Our Experience

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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