At Solvitor, our work history is based on a simple premise: We solve problems for companies and government agencies large and small, new and old – for those who are important, and those who someday will be.
Of course, it’s all well and good to talk about solving problems – it’s even better to share specific examples of solutions we’ve offered to clients over the course of more than twenty years of technology experience.
Enterprise Single-Sign-On and Service Oriented Architecture Program for Large Federal Agency:
What we did:
- Rebuilt a diverse SSO and SOA team from the ground up to solve significant performance and availability issues.
- Introduced standard processes for change management, incident response, problem management, and release management.
- Created cross-division, cross-functional team to shatter institutional silos and build collaborative culture of knowledge-sharing across technical and organizational boundaries.
The results:
- Significant increase in single-sign-on service uptime to 99.95%
- Reduced incident response times by several orders of magnitude
- Recognized by Agency CIO for effective leadership and results
International business-to-consumer eCommerce subscription service provider:
What we did:
- Created a streamlined product/technology delivery process, significantly reducing production errors and allowing for rapid, agile delivery of multiple product enhancements per month in multiple markets.
- Pioneered outsourced software engineering approach for all product, database, and application development for a savings of over $1 million annually.
The results:
- Introduced product, creative, and landing page optimizations that delivered a 20 percent increase in paid conversion and 10 percent increase in registration efficiency.
- Delivered 50 percent year-over-year revenue growth significantly beating budgeted revenue and profit.
New international division of an industry-leading web business:
What we did:
- Completed major restructuring and relocation of product and technology teams for a newly-acquired subsidiary, moving these functions from Australia to the United States.
- Built effective web application localization process to provide direct support for over one dozen languages by business staff to ensure effective, culturally-sensitive implementation of product features.
The results:
- Launched product enhancements leading to a 35 percent growth in daily sales and conversion increases exceeding 25 percent in five key Asian and European markets.
Post-acquisition International Technology Infrastructure Transformation
What we did:
- Led project to transition production web facilities from Australia to the United States.
- Oversaw construction of new data center and rewriting of Cold Fusion-based application to support hardware load balancing.
- Devised data migration strategy to move significant data volumes between data centers.
The results:
- Project was completed in fewer than 40 calendar days with minimal downtime.
Federal Government / National Institutes of Health
What we did:
- Worked with NIH staff on the NIH Login implementation, providing input on overall system architecture and methods for ensuring redundancy and high availability.
- Took the lead in managing the NIH Portal, restarting a delayed deployment and re-focusing staff on specific business objectives.
The results:
- NIH Login project launched on-time with scalable, robust fault-tolerance, supporting tens of thousands of logins daily across hundreds of critical web applications.
US-based Content Publishing Site
What we did:
- Performed a “turnaround” implementation of a stalled, multi-year content management system development project.
The results:
- Launched production-quality release in fewer than 60 days.
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