SECTOR :
Software engineering professional services, IT Consulting
and Training
ACTIVITY : Vested Development,
Inc. (VDI) is a provider of leading edge software
engineering services that transform ideas into
products. VDI's global software engineering teams
have an impressive track record of developing
software applications that meet the critical needs
of Fortune 500 companies.
Its long-term practical experience allows VDI
to create unique project methodologies that guarantee
the delivery of products on time and within even
the strictest budget.
VDI is ISO 9001 certified organization.
 MARKETING
POSITIONING |
VDI represents a global software engineering professional
services firm. Our products and services help our
clients in all stages of solution building. From
collaboration on product design to support and maintenance,
we help our clients engineer, develop, and deploy
their products. As our company has grown, so too
has the scope of our engagements with clients. VDI's
resources and experience have enabled us to expand
our service line to include product re-engineering,
project recovery, and consulting services.
VDI is a client-centered company. In this sense,
VDI goes beyond the offerings of a 'typical outsourcing
company'. The Company succeeds by thoroughly understanding
our clients' needs (through on-site meetings and
interviews, prototyping, regular feedback, early
delivery, etc.) to be able to independently promote
their interests in our work and guarantee that
their vision is always met with concrete deliverables
and terms around which they can plan and on which
they can depend.
During the years VDI has been in business, we have
always focused on building long-term partnerships
and have an extremely high customer retention rate
of 95%.
| HISTORY |
Founded as an American company in 1998, Vested
Development Inc. actually had been developing
software in the Russian market since 1993. In
1996 when this business received their first American
customers, founder Anatoly Gaverdovsky sought
to procure American venture capital and incorporate
the company as an American entity in order to
better serve North American customers. Thus, VDI
set out to penetrate the software development
outsourcing market with a local presence at company
headquarters in greater Boston, MA and an offshore
development center with over 200 highly trained
and experienced Russian software engineers.
Having obtained ISO 9001 certification and set
up its own training center, VDI continues to grow
its business in terms of quality, customers, and
staff.
| CUSTOMER
CARE & CLIENT SERVICES |
VDI is committed to delivering our customers quality
products and services that meet or exceed expectations.
By providing its services faster and more cost
effective, VDI customers can focus their efforts
on more strategic, mission-critical activities.
From feasibility assessments for new products to
rapid product development, quality assurance, re-engineering,
migration, and maintenance VDI provides its customers
a complete software engineering solution in the
functional areas of:
oCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)
oSecurity & Encryption
oEnterprise application Integration, Web Services
oLegacy Systems re-engineering
oBusiness Process Automation and Workflow
oSupply Chain Management (SCM)
oProcessing/Analysis Applications, BI, OLAP
oWireless/Mobile programming
oDocument/Knowledge and Content Management
oe-Learning
oPorting and Migration
oQuality Assurance
oProject Recovery
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| HUMAN RESOURCES,
EMPLOYMENT POLICIES, AND BENEFITS |
VDI's greatest asset is the knowledge, skills,
abilities, and experience of its people. VDI recruits
and retains highly talented software engineers
with advanced degrees in mathematics, computer
science, and engineering. In order to ensure that
our employees grasp our fundamental process and
development methodologies and advanced technologies,
VDI created its own high-tech Training Center.
VDI is devoted to training and motivating our
workforce to achieve success.
| BIOGRAPHICAL
INFORMATION |
Peter D. Ickes - President & Chief Operating
Officer
(Email: PeterI@vdiweb.com)
As President of Vested Development, Inc. (VDI),
Peter Ickes is responsible for leading the firm's
strategy, business development and client management
activities, business operations and financial operations.
Ickes envisions VDI evolving to become the pace
setting, next generation of professional services
firm providing advantaged software engineering services.
VDI is a leading provider of technology based innovation
services because of its unique value proposition.
"We enable our customers to hit their key
time-to-market objectives by demolishing capacity
constraints of time, quality and cost to significantly
mitigate the risk of technology innovation,"
Ickes says.
Peter Ickes joined VDI from The Telic Group, a Boston
based strategy and business development consulting
practice. Earlier Ickes was Chief Client Strategist
at eRunway, Inc., a Westborough, Massachusetts based
Indian offshore development company providing software
development services. He came to eRunway from Gen3
Partners, Inc., where he served as a founding Vice
President and Chief Client Officer. Prior to Gen
3, Ickes was an equity partner at Treacy & Company,
developing New Economy strategies and new business
opportunities in the global electronics, financial
services, media and communications, and manufacturing
industries. Before Treacy & Company, Ickes served
as Senior Manager for Braxton Associates/ Deloitte
Consulting Group, where he was the senior competitive
and growth strategist responsible for the sale,
direction and delivery of multiple engagements to
large international and domestic clients. He is
the former Director of Technology at Cowles Media
Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was an early
member of Integrated Systems Services Company, the
IT services and outsourcing organization that became
IBM's Global Services.
Ickes also has extensive experience in the computer
industry where he had concurrent responsibilities
for the development of new hardware and software
technologies as well as their go-to-market strategies.
Ickes has an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts,
strategic planning emphasis, an M.F.A. from Temple
University and an A.B. from Dartmouth College.
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