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Neos Celebrates 20 Years in Business!

June 13th, 2023

Neos is thrilled to announce its 20th anniversary since originally starting the business at a kitchen table in south Austin. We especially want to thank our amazing field consultants for providing our customers truly remarkable service and innovative IT solutions. And of course, our top-notch leadership and support crew for keeping this company running smoothly and efficiently in providing outstanding service to our field consultants and customers. Finally, we are eternally grateful to our customers for trusting and believing in us.

Neos started by providing in-depth ERP expertise to higher education and Texas government agencies. Neos was established and is led by career IT project consultants who know what it means to deliver high-impact results to customers. Our leadership team was forged in fires of successfully delivering high-profile, mission-critical ERP projects with tight timelines and limited budgets – this provides a deep understanding of customer needs, mission and constraints. It also means we appreciate the demands of being an onsite consultant.

After many years of successfully providing ERP consulting to our customers, we decided to expand into IT staffing. We saw a gap in the service IT staffing vendors had been providing to both customers and consulting staff. With our IT consulting expertise, we felt that we could provide a level of customer service, attention and understanding that would vastly surpass the level of service customers had grown accustomed. We strive to provide delivery excellence to our customers and provide best-in-class support for our consulting staff.

What makes Neos different from other IT Staffing Firms? We treat our field consultants like valued customers.

Neos wins 4-year contract with UT Austin

July 5th, 2021

Neos wins 4-year IT Staff Augmentation contract with The University of Texas at Austin.

The University of Texas at Austin has begun a University-wide strategic planning effort, and therefore anticipates multiple new business and academic initiatives that in turn will necessitate renewed and intensified efforts toward modernizing the University’s systems, business processes, data management, and technical architecture. A key part of these projects will be the work to replace existing mainframe applications, transition data, retire applications and to integrate modern applications with already-implemented and future to-be-selected-and-implemented Enterprise Resource Planning applications. To move to newer technologies to support University business, University colleges, schools and units (CSUs) will engage Neos to augment skills and expertise to support and complement University staff talent.

Austin ISD Selects Neos to Implement Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud

September 6th, 2019

This project is intended to implement Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) applications for Planning and Narrative Reporting for the District, including the Operating Budget, Budget Requests, and Position Planning.

The following planning models are in-scope:
 Operating Budget – to facilitate fund-level planning and consolidated reporting.
 Position Planning – to facilitate planning of salaries and other compensation
related elements by position.
 Budget Book Reporting – to facilitate external reporting

To facilitate the implementation of the planning models, the following Oracle software components are expected to be deployed as part of this effort and are included in the EPM licenses:
 Planning
 Financial Reporting Studio
 Data Management
 Security and Migration
 Calculation Manager
 SmartView
 Narrative Reporting
 Management Reporting

Neos Recognized as a Best Places to Work in Austin for 2019

May 11th, 2019

We are pleased to announce that the Austin Business Journal has recognized Neos as a Best Places to Work for 2019.

It’s rare for staffing firms to be awarded this type of accolade. We believe it is a reflection of our fierce commitment and support of our field consulting staff. How do we accomplish this? We treat our consultants like valued customers. Our consultants best-interest, career, and overall well being is our top priority.

An independent, third-party survey firm conducted the anonymous survey of all Neos’ field consultants, administrative and management personnel. The individual respondent responses are held confidential by the survey firm. The results were then tabulated and ranked against other firms of similar size.

Oracle awards Neos with full Software Reseller Rights

February 27th, 2019

Neos, an Oracle Gold Partner, is pleased to announce Oracle has approved full reseller rights for both commercial and public sector verticals. Neos is approved to resell the below list of products. The company is also on track for resale rights for HCM Cloud, EPM, PeopleSoft, and other applications.

Cloud Services

Oracle Cloud: PaaS and IaaS

Database

Data Warehousing

Enterprise Manager

MySQL

Oracle 1-Click Technology for Midsize Companies

Oracle Database

Oracle Database Appliance

Engineered Systems

Oracle Database Appliance

Middleware

Application Grid

Data Integration

Developer Tools

IT Architecture

Identity Management

Oracle Application Integration Architecture

Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation

Oracle Endeca Information Discovery

Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Oracle Unified Business Process Management

Oracle WebCenter Content

Oracle WebCenter Portal

Oracle WebCenter Sites

WebLogic Server

Server And Storage Systems

Oracle Database Appliance

Neos awarded new DBITS contract with State of Texas

June 3rd, 2017

Neos has again been awarded a Deliverables Based Information Technology Services (DBITS) contract with Texas Department of Information Resources. The original DBITS contracts recently expired. Neos has enjoyed over $25 Million in revenue via DBITS since 2013, making it the fifth largest DBITS vendor in Texas. Neos intends to capitalize elevated award limits of SB20, limits were increased from $1M to $5M.

