Showing posts with label engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label engineering. Show all posts

Friday, February 19, 2010

Data Transfer Solutions to Unveil New Transportation Engineering Division at Reception at Embers in Downtown Orlando

ORLANDO – Data Transfer Solutions, LLC the Avalon Park based firm that provides asset management, geographic information systems (GIS) transportation planning, web design, database applications and multimedia production services to local government and regional and state agencies throughout the nation, will host a reception to showcase its new Transportation Engineering Division on Feb. 25 at Embers, 42 W. Central Blvd. in downtown Orlando.

A.M. “Trey” Fragala, II, AICP, PMP, chief operating officer at Data Transfer Solutions, said the firm’s Transportation and Engineering Division includes 12 professionals and specialists who serve state and county transportation departments throughout the U.S.

Staff from the firm’s recently launched subsidiary, Earth Eye will be on hand. Earth Eye provides aerial and terrestrial based LiDAR scanning, orthophotography, photogrammetry and precision mapping. Earth Eye’s custom LiDAR viewing software will be on display as well.

The reception is scheduled for clients, prospective clients and strategic partners from 4:30 to 7 p.m.
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For more information, contact:
A.M. “Trey” Fragala, III, AICP, PMP, Chief Operating Officer, Data Transfer Solutions, 3680 Avalon Park East Blvd., Suite 200, Orlando, 32828; 407-382-5222; tfragala@edats.com

Friday, February 5, 2010

bioTRAiTS Finds Windows 7 Easy Upgrade For Time Management, Security Applications For Global Market

ORLANDO - bioTRAiTS, Inc., the Orlando-based biometric engineering company that markets bioTRAiTS Time Manager and bioTRAiTS PCID corporate security systems worldwide along with a wide range of professional and consumer IT products, successfully completed integration of MicroSoft Windows 7 into its principal applications and is now shipping bioTRAiTS Time Manager V.7 and bioTRAiTS PCID V.7 to bioTRAiTS UK.co, a European distributor.

Peter A. Wengert, chief executive officer of bioTRAiTS, Inc., said integration of Windows 7 was a simple process.

“Our product worked almost seamlessly with the 32 bit version, and only had a few minor adjustments to make with the 64 bit version,” Wengert said.

bioTRAiTS Programmer Kyle Webb said Windows 7 user access controls presented minor challenges. “Adapting the user access controls was annoying for both versions but they constitute excellent security precautions,” Webb explained.

“Windows 7 provides plenty of documentation on how to work with the new operating system, and that made the transition fairly painless,” he said.Ricardo Aguilar, chief operating officer at bioTRAiTS, said the firm’s specialists have already begun upgrading clients in the field.

“Compared to Vista, integrating Windows 7 was a walk in the park,” Aguilar said. “We’ve had no problems upgrading existing systems in the field.”

bioTRAiTS Inc. is a University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program client located at the Central Florida Research Park in East Orlando.

For more information about this release contact: Peter A. Wengert, CEO bioTRAiTS, Inc. 3267 Progress Drive, Suite 103, Orlando, FL 32826; 866-815-0888 or peter@biotraits.com; Carol Ann Dykes, Site Manager, UCF Business Incubation Program, 407-882-0211, cdykes@mail.ucf.edu

About bioTRAiTS: bioTRAiTS, Inc. is a biometric technology company committed to helping companies protect assets, increase profits and increase revenue. bioTRAiTS, Inc. provides customized software solutions to meet time, attendance and access control needs via recognition and verification of unique human characteristics. With over seven years experience in the field of electronic security, bioTRAiTS, Inc. consistently delivers an excellent return on investment and receives high marks for customer service.

About the UCF Incubation Program: Since its founding in 1999, the UCF Business Incubation Program has helped more than 130 emerging companies (including nearly 80 current clients) create over $500 million in annual revenue and more than 1600 new jobs with an average salary of $59,000. With six facilities open across the Greater Orlando community and one more underway, 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, The City of Sanford, Lake County, the City of Leesburg, and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council. For more information, please visit www.incubator.ucf.edu.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

HCR Appoints Mounir G. Sadat, P.E., M.A.S.C.E. General Manager of New Jersey Division


MOUNT DORA - HCR (Handex Consulting & Remediation, LLC), one of the largest environmental remediation companies in the nation, has appointed Mounir G. Sadat, P.E.,


M.A.S.C.E., as general manager of its New Jersey division.
Sadat is a professional civil engineer licensed to practice in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Wyoming, Oklahoma, West Virginia and New Brunswick, Canada. He earned his B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering from Rutgers University.

