting services that included:• Acting Manager of Information Services.• Application development process enhancements.• Application development source maintenance and control system.• Design and implementation of a consignee information standardization and validation application using a combination of vendor-supplied software and custom code.• Design, development and implementation of a technical infrastructure in support of an application development and delivery project. • Development of an E-Business strategy and roll out plan. • Development of work plans for product acquisition, benchmarking, platform performance analysis and application tuning. • Enhancement and support of Government compliance reporting systems.• Evaluation and selection of outsourced facilities management services. • Implementation of a multi-platform hardware and software environment consisting of micro, midrange and mainframe systems.• Organizational analysis and restructuring of the data center operations and network planning and support functions. • Partner alignment with a global E-Commerce software vendor.• Planning and execution of systems conversions.• Process redesign of the company’s Management Information Systems (MIS) functions focusing on the merging of two data processing facilities into one. • Productivity improvement initiatives.• Redesign of a primary Internet service offering. • Response time improvement and capacity planning.• Review of a billing and accounting system.• Selection and acquisition of financial software to support and enhance worldwide operations. • Technical and production control support for the application development effort.• Technical evaluation of a planned computing facility.• Technical evaluation of financial software packages.• Year 2000 Compliance Program Office support.