Transcript Geocent

Centered on Solutions
SBIOI April 18th
Ryan Lemire, Executive Director
[email protected]
843-609-8868
Who we are?
• Small Business
• Focused on Software Development and
System Engineering
• Voted #1 Small Business to work at in South
Carolina (2012)
• Prime Contractor on CASI MAC N65236-12-D4850 (5.4 managed contract)
What we do?
Capabilities
Software Dev & Information
Technology
System Engineering &
Technical Support
Analytics
• Built Themis for CDCA C5ISR Conference
The Problem
Asking Questions At the C5ISR Conference
• Traditionally Used Microphones
• Can be intimidating
• Often become sales pulpit
Thank you for taking my
question...first let me tell you
all about me and my
company…BLAH BLAH
BLAH…5 mins later…
”Where do you see your dept
in 5 years”
Solutions?
• Needs to be anonymous
• Paper slips takes too long /hard to
read handwriting
• Most people have smart phones...
• Any free apps out there?
• Twitter? #couldwork #backupplan
Commit!
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We had 2 weeks
Really only had nights and weekends
Geocent specializes in Agile/Scrum Dev
Just need some volunteers!
Build it!
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Followed Agile Concepts
Used only what we needed
Didn’t waste time talking about “True Agile”
Leveraged Open Source tools
Distributed team NOLA/Chas – used Skype to collaborate
Backlog
Dev
Google Docs
Java / Eclipse
Code repo
GitHub
Test / Defects
CI
Jenkins
Deploy
Apache Tomcat
Go Live!
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Deployed the final code at 0300 before the conference
Capable of polling twitter
Ran for 3 straight days
180 Questions Processed
Outcome
• Spawned a new virtual Org in
Geocent www.geocentlabs.com
• Themis has been used at SBIOI,
C5ISR, and AFCEA events for 2
years
• We had a lot of fun building it!
Give your people the freedom to innovate!…success will follow
Geocent, LLC
Ryan Lemire
[email protected]
843-609-8868
Lowcountry Innovation Center
1535 Hobby Street, Suite 103
North Charleston SC
SPAWAR Prime Contract:
CASI – N65236-12-D-4850
SPAWAR Subcontracts:
All kinds of pillars 