Sadat has more than 20 years of environmental industrial experience with federal, state and industrial clients. He is also skilled in project management, Brownfields redevelopment, civil engineering remediation system design and installation, site investigations and remediation, and hazardous materials management. He has also managed civil environmental and wind energy design and installation for commercial clients.

He is an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a member of the International Who’s Who of Professionals.

For more information, contact:

Irvin R. Heath, President, HCR (Handex Consulting & Remediation, LLC) 352-735-1800 ext. 1527, iheath@handexmail.com;


Candice Thrush, Project Coordinator, HCR (Handex Consulting & Remediation, LLC) 352-735-1800 ext. 1524, cthrush@handexmail.com

Friday, September 18, 2009

Engineering & Computer Simulation among Inc. Magazine’s Top 500 picks

ORLANDO, Fla. - Engineering & Computer Simulation, Inc. (ECS), the Orlando-based firm that develops simulation technology for corporate, academic and military training programs, was recently named to Inc. magazine’s list of “Top 500” fastest growing U.S. companies.

ECS, which reported $11.6 million in revenues last year, has deep roots in Central Florida and is an active participant in the Edward Lowe Foundation’s economic gardening initiative – the CEO Nexus/PeerSpectives™ program, according to Steve Quello, president of CEO Nexus.

A public-private initiative affiliated with the University of Central Florida Department of Research and Commercialization, CEO Nexus brings together local second-stage business leaders in a forum with successful mentoring CEOs of companies in the region.

“ECS’s achievement as one of this year’s Inc fastest growing is a genuine testimonial to economic gardening’s benefits, especially accelerating business growth cycles,” said Dr. Tom O’Neal, associate vice president of the UCF Department of Research and Commercialization.

ECS, located at The Quadrangle on University Blvd. and Alafaya Trail near the UCF Campus, is part of the simulation cluster that the UCF Business Incubation Program and CEO Nexus are helping to cultivate, Quello said.

For more information, contact
Steve Quello, President/Principal, CEO Nexus 407-590-6101; squello@ceonexus.com

Dr. Tom O’Neal, Executive Director, UCF Business Incubation Program, 407 882-1120, oneal@mail.ucf.edu

Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications 407-644-4142; lvershelco@aol.com

About ECS:
ECS (Engineering & Computer Simulation, Inc.) creates high impact solutions to improve training and education across the spectrum of corporate, academic and military training domains. Our design professionals and engineers work closely with clients to provide solutions that can be tailored to people from diverse backgrounds and that are capable of providing graphic simulated experiences that can be shared with geographically dispersed teams of people.

About CEO Nexus:
CEO Nexus is a public-private initiative that provides second-stage business leaders—owners, CEOs and presidents—with practical tools and techniques designed specifically for growing second-stage companies. Sponsors include The Edward Lowe Foundation, the Florida High Tech Corridor Council, the University of Central Florida Office of Research & Commercialization, Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission, Enterprise Florida and the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Data Transfer Solutions, LLC Playing Big Role Shaping GIS Technology as an Everyday Household Appliance

Data Transfer Solutions, LLC Playing Big Role Shaping GIS Technology as an Everyday Household Appliance

AVALON PARK, Fla. - Lead GIS software architect Brian Noyle at Data Transfer Solutions, LLC, which provides professional asset management, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software engineering and web development services to local and state government agencies from offices in eight U.S. cities, is playing a leading role in a worldwide effort to reshape GIS technology into a more practical, user-friendly and powerful tool for consumers.

“As web mapping technologies become more ubiquitous through the efforts of vendors like Google and Microsoft,” Noyle said, “it becomes incumbent upon the software development community to satisfy the increasing expectations of users regarding how easily and how fast they get information. Our goal is to produce software systems that are as ubiquitous and easy to use as Google, Twitter, and the iPhone,” he said.

