FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
CONTACT:
Rebecca Amesbury,
Vice President
Telephone:
954-566-4647
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SKILLSTORM AWARDED CONTRACT BY STATE OF FLORIDA,
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SERVICES
St. Petersburg,
Florida (October 21, 2009) –
SkillStorm, the industry’s fastest-growing staff
augmentation and outsourcing company providing Information Technology,
Engineering and Project Management solutions, has been awarded an Information
Technology Consulting and Staff Augmentation services contract by the State of
Florida’s Department of Management Services.
The work will be performed throughout the state of Florida over the
course of three years.
“We are very excited to have been awarded such
an important contract,” said SkillStorm CEO Vince Virga. “With five of our offices in Florida, we are happy
to be able to provide the services needed to make our state flourish.”
Under this contract, SkillStorm
can provide any Florida state, county or city entity
with Project Consulting Services and Information Technology Staff Augmentation
in the areas such as analysis and design, operational support and development
and integration. More specifically, SkillStorm will be providing professionals in several
fields including application development, data strategy and management, quality
assurance, technology research, network management, telecommunications, systems
programming and administration, program management and client technologies.
SkillStorm
has received many highly regarded national and state awards. Most recently, SkillStorm
was named 2009 Business of the Year and one of the 2009 Best Places to Work by the
South Florida Business Journal,
making this the second year in a row the company has received this honor. SkillStorm also won
Orlando Business Journal’s 2009
Outstanding Small Business Award, received the San Diego Better Business Bureau
(BBB) 2008 Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics, ranked #2 on Charlotte Business Journal’s Largest
Contingency Executive Search Firms List for 2008 and ranked # 2 on San Diego Daily Transcript’s Staffing
Firms List for 2008. Other accolades
include being named one of the 2007 Best Places to Work in Central Florida by
the Orlando Business Journal, being
awarded the 2006
Governor’s Entrepreneurship Award in Florida’s Mega Market, winning South Florida Business Journal's 2006
Technology Award in the Professional Services Category and ranking as the 13th Fastest
Growing New Company in America in 2006 on Entrepreneur Magazine and
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Hot 100 List.
About SkillStorm
SkillStorm
provides diversified technical services to various organizations
nationwide. The company specializes in Information
Technology, Engineering and Project Management consulting, outsourcing and
staff augmentation solutions. SkillStorm has an impressive client list, which includes
many elite Fortune 500 companies.
SkillStorm has 14 offices throughout the United States,
with corporate headquarters located in San Diego, California.
For
more information on SkillStorm or for updates on our
news articles, please visit us on the Web at www.SkillStorm.com
or visit our blog at www.SkillStorm.com/blog.