Problem:
Wayne County wants to make their bids accessible to small businesses and minorities.

Problem:
MascoTech Forming Technologies want to move PMon to the Web and start building a plant Intranet.

Problem:
An ISSC (now IBM Global Services) group in Grand Rapids needs to manage project requests and the resource allocation process.

Problem:
Dykema Gossett, a large legal firm, needs to track the work for Sears, Roebuck and Company.

Problem:
Biomedical startups have special facilities needs, that are underserved by commercial Real Estate industry.  Lots of venture capital is wasted building dedicated labs to house single companies.
Solution:
Broker a deal with a shrinking pharmaceutical giant to take over some of their wetlab facilities, and turn it into a specialized business incubator.
Surprise:
Halfway through the process, the pharma […]

Problem:
Pharma marketers must engage Key Opinion Leaders to influence medical opinion, but KOL selection and management has come under increasing scrutiny.
Solution:
Use social networks and computational linguistics to identify emergent KOL characteristics from among a large pool of candidates, then tailor KOL engagements to the particular strengths of each incumbent.
Technologies:
Personal-URL survey-research campaign, computational linguistics, custom […]

Problem:
A leading international financial publication needs to boost the breadth and depth of engagement with its elite online audience of CFO’s and market-makers.
Solution:
Use Web 2.0 technologies to track, tailer, survey and optimize the online experience.
Technologies:
AJAX, PHP, Web Services
Engagement:
Developed a hosted service, integrated with existing publishing system.

Problem:
Homeland Security demands that airports and airlines know who their passengers really are.
Solution:
Photo-ID boarding pass, combined with biometric verification.
Technologies:
Visionics, BioAPI, VB.Net, touch-screen kiosk, mobile terminal.
Engagement:
Venture-level outsourcing of all engineering, marketing and operations. Vendor selection, financial modeling, and international travel.
Developed the SPIdS system, integrated with facial-capture camera, thumbprint, and magstripe/barcode passenger cards, with high-security color […]

Problem:
Salespeople hate SFA/CRM applications, but CFO’s rely on them.Solution:
Salespeople love their cellphones, so create a speech-based interface to SFA/CRM applications - call “Outlook” and talk to your calendar, address book, to-do list, …
Technologies:
Java, LAMP, Nuance, Telephony
Work done on this project:
Developed a human-transcription plug-in for a structured speech-to-text parsing engine - an early “Amazon Mechanical Turk” […]

Problem:
Twenty-year-old shrinkwrap software startup reinvents itself as an online service provider.
Solution:
Restructure engineering and program management. Inject “release train” product cycles. Develop in-house programming and integration skillsets. Coach CIO to manage the transformation process.

Technologies:
Zope, Python, Java, Sybase, Agents, SaaS.

Work done on this project:
Scaled in-house development staff with Constellation talent.  Developed and deployed N-tier […]