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Browsing by Author "Arbaiza, Camila"

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    RFP/RFI Asset Tracking Tool
    Arbaiza, Camila; Hollingsworth, Edward; Lewis, Ryan; Myburgh, Keith; Rhine, Abrar (Virginia Tech, 2023-05-05)
    In order to serve the American public and the missions of its diverse agencies, the United Stated Federal Government utilizes the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) (https://www.acquisition.gov/) to purchase necessary goods and services from private industry. Integral to FAR is the publishing of Requests for Information (RFIs) and Requests for Proposals (RFPs). As a consultancy within the Federal Information Technology (IT) space, INTEGRITYOne Partners, Inc. (IOP) has responded to dozens of RFIs and RFPs over its nearly twenty-five years in existence. These RFI and RFP responses represent a tremendous amount of IOP’s intellectual capital and reflect the firm’s extensive IT and Program Management expertise. Often containing solution templates, IOP proprietary practices, and detailed capability statements, portions of these assets can be re-used or modified to respond to multiple government solicitations. To keep up with the growing database of these assets, IOP must transition their process of retrieving relevant documents from manual to automated.
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    VTCDD Showcase
    Arbaiza, Camila; Smith, Jake; Josi, Spencer; Narayanan, Shashank (Virginia Tech, 2022-12-14)
    The Virginia Tech Center of Drug Discovery (VTCDD) is an interdisciplinary organization consisting of around 50 members across 17 STEM-related departments. To showcase the organization’s members, they maintain a website to highlight their members’ accomplishments. Specifically, there is a subset of pages dedicated to listing the publications and patents created by VTCDD members relevant to the organization. These pages have not been updated since 2017 and were created by a site contributor that had minimal experience utilizing Virginia Tech’s content management system. Our goal as a team was to create a solution to better showcase the patent and publication accomplishments of the VTCDD. Starting the project, we had complete creative liberty when it came to presenting the VTCDD publications and patents. Initially, the Publications page and the Patents page were endlessly scrolling static pages, making the sites poorly navigable. The publications only listed the citation, which made it difficult to quickly parse information from, especially since there were a variety of different citation formats. The site coordinator had to manually add new publications and patents to the site, which was a tedious process. With some of the site’s areas of improvement in mind, our goal was to make the sites more dynamic, and standardize the information through the use of filterable, paginated tables. The deliverables consist of a final report, a web-scraper for Publication data, and web pages for the VTCDD site created on Ensemble: one for the Publications page, one for the Patents page, and another for the home page. The report shows our progress throughout our project lifecycle, ranging from ideation to testing. There are manuals for users and developers to ensure the web pages are properly maintained. Lastly, we discuss lessons learned and ideas for future development.