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class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_slideshow_full  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='background: #ffffff; padding:20px; background-color:#ffffff; border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>In 1977, David Lynch (now Senior Consultant of SOTA) joined\u00a0<b>Telos Consulting Services<\/b>\u00a0where he performed consulting, product analysis and design for Telos\u2019 Business Systems Division.\u00a0 In 1980 he moved to\u00a0<b>Insurance Software Organization<\/b>\u00a0(ISO) where he served as project lead for their insurance rating systems team.<\/p>\n<p>Dave moved into the field of Operations Management at Carnation Company in 1985, where the implementation of effective systems management solutions (e.g., problem, change and configuration management) was among his responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>In the mid 1980\u2019s, IBM announced the CSA (Customer Service Amendment) program that dramatically increased Fortune 1000 corporate interest in systems management solutions.\u00a0 Armed with applicable systems management expertise, Dave responded to that opportunity by founding SOTA Enterprises in 1986.<b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As a consulting firm, SOTA Enterprises provided education and implemented systems management solutions based on IBM\u2019s Information\/Management, CA-NETMAN and similar products for corporations including\u00a0<b>Trustcorp Bank\u00a0<\/b>and<b>\u00a0MCA Universal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>These independent consulting efforts ultimately yielded a \u201ctoolkit\u201d of pre-built components that were subsequently sold to clients as part of the consulting arrangements.\u00a0<b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In 1987, SOTA agreed to develop a robust commercial product\u00a0Integrated Data Center Management\u00a0(IDCM) for\u00a0<b>HealthOne<\/b>\u00a0(now\u00a0<b>Allina<\/b>\u00a0in Minneapolis) in exchange for control of the resulting software.\u00a0 From that point, SOTA went on to successfully market IDCM to\u00a0<b>Xerox<\/b>,\u00a0<b>Nestle<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>20th\u00a0Century Insurance<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Soon thereafter, SOTA grew to five full-time employees (including Heather McDougle, now President of SOTA). With a permanent marketing staff (plus a pool of talented subcontractors), policies of fair pricing, uncompromising customer service, and honesty, SOTA became a leader in systems management.\u00a0 SOTA eventually acquired many Fortune 1000 clients, including<b>\u00a0Salt River Project<\/b>,\u00a0<b>ARCO<\/b>,\u00a0<b>Navy Federal Credit Union<\/b>,\u00a0<b>Vons Corporation, Airline Tariff Publishing<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>Allstate Insurance<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>As an IBM Business Partner, SOTA provided education and classroom instruction to many IS organizations worldwide. As an expert in Information\/Management and NetView\u00ae, SOTA has frequently lectured at NEISUG, PISSAZ, IMAGE\u00ae, SCIUG and the Information Management National Conference.<\/p>\n<p>In 1993, solutions for systems management began to move from mainframe-based systems to client\/server.\u00a0 SOTA Enterprises responded by reengineering IDCM for client\/server deployment, resulting in\u00a0IDCM\/TerraFrame\u00a0(a PowerBuilder version of IDCM running at\u00a0<b>UCLA<\/b>).<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, Dave (seeking a lower-profile endeavor to start a family) took a contract at\u00a0<b>Kaiser Permanente\u00a0<\/b>and was eventually promoted to Project Manager of\u00a0Warp9\u00a0(a multi-tier PowerBuilder application).\u00a0 The project involved as many as 15 developers and lasted two years.<\/p>\n<p>In 1998, Dave moved to\u00a0<b>PeopleMover<\/b>\u00a0(now Opus\/360) to manage transition of the product\u00a0PeopleMover Staffing\u00a0from an outside firm (RDS) to in-house development.\u00a0 The position involved software development, management and the implementation of configuration management systems.\u00a0 Later Dave was promoted to Project Manager (with Kalani Manuel) of a \u201cskunk works\u201d project\u00a0TalentScout, an XML\/web service based replacement for PeopleMover Staffing.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, Dave teamed up with Mark Allen (CEO) and Pedram Abrari (CTO) to found\u00a0<b>Corticon Technologies<\/b>, a startup destined to make an impact on the emerging business rules marketplace.\u00a0 In this effort, Dave has worn a number of hats, everything from software development through project management.\u00a0 He played a pivotal role in Corticon&#8217;s technology direction and had primary responsibility for the design and implementation of Corticon\u2019s flagship product\u00a0<em>Corticon Studio<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, Corticon tasked Dave to redesign Corticon Studio from the ground up. \u00a0The goal was to create an embeddable, model-driven version of Corticon Studio based on Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and decoupled from the Eclipse UI\u00a0to enable Corticon Studio to run either inside or outside of Eclipse, key to clinching a partnership with IDS\/Scheer (now Software AG). \u00a0The result was\u00a0<em>Corticon Foundation<\/em>, a set of platform-neutral APIs that implement the Corticon rule authoring experience. \u00a0Today, Foundation runs in Eclipse as Corticon Studio 5.X, in AWT on Software AG\u2019s ARIS, and embedded in many end-user-written applications.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011,\u00a0<em>Progress Software<\/em>\u00a0acquired Corticon Technologies, and retained Dave as S<em>enior Architect\/Corticon Engineering,\u00a0<\/em>focused on the development of new features beginning with Corticon 5.2, including heavy participation in the development of <em>Corticon Server .NET<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, SOTA made a strategic decision to move away from the business rules space, retooling to specialize in the development of next-generation cloud-connected applications.\u00a0 Dave did a\u00a0\u201cdeep dive\u201d to evaluate Web 2.0 technology stacks, including Grails, Ruby on Rails, .NET Framework and Node.js.\u00a0 After working hands-on with these frameworks for almost a year, SOTA selected <strong>React<\/strong>, <strong>Redux<\/strong>, <strong>Meteor<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Node.js<\/strong>, and <strong>MongoDB<\/strong> as its preferred technology stack for developing new applications from scratch, particularly multi-tenant SaaS.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, SOTA has worked hand-in-hand with <strong>Reevix<\/strong>, <strong>Traffic Exchange Network<\/strong>, <strong>Quick International, Gavel Forms<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Pract.us<\/strong>\u00a0to develop seven minimum viable products (MVPs) and production-ready systems.<\/p>\n<p>As a byproduct of these development projects, SOTA has created <strong>VXFrame<\/strong>, a <strong>React\/Redux\/Meteor\/Node.js<\/strong> open-source framework for developing greenfield multitenant SaaS systems at low 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