“Put simply, traditional GIS technology has long enabled the user to locate anything with a spatial context on a map, and perform analyses related to the data” Noyle explained. “At first, GIS provided benefits to government agencies, land managers, infrastructure providers and technology specialists who need to know where assets and their customers are located, where impacts to the landscape are occurring, or other specific scientific questions,” Noyle explained.

“Initially, GIS applications were developed from the engineer’s perspective, and it took a fair amount of expertise to utilize the technology.”

Now, Noyle is a leader in a worldwide movement to make GIS mapping technology accessible to a wider audience, including anyone with a cell phone. The potential, Noyle said, is enormous.

When power lines go down during a hurricane, repair crews need to know what has been impacted and how to get there quickly. Both police officers and pizza delivery vans need to know their way around unfamiliar neighborhoods without having to learn GIS technology, Noyle said.

“In the developing world, this new approach to distributed mapping technology can better the lives of millions of people in just a few years,” Noyle explained. “Right now, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is funding a program in Africa that links small plot farmers using cell phones to a data base that collects information on irrigation, fertilizing, planting and harvesting decisions.

The end result will be better productivity and more food for hungry populations. But the key benefit is to achieve these ends at affordable costs, without a huge government bureaucracy, while providing information to users in a paradigm that they already understand” Noyle said.

Data Transfer Solutions engineers have developed a mapping application that tracks the spread of influenza virus. “It’s global in scope, fully internationalized, and highly specialized---it does one thing very, very fast,” Noyle said. “Rather than providing generalized GIS toolsets to our users, we simply ingest data and show disease incidence on map for the individuals around the world who need this information.”

Noyle and Dave Bouwman, chief technology officer at Data Transfer Solutions, lead the DTSAgile division, which focuses on developing cutting-edge geospatial solutions concentrated on usability and performance. (http://dtsagile.com/staff/Dave) and (http://dtsagile.com/staff/Brian).

Noyle and Bouwman made big waves recently when they presented papers during the ESRI 2009 Developer Summit in Palm Springs, Calif. ESRI, Inc., ranks as the world’s foremost developer of GIS software, and conference participants included most of the major corporate and government GIS users. (http://www.dtsagile.com/Media/Presentations)

“Our whole focus was on how to bring GIS mapping into the 21st century and make it accessible to everyone,” Noyle said.
They were a smash hit.

Almost immediately, ARCUser Magazine---a leading U.S. industry journal on GIS mapping technology---commissioned an article outlining Noyle and Bouwman’s design and development philosophies and two additional articles ran in the same issue addressing the summit presentations. Directions Magazine, a leading professional journal in the GIS field, then commissioned a series of articles to expand on Noyle and Bouwman’s usability ideas.

A.M. “Trey” Fragala III, ACP, chief operating officer at Data Transfer Solutions, headquartered at Orlando’s Avalon Park, said Noyle and Bouwman are rising quickly to the top ranks of GIS technologists.

“Dave Bouwman and Brian Noyle are creating a major impact on GIS mapping technology with their developments,” Fragala explained. “The technology revolution under way in the field of GIS mapping will have profound effects on the ability of public agencies to manage public assets efficiently and effectively, and on end users---average citizens---to create new ways to address age-old problems,” Fragala said.

“The solutions we are developing are playing a major role in an important technological evolution,” Fragala said.

For more information, contact:
A.M. “Trey” Fragala, III, AICP, Chief Operating Officer, Data Transfer Solutions, 3680 Avalon Park East Blvd., Suite 200, Orlando, 32828; 407-382-5222; tfragala@edats.com;

Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications 407-644-4142 lvershelco@aol.com

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Data Transfer Solutions, LLC, Awarded New Contracts to Provide Data Services in Texas, New York, Vermont

Data Transfer Solutions, LLC, Awarded New Contracts to Provide Data Services in Texas, New York, Vermont

ORLANDO, Fla. - Data Transfer Solutions, LLC, the Avalon Park-based firm that provides professional GIS (geographic information systems), asset management, software engineering and web development services, was recently awarded contracts to provide services to government agencies in Texas and Vermont and The Wildlife Conservation Society based in New York City.

