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Celebrating Nearly 30 Years: Chris Atkinson Announces Retirement
Westfield, IN — August 31, 2026 —After nearly three decades of shaping who SEP is and how we work, Chris Atkinson, our Chief Delivery Officer, has announced his retirement, effective August 31, 2026. Chris joined SEP in 1997, coming from an engineering role at UPS after earning his Electrical Engineering degree from Purdue University in […]
Eight Donors, One Truck: Fresh Food for 21 Indiana Counties
The SEP Foundation joins seven other donors to fund a refrigerated truck expanding Gleaners’ fresh food delivery across Central and Southeast Indiana Westfield, Indiana – Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana is purchasing a 26-foot refrigerated box truck with support from eight donors, including the SEP Foundation. The truck can transport approximately 20,000 pounds of food […]
Everybody Agrees You Should Hire Junior Engineers. Almost Nobody Does.
A colleague, Charles Penn, asked me recently what I thought the future looked like for junior engineers. He’s someone who always keeps the human element in view, and he’d been reading the same things I had. Juniors wondering out loud whether they’d be unhirable in a few years. Companies saying the quiet part out loud: […]
3 Things I Accidentally Learned from Corporate Jargon
Written By Over the summer, the interns and I had some giggles over the various corporate jargon we’ve heard online, at previous jobs, and even at SEP. Corporate jargon is a word or phrase commonly used in business environments to communicate ideas, processes, or strategies. We giggled because, removed from their context, these phrases seemed […]
3 Things Our 2026 Interns Learned About Trust and Bad Questions
Another summer at SEP is wrapping up, which means another round of interns has spent the last few months writing real code, asking real questions, and getting a real look at what it’s like to build software that matters. We asked our 2026 interns to look back on their summer. Left to right: Evan Dossett, […]
SEP Welcomes Quentin Law as Vice President of Finance
SEP, a 100% employee-owned software product development firm, announces the hiring of Quentin Law as Vice President of Finance. Quentin brings over 22 years of finance leadership to guide the company’s financial strategy and operations. “Quentin’s background across Big 4 consulting, global manufacturing, and software gives him a well-rounded view of financial leadership,” said Traci […]
How We Modernized SEP.com to Finally Look & Work Like SEP
SEP.com (the website) has been around since 1997. We’ve had a few iterations of the website since it was first built, from a 1990s tabbed site with a Flash game player to a static HTML site that required real coding chops to make simple content tweaks to a full redesign in 2020 with help from […]
We Turned an Awards Ceremony into a Live Arcade With AI
How SEP used Generative AI to help NCWIT Awards participants build and deploy Three.js games
Sleep On It: The Engineering Case for Better Rest
A few months ago I read a book called Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, a neuroscientist who runs the Center for Human Sleep Science at UC Berkeley and has published over a hundred peer-reviewed papers on sleep. I love reading about health and wellness, and the more I got into this one the more […]
SEP Foundation Awards 2026 Scholarships to Two Indiana Students
For the first time, the SEP Foundation Maker Scholarship names dual recipients Westfield, Indiana – The SEP Foundation is excited to announce the 2026 recipients of the SEP Foundation Maker Scholarship: José G., a computer science student at Purdue University Fort Wayne, and Ani A., who is studying computer engineering at Purdue University. This marks […]
SEP Ranks #2 on Indianapolis’ 2026 Top Workplaces List
Westfield, IN – May 7, 2026 – SEP, a software product design and development firm based in Westfield, Indiana, has once again earned a spot among Central Indiana’s Top Workplaces, placing second in the Midsize Companies category. The recognition is based entirely on employee feedback collected through an anonymous survey administered by Energage LLC. Survey […]
Cool Computer Name Ideas: Examples, Tips & Why IT Cares
Pop quiz: What do wizards, superheroes, and your work computer have in common?They all need a good name. Your computer name is the first impression you make on the IT team, the conversation starter when someone glances at the label on your laptop, and let’s be honest, probably the most fun part of your onboarding […]