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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2024 Innovation Service Partner of the Year Mira Award

SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Innovation Service Partner, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana - SEP has been named the Innovation Service Partner of the Year by TechPoint at the 25th annual Mira Awards. The Mira Awards, Indiana’s largest…
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SEP Hosts Indiana’s First Site in International Space Apps Challenge

NASA and other global space agencies participated in the fourth annual International Space Apps Challenge, held April 11-12, 2015 at more than 135 locations worldwide. Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) hosted the first ever site in Indiana at the company’s Carmel office. “The spirit of discovery and innovation is alive and well in Carmel. As one […]
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SEP Voted Indianapolis Star 2015 Top Workplace

SEP has been named a 2015 Indianapolis Star Top Workplace. In association with Workplace Dynamics, The Indianapolis Star identified 85 Central Indiana companies for the award measuring employee opinions on engagement, organization health and satisfaction. “We are really honored to be nominated to receive this award again,” said Laura Terry, HR Manager of SEP. “Passion […]
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SEP’s Chris Shinkle Among TechPoint’s Inaugural Tech 25

Chris Shinkle, Director of Innovation at SEP, has been recognized as an inaugural member of TechPoint’s Tech 25. TechPoint has been a core member of Indiana’s technology foundation since 2006. The Tech 25 recipients will be recognized during the annual Mira Awards Gala, which occurs May 2. Each year, the Mira awards celebrate the best […]
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Updating TimeZone in SharePoint 2013 through Powershell

Configuring time zones in SharePoint gets overlooked. It happens. SharePoint was up and running for over a year and no one really noticed that every new site was created with a Pacific time zone, which is not good since we are in the Eastern time zone. It went unnoticed until one engineer realized that the […]
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1. Big Data. 2. Now what?

True confessions: I am learning R, finally, after living and loving SPSS for many years. I am no expert in Big Data, having only been responsible for about 40GBs (about a million records of a thousand variables each) of data goodness in a previous work-life. [For an answer to What is Big Data, see this article.] […]
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2015 – Looking Ahead

The beginning of each year is often the time to look back on the previous and speak about the future. At our last company meeting we announced Raman Ohri’s promotion to President of SEP. Raman gave the employees a great overview of where we are going and what goals he has for the company. The […]
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Raman Ohri Appointed President of SEP

Carmel, IN – Software Engineering Professionals (SEP), a leader in custom software development, announces the appointment of Raman Ohri as President. Jeff Gilbert, previously in this role, will remain as CEO. Since becoming an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) in 2010, Gilbert’s succession planning has been at the top of his priority list. “One of […]
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Collaboration versus Competition part 2

In my previous post I discussed the problem of expecting a candidate with a competitive mindset to work in a collaborative environment. This time I would like to focus on the experiences that have led to a successful integration. I ended with a few notes on Team-Think. The goal of Team-Think is to alter the […]
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Collaboration versus Competition

Working with others is never easy. It takes hard work and the proper mindset to accomplish. This is a lesson taught to small children with varying degrees of success. I learned from an early age that sharing was important. I was taught to play well with others and to understand that others have needs that […]
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