Heuristic Solutions was please to co-sponsor the Certification Network Group meeting this June.

The topic of this meeting was “Open Space” where members of the community brought topics relevant to their programs.These included:

• Management 101/Managing your association like a small business
• Issues faced in setting up a new certification program
• Re-certification challenges
• Substantiating the value of your certification program
• Ethics in certification management

Heuristic Solutions looks forward in actively contributing to all of these topics.

Arlington, VA: On September 26, Christopher Butcher participated with faculty, alumni, and industry leaders in an advisory board for the Management Information Sciences and Computer Information Sciences programs for Marietta College, in Ohio. 　

The advisory board is responsible for developing a curriculum for Marietta students to prepare them for post-academic work. The department has engaged in extensive research to identify needs in the professional world that can shape the academic program. Says Butcher,

“I’m delighted to share my expertise with an organization like Marietta. Many colleges can produce bright people, but it takes a very special program like the one Marietta is developing to produce entry-level graduates who can hit the ground running. As a graduate of a liberal arts college, I know how difficult it can be to apply the theoretical work you do academically to the business world. At Heuristics, we like graduates from liberal arts programs, but the investment to bring them to a full understanding of how to get the job done is considerable.”

The advisory group is led by Bob Van Camp, Associate Professor of Computer Science, and Mark Miller, Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. It is comprised of Marietta graduates in the field, faculty, and industry leaders. Says, Van Camp:

“We are considering options on how to improve our current degrees. We encourage the input of experts in industry like Christopher Butcher to help us with this process. Christopher shares our belief that students need strong conceptual knowledge as well as practical experience. As the layers of abstraction increase, one challenge is to find what kind of domain knowledge students need to be successful. Christopher has extensive knowledge and experience in this regard and greatly contributed to our discussion.”

About Heuristic Solutions

Heuristic Solutions, LLC is a leader in .NET software development and consulting services for associations, political consultants, marketing communication companies and technology innovators in Washington DC and surrounding metropolitan areas. The Company specializes in helping customers solve business problems by thinking strategically about their businesses and applying fitting technologies to their problems. The Company’s clients include U.S. Census Bureau, The Federation of State Board of Physical Therapy, Malchow Schlackman Hoppey & Cooper, American Society of Nephrology, Cato Institute and the United States Coast Guard.

 

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Christopher Butcher will be leading two talks at the 2011 Technoloy Conference in Washington, DC. Each talk will address some of the key issues facing organizations’ technical initiatives.

One talk will address issues organizations face regarding virtualization. The talk will bring leaders who have been through a virtualization process to describe their reasons for making the decision to virtualize and lessons learned.

The other talk will focus on the discipline of requirements management. This talk will describe various methods of gathering requirements and ways to track project progress to ensure requirements are implemented correctly.

For more information on either of these talks, refer to Christopher’s blog at www.ciocode.com, or e-mail directly: cbutcher@heuristics.net.

Heuristic Solutions

Heuristic Solutions, LLC is a leader in .NET software development and consulting services for associations, political consultants, marketing communication companies and technology innovators in Washington DC and surrounding metropolitan areas. The Company specializes in helping customers solve business problems by thinking strategically about their businesses and applying fitting technologies to their problems. The Company’s clients include U.S. Census Bureau, The Federation of State Board of Physical Therapy, Malchow Schlackman Hoppey & Cooper, American Society of Nephrology, Cato Institute and the United States Coast Guard.

Christopher Butcher is formally announcing his blog, the CIO Code. This blog focuses on helping bridge the gap between technical and business strategies. It includes insights gained over the last 20 years helping organizations make good decisions about technology.

The CIO Code includes “The Code” which is a set of principles for CIOs and technology leaders to govern information technology effectively. It also focuses on the relationship among project stakeholders in software implementation projects through the core principles of Predictability, Understanding, Productivity, and Quality.

Take a look, subscribe, and provide comments!

Heuristic Solutions is pleased to announce that Maria Rinaldi, PMP, has joined our team. Maria brings 15 years of project management expertise to complement our outstanding software engineering skills. Maria comes to us most recently from the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), and before that Marriott International. Prior to those companies, Maria worked for an impressive array of other web development firms. For more about maria, take a look at her biography.

About Heuristic Solutions

Heuristic Solutions, LLC is a leader in .NET software development and consulting services for associations, political consultants, marketing communication companies and technology innovators in Washington DC and surrounding metropolitan areas. The Company specializes in helping customers solve business problems by thinking strategically about their businesses and applying fitting technologies to their problems. The Company’s clients include U.S. Census Bureau, The Federation of State Board of Physical Therapy, Malchow Schlackman Hoppey & Cooper, American Society of Nephrology, Cato Institute and the United States Coast Guard.

Christopher Butcher announced today that he has been accepted as a member of Washington, DC’s premier executives association, the Washington Executives Association (WEA). Mr. Butcher cites this as an opportunity to network with some of the area’s most prestigious firms. Of the WEA, Mr. Butcher says: “I’ve been especially impressed with the quality of the people at the WEA. Each of the members is a leader in their field, and is positioned both benefit from my skills and expertise and to provide me news avenues to grow my business.”

About Heuristic Solutions

Heuristic Solutions, LLC is a leader in .NET software development and consulting services for associations, political consultants, marketing communication companies and technology innovators in Washington DC and surrounding metropolitan areas. The Company specializes in helping customers solve business problems by thinking strategically about their businesses and applying fitting technologies to their problems. The Company’s clients include U.S. Census Bureau, The Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy, Malchow Schlackman Hoppey & Cooper, American Society of Nephrology, Cato Institute and the United States Coast Guard.