Neos also is the second leading provider of IT staff augmentation services to the State of Texas via the DIR cooperative contracts program.

Neos was awarded eight categories:

Application Maintenance and Support
Project Management
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Technology Migrations and Upgrades
Application Development

UT Austin Awards New IT Staff Augmentation Master Contract to Neos

April 8th, 2017

The University of Texas at Austin has awarded a master contract for IT Staff Augmentation services to Neos. The contract is for an initial three (3) year base term, with the option to renew for two (2) additional one (1) year renewal periods, upon mutual written agreement of both parties. Additional Texas institutions of higher education may elect to enter into contracts with Neos for IT staffing services under this master contract.

The University of Texas at Austin is currently conducting several projects aimed at modernizing University’s administrative systems, business processes, data management, and technical architecture. A key part of these projects is the work to replace existing mainframe applications, transition data, retire applications and to integrate modern applications with the Enterprise Resource Planning (“ERP”) implementation of the Workday HCM / Payroll and Financials modules and, in the future, the selected Student ERP. As a result of the University’s application modernization effort, there are other projects, initiatives, and operational needs (e.g. UTLearn, MyUT, SailPoint, StarRez, etc.) across campus that are in scope of this master contract.

Neos welcomes new Senior Technical Recruiter

January 8th, 2017

We are pleased to announce the addition of Christina Maccini to the Neos Leadership Team.

Christina Maccini is a Senior Technical Recruiter with Neos Consulting Group. She has over 6 years of experience in corporate and staffing recruitment in a wide range of industries, both locally and nationally. She strives to make the best matches for clients and candidates through integrity and meaningful professional relationships.

Christina served seven years in the United States Army as a Non-Commissioned Officer, and deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. During her time in the military community, Christina volunteered to lead morale and welfare organizations in support of soldiers and their families, earning her the President’s Award for Volunteer Excellence from President George W. Bush.

Neos Awarded New DIR IT Staffing Contract

September 30th, 2016

Neos is pleased to announce that Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) has awarded Neos another Information Technology Staff Augmentation Contract (ITSAC). It is a two year contract with two additional one-year extension options. ITSAC is a multiple vendor award contract, 124 vendors were awarded new ITSAC contracts vehicles.

Governmental entities, including state agencies, universities, counties, cities, and school districts procure hourly IT staff augmentation professionals through ITSAC under the DIR cooperative contracts program. DIR reports over $360M in customer purchases through the ITSAC vehicles for the past three fiscal years.

Neos is the second-largest vendor on ITSAC as of August 2016 with sales over $670,000 for the month.

Neos Recognized as one of Best Places to Work in Austin

May 19th, 2016

The Austin Business Journal has announced that Neos is recognized as one of Austin’s Best Places to Work for 2016. It’s rare for staffing firms to be awarded this type of accolade. We believe it is a reflection of our fierce commitment and support of our field consulting staff. How do we accomplish this? We treat our consultants like valued customers. Our consultants best-interest, career, and overall well being is our top priority.

Neos hires new Senior Technical Recruiter

March 8th, 2016

We are pleased to announce the addition of shellon McCallie to the Neos team.

Shellon has more than fifteen years’ experience locating and recruiting top IT talent locally and nationwide, for State Government and Fortune 500 companies across the US. Her experience encompasses both permanent placement and contracting recruiting. She has expertise in building and nurturing long-lasting candidate and client partnerships.

Shellon graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio where she attended on a Track and Field/Cross Country scholarship. She majored in Business and Psychology. She continues to compete in Track and Field, Road Racing and Duathlon. She was recently named UIL Texas High School Girls All-Century team in the 3200 meters.

Neos awarded contract with CSEC to implement Salesforce

December 11th, 2015

Neos was recently awarded a contract with the Texas Commission on State Emergency Communications (CSEC) to implement a new grants management system (GMS) utilizing Salesforce.com. Neos has partnered with Vertiba to provide the depth of expertise with Salesforce.com.

Services include:

Assess Salesforce AppExchange commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications against the Commission’s GMS requirements;
Recommend greenfield development of GMS or purchase of a suitable application for customization to meet Commission’s GMS requirements;
Implement GMS based on the recommendation accepted by the Commission, and integrate the application into the Commission’s existing Salesforce® instance; and
Deploy GMS, including user acceptance testing and training.

