Day: November 13, 2019

Cognosante Sponsors Paralyzed Veterans of America Gala

On Tuesday, September 24, 2019, we participated in the Paralyzed Veterans of America Gala (formerly Mission: ABLE Awards) celebrating organizations, businesses, and people that lead efforts and champion the rights of disabled veterans, providing them assistance and opportunity to live their lives with dignity and respect. Awards were bestowed to innovators and influencers in the […]

Chris Valdez and Veteran Recruiting at Cognosante

Veteran Recruiting Liaison, Chris Valdez, was recently invited on The Protectors Podcast to talk about Cognosante’s Veteran hiring initiative. He was interviewed by Dr. Jason Piccolo, an Army Veteran and advocate for lowering Veteran unemployment. They met at a Veteran networking event and decided to use Jason’s platform to provide information to transitioning Veterans about […]

Hiring our Heroes: Program Participation in a Fellowship Cohort

As part of our ongoing commitment to serving the Veteran community, our two inaugural transitioning service members from the Hiring our Heroes* program Chris Vernot, Staff Sergeant (SSgt) and Rafael Sampayo, Chief Warrant Officer 2nd Class (WO2) – U.S. Army together with Cognosante’s Veteran Recruiting Liaison, Chris Valdez participated in the Hiring our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program Cohort 19-3 Networking […]

Providing Veterans with Better Access to Care through Innovative Solutions

Cognosante’s work in the Veterans space is commonly known, but how are we specifically providing meaningful, innovative solutions that help Veterans and Veterans Affairs alike?  We sat down with Cognosante Program Manager Jocelyn Greenidge to learn more about how we are providing Veterans with better access to care via our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) contract […]

Cloud Operations and Migrations Services in Support of the VA

We sat down with Cognosante subject matter experts Lee Johnson, Program Manager and John Fisher, Service Delivery Manager & Technical Teams Lead to learn more about our Cloud Operations and Migrations Services (COMS) project for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). 1. How do you currently support the COMS project? ECSO/COMS is a Time and […]

Veteran Viewpoint: Transitioning and Support of Veterans

We sat down with James Wilson, Vice President of Growth, MVH and former U.S. Navy YN1(SW/AW), E-6 to gather his thoughts on transitioning into civilian life and our work in the Veteran space. Q. What has been the biggest surprise about transitioning to a civilian workplace? The biggest surprise I faced when I entered the civilian workforce […]