Client Success Story
“HAZGen is a critical piece of the overall company’s ability to respond rapidly to emergency situations. c2b prioritized our project, and delivered on-time within a very constrained schedule. The documentation created, optimization recommendations, and long term strategic roadmap, made an immediate positive impact on our operations. c2b answered our hard questions. We now have the missing pieces to run our business more effectively, and take the HAZGen application forward.”
Michael Romines / CEO
For more than sixteen years, Lone Star Hazmat Response has excelled at providing industry-leading emergency spill response as well as safe and effective environmental remediation services. Over the years, they’ve added to their capabilities and now maintain 12 strategically located rapid response centers throughout Texas, which allows them to deploy rapidly whenever an emergency requires their services.
Business Challenge
Lone Star Hazmat had built a foundational system over several years for customers and internal employees to utilize for critical incident response. The “HAZGen” application was not well documented, and had grown to multiple modules including a mobile application, lightweight web client for employees and field personnel, and a server-side processing of alerts, notifications, dispatch and schedule optimization. Executives were concerned with system performance and lack of a disaster recovery plan.
The Solution
c2b was hired to perform an objective assessment, and provide recommendations to improve resiliency and performance, along with a methodology to secure HAZGen’s intellectual property and assets.
Lone Star Hazmat asked the c2b team to perform a deep dive on elements of the HAZGen solution. This required extensive interviews with a third-party development firm, an architecture “spike” to assess an audit on all components of the tech stack, then document these findings. The team also developed short and long-term performance recommendations.
Impact
In less than 30 days, c2b built and led a team of technical analysts & architects through:
• Developer interviews and source code analysis
• Tech docs assessment and recommendations
• Architecture review and blueprint, and
• Final component/version map for a digital vault.
With these once-missing technical artifacts, Lone Star Hazmat now has an essential current-state HAZGen technical library, along with short and long term plans for increased performance and overall solution stability.