Objectives:

Provide a web portal for data input by Regional Planning Commissions (RPCs) that receive Commission 9-1-1 program grants;
Provide a data repository for RPC grant data
Automate Commission’s 9-1-1 program processes to review, assess and validate RPC grant data; and
Replace existing manual 9-1-1 program processes and website/portal.

Neos hires Lori Trank as Controller

September 1st, 2015

Due to the operational demands created by Neos’ rapid growth, larger and more diverse customer base, and managing our growing workforce, Neos has created the new internal position of Controller. We are pleased to announce Lori Trank has been selected for the Controller position.

She is responsible for accounting, operations and human resources. Lori recently retired after 27 years with the State of Texas. Lori has worked in various financial management positions at Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), Texas Education Agency and the Department of Criminal Justice. Most recently, she worked as the Accounting Operations Manager for HHSC, an agency with 12,000 employees and an annual budget in excess of $30 billion. Lori managed 36 staff and her department was primarily responsible for client service, administrative and employee travel payments.

She served as President of the Texas State Agency Business Administrators’ Association (TSABAA) in 2015 as well as serving the previous 5 years in other officer positions. She was the Vendor Chairperson for TSABAA for 10 years prior to being elected as an officer. Before moving to Texas, she lived in Northern California where she spent 3 years as the Controller for a mortgage banking firm and 3 years as a staff accountant with a local CPA firm. Lori is also a certified public accountant.

Neos Welcomes New Business Development Manager

November 1st, 2014

We are pleased to announce Lacy Michel is joining Neos to drive customer acquisition and sales in the role of Business Development Manager.

Her focus is helping government agencies, and commercial businesses find the technical talent they need for short and/or long-term contracts. She brings forth over 10 years experience in business development, customer service, and account management. Lacy has worked in industries ranging from the cable & satellite, logistics, and information technology.She has a passion for helping clients solve business challenges, and providing end-to-end service needed to ensure her clients are 100% satisfied.

Lacy attended Rutgers University in Camden, NJ and St. Edwards University in Austin, TX. Her major is Business Administration. Prior to Lacy’s professional career in business development, she was a jazz vocalist, and performed all over the US. Her current hobbies consist of Flat-Track Roller Derby, singing, and playing guitar. If you ever wish to go roller skating, give her a call!

Neos awarded new project at Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC)

July 28th, 2014

Neos is pleased to announce its been awarded the HHSC Balancing Incentive Program (BIP) – Portal Center of Excellence (CoE) application development project.

In line with BIP themes of improving self-services capability and promoting NWD/SEP (No-Wrong-Door / Single-Entry-Point), and to help LTSS consumers better understand the complete range of its offerings, HHSC plans on making modifications to its web-based, self-service benefits portal (www.YourTexasBenefits.com). The project goals are:

Improve the navigational structure of YourTexasBenefits.com to enable “person-flow”, make it easy to use and provide a seamless & consistent experience to users
Provide self-services ability to inquire program information, check status update, screen, apply, upload scanned documents, renew
Widen reach of YourTexasBenefits.com to cover more people applying for LTSS services
Allow community-based organizations to provide application assistance in locations without computers
Implement a content management system that will enable faster website content changes and updates on the portal.

The project is being executed via DIR DBITS contract vehicle, technology category – Application Development

The project kicked off on July 28, 2014 and is set to be complete within 14 months. Much of the development work will be performed by our subcontractor, Cognizant.

About HHSC

The mission of HHSC is to maintain and improve the health and human services system in Texas and to administer its programs in accordance with the highest standards of customer service and accountability for the effective use of funds.

HHSC oversees the operations of the health and human services system, provides administrative oversight of Texas health and human services programs, and provides direct administration of some programs.

System Oversight

HHSC oversees the Texas health and human services system, which is composed of five agencies:

Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC)
Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS)
Department of State Health Services (DSHS)
Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (DARS)
Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS)

Programs Administered by HHSC

Medicaid
Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
Texas Women’s Health Program
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
SNAP Food Benefits and Nutritional Programs
Family Violence Services
Refugee Services
Disaster Assistance

More information about HHSC’s services, principles, and the process for filing complaints and requesting information is outlined in the Compact with Texans.

Neos Top DIR Deliverables Based Vendor in Reported Sales

July 5th, 2014

Neos is pleased to announce that for the month ended April 30, 2014, Neos was the top vendor in terms of total sales reported to Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) on the DBITS contract vehicle. Neos reported almost $1.2M in sales via its Texas DIR DBITS contract vehicle.

Using this contract vehicle, Texas State and Local government agencies and universities can streamline and reduce time in procuring and contracting for deliverables-based information technology services. Agencies can negotiate and contract directly with Neos for deliverables-based information technology services with a contract value of less than $10 million.