A.M. “Trey” Fragala III, AICP, chief operating officer at Data Transfer Solutions, said the firm was recently awarded a contract to provide LiDAR data collection, orthophotography and Mobile Asset Collection through the use of the DTS MAC vehicle in Texas as part of the PBS&J team.

The firm was awarded a second contract from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) of New York to provide generalized map viewing (GME) services. DTS has been retained by the WCS for the past two years on a variety of projects including the development of a web-based GIS map viewer tracking the worldwide instances of the global avian influenza. This recent contract is an extension of the ongoing work on behalf of WCS.

The State of Vermont awarded Data Transfer Solutions a contract to provide Enterprise GIS application development.

For more information, contact:
A.M. “Trey” Fragala, III, AICP, Chief Operating Officer, Data Transfer Solutions, 3680 Avalon Park East Blvd., Suite 200, Orlando, 32828; 407-382-5222; tfragala@edats.com;

Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications 407-644-4142 lvershelco@aol.com

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Data Transfer Solutions, LLC awarded Major Subcontracts in Florida, Texas

Data Transfer Solutions, LLC awarded Major Subcontracts in Florida, Texas


ORLANDO, Fla. - Data Transfer Solutions, LLC (DTS), the downtown Avalon Park-based technology firm that provides professional Asset Management, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software engineering and web development services to local and state government agencies from offices in eight U.S. cities, was recently awarded two major subcontracts in Florida and Texas.


A.M. “Trey” Fragala III, AICP, chief operating officer at Data Transfer Solutions, LLC, said the firm will work with the engineering firm Post, Buckley, Schuh and Jernigan (PBS&J) to provide GIS orthophotography and lidar support.


Fragala said DTS plans to make use of its MAC-Van mobile data collection vehicle equipped with more than $500 thousand worth of digital and photographic collection equipment.


DTS was awarded a second contract to support RS&H, an engineering firm with offices in 11 Florida cities and 13 states, on behalf of the Florida Department of Transportation.


DTS will provide GIS application development and updates on roadway characteristics using the MAC-Van mobile data collection vehicle, Fragala said.


The two contracts are worth more than $2 million potentially, Fragala said.


For more information, contact:
A.M. “Trey” Fragala, III, AICP, Chief Operating Officer, Data Transfer Solutions, 3680 Avalon Park Blvd. East, Suite 200, Orlando, 32828; 407-382-5222; tfragala@edats.com
Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications 407-644-4142 lvershelco@aol.com

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

NAI Realvest Completes $925,000 Sale of 10,000 Square Foot Port Orange Industrial Facility


NAI Realvest Completes $925,000 Sale of 10,000 Square Foot Port Orange Industrial Facility

ORLANDO, Fla. - NAI Realvest recently negotiated the $925,000 sale price for a 10,000 square foot industrial building and its 1.17 acre site at 4401 Eastport Parkway in Port Orange.

Paul P. Partyka, managing partner at NAI Realvest, who represented the seller, Environics USA, Inc. of Great Falls, Va., said the property was purchased by local engineering company, Eastport QLH, LLC, for their new headquarters.

For more information contact:
Paul P. Partyka, Managing Partner, NAI Realvest, 407-875-9989 ppartyka@realvest.com
Janice Paiano, Director of Marketing NAI Realvest 407-875-9989 jpaiano@realvest.com
Beth Payan or Larry Vershel, Larry Vershel Communications 407-644-4142

About NAI Realvest:
NAI Realvest, covering all of central Florida, is a fully integrated commercial real estate operating company specializing in brokerage, development, investment, leasing and management, consulting and research services in the U.S. and worldwide. NAI Global is an international commercial real estate network with over 325 offices spanning the globe. Since 1978, clients have built businesses on the power of NAI Global’s expanding network. Extensive services include multi-site acquisitions and dispositions, sublease, tenant representation, lease administration and audit, investment services, due diligence and related consulting and advisory services. To learn more, visit http://www.nairealvest.com/.