Capability 01

Tools Implementation & Management

20+ years managing enterprise-wide toolchains for one of the federal government’s largest user communities.
SiMU Group has spent over 20 years managing enterprise-wide tools for the Department of Veterans Affairs, supporting user communities of thousands and consolidating disparate legacy platforms into unified, well-governed toolchains.
  • Enterprise tool standards, licensing & third-party plugin management
  • Legacy tool migration (IBM Rational, Oracle Primavera) into consolidated repositories
  • Migration to GitHub Enterprise & Jira, with legacy tool decommissioning
  • Custom PIV / single sign-on authentication for third-party tools
  • CI/CD pipeline design & automation (IBM & approved open-source tools)
  • Tools & compatibility matrix development
  • Database administration & virtual server support
  • Help desk & multi-environment support (dev/test/prod/training)
  • Technical Reference Model (TRM) compliance
  • Documentation, training & self-service knowledge base
  • Onboarding management for new users & project teams
Delivered the first VA integration of GitHub Enterprise with IBM toolsets, partnering directly with IBM.
Institutional, incumbent-level knowledge of Rational and Primavera that most competitors simply don’t have.