Co-Founder, CEO of NR Electronics in Winter Springs Wins Latina Style Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Co-Founder, CEO of NR Electronics in Winter Springs Wins Latina Style Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award

WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. - Liza Ordonez, co-founder, president and chief executive officer of NR Electronics, the Winter Springs firm that specializes in hard-to-find electronic components, was named Orlando’s Entrepreneur of the Year by Latina Style Magazine.

Ordonez, who was born in Zaragoza, Spain, earned her B.F.A. Degree from Kansas State University.

She was honored at a special event at the Wyndham Orlando Resort recently.

NR Electronics, Inc. is a client company of the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program in Winter Springs. The incubator is a partnership between UCF, Seminole County Government, the City of Winter Springs and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council.

For more information, please contact:
Norberto Ruiz, Operations Director, NR Electronics LLC, 407-278-8885 or 7548 Norberto@nrelectronics.com;
Esther Vargas-Davis, Site Manager, UCF Incubator–Seminole County, 407-278-4881; evargasd@mail.ucf.edu;
Dr. Tom O’Neal, Executive Director, UCF Incubation Program, 407-882-1120;
Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142

About the UCF Incubation Program:
Since its founding in 1999, the UCF Incubation Program has helped more than 100 emerging companies (including nearly 70 current clients) create over $500 million in annual revenue and more than 900 new jobs with an average salary of $59,000. With five facilities across the Greater Orlando community, the Incubation Program is a collaboration in economic development between the University of Central Florida, Orange County, the City of Orlando, Seminole County, the City of Winter Springs, and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council. For more information, please visit http://www.incubator.ucf.edu/.

Small Bay Partners, LLC, Succeeding Despite Economy Downturn

Small Bay Partners, LLC, Succeeding Despite Economy Downturn

ORLANDO, Fla. - Small Bay Partners, LLC, the Orlando-based company that specializes in developing small bay industrial facilities for business users of 2,000 to 20,000 square feet of space, has continued to grow despite a sagging economy.

Howard Schieferdecker, one of the founders and principals of Small Bay Partners, LLC, said good planning is the reason.

“Our master strategy has always been to limit debt on our properties,” Schieferdecker said.

“When we saw the problems coming in late 2007 and early 2008, we did everything we could to reduce debt as much as possible, so most of the property that we have now is owned free and clear,” he said.

Small Bay currently owns a 16-acre Apopka parcel that is slated for future development, Monroe CommerCenter IV in Sanford, with 73,650 square feet of warehouse condominium space; and Poinciana CommerCenter, which is under development now with 120,000 square feet.

“The key to surviving downturns is to avoid excessive debt on development projects,” Geof Longstaff, another principal of Small Bay Partners, explained.

Small Bay Partners is also well capitalized.

“We have quite a bit of cash in the bank to hold us. If there is a problem that comes up, we have plenty of funds to take care of it until the market turns,” he said.

For more information contact
Howard Schieferdecker, Principal Small Bay Partners, LLC 407-702-3131, haschief@aol.com;
Geof Longstaff, Principal Small Bay Partners, LLC - 407-786-5040; glongstaff@mercantilecc.com;
George Livingston, Principal, Small Bay Partners LLC - 407-857-9989 glivingston@realvest.com;
Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142

Beazer Homes Offers Town Homes Priced From Mid $130s in Newest Phase at Verano in the Mandarin Area

Beazer Homes Offers Town Homes Priced From Mid $130s in Newest Phase at Verano in the Mandarin Area

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Beazer Homes is offering two and three bedroom town homes priced from the mid $130s in the second phase at Verano, a town home community located off Bartram Park Rd. in the Mandarin area.

David Byrnes, president of Beazer Homes in Florida, said 10 ready-to-move-in town homes are available in the second phase, where 50 town homes are planned ranging in size from 1,400 square feet of living space to 1,500 square feet with one-car garages.

Beazer Homes is also offering to pay closing costs up to 3.5 percent of the sale price, Byrnes said.

Beazer Homes is one of the country's 10 largest single-family homebuilders with operations in 17 states. Headquartered in Atlanta, Beazer Homes is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "BZH."

