About Us
Our Company
JKCorps is a California consulting firm based in the Sacramento area since 1997. We specialize in providing highest quality information technology and management consulting services.
Our Approach
JKCorps is distinguished by low cost and high quality.
The firm is owned and operated by Jeanie and Stan Ketchum. Jeanie is the President and management arm of JKCorps. As a locally owned small business, Jeanie is able to keep our costs low. This is the first fundamental to how we do business – we do not add unnecessary overhead to our proposal or bill rates.
Stan is the technology and project arm of the company. As a long time veteran of services to state and local government, Stan is well respected and well connected. This is the second fundamental to how we do business. We are able reach out to our network of connections to find and staff only the most reliable consultants available for the job at hand.
Our Focus
We approach consulting with the distinguishing characteristic: that our focus is on the business practices to be enhanced by technology, not the technology itself. Our people are well versed in translating business needs into meaningful technology requirements. We believe they offer superior services in the areas of customer relationship management, planning and analysis, procurement, systems development, and systems implementation.
Our Strengths
Project and Business Subject Matter Highlights
- Electronic submission of mandated public health disease reports
- Public health options of the Affordable Care Act Meaningful Use requirements
- Private and public health care projects
- Correctional healthcare services
- Public Safety Radio Communications P25 implementations
- Use of PMI© PMBOK© and State of California Project Approval Lifecycle (PAL) phased methodologies
- Implementation business process design/re-engineering to manage the transition projects to everyday working reality
- Discovery and analysis of circumstances to identify risks and issue planning using root cause analysis to identify problems and alternative solutions
- Professional work and relationship building to promote helpful, collaborative, and team oriented work environments
What We Offer
Qualifications
State Business Processes
- California Project Approval Lifecycle (PAL), and Project Management Framework (Ca-PMF) project management
- PMI© PMBOK©
- BCPs, SPRs, RFPs, special state budget requests as per SAM/SIMM
- Control agency processes (DTS, DGS, DOF, LAO)
- Executive briefings for testifying to the legislature
Organizational Change Management
- "As-Is" – “To-Be” processes analysis and development for Change Roadmap
- Step by Step guides describing what, how, why, and when change is to occur
- Work with stakeholders, executives, management, supervisors and line workers
- Preparation of training curricula, plans, performance, and feedback/lessons learned
- Development and implementation of actionable plans
Project Management
- Project Management Professionals (PMP) by Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Agile and Waterfall SDLC methods
- Project plan – modeling, estimating, creation and maintenance
- Governance and Presentations - executive, sponsor, customer, stakeholder
- Project status, risk, Issue, communications, budget management and other PAL project management plans as needed
- Microsoft Project schedule, resource, and deliverable management
- Scope change management - contract, scope, schedule, issue/risk management
- Required reporting - State and federal control and oversight agencies
- Planning and implementation of complex project office activities.
Roadmaps and Vision
- Agency IT Strategic Plans, IT Capital Plan
- Enterprise Architecture Business Analysis, Design, Planning
- Project Management Office implementation
Systems Implementation
- Systems requirements, analysis and design of small to very large application
- Customer support for large and small application implementations
- Data migration/conversion
- Implementation planning for systems and customer business change