Ethix Systems LLC ~your vision is our solution~

Ethix Systems was founded in 2006 as a software development and implementation company. Ethix Systems holds firmly the belief that small to medium-sized businesses should have custom software written for them that will improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their employees and processes, at a reasonable cost to the business. Ethix Systems also places a high amount of importance on educating their customers. They strive to avoid the complications and problems that have plagued software projects throughout the last several decades by explaining technical ideas in a non-technical manner and keeping open and frequent communication with their customers.

Daniel E. Carr

Daniel has lived in Greensburg, PA for all of his life. He graduated from Hempfield High School in 2002, and attended Saint Vincent College for 4 years. He graduated there in 2006 with a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, with a minor in Economics. Upon graduation Nick, Matt, and he began their business venture here in Greensburg. He thinks that it's exciting to be able to bring high-end software once only thought possible for big business to the local businesses of Westmoreland County. Some of his previous jobs are as follows:

	United States Steel Corporation (2 years)
		Worked in Customer Service / Global Service Desk
		Answered questions from any US Steel employee about their computer and technical problems.
		Interacted with the mainframe, Oracle databases, Lotus Notes, and Cisco VPN client.
		Headed a project to restructure the Lotus Notes Knowledgebase for the department.
		Trained 4 other interns on call-answering process.
	Prologic, Inc. (1 semester)
		Led the User Interface team for a JREAP-C communications application
		Built the functionality to display any detected messages on the screen. Also built the functionality to manually send the messages.
	SVC: Vocations Office (1 year)
		Migrated a website from a remote host to the SVC onsite location.
		Troubleshooted basic network and Windows problems.
		Aided with Powerpoint presentations and other web-graphic things, including a monthly newsletter.
During his time with Ethix Systems, not only has he improved his programming and project management skills, but he's improved his understanding of business in general, especially in the following ways:
		Effective sales and marketing
		Financial management and budgeting
		Corporate setup, maintenance, and tax regulations

Nicholas J. Marshall

Nick was born and raised just outside of Butler, PA where he attended Knoch Senior High school. After graduating from Knoch, he attended Saint Vincent College and graduated in 2006 with a B.S. in Computer Science. While attending Saint Vincent, he held three internships both on and off-campus. Below is a brief description of the work he was responsible for in these positions:

	United States Steel Corporation (3 years)
		Worked in the Telecommunications department
		Troubleshooted and maintained the call detail record accounting system for the corporation and wrote custom SQL scripts for keeping the oracle data consitant and clean
		Configured various services in Linux and scripted in sh and expect for numerous department-specific applications
		Developed web applications in ASP for the department website and aided in design for corporate site unification
		Configured Cisco networking devices using CATOS and IOS and worked with several networking protocols to do so
		Setup Cisco VPN Concentrators, configured them, and wrote PHP driven scripts to perform daily backups onto a Linux platform
		Maintained the Cisco VPN Client package with company specific logos and custom batch installation script and created multiple distribution points including FTP and ISO images for the package
		Scripted for the RADIUS authentication and Cisco Call Manager platforms and worked with the Cisco IP Phone API for creating custom XML applications
		Aided in migrating the corporation's DNS infrastructure over to a VirtualQIP platform from Active Directory
	Prologic, Inc. (1 semester)
		Worked on the Message Development and Processing team for a JREAP-C communications application
		Developed message classes in C following bit-level requiments documents on each message
		Wrote logic for handling these incoming messages when sent between multiple computers on a network to determine what to change on the current system and which messages to generate in response
	SVC: Computer Science Department (2 summers)
		Migrated a Windows 2000 domain controller to Windows 2003
		Created system images using Sysprep to distribute to all department PCs using Norton Ghost
		Created and managed various Microsoft GPOs
		Modified and wrote domain scripts in WSH for account maintenance and domain logins
After graduating, Nick decided to start his own software development and services company with two other of his graduating classmates. The most prominent factor for this decision was his hope to have people be excited by what can be accomplished in their business with custom software. From his previous internships as a coder, he didn't really get to interact with the end customer and often just developed software for the sake of developing it without being able to see the benefit/excitement the end user will experience.
During Nick's time working with Ethix Systems he has developed many proficiencies in the software development realm. These are most notably:
		Interface design and development
		Page and functionality flow
		Process procurement and translation
		Functionality as seen by the end user
		Database design and normalization fit to user's processes and historical tracking of data
		Complex and embedded SQL statement development using large sets of data across many tables and indices

We help build what you truly want
Most programmers will either build what you think you want, or what they think you want. We take the time to help you figure out exactly what you want, and then we build that. Our motto is, “Your Vision is Our Solution.” We help you mold that vision into something tangible.

Our sales people are our programmers
You know you aren't talking to someone who doesn't really know how the program works. We have seen sales people go out on a limb and say “this can be done,” and then find out later that it can't be done. We aren't like that. Since our sales staff is directly building the system, you can feel safe knowing that we know what can and can't be done.

We are a local business, and you can reach us easily
Have you ever called customer support and never gotten through to someone? We answer our phones and check our voice mails. We always keep communication with our customer because we have nothing to hide. Also, you're working with people in your community of Greensburg.

We can communicate technical things in non-technical terms
If you don't understand something that we've said, please ask us to explain it. We would be happy to put it in a way that you can understand. We don't use technical jargon just to confuse you and elevate ourselves. If we do use technical language, we explain what it means to you. We educate our customers to help them make better technology and application decisions.

We have ethics
We do what's right, not just what makes us money. We will be honest and truthful with you if something isn't going right. We won't pull anything over your head or give you double talk.

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APIs
	Authorize.net Payment Gateway (CURL)
	Excel/PDF/Doc Writers (PHP/FPDF/SOAP)
	Google Charts
	Google Maps
	PayPal Payment Gateway (SOAP)
	QuickBooks Remote Data Server Integration (QBXML/WDSL)
Databases
	DB2
	Microsoft Access
	Microsoft SQL Server
	MySQL
	Oracle
Data Standards
	AISI COMPORD
	ASC X12
	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
	HTML
	OraOpen System Interconnection (OSI)
	XML
Operating Systems
	Cisco IOS/CATOS
	IBM TSO
	Linux
	Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista
	Microsoft Windows Server: Active Directory & IIS
Programming Languages
	C/C++
	Java
	Lisp
	MIPS R2000 Assembly
	MOS 6502 Assembly
	Natural for DB2
	Prolog
	SML
	Visual Basic 6 (VB6)
	Visual Basic .NET
	Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
	x86 Assembly
Scripting Languages
	ASP
	JavaScript
	Perl
	PHP
	Ruby
	SQL
	Windows Script Host (WSH)
	XSLT