July 2010
1 post
4 tags
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation... →
Pangaea Information Technologies, Ltd. has been supporting the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) for the past three years in developing the North American Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (NAPRTRs) data search and mapping tool which is a critical system for the Taking Stock program. We at Pangaea are extremely proud of the work that we have done as well as the overall effort...
June 2010
1 post
Pangaea's Joint Incident Command System (JICS)...
Multiple areas of Chicago will be used for a five-day training exercise, some road closures
SPRINGFIELD- More than 50 local, state, federal and private agencies will take part in a major week-long domestic emergency response exercise testing their ability to respond to multiple disasters in the Chicago area.
Illinois Prairie North 2010, which is a part of the Vigilant Guard series, will run...
May 2010
1 post
The medical community embraces open source tools... →
Relief organizations have turned to open source and free web based tools for mapping and providing locational awareness to support the relief effort in Haiti. Pangaea has been advocating for this approach for several years and is pleased to see open source solutions embraced by governmental and NGO’s alike.
April 2010
1 post
Pangaea is pleased to welcome Kateryna Khapatko
Ms. Khapatko recently joined Pangaea as an application developer and QA engineer. Ms. Khapatko has 3 years of experience in the developing and testing of complex software applications using web 2.0 technologies. Prior to joining Pangaea, Ms. Khapatko worked a QA engineer for a business intelligence firm where she developed and deployed test strategies, test plans, test designs, test cases and...
March 2010
1 post
Pangaea is moving
Pangaea is pleased to announce that we are moving our offices to the second floor of the building effective March 12 2010. The move provides us with over 30% more space which will allow us to accommodate our projected growth over the next 5 years. Our new address will be:
Pangaea Information Technologies, Ltd
219 W. Chicago Ave
2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60654
Our telephone and fax...
February 2010
1 post
MAJ Troy Scott, a True American Hero →
Pangaea is honored to have had the opportunity to work with MAJ Troy Scott. It is a true honor and pleasure to provide support to people of MAJ Scott’s character and integrity. We at Pangaea feel fortunate to be able to work along side of our men and women in uniform.
January 2010
3 posts
Obama to announce plan to respond to bioterrorism →
This announcement is further proof that we need to leverage and integrate existing and planned applications and decision support tools to provide early detection and management of incidents involving biological and chemical threat agents. Pangaea has existing systems (GUARDIAN and JICS) that address these needs and could serve as integral surveillance and management tools to ensure that we are...
Congratulations
Pangaea would like to thank and congratulate two of our own for their dedicated service. Chris Kowal has just completed his 12th year at Pangaea (and is hitting the ground running for year 13), and this week marks the 10th anniversary of Shon Doseck joining the Pangaea team. Thanks to Chris and Shon for all of their hard work over the years and I look forward to new milestones in the future.
Happy New Year
We at Pangaea would like to wish everyone a joyous, healthy and prosperous New Year. We are thankful to all of our clients and business partners for making 2009 a successful year despite the trying economic conditions. As we enter 2010 we are fortunate to be in a position to enjoy continued growth. We constantly hear politicians on both sides of the aisle discuss how small business is the...
December 2009
2 posts
Pangaea Holiday Dinner
The annual Pangaea Holiday Dinner wiil be held Friday December 18 at Trattoria Trullo in Lincoln Square. We look forward to seeing everyone and celebrating another successful year.
Distribute ILI Surveillance →
This is an interesting project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS). This application is a step in the right direction to provide national disease surveillance although it only focuses on ILI. The following description is from the Distribute website:
Distribute, a project of the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS), is a distributed, influenza...
November 2009
4 posts
Pangaea welcomes Helen Araya
Ms. Araya recently joined Pangaea as an application developer. Ms. Araya has over 3 years of experience in developing software applications using web 2.0 technologies as well as the design and development of relational databases for large and complex datasets. Prior to joining Pangaea, Ms. Araya worked a software engineer for an IT consulting firm where she developed an online travel...
4 tags
CDC expands flu-tracking efforts
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has a number of initiatives to attempt to track Influenza Like Illness (ILI) and in particular outbreaks of H1N1. On Sept. 1, CDC began securely exchanging public health data daily via the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). The pilot project is gathering flu symptom data from health care providers in Indiana, New York and Washington state.The full...
5 tags
Automated Real-Time H1N1 Monitoring
On October 28th, GE Healthcare announced that they had received a grant from the CDC to perform “near real-time” monitoring of the spread of the H1N1 influenza virus. This project pulls daily reports from patient data already being collected in GE’s Centricity EMR system to send to the CDC. The advantage of this system is that GE is able to leverage the medical data that they...
The Parsons and Pangaea team were awarded a contract to develop the next version of the Range Complex Master Planning Tool (RCMP-T) for the U.S. Army under the Parsons U.S. Army Sustainable Range Program (SRP) contract. The RCMP-T is a web based application that serves the SRP community by providing installations a capability of developing, staffing, and publishing a comprehensive...
