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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2025 Exceptional Employer Mira Award
SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Tech Employer, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana - SEP has been named Exceptional Employer by TechPoint at the 26th annual Mira Awards. This award recognizes companies that are developing talent through skills-based hiring…
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Software Engineering Professionals (SEP), along with Indiana’s technical community, has long fought out-of-state companies such as Google and Microsoft in attracting and keeping excellent technology and science minds. In a competitive and evolving industry, finding technical talent is a growing concern central Indiana. With this in mind, SEP President and CEO Jeff Gilbert has announced […]
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Lean/Agile Pay It Forward
We have a Pay It Forward Program here at SEP, where we get $50 from the company to do something nice in this season of giving. It can’t go to friends or family; it can’t be just another charitable donation to a .org. Many Pay It Forward participants have bought cups of coffee for strangers, […]
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SEP Matching Public Donations for Typhoon Haiyan Relief
Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) is saddened by the destruction and devastation caused by last week’s Super Typhoon Haiyan across the Philippines. As we have in the past, SEP and its employees are doing what they can to help with the efforts of the American Red Cross to bring aid and supplies to those in their […]
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Over the Horizon
Software is a very fluid realm, and the ebbs and flow move quickly. Moore’s Law in hardware is dragging software with it, if the software isn’t already pushing the hardware itself. Often people ask, what’s next? Days Gone By I remember when I first started as a Software Engineer back in 2000. I cut my […]
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Even With Structure, The Possibilities are Endless
Poetry is an art form based on structure. The pinnacle of poetry studied by most everyone on their high school English class is the sonnet. As a refresher, a sonnet has 14 lines of iambic pentameter using a handful of rhyming schemes to group lines in to an octet that builds rising tension followed by […]
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Twenty-Five Years of SEP
Before Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) had a name or won over its first client, 24-year-old Jeff Gilbert and his three Rose-Hulman buddies were working in unsatisfying jobs, dreaming of creating an environment where they would want to work. “We wondered, what if the technical people were running the company. If we stayed focused on employees […]
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SEP COO Traci Dossett named 2013 Indy’s Best and Brightest Winner
Software Engineering Professionals™ (SEP) is excited to announce Traci Dossett has been recognized as the 2013’s Indy’s Best & Brightest winner in the field of Technology. Dossett began at SEP in 1993 as the company’s Accountant and Controller before being named Chief Operating Officer in 2011. She has been the driving force behind many of SEP’s philanthropic […]
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Shades of Grey
As professional football gets back in the swing of things, I’m reminded of one of the iconic plays from the sport: the Hail Mary. You have to score, but you have no time left and you’re on the wrong side of the field. So, what do you do? You throw the ball way up and […]
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2012 Corporate Giving Infographic
The Community Involvement initiative kick started by the four officers at SEP was a chance to put into action the goodwill SEP spreads among its employees and their families. Through programs such as Pay-It-Forward as well as fundraising and supply collection, SEP has encouraged its staff to become active members of the community through multiple […]
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