For more information, contact:
Theresa Tilton, Vice President of Sales Beazer Homes/Florida, 407-339-4114, ttilton@beazer.com
David Byrnes, President/Beazer Homes Florida, 407-339-4114, dbyrnes@beazer.com
Brooke Keysor-Edge, SE Regional Marketing Specialist Beazer Homes/ SE Region, 407-339-4114, bkeysor@beazer.com
Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142

Datanautix, Inc. CEO Interviewed by TechJournal South about helping bring offshored Jobs Back to the U.S.

Datanautix, Inc. CEO Interviewed by TechJournal South about helping bring offshored Jobs Back to the U.S.

WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. – Datanautix, Inc., an innovative technology firm based in Winter Springs, was profiled recently by TechJournal South, a technology business publication for the Southeast region, reaching over 60,000 technology executives each month. Detailed coverage can be found online at the TechJournal South site on this link http://www.techjournalsouth.com/news/article.html?item_id=7156.

Sanjay Patel, the founder and president of Datanautix was interviewed and the company profiled as a viable alternative for firms seeking to reduce costs in the customer service centers without having to resort to moving the calls overseas. Developed over the past three years, Patel explained that Datanautix’ proprietary conversation-mapping technology is designed to leverage the science of consumer behavior and operational analysis to help companies drive breakthrough change in how they manage contact center interactions with their customers.

“Our innovative new technology has been developed at the UCF Technology Incubator,” said Patel, “and has leveraged grants from sources such as the National Science Foundation and Enterprise Florida. Getting coverage like this in technology publications is a strong indication of the timeliness of solutions such as the Datanautix Intelligent Interaction Analytics offering.”

“The economic challenges we face coupled with globalization gaining momentum, it is critical for companies to drive to a level of efficiency and effectiveness. Our solution gives companies a viable alternative to taking jobs offshore” said Patel.
The Datanautix Intelligent Interaction Analytics technology can track more than 200 possible customer experience indicators to capture the context of agent/customer interactions in a call center. “By combining our proprietary measurement toolkit with our data analytics and predictive modeling technology, we are able to pinpoint specific areas of process change and improvement that typically yields a 20-30 percent savings with an overall improvement in customer satisfaction of 15-25 percent,” Patel said.

Datanautix is a client company of the University of Central Florida’s Seminole County Incubator site at 1511 E. S.R. 434 in Winter Springs.

For more information please contact:
Sanjay Patel, Founder & President, Datanautix, 407-349-5330, sanjay@datanautix.com
Esther Vargas-Davis, Site Manager, UCF Incubator-Seminole County, 407-278-4881
Tom O’Neal, Ph.D., Executive Director, UCF Business Incubation Program, 407-882-1102
Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142

About Datanautix:
Datanautix Inc. specializes in helping companies drive key business process improvements in the contact center/customer management market. The Datanautix Intelligent Interaction Analytics and “active listening” approach not only improves on traditional QA and CSAT measurement challenges, but goes beyond the ‘traditional’ to uncover customer expectations to help drive process changes to improve customer loyalty and operating efficiencies. Typical results from Datanautix’ business process reengineering deployment yield 20-30 percent in savings while driving overall customer satisfaction scores up by 10-20 percent. For more information, please visit http://www.datanautix.com/.

About Stellar:
Stellar is a leading global call center and business process outsourcing provider, with over 6,000 employees across 19 centers in Australia, UK, USA, Canada and the Philippines. Stellar’s innovative solutions help clients reduce operating costs, improve quality levels and increase revenue and profitability. The company serves a range of clients in the telecommunications, utilities, transport, finance, government and manufacturing industries. In addition to call center outsourcing, Stellar specializes in document management, workflow automation technology and process outsourcing solutions. For more information, visit http://www.stellarbpo.com/.

About the UCF Incubation Program:
Since its founding in 1999, the UCF Incubation Program has helped more than 100 emerging companies (including nearly 70 current clients) create over $500 million in annual revenue and more than 900 new jobs with an average salary of $59,000. With five facilities across the Greater Orlando community, the Incubation Program is a collaboration in economic development between the University of Central Florida, Orange County, the City of Orlando, Seminole County, the City of Winter Springs, and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council. For more information, please visit http://www.incubator.ucf.edu/.