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Bureau Five
software and technology consulting
Bureau Five is a small San Francisco / Boston technology consultancy providing:
- Software design and engineering services (web, desktop, and device applications)
- Information architecture, from applications to enterprise-level systems
- Technology deployment and integration counsel
- User interface design and implementation
- Specialzation in marketing applications of internet technologies
Typically, we work on a contract basis to help a business introduce a new service, product, or additional functionality. Often, we then provide support for in-house stakeholders, engineers, and IT personnel through the build-out and deployment process.
Past projects have involved one or more of these technological foci:
- Web application development (LAMP, ColdFusion, SQL, integration, Flash Server)
- Browser-side UI development (d/x/html, JavaScript, Ajax, Flash)
- Desktop software development (MacOS, Windows, internet server integration)
- GPS technology integration (GPS/WAAS device integration with web-based systems)
- Mobile phone and device integration
We have successfully completed major projects for:
Bureau Five
Architected and implemented a web-accessed software-as-service application to provide quality-of-service (QoS) analyses of mobile telephony carriers to corporate subscribers.
Designed, architected, and engineered the company's core offering, working closely with the company founders. The result: an interoperating suite of web-based software-as-service applications that track grouped and individual recipient response to web marketing efforts.
Architected and developed a consumer-facing web site, with a group of related web-based services, for this large Canadian grocery retailer.
Created the entire initial launch site for this web-based dispute resolution system, now used by eBay and other online marketplaces.
Developed and executed a 6-month re-implementation plan to move the Distance Learning's flagship ScribeStudio product from an enterprise-only sold-as-hardware server to a web-based software-as-service on-demand product available to individuals and enterprises.
Result: the on-demand product quickly outsold the enterprise server version soon after launch.
User interface design, and the technical architecture behind it, for this complex on-line betting system.
User interface design, and UI code framework, for network management utilities.
Development of an object-oriented code framework to drive/manage liquid air production facility monitoring systems.
Development of a code framework to drive/manage large-scale telephone switching equipment. Also created end-user utilities based on this framework, including user interface design, in consultation with Ericsson's largest end-users.
Design and delivery of the end-user experience (UI, software, middleware) for operators of PE's large-scale automated gene-sequencing machinery.
Developed the initial launch site for the WebEx service.
(Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates)
Designed and implemented a secure web-based workflow and document management system for internal use.
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