Softjourn, Inc.

Softjourn provides software engineering services and has its headquarters in Silicon Valley, California and its operations center in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.

Softjourn's objective is to assist companies in achieving optimal value through their offshore strategy. Includes assessing the best use of offshore resources for their company, what can be offshored, what should stay in-house, sourcing the resources, establishing the processes for a remote team to use & an onshore team to manage them, establish the team & get the team going.

Specialized Solutions for working with Start-ups:

* Moving internal company solutions to a Software as a Service (SaaS) model; Example:  Preferred Energy Services (www.prefenergy.com)

* Working with Technology Enabled Services such as money transfer, recurring billing, spend management, box office ticketing, energy savings, security, online video and many others.

* Mobile applications supporting Technology Enabled Service and SaaS companies.

• Working in Eastern Europe since 1994, thirteenth year working in Ukraine. Past 3-term board member for the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine and Head of the IT committee;
• Over twenty years working in the IT industry beginning as a programmer for a large bank data processing center (BankOne);
• Twelve years of experience with distributed software development beginning with Russia;
• Bachelors in Management Information Systems from the University of Wisconsin, Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

• Seventeen years of experience in software development including embedded applications;
• Over ten years of experience managing distributed software development teams beginning with Israel and the US for Gasonics International (semiconductor equipment manufacturer);
• Specializing in product management (specification development, prioritizing), interfacing with clients, and management of distributed software development teams;
• Bachelors in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.

• Twelve years of software development experience including the last five years in management;
• Four plus years managing distributed software development teams between Ukraine and the US;
• Over ten years experience designing and managing the development of financial applications for banks and software vendors in Ukraine and the US;
• Masters degree in Systems Analysis from the National Technical University of Oil and Gas, Ivano-Frankivs'k, Ukraine.

• Nine years of software development experience including the last four years in Project management;
• A Software Designer with a wide range of experience in IT and first-class analytical and problem solving skills.
• More than six years experience as an architect in banking technology including online money transfer services;
• Masters degree in Systems Analysis from the National Technical University of Oil and Gas, Ivano-Frankivs'k, Ukraine