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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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SEP Book Review for Persuasive Business Proposals

3Q Book Review: Persuasive Business Proposals

Persuasive Business Proposals by Dr. Tom Sant What’s the point? The point of this book is to write clearly and concisely, to differentiate yourself, and to better equip yourself with tools for writing persuasively.  Ultimately, this book is designed to help you and your company write winning proposals. How was it? Good.  I honestly felt […]
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Lean or Kanban Will Not Save Us From Ourselves

Lean or Kanban will not save us from ourselves.  By themselves, they will not prevent us from producing software that does not deliver value to the end customer. SEP has spent the better part of 20 years getting good at software development.  Throughout those 20 years, SEP has sought to improve or methods and processes. […]
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SEP Ranked in the Top 20 Best Places to Work

Thursday, May 05, 2011 Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) was honored to be nominated in the top 20 Best Places to Work in Indiana. (INDIANAPOLIS) — Companies striking the right balance of taking care of employees while operating a successful organization were recognized tonight at the Indiana Roof Ballroom by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. The […]
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SEP Featured in BioFutures Magazine 2011

Strong Company Culture Helps Software Engineering Professionals Succeed By: William “Rusty” Wilburn, Biofutures Magazine 2011 Challenging as it is, getting a startup off the ground is just the first step in creating a successful business. Building a company culture that attracts the brightest employees and best clients is critical to sustaining long-term success. Software Engineering […]
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SEP Nominated as a 2011 Best Place to Work

Best Places to Work in Indiana 2011 PRESS RELEASE February 22, 2011 Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) was recently named as one of the 2011 Best Places to Work in Indiana.  The awards program was created in 2006 and is a project of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, BizVoice®, Inside INdiana Business, the Indiana Economic Development […]
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Jeff Gilbert Receives Honor Alumni Award From RHIT

Jeff Gilbert, President and Founder of SEP, will be honored Saturday, October 2, 2010 with a Rose-Hulman Honor Alumni Award. The recipients are selected based on their (a) loyal, unselfish and meritorious service in furthering the interests of Rose-Hulman, (b) contributing to the national interest of our country, (c) professional achievement. Rose-Hulman honors four alumni […]
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Conversations in Outlook…

If you’re anything like me, you probably get a TON of email each and every day. In addition, you probably get emails that span a conversation over multiple days. Well, Outlook 2010 has this amazing feature called, Conversations. This will transform your inbox to look/feel more like a threaded forum (or, more like your gmail […]
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Never implement INotifyPropertyChanged again

I hate every time I am working on something and I have to implement INotifyPropertyChanged.  My DRY-dey sense tingles*.*  Not only am I forced to not use auto-properties (1st DRY violation), I’m forced to fire the event in each setter (2nd DRY violation), and specify the name of the property that is getting set, inside […]
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Software Engineering Professionals Supports Agile Community

Annual Agile conference provides the industry’s most comprehensive exchange of ideas and best practices Carmel, IN July 14, 2010 – Software Engineering Professionals (SEP), an employee-owned company today announced its sponsorship of Agile 2010, the leading international conference on Agile methods in software development set for Aug. 9 – 13 in Orlando, (https://agile2010.agilealliance.org). As a […]
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