Neos DBITS customers include:

City of Houston
City of Austin
City of El Paso
Texas Education Agency Permanent School Fund
Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC)
Texas Office of Attorney General
Texas Department of Transportation
The University of Texas System

Neos awarded contract with Texas Education Agency Permanent School Fund

June 16th, 2014

Neos is pleased to announce we’ve been awarded a contract with Texas Education Agency Permanent School Fund (TEA PSF) to implement a firm-wide trading and compliance software solution. The TEA PSF has selected the Blackrock Aladdin service as the software solution to be implemented. The TEA PSF has engaged Neos to provide project management, business analysis, interface development, historical Aladdin reporting database development, testing, and other assistance with the Aladdin implementation as appropriate. The project begins immediately and will be complete by January 31, 2015. It is a deliverables-based project executed using Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) Deliverables-Based contract vehicle (DBITS).

The Texas Permanent School Fund is a sovereign wealth fund which serves to invest its assets to provide a return for funding of public primary and secondary education in the State of Texas. As of the end of fiscal 2012 (August 31), the Permanent School Fund has a balance in excess of $28 billion. The fund is distinct from the Permanent University Fund, which funds most institutions in the University of Texas System and the Texas A&M University System, but no other public universities or schools in the state.

Neos awarded SAP project with City of Houston

December 17th, 2013

Neos was recently awarded a $2.7M project to assist the city in implementation, deployment, and testing of SAP HCM ESS/MSS (Employee Self Service and Manager Self Service). Neos is partnering with the Peloton Alliance to deliver the project.

Enabling SAP ESS/MSS functionality will allow the City of Houston to establish and maintain best practice methodologies for administration of Benefits, Organization Management, Employee Demographic Information, Employee Dependents, Beneficiaries and Employee Compensation, and Administration of employee life cycle related transaction.

Areas for improvement include;

Management of employee information
Administration of personnel actions and master data changes
Incorporation of automated approval workflow
Incorporation of dynamic forms
Automated document management
Process improvement, consolidation, and/or elimination

Neos recognized as 4th fastest growing company in Central Texas!

October 19th, 2013

Neos is proud to have been named to the Austin Business Journal 2013 FAST 50 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the Austin area.

Here’s an excerpt from the ABJ article:

What was perhaps the biggest corporate event in the best town for business went down Thursday night, and it’s time now to publicly lay out Austin Business Journal’s Fast 50 for 2013.

For more than a decade, we’ve been calling on companies to submit their revenue numbers for this annual contest. There’s no subjectivity here. Companies are ranked solely by cold, hard revenue growth during the past three years.

The Fast 50 are broken up into two categories: those with revenue above $10 million and those below that.

Winners are ranked by compound annual revenue growth rate (CAGR) from 2010 to 2012. Neos was ranked 4th is in the large company category (over $10M in revenue)! The company posted a CAGR of 145.31% and gross revenue growth of 501.76%. Click here to view the Top 5 in the large company category. All submissions are verified by an accountant and reviewed by Maxwell Locke & Ritter for ranking purposes.

Neos elected to join the TASSCC vendor advisory board

August 26th, 2013

Neos consulting group has recently been elected to join the Texas Association of State Systems for Computing and Communications (TASSCC) vendor advisory board. The TASSCC Advisory Board (TAB) is a group of leading technology companies who provide advice and support to the association and the TASSCC Board. The TAB consists of thirteen elected representatives from the associate membership who serve three-year terms.

The mission of TASSCC is to advance education and networking among professionals supporting Information Technology for the Texas Public Sector. TASSCC provides education opportunities through conferences and career development. TASSCC hosts three conferences, the TASSCC technology education conference, the State of the State, and the TASSCC Annual conference. TASSCC also hosts the IT leadership retreat, an opportunity for emerging IT managers to continue developing skills for leading in today’s fast evolving environment as well as an opportunity to network with colleagues from state agencies, universities, cities, counties and other local jurisdictions from throughout Texas. visit the TASSCC website.

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Tanya Acevedo Travis County, CIO

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Neos Consulting was able to find and provide my organization with good resources that had the skills to be able to quickly learn the environment and begin contributing to our project. I will use Neos Consulting again!
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The Neos staff and project manager continually went above and beyond the call of duty. Our mission-critical project went live on time and under budget. I highly recommend Neos and would hire them again given the opportunity.
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Gary Buonacorsi, former CIO Texas Office of Attorney General

Neos Consulting is a pleasure to partner with in business. They are experts in public sector engagements and have great client relationships that help guide consultants from the onboarding process through the rolloff process. They are a true partner and advocate for the resources working with them, which is a rare trait in today’s environment. I would recommend any resource with the opportunity to partner with Neos to do so.
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