September 2009
1 post
Pangaea was awarded a contract under a grant with Rush University Medical Center from the U.S. Army Medical Research and ACQ Activity, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center to continue the development for GUARDIAN (Geographic Utilization of Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time for Disease Identification and Notification). GUARDIAN is a real-time, scalable,...
August 2009
1 post
Pangaea was awarded a contract to develop the Joint Incident Command System (JICS) from the Illinois Army National Guard 5th WMD Civil Support Team under a partnership with Rush University Medical Center. The JICS application is a data acquisition, analysis, management, and reporting tool that enables and assists first response managers, clinicians, and consequence management...
July 2009
1 post
Please visit Pangaea at Booth # 23 (with our partners, Pinnacle Mapping Technologies, Inc.) at the 2009 U.S. Army Sustainable Range Program (SRP) Workshop in Indianapolis, IN, 6-10 July 2008. Pangaea will be delivering a presentation on the U.S. Army SRP Remote Sensing Center concept on Monday July 6 at 9:00 AM in Room 209. The SRP Workshop is a forum for the scientific exchange...
February 2009
1 post
Pangaea would like to welcome Mr. Cory Kozielski to the Pangaea team. Mr. Kozielski recently joined Pangaea as a Senior Military Analyst and RTLP SME. Prior to joining Pangaea, Mr. Kozielski served his country for over 20 years as a decorated, battle tested Operations Sergeant major and Battalion Master Gunner. His responsibilities included planning, coordinating, and monitoring all training for...
December 2008
1 post
Pangaea is pleased to announce that Bill Simons has joined Pangaea as a Senior Analyst/Subject Matter Expert. Mr. Simons recently retired from 20 years of distinguished military service as the U.S. Army Master Gunner and Senior NCO. Mr. Simons has over 20 years experience in the US Army in progressively challenging command and staff positions. He is a recognized Army Trainer, doctrine developer,...
October 2008
1 post
The City of Chicago launched an interactive web based application http://www.afterschoolchicago.org developed by Pangaea, that will help youth and their families research and choose from thousands of different after-school programs located throughout Chicago. The After-School Chicago Web site is one of the most comprehensive of its kind in the nation and will include a diverse variety of...
September 2008
1 post
Pangaea would like to encourage attendance at the FOSS4G2008. The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 2008 conference, is being hosted on the African continent for the first time, in Cape Town, South Africa from 29 September through 3 October 2008. The theme this year is “Open Source Geospatial: An Option for Developing Nations”. http://www.foss4g2008.org
August 2008
1 post
Pangaea is pleased to announce the addition of Mr. Ayo Adeniran to our staff as a senior software engineer. Mr. Adeniran has extensive experience in architecting, developing and deploying applications including the front end, middle-tier and back-end systems, mentoring staff, researching new and emerging technologies, and maintaining deployed applications. Mr. Adeniran has experience in a number...
July 2008
1 post
Please visit Pangaea at Booth # 317 (with our partners, Pinnacle Mapping Technologies, Inc.) at the 2008 U.S. Army Sustainable Range Program (SRP) Workshop in San Antonio, TX , 8-11 July 2008. Pangaea will also deliver a presentation on the use of remote sensing technologies for military land management on Wednesday July 9 at 9:00 and again at 10:15. The SRP Workshop is a forum for the scientific...
April 2008
1 post
After School Matters (ASM) has hired Pangaea Information Technologies to support the current transition from the existing ASM program and participant tracking system, the Program Administration Manager (PAM). Pangaea has both institutional and technical knowledge about the PAM system runs, how the data is used and the needs of ASM. Pangaea will support the Out-of-School Time (OST) project staff...
March 2008
1 post
Pangaea would like to remember and honor Brian Youngs who passed away 3 years ago on March 19 2005 at the age of 28. Brian worked with us and served as a role model for everyone fortunate enough to get to know him. Brian was one of the most intelligent, caring, dedicated and passionate individuals that any of us knew. Brian was a lover of the outdoors and an advocate for care and conservation...
February 2008
1 post
Pangaea welcomes the addition of Cesar Meraz to our staff as an application developer. Mr. Meraz consulted on numerous projects including healthcare, energy, transportation, and animal research. Mr. Meraz served as technical lead on Dell Inc.’s FMPro application redesign (Dell’s custom order fulfillment, receiving, and routing application). Mr. Meraz has employed Web 2.0 technologies...
January 2008
1 post
Pangaea was awarded a contract to develop a Needs Assessment for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). The report focuses on improving processes related to the North American Pollutant Releases and Transfers Registers (PRTR) Project. The CEC has established data and related processes to examine information pertaining to the amounts, sources, and management of toxic chemicals within...