December Honoree

Michael Cavanaugh. Due to reorganization of our department, the Office of State Procurement (OSP) has just turned one year old.  During this time of change comes new processes, which of course means new technology.  For OSP, one of the new technologies is the eMaryland Marketplace Advantage (eMMA), our new procurement system. eMMA is still in its infancy, which means all users have had the same limited amount of time to learn the system as we also work in it to get our important work completed. Basically, we are all learning on the job. Moreover, with a new system like this, there are constant modifications, rollouts, and glitches, etc.  However, Michael Cavanaugh, despite just learning the new system himself, has taken it upon himself to not only teach others but even go as far as to update the training manuals to facilitate the proper use of the new system for other members of his team. Michael also was the architect of our new SOP training manuals. He reviewed a multitude of older documents, parsed them down and edited them down to create a new SOP document for the Construction division in OSP. He worked with his management team to define the policies and procedures and captured them in an easy to view document to ensure consistency throughout our department.