Excella Consulting Enters Joint Venture Agreement With the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce

Forms Partnership in Support of Learning and e-Training Initiatives


ARLINGTON, VA--(Marketwire - Jun 21, 2011) - Excella Consulting, a technology and business consulting firm for federal and private sector organizations in the Washington, D.C. area, has entered a joint venture agreement with the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce to provide program and project management services in support of e-Learning and Knowledge Management initiatives at Federal agencies.

Under this joint venture, Excella Consulting can provide a range of services to government agencies including an e-Learning Program Management Office (PMO), associated project management services, Agile SCRUM Master Training and Agile coaching, solution strategy development and portfolio management services. Government agencies utilizing the NTIS collaborative team will be able to benefit from Excella's deep expertise in providing information technology strategy, human resource system support and consulting services.

"We are very excited to have been selected as a joint venture partner with NTIS," said Doug Sampson, Partner, Excella Consulting. "As a result, Excella will have the opportunity to leverage our longstanding project management experience, working directly with Federal agencies to improve the development and operation of e-Training and learning management systems."

In addition to this latest joint initiative with NTIS supporting e-Learning and Knowledge Management initiatives at government agencies, Excella has worked directly with many federal organizations including the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the General Services Administration (GSA), and the Department of Defense Civilian Personnel Management Service (DoD CPMS) providing consulting services for the execution and implementation of enterprise and system architectures, program and project management, requirements analysis and software development and deployment. Specific initiatives included management of the Enterprise Human Resource Integration (EHRI) for OPM, strategic management for the Federal Enterprise Architecture at OMB and strategic technology planning with DoD CPMS for human resources technology, as well as providing PMO support to GSA's e-Authentication program.

About Excella
Excella Consulting is an Arlington, VA-based business and technology consulting firm and systems integrator for government and commercial clients. Its consultants help organizations define and execute technology strategies to produce real business results. Excella's core services include IT strategy, project and program management, system architecture and software development. Its consultants specialize in using Agile processes, Java-based technologies and Microsoft Technologies such as SharePoint and.NET to achieve its clients business and information technology objectives. Visit www.excella.com for more information.