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Khurram Shah, ICS’ Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Operating Officer. He has more than 15 years of program and project management experience and currently leads the development team of over one hundred ICS Senior Architects and Engineers on the United States 2010 Census Project. He is an expert in QC/QA/SQA analysis.

His project management expertise includes gap analysis, deliverable management, project tracking, project schedules, project action item tracking, coordination with senior management for resources, client relationship management, team relation management, project control management, planning tasks and responsibilities, budgets, scheduling by PVCS, MS Project, and performing milestone reviews.

His expertise in strategic practices includes advising firms on solutions requirements, managing service delivery, and counseling government agencies on efficient, cost-effective solutions to their technology needs.  He has significant experience delivering software and e-commerce full life-cycle (defining, planning, controlling, and closing) solutions by using CMMI Level 2 and 3 and ISO 9001 and 9002 standards.

At Fannie Mae, 2004-07, he performed as the project manager during SOX compliance efforts; his team delivered a 99.9% metrics achievement measurement, the highest of any vendor on the effort.

Khurram is a graduate of the George Mason University Advanced Telecommunications program (BS, 2000; MS, 2001) and achieved the dean’s list throughout his academic career.

  We are pleased to congratulate one of our Executive Advisory board members, Major General (Ret.), Gale S. Pollock for being awarded the National Association of Professional Women’s VIP Woman of the Year award for 2013-2014 on January 19, 2014.

“I am proud of the fact I was an Army nurse,” says Pollock to the NAPW.  Pollock over her time in the military received much recognition including Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, among many more medals.

 Pollock served as Commander, US Army Medical Command and Acting Surgeon General of the Army in 2007 (the first woman, non-physician to have this role in any of the military services with a $9.7B annual budget). Simultaneously, she served as the 22nd Chief of the Army Nurse Corps.

 Pollock is the CEO of Elevivo, Inc, a sole source information solution for anyone concerned about vision loss (one of the top ten disabilities in America.) She remains an adjunct clinical professor of Yonsei University Graduate School of Nursing in Seoul, Korea and serves as a Board Member or Advisory Board Member for both profit and not for profit organizations. MG Pollock is a Fellow in The American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) and the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN).

Congratulations to our sister company, Swiftships Shipbuilders for being announced as one of Lloyd's List finalists for their North American Maritime category in the Lloyd's List Awards 2014. 

This shows their hard work and dedication that they bring to work with them everyday. They have the OneTeam spirit that has brought them this great accomplishment. The ICS team is proud to be partners with the Swiftship team and cannot wait to see who is awarded the Lloyd's List Award. 

ICS' Executive Vic Presidents and Co-Founder/CEO Khurram Shah traveled to Morgan City, Louisiana to our sister company Swiftships for ICS Annual Executive Offsite (IAEO) to discuss business strategies and other important topics for partnership and business development.

ICS’ Transportation department works closely with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) and has many contracts with the Metrorail system.  We have helped with the Red Line Rehabilitation project, (for more information click here: http://www.ics-nett.com/services-3/transportation-2/trans-proj/).

  For the ease and convenience many people use public transportation daily to get to and from work, school or to site see around the district. There are many reasons to use mass transit and using paper fare cards versus the SmarTrip® cards there are advantages to each. However, many of the SmarTrip® advantages may make you think twice before purchasing another paper fare card.

What are SmarTrip® cards?

A SmarTrip® card is a permanent, rechargeable card used to pay Metrorail and local bus system fares. It's plastic, like a credit card, and is embedded with a special computer chip that keeps track of the value of the card.

Using a SmarTrip® card is fast and easy. Instead of inserting a farecard through the Metrorail faregate slot, you simply touch the SmarTrip® card to the circular targets on top of or inside station faregates. Likewise, you can tap the SmarTrip® farebox on Metrobus to pay your fare with SmarTrip®.

• Savings

SmarTrip® card users pay lower Metrorail fares because they avoid the $1 paper farecard surcharge.

Free Metrobus to Metrobus transfers with unlimited Metrobus connections (including round trips) within a two-hour period.

A 50¢ discount when transferring from Metrobus to Metrorail or vice versa within a two-hour period.

Ease

You can pay fares for several transit systems with just one card: WMATA Metrorail and Metrobus, DC Circulator, Maryland Transit Administration Local Bus, Light Rail and Metro Subway, Alexandria DASH, Fairfax Connector, Fairfax CUE, Arlington ART, Loudoun County Transit, PRTC OmniRide, Prince George's County TheBus, Montgomery County Ride On, and registered van pools.

You may add up to $300 in stored value on a SmarTrip® card, or better yet set it up for Auto Reload, so you can spend less time waiting in line at fare vending machines.

A SmarTrip® card will let you take one trip that results in a negative balance, but value must be added before it can be used again on Metrorail or Metrobus.

Safety

You can register a SmarTrip® card to protect its balance. For the cost of a card, we'll transfer your card balance at the time it was lost, stolen or damaged to a new SmarTrip® card.

