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RESOURCES
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Skills
The Digital Thinkers engineers have acquired over
the years an impressive number of skills in the
real-time embedded systems field. Compiling
an exhaustive skill list would be counterproductive
and relatively pointless, particularly since the
company has switched completely its focus from
leading-edge telecom contracting to research and
development of disruptive technologies in the field
of avionics.
Some major areas of telecom
expertise, technologies and protocols are listed
below (not necessarily in a logical order or format):
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Circuit-switched and packet-switched hardware, FPGA and software,
DSP speech recognition and processing, DSP telecom channel data
acquisition and processing (load balancing,
traffic shaping, de/coders), HDTV, commercial
satellite communications, NMARSAT, proprietary telecom
protocols, proprietary convergence layers.
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The application-programming group can help with
a similarly large variety of high-level languages
and environments (Java, C/C++, MFC, Visual Basic,
PowerBuilder), scripting languages (JavaScript,
Perl, TCL, UNIX shell), J2EE application server
technologies (servlets, JSPs, JSP custom tags,
JDBC, JTA, JMS, JavaMail), application servers
(WebLogic, WebSphere), Web development technologies
(DHTML, CSS, XML/XSL, applets, CGI, Ant),
relational databases (Sybase, SQL Server, DB2/UDB,
Oracle, Informix, Access), message-oriented
middleware (IBM MQSeries, NEON message brokers),
on all flavors of Windows, UNIX and OS2 platforms.
People
Digital Thinkers believes that the most important
asset of a company is the collective knowledge
of its people.
In an innovative attempt to keep up with the rapid
changes in the high-tech arena, the company offers
full reinstatement packages to team members
who offer to embark temporarily on contracts with
other companies in order to learn new technologies
and acquire new skills. This pragmatic approach
allows Digital Thinkers to offer its clients a
broader range of skills and takes it one step
farther in its goal of providing one-stop-shopping
services.
Although the company prefers to hire and retain
valuable collaborators, the exponential growth-rate
required by large contracts in not sustainable in
the current economic environment.
Digital Thinkers is very well connected in the
small world of high-skilled real-time engineers and,
for cases where outside talent needs to be used,
it maintains an extensive list of
individual contractors and similar organizations
whose expertise and professionalism are beyond
reproach. Although this list of connections is
confidential,
the company relies on its professional connections
to staff contracts of almost any complexity and
magnitude.
The company has also formed strategic alliances with
a number of organizations with similar culture,
processes, skill set and pricing strategies, in a
relationship that allows participating groups to
tap into each other's talent pool and offer
one-stop-shopping services to their clients.
The ability to leverage local,
on-shore and off-shore
resources from a common pool - as well a larger set
of vertical expertise - translates into an immediate
advantage for the clients, which receive better and
more complete services at a lower price.
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