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 skillstorm Named as a semi-finalist for tampa bay workforce alliance bUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARD

 

Tampa, Florida (May 28, 2009) – SkillStorm, the industry’s fastest-growing staff augmentation and outsourcing company providing Information Technology, Engineering and Project Management solutions, has been named a semi-finalist for the Tampa Bay WorkForce Alliance 2009 Business Excellence Award.  Winners for this award will be announced at an award ceremony on June 16th at the InterContinental Tampa Hotel in Tampa, Florida.

 

“This award is a great honor for us,” said SkillStorm Managing Partner Jason Lipson. “It would not be possible without the tremendous efforts of our talented and devoted employees and the loyalty of our wonderful customers.  We thank them all and look forward to a lucrative future together.”

 

The Tampa Bay WorkForce Alliance Business Excellence Award highlights companies with a strong commitment to excellence and employee programs that makes these companies among the best in the Tampa Bay area.  The semi-finalists were selected based on how easiy job candidates can access companies for employment; retention and training programs; corporate philosophies on diversity recruiting; opportunities for advancement and the effective and efficient use of technology to hire and retain the best talent.

 

SkillStorm has received many highly regarded national and state awards.  Most recently, SkillStorm was named 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.  The company was also named 2009 Business of the Year by the South Florida Business Journal.  SkillStorm also won Orlando Business Journal’s 2008 Outstanding Small Business Award, received the San Diego Better Business Bureau (BBB) 2008 Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics and was named one of the 2007 Best Places to Work in Central Florida by the Orlando Business Journal.  Other accolades include being awarded the 2006 Governor’s Entrepreneurship Award in Florida’s Mega Market 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 customers.

SkillStorm has 14 offices throughout the United States, with corporate headquarters located in San Diego, California.

 

For more information on SkillStorm, please visit us on the Web at www.SkillStorm.com.

 

 

 

About the Tampa Bay Workforce Alliance

Tampa Bay WorkForce Alliance (TWBA) is the leading workforce development organization in the Tampa Bay region. TBWA offers services to businesses to help connect them to job candidates and other value-added workforce development services.  TBWA strengthens the competitive edge of local businesses in measurable ways that lead to the economic vitality of the region.