References

Los Gatos-Saratoga High School District
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From June of 2002 through October of 2002, our High School District has
retained the services of NovoSoft, a multi-national high-tech network and
software engineering consulting services firm, with offices in the Silicon
Valley and U.S. Headquarters in Austin, Texas.
Our District is into the third year of a very ambitious 8-year new building
and modernization program. We have invested a substantial amount of our bond
money and budget in the design, installation and deployment of sophisticated
data networks in both the new and remodeled facilities, employing
state-of-the-art Level 3 switching equipment and WAN architectures.
With the infrastructure in place, we needed high-level expertise in:
1) Configuring the new routers, switches and infrastructures at each LAN to
provide optimal performance, throughput and reliablity.
2) Physically bridging the District Office and the two high school sites via
a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to allow District-wide data services and
applications.
And
3)Implementing a consistent, District-Wide approach to Active Directory
schemas, authentication and file-sharing and personal shares for each
District administrator, staff member and student.
Novosoft was able to provide us with two very senior engineers with all of
the prerequisite skills needed to accomplish the above tasks. Prior to the
actual commencement of the work, Novosoft did a thorough analysis of our
requirements, and subsequently provided a detailed proposal with tasks,
milestones, schedules and time estimates.
At each milestone completion date, the Novosoft engineers provided a
complete summary of their work-to-date as well as specific documentation for
all work completed or in progress. Throughout the course of this project,
the Novosoft engineers made themselves available to our District Staff on a
24 by 7 hourly basis. Their responsiveness, professional pride in work and
ability to quickly identify and troubleshoot unexpected issues allowed us to
complete our project much more quickly than we had ever anticipated. We also
were able to complete the project within budget because the original
estimates of work provided to us were exactly the number of hours we paid
for.
While our initial project is now complete, our District intends to retain
Novosoft on a time and materials basis for future work. As the Director of
Technology for the Los Gatos-Saratoga High School District, I would not
hesitate to recommend their services to other School Districts.
Dan Cochran Director of Technology
Los Gatos-Saratoga High School District
e-mail: dcochran@lgsuhsd.org
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