Problem: New Startup professional services consulting firm needs go-to-market consultation on branding and messaging, sales pipeline, and collateral. Solution: Coach the coach, engineer the engineer, market the marketer, sell the seller. Technologies: Drupal, Flash. Work done on this project: Coaching, brand research and design, messaging platform consult and refinement, market strategy and program development, initial [...]

Problem: An advanced 3-D pattern-recognition camera needs to be able to work with a range of biometric facial recognition systems using an emerging integration standard . Solution: Implement the BioAPI standard, with a full complement of events and attributes for integrating this revolutionary camera. Technologies: BioAPI, C++, Dot.NET, Visual Studio. Work done on this project: [...]

Problem: Only security geeks understand the need for wireless security. Everybody else (read: the vast majority of customers) doesn’t get it. It’s hard to sell something when consumers don’t know they need it. Solution: Interactive Flash animation and voiceover makes it easy. Technologies: QuickTime, Flash, Javascript. Work done on this project: Designed and developed the [...]

Problem: Teacher contracts stipulate that new-hire teachers must be given tenure in four years unless annual reviews can show why they shouldn’t. To fulfill the contract, school principals must observe teachers in the classroom, write reports, and benchmark them against other scores.

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

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: Develop, launch and manage a new online financial services business, from the ground-up, in three months, for Isiah Thomas. Solution: Deploy multiple Teams in the US and Eastern Europe, using Agile software methodologies, to develop the financial services portal, branding/marketing, and fulfillment operations. Technologies: Zope, Python, Perl, Sybase, Linux, Flash. Work done on this [...]