Consulting Services

A list of our main service offerings is shown below. If you require services not listed here, we still may be able to help you. Please contact us if this is the case.

• Full-service software development or consultation (all aspects of the life-cycle).
• Design reviews, code reviews, team and project assessment.
• Consultation on current and upcoming technologies, industry practices, and best practices.
• Software, project, team, and technology evaluation.
• Management consulting.
• Oversight and coordination of your off-shored/outsourced software projects.
• Product usability analysis and recommendations.
• Failed project turnaround, planning and execution.
• Evaluation and valuation of intellectual property, pre-litigation consulting, infringement analysis, mediation, expert witness.
• Technical support setup, training, and evaluation.

Our areas of expertise are always changing and expanding. Listed below are a few major areas of topic coverage by Prolifogy experts.

• Mainstream programming languages and platforms (e.g., C++, Java, .NET, PHP, C#).
• Software design methodologies, including UML.
• Custom compiler and interpreter design and implementation.
• Embedded systems and devices, particularly smartphones, PDAs, appliances, and consumer electronics.
• Networks, including protocols, standards, security.
• Assembly programming languages on various hardware platforms.
• Databases, including relational, hierarchical, object-oriented, and distributed.
• Algorithm design, analysis, implementation, and profiling.
• Software design methodologies, implementation and best practices.
• Parallel, distributed, and cloud computing.
• Real-time computing.
• Adobe® Flash® programming.
• Web 2.0 technologies, including the Microsoft .NET Framework, Content Management Systems, XML, CSS, WPF, WCF, PHP, Ajax and others.
• Formal methods, including automatic verification and software synthesis.

Them

Most software consulting and outsourcing firms staff competent professionals with marketable background, credentials and experience that can be billed to wide audience of clients. However, most do not staff experts with extraordinary skills, deep knowledge in a particular area, or notable contributions to the state-of-the-art because such individuals are not as widely marketable and are often engaged in professional activities (e.g., conferences, research, teaching) not compatible with a typical full-time employment arrangement.

Us

Prolifogy, on the other hand, only engages experts who have a minimum of ten (10) years of experience and have made significant and notable contributions to the field. Most have earned advanced degrees, have published scholarly works in their respective area of the field, and maintain an active role in learning and creating new technology. Most practice within their respective areas of expertise as a matter of daily routine and provide consulting services only when their particular expertise is required.

It is our policy not to disclose the identities of our clients. However, we are pleased to offer a listing of the types of clients we have worked with:

• Consumer electronics manufacturers.
• Mobile phone and smartphone manufacturers.
• Manufactured goods suppliers.
• Research labs.
• Major software companies.
• Major research universities.
• Government agencies.
• Law firms.
• Consulting firms in various industries.
• Health care facilities.

• Designed PDA-based selling and delivery software for a major beverage company.
• Formulated and conducted a software-based experiment to determine whether trade secrets were misappropriated to the benefit of a competitor.
• Fully implemented a distributed air traffic control TRACON simulation.
• Implemented a biological modeling research tool for a major software company.
• Designed and implemented software for a fire safety consulting firm which ensures compliance with Federal, state, and local codes, rules, and regulations.
• Inspected various production source code for evidence of unlicensed use of patented technology.
• Worked in conjunction with a major university and major software company to research methods for synthesizing correct software directly from requirements.

Some situations require experts—many don't. We're happy when we can help, but we will tell you when better solutions exist or when our services don't fit your problem. When you contact us, we will review your requirements to determine whether Prolifogy experts are the right solution for your project. If our services make sense for you, we will be ready to get started quickly.

Once staffing availability has been determined, we will be happy to provide cirricula vitae for all proposed experts serving your project prior to commencement. We do not require minimum time commitments and we are generally ready to start working as soon as you need us. Prolifogy invoicing is flexible to accommodate most client needs.