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.

Arlington, Virginia, September 05, 2007 – Heuristic Solutions, LLC, a provider of technology based solutions and consulting announced today the launch of its newest division Wm. Loren & Associates.

WLA is dedicated to providing corporate America with conversational marketing and research solutions in both, B2C and B2B environments using internet technologies to foster, promote and analyze real world conversations. The new division will also forge strategic partnerships with PR firms as well as advertising and marketing agencies who would like to offer a conversation marketing strategy to their clients.   

Heuristic Solutions tapped William Loren Mosher as director for the new division. Mosher, the former founder/director of successful word of mouth marketing and research firm Echopinion, brings more than 20 years in the field of advertising and marketing to the division. His extensive expertise combining technology and marketing in the newly emerging word of mouth marketing arena has helped customers leverage technology to take advantage of this increasingly critical marketing strategy.

“The process I developed at Echopinion was a training ground for our new offering,” states Mosher. “The new group is ready to take what we now know works and offer companies a sound conversational marketing strategy that utilizes both technology and consultative services to hold one-to-one conversations with their audience.”

Christopher Butcher, Principal of parent company Heuristic Solutions is excited about the new offering.“Bill brings a fresh approach and excitement to conversational marketing. Our business analysts and development staff are impressed with his vision.”

WLA will have offices in Washington DC and New York and will support clients nationwide.    

Heuristic Solutions, LLC is an emerging leader in 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, MSHC Partners, Inc., The American Society of Nephrology, Cato Institute and the United States Coast Guard.

For additional information, please contact:

William L. Mosher - Director
Wm Loren & Associates
703.232.5301