Tripod’s strategic staffing services help companies meet their tactical and strategic staffing needs for IT projects. Tripod works with its customers to understand their business and technical needs to identify the right candidate that is the perfect match for the position. Tripod focuses on fulfilling staffing needs in the following areas:

	Project Management – Experienced project managers to lead application development and system integration efforts. Tripod project managers work with all the project stakeholders and team members to ensure that scope-time-budget metrics are met.
	Business Analysis – Tripod’s business analysts combine an in-depth understanding of the business with hands on technology experience to craft solutions that address the needs of today’s businesses. Tripod’s business analysts are experienced in the following industries:   o Insurance   o Financial Services and Banking   o Legal Services   o Real Estate   o Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals
	Technology Implementation – Tripod provides experienced developers, architects and technical leads that can develop solutions based on the following technologies and tool:   o Web technologies, Application Servers and Middleware     J2EE, .NET, Web Services, Application Servers ( JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic), JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS), Service Oriented Architecture, Sharepoint Portal Server, WebLogic Portal Server, XML, XSL, HTML/DHTML   o New Media     Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, PhotoShop, Illustrator   o Databases     Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Access   o Reporting, Data Analysis     Crystal Reports, Business Objects, Cognos
	Quality Assurance – Tripod’ quality assurance team combines a strong understanding of the business requirements with industry standard quality testing tools and techniques to ensure that the finished work product meets the expected quality goals. Tripod’s QA consultants have demonstrated expertise in the following tools:   o LoadRunner, WinRunner, Astra Quicktest, WebTrends
	System and Network Management – Tripod provides system and network implementation and management consultants that are skilled in the a wide variety of operating systems, hardware platforms and tools including:   o Unix, Windows NT, 2000/2003 Server, Cisco
	User Interface and Usability Design – Tripod user interface architects apply the principles of usability, information architecture and graphic design to develop user interfaces that are easy to use, visually pleasing and easy to implement.