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IntroPro is a privately held service company that specializes at complete development and integration life cycle of complex distributed enterprise applications, embedded software products for digital TV broadcasting, Telecommunication Services, Financial, E-Commerce applications and software products for other industries. The company was established in 2008. By today more than 100 long term projects have been completed and the number of employees has exceeded 320 persons. IntroPro is a Certified Oracle Gold Partner. IntroPro is a market leader for RVU protocol-centric tools, products and services. The company has a considerable set of tool products dedicated to RVU protocol specification verification and certification. Production sites are located in Kiev, Ukraine. Major clients of IntroPro are DIRECTV, RVU Alliance.

Capabilities and Advantages

All IntroPro staff have a high level of education in Computer Science, Information Technologies and Applied Mathematics degrees from leading Ukrainian technical universities. The majority of engineers had graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine and National Taras Shevchenko University with a M.S. degree. Senior members have 6 to 15 years of work experience. Majority of IntroPro staff possess extensive experience working for big international IT, Telecom and Software companies.

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Ready Resources to start New Project
Today IntroPro has resources that can be quickly assigned to a new Project or a new Customer. Advantage here is that the planned core resources can be relocated to the project from the bench.

Ability to make a quick additional staffing

IntroPro can make a quick additional staffing of the new project or account team. This is due to IntroPro effective HR practices combined with a good knowledge of local human resources market. IntroPro has a good reputation on the market with numerous advantages to the competitors.

Responsible partner ready for tight project schedules

IntroPro and its customers’ cooperation experience prove that IntroPro can meet the most tight schedule requirements.

Competitive rates and prices

Competitive rates and prices make an important advantage of IntroPro to the competition.

Flexible contract options

• Flexible contract options
• Fixed Price for customers with clearly defined requirements Time and Materials (for customers with projects in the process of being defined)
• Hybrid — Time and Materials as the architecture and specs are defined, then a Fixed Price for implementation

Secure and safe development facilities

• Safety and security of all project data is supported by the latest IT security technologies and are backed-up on regular basis
• Source code is committed or pushed to Customer’s Source Control Infrastructure
• Access to Customer’s servers and farms is over dedicated VPN link.

Project Management and Project Lifecycle

IntroPro is a project-oriented company with small management personnel overhead. Unified project management and SDLC methods used for majority of projects are Agile and Waterfall. Project management practices used in a company are closely following PMI organization recommendations. All project managers are capable to personally perform the most difficult tasks as the developers. This ensures that the project team members will be closely controlled and given a good advice. For project management IntroPro uses MS Project, Trac and other products. Also, for many projects the customer’s project management systems are used by the customer’s demand. Detailed weekly reports and if needed daily reports are the basis of successful projects’ progress information exchange with the customer.

For effective information and data exchange with customer following instruments are used:

• Online weekly and daily meetings through WebEx tool
• Repository of project working documents available for project teams from both sides

Key employees of IntroPro are often present at customer’s site at crucial phases of the project based on a customer’s demand – requirements specification clarification, initial design, deployment of application. For account management two approaches are practiced. First, a custom system is developed for specific customers. Second, a customer’s account/project management system is to be used when IntroPro managers had a direct access to the customer’s system. The choice here is to the customer.

Enterprise Applications Department

Applications Department is dedicated to execution of projects in the area of Enterprise Grade systems, Telecommunication services, E-Commerce and Financial software products
Enterprise Applications Department has a body of 140+ engineers specialized in enterprise applications analysis, development, integration and support. Knowledge of big number of modern operating systems and enterprise software development environments makes IntroPro specialists ready to fulfill the most challenging projects. IntroPro engineers have good expertise in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Business Process Management (BPM) technologies. To realize SOA/ESB/BPM technologies the robust and reliable middleware platform and products are used from the leading industry vendors, like Oracle. IntroPro has a strong Analysts Team who are experts in existing customer’s systems analysis with conversion the applications to the new middleware architecture. IntroPro has developed a powerful tool for enterprise application analysis and transition to the SOA/ESB/BPM archtecture. IntroPro specialists are experienced with enterprise applications development, integrationm, migration for digital TV broadcasting, telecommunication and finance industries.

Embedded Systems Department

Systems Department is involved in Embedded Systems and Mobile Applications Projects in highly specialized areas like Broadcast Television Set Top Boxes, Home Media Systems and GPS based systems. IntroPro has a body of 160+ engineers specialized in embedded and mobile software development and support. Knowledge of several operating systems is a must for Embedded Software Department engineers and usually includes Linux, Unix, QNX, Windows, iOS and Android . For a programming platform practically all IntroPro engineers are able to use C++, ObjectiveC and Java. This is a good advantage since majority of embedded and mobile systems use a mix of these programming technologies. Additionally there is an extensive list of other operating systems and development platforms where IntroPro engineers are keen. Having a good knowledge of embedded software development IntroPro engineers are also experienced in developing the PC-based tools that operate connected to the embedded systems. IntroPro specialists are experienced with satellite and cable TV set top boxes (STB) software technologies (Linux, STB software services and applications, drivers etc.), iOS and Android mobile applications development with a strong integration with Cloud services and Enterprise systems.

Quality Assurance Teams

Software-Quality-AssuranceIntroPro has a strong and dedicated Quality Assurance teams who are engaged in testing projects for both Embedded Software and Enterprise Applications Departments. QA knowledge gamut covers both industrial testing for Embedded Sevices, Functional manual testing for End User appliances like multiple hardware versions of Set Top Boxes, automated and Continuous Integration driven functional, performance and soak testing of Enterprise-grade server products.

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RVU Technology Team

IntroPro specialists have a deep knowledge of RVU technologies and RVU protocol specification. IntroPro was engaged in several RVU protocol-centered projects (see RVU Technology). Having starting these projects nearly 5 years ago when the first version of RVU protocol specification was introduced, byt today IntroPro specialists have accrued extensive RVU technology skills and experience including implementation of RVU stack. This makes to IntroPro an important advantage when participating in RVU technology-based projects.

Careers

Why to work at IntroPro and no to go to Outsourcing giants or hot startups? We provide long term stability in career, steep growing salary curve, and the most important, we give a chance to work with latest technologies which are hot trends at IT market both in Enterprise, Telecom and Embedded areas. You will have an opportunity to emerge into Java SOA Middlware stack, Distributed Data and Computational Grids, Big Data technologies, High Performance and Low Latency algorithms and paradigms with a lot of Enterprise Java, Linux with C++ and Embedded Java with an emphais on tuning application for low memory footprint and reduced CPU consumption.

OPEN VACANCIES

Academy

We understand the crucial role of education in the high-technology sector. The IntroPro Academy was created as a platform for knowledge sharing and growing technical talent. We are committed to invest in our technical expertise and keep our competitive advantages — pragmatical approach to problems, smart solutions, cutting edge technologies and high quality standards. We look at Academy as the place to share technological experience between teams, provide insights and project retrospectives, keep tech talks on advanced technologies, best tools and innovative development approaches.