SBIOI April 18th

Ryan Lemire, Executive DirectorRyan.Lemire@geocent.com

843-609-8868

Centered on Solutions

Who we are?

• Small Business• Focused on Software Development and

System Engineering• Voted #1 Small Business to work at in South

Carolina (2012)• Prime Contractor on CASI MAC N65236-12-D-

4850 (5.4 managed contract)

What we do?

Capabilities

Software Dev & Information Technology

Analytics

System Engineering & Technical Support

• Built Themis for CDCA C5ISR Conference

The Problem Asking Questions At the C5ISR Conference

• Traditionally Used Microphones• Can be intimidating• Often become sales pulpit

Thank you for taking my question...first let me tell you

all about me and my company…BLAH BLAH BLAH…

5 mins later…

”Where do you see your dept in 5 years”

Solutions?

• Needs to be anonymous

• Paper slips takes too long /hard to read handwriting

• Most people have smart phones...

• Any free apps out there?

• Twitter? #couldwork #backupplan

Commit!

• We had 2 weeks• Really only had nights and weekends• Geocent specializes in Agile/Scrum Dev• Just need some volunteers!

Build it!

Backlog Dev CICode repo Deploy

Google Docs Java / Eclipse GitHub Jenkins Apache Tomcat

Test / Defects

• Followed Agile Concepts• Used only what we needed• Didn’t waste time talking about “True Agile”• Leveraged Open Source tools• Distributed team NOLA/Chas – used Skype to collaborate

Go Live!

• Deployed the final code at 0300 before the conference• Capable of polling twitter• Ran for 3 straight days • 180 Questions Processed

Outcome

• Spawned a new virtual Org in Geocent www.geocentlabs.com

• Themis has been used at SBIOI, C5ISR, and AFCEA events for 2 years

• We had a lot of fun building it!

Give your people the freedom to innovate!…success will follow

Geocent, LLC

Ryan LemireRyan.Lemire@Geocent.com843-609-8868Lowcountry Innovation Center1535 Hobby Street, Suite 103North Charleston SC

SPAWAR Prime Contract:CASI – N65236-12-D-4850

SPAWAR Subcontracts:All kinds of pillars