(Source of information is from WMATA: http://www.wmata.com/fares/smartrip/smartrip_qanda.cfm#advantages) 

On December 18th 2013, ICS celebrated its tenth anniversary since it’s founding in 2003. Founded on the dreams of two brothers, Shehraze and Khurram Shah, ICS and its sister companies have set a mission of providing excellence in support for various clients from the beginning. Khurram Shah was asked to assist a friend with a few IT issues for the roofing company he worked for. “This work fell in my lap,” said Shah. He first built them a server and then in November 2003, he was asked to revamp the company’s entire system. The money he had left over from the work he had done, ICS Nett, Inc. (ICS) was born.

Our tenth anniversary is just one of the many milestones that ICS has had while being in business. In 2007, ICS achieved 8(a) status until 2015. Inc. 500 Magazine recognized ICS as 36th “Fastest Growing Private Companies in America” in 2009. 2010 was a busy year for the company. ICS received confirmation for CMMI Level 2 appraisal, completed Decennial 2010 on time and under budget, received Top 5 ranking on Washington Technology’s list of “Top 25 8(a) Companies” and was awarded NAVSEA SeaPort-e Contract vehicle. In 2011, ICS was awarded a $29 million WMATA project and were recipients of the “Circle of Excellence” Award by SmartCEO magazine and was featured on the cover of the May issue.

This celebration has come at a time when ICS is also celebrating capturing new business with the FBI, as well as the accomplishment of attaining CMMI level 3 in development. The ICS family is growing steadily as ICS expands into new arenas and industries. ICS is looking forward to the new endeavors and challenges that are ahead.

About ICS

ICS is a certified 8(a), Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) and DBE firm headquartered in Vienna, VA.  With more than 150 professionals worldwide, ICS is a diversified information technology and engineering company providing innovative solutions for clients in the Fortune 500, federal, state and local government, defense and intelligences communities, mass transit, and healthcare industries.

ICS is an 8(a) Small Business. Being a small business has a lot of benefits. One of the benefits of being a small business is that you able to engage with your clients on a different level than some larger corporations or companies can.  We get to know our clients on a more personal level. ICS is like a big family and we treat our clients like family as well. We do this by doing the following things:

Since we try and include our clients into our big ICS family, we console them when they are grieving. We have sent our clients flowers when there was a passing in their family. We know how hard it is to lose someone and we try and bring him or her a smile during difficult times.

We take our clients out to lunch. This is a common business practice; many companies treat their clients to lunch. We will treat our coworkers to lunch, so why not treat our clients the same? Our clients are like family and families come together around a meal, especially during the holiday seasons.

Since the holiday season is upon us and we get into the holiday spirit by treating our clients right. This year we have give many of our clients holiday baskets filled with sweets and treats. Rather than just shipping them to our clients, we hand deliver them to give it that personal touch.  We drove baskets to clients that were in Pittsburgh to give it the extra special touch that we at ICS give to our clients.  Clients have already told us how they have enjoyed the gesture of the baskets.

(All the Baskets we delivered to Pittsburgh)

December 12, 2013, Vienna, VA:  ICS is pleased to announce the successful completion of the appraisal to achieve Capability Maturity Model Integration Level 3 for Development (CMMI-DEV). An external CMMI Institute Lead Appraiser completed the appraisal of our US Operations on December 9, 2013. ICS was successfully evaluated against all practice areas including: Decision Analysis and Resolution (DAR), Integrated Project Management (IPM), Organizational Process Definition (OPD), Organizational Process Focus (OPF), Organizational Training (OT), Project Integration (PI), Requirements Development (RD), Risk Management (RSKM), Technical Solution (TS), Validation (VAL), and Verification (VER).

“Hercules would be proud of this team,” said Shehraze Shah, President.

“The heroes and heroines of the PMO staff, Program Managers from all departments, Project Support Teams across the organization, Department Heads, and ICS HQ Support team should all take a bow,” said Khurram Shah, CEO.

This appraisal assures customers that the solutions they receive from ICS are state-of-the-art and meet industry-recognized levels of excellence. This certification will allow ICS to go above and beyond the processes that have been in place for the “ONE Team” organization. ICS is one of 3,000 companies that have achieved CMMI Level 3 certification.  As well, ICS is one in 691 small businesses that have accomplished CMMI Level 3.

ICS began the process of certification for CMMI-DEV in September and had a two-week long process for review and interviews.  Prior to this, ICS operated for roughly two years at Maturity Level 2, ISO 9001 and 20K.

Going into the New Year, ICS will be able to take the CMMI-DEV certification and outshine our competitors while providing our customers with the solutions they need.

About ICS

ICS is a certified 8(a), Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) and DBE firm headquartered in Vienna, VA.  With more than 150 professionals worldwide, ICS is a diversified information technology and engineering company providing innovative solutions for clients in the Fortune 500, federal, state and local government, defense and intelligences communities, mass transit, and healthcare industries.