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We are an IT firm focusing on both web & mobile app development backed by a team of Rockstar Developers, well versed in a wide array of platforms, giving us the ability to code anything from a simple Store Locator application to a full-fledged CRM that can be tailor-made for your company. We own multiple product companies, advise startup founders across the globe, run our own global developer community, and partnered with the best people on the planet. We have developed applications that started off as an MVP and scaled up into an enterprise-level application that recently hit 5 million monthly traffic.

Simon-Kucher, they have over 30 years of experience in creating top- and bottom-line growth strategies that deliver measurable results. A project with us increases their clients’ profitability by 100 to 500 basis points on average.They are especially renowned for their pricing experience. This is where they started, and this is where their core competence remains. Or, as acclaimed Northwestern University marketing professor Philip Kotler says, “No one knows more about pricing than Simon-Kucher.” Their solutions are made to last. That is easily said, but not so easily done in today’s dynamic business environment. The world has never been so dynamic, with digitalization unhinging established revenue models and urging everyone to rethink the way they market, price and sell products and services. At Simon-Kucher, they are ahead of these developments, and their solutions prepare their clients for the digital era.

Purple, Rock, Scissors (PRPL) applies omnichannel strategy and business intelligence to design, development, enterprise integration, and marketing to engage tomorrow’s digital consumers. Our unrivaled company culture and benefits, as well as a high standard for quality work, keep our team tight knit and tenacious. Employing a full-time staff of 55, PRPL is headquartered on the 20th floor of the Chase Plaza building in Downtown Orlando, widely considered to be the epicenter of Central Florida’s tech scene. Our portfolio of global clients includes tech media, healthcare, education, e-commerce, and consumer products industries.

The Rapaport Group is an international network of companies providing added-value services that support the development of fair, transparent, efficient, and competitive diamond and jewelry markets. Established in 1976, the Group has more than 20,000 clients in over 120 countries. Group activities include Rapaport Information Services providing research, analysis and news; Rapaport Magazine the leading print publication for the diamond industry; RapNet the world’s largest online diamond trading network; Rapaport Laboratory Services providing GIA and HRD gemological services in India, Belgium and Israel; and Rapaport Trading and Auction Services specializing in recycled diamonds and jewelry.

StaffBridge was created in response to overwhelming demand from clients for a comprehensive stand-alone staffing and scheduling software solution. Our proprietary cutting-edge technology has over 10 years of success with continual enhancements to improve staffing efficiency, maximize resource allocation, and create transparency for our clients and staffing partners.

• Wolters Kluwer, Houston TX February 2019 present • AI Virtual AssistantCreated a system assistant that will contact Jurisdictions or vendors via telephone to have a limited conversation about a pre-established set of facts that need to be known or validated, such as hours of operation, documents/forms that are accepted, holidays they are closed on, and relevant contact information. This application leveraged advanced natural language processing NLP and a generative pre-trained transformer GPT AI to create and have a guided conversation by prompting and then extracting information from real human representatives with little to no real-time supervised training. • Lead the development of internal and customer-facing applications with a focus on quality, time delivery and ease of implementation using queues such as RabbitMQ. Supervising and establishing delivery of project initiatives. Building trusting and influential relationships and engaging with vendors and third parties as appropriate. Adept in using Agile development methodologies and Scrum to deliver data driven approaches. • Work with the architecture team to ensure high quality design is built into the project. Ensure that the product user interface can be componentized and reused. Collaborating with architects, other leads and developers to provide technical design guidance to align with strategy and applicable technical standards. Adept in using Agile development methodologies and Scrum to deliver data driven approaches • Be the project technical coordinator/liaison with outsourced vendors • Write test cases using Testing frameworks such as unit testing tools like nUnit and MOQ • Drive all activities necessary to plan, test, build and deploy project team deliverables to production, including managing the migration process workflow and manage full CI/CD pipelines using Azure Devops and create reusable technology patterns.

ShyftLabs is an innovative and rapidly growing company that focuses on revolutionizing enterprises with smarter data solutions. ShyftLabs assists their partners in propelling digital transformation at unprecedented speed, while specializing in crafting end-to-end solutions through our collaborative approach. With a deep-rooted understanding of the retail vertical, ShyftLabs seamlessly integrates with any ecosystem to accelerate value creation.