7/21/2008 – Marathon Consulting Ranked Among Top 10 It Firms in Hampton Roads
Virginia Beach, VA – Marathon Consulting, located in Virginia Beach, was recently recognized by Inside Business magazine as one of the Top 10 Information Technology firms in the Hampton Roads
area. Inside Business ranked Marathon in two separate categories. The first ranking category, IT Consulting, was published on April 14th and includes those IT firms who provide consulting
services to businesses, non-profits, local and Federal governmental agencies. Typical service offerings in this category would include IT Planning, IT Advisory Services, Packaged Software
Selection, Business Analysis, IT Performance Assessment, Internet Marketing, Project Management, and IT Due Diligence.
The second category, Computer Software Development, was published on June 23rd and includes those firms who offer programming and other related services. This would include such services as
Business Requirements Definition, Application and Database Design, Complex Internet, Intranet, and Extranet Application design and construction, Search Engine Optimization (“SEO”), Data
Warehousing, ETL Analysis and Programming, Specialty Reporting, and other turnkey solutions.
The Inside Business rankings were based upon the number of IT consultants each firm employs in the Hampton Roads area. Marathon considers being ranked in the Top Ten in both categories
as quite significant because the firm was just launched twenty-seven (27) months ago.
Read more about the Inside Business Lists by logging onto www.insidebiz.com.
6/9/2008 – Nathan Giordano Joins Marathon
Virginia Beach, VA – Marathon Consulting welcomes Nathan Giordano to the firm. Nathan is a Systems Administrator and Web Developer with over ten years of experience. His areas of expertise
include web design, programming and systems administration in a mixed Unix and Windows environment. Nathan holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Math and Computer Science from Virginia
Wesleyan College.
Nathan holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Math and Computer Science from Virginia Wesleyan College.
5/1/2008 – Marathon Consulting Opens Software Development Center
Virginia Beach, VA – Marathon Consulting, LLC, a Hampton Roads-based Information Technology services firm, announced the opening of a Software Development Center (SDC) near the
Town Center area of Virginia Beach. The Development Center, located at 505 S. Independence Blvd., enables the Marathon staff to provide off-site consulting services to clients
whose floor space or infrastructure constraints make it difficult to house project teams.
1/7/2008 – Tammy Bogart Joins Marathon
Virginia Beach, VA – Marathon Consulting is pleased to welcome Tammy Bogart as an Information Technology Consultant. Tammy possesses over ten years of software
development experience. Over the past five years, she has concentrated her efforts in the development of web-based applications using technical platforms which
including .NET, SQL Server, and JAVAScript.
Tammy attained a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Information Systems from Old Dominion University.
12/1/2007 - Marathon Consulting Expands to Central Virginia
Richmond, VA - Marathon Consulting is pleased to announce its recent expansion into the central Virginia IT services market. In October, Marathon won an engagement
to enhance certain web-based applications currently operated by Old Dominion Electric Cooperative. “ODEC” and its 12 member cooperatives serve electricity consumers
in Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. In Virginia, ODEC distribution covers approximately 40% of the land mass. In Maryland and Delaware, ODEC covers approximately
80% of the land mass. ODEC operates power generation facilities in Virginia and Maryland and holds financial interests in several others.
In addition to Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, Marathon is pursuing other application development opportunities with several Richmond-based organizations.
11/26/2007 - Marathon Consulting publishes “Expert” article in Inside Business on Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
Virginia Beach, VA - Search Engine Optimization, or “SEO”, is an emerging tool that many organizations have used to improve the effectiveness of their internet
marketing efforts. In order to inform the business community of SEO’s benefits and describe a successful methodology for its use, Al Moore recently published
the following article in Inside Business magazine – a Landmark publication.
For those of you wishing to view the article on the Inside Business web site, open the following link. Because of the manner in which Inside Business makes
articles available on-line, you may be required to provide a subscriber ID and password. For those of you who do not subscribe to Inside Business, you can download a PDF version of article -
Organic Search Engine Optimization.
11/26/2007 - M. Scott Clevenger Joins Marathon
Virginia Beach, VA – Marathon is please to announce that M. Scott Clevenger has joined the firm as an Information Technology Consultant. Scott has nine years
of web design and development experience.
Scott holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.
11/5/2007 – Matthew Warren Joins Marathon
Virginia Beach, VA – Marathon Consulting welcomes Matthew Warren to the firm. Matthew joins us as an Information Technology Consultant with over four years of
system analyst experience. He enjoys project management and software engineering.
Matthew holds a Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Information Systems from The College of William & Mary. Additionally from East
Carolina University, he attained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with a Systems Development concentration and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry.
8/1/2007 - Jay Agnew Joins Marathon
Virginia Beach, VA – Marathon Consulting welcomes Jay Agnew as a Senior Consultant. Jay Agnew brings 11 years of software design and development experience to
Marathon. Additionally, Jay has proven teaching and project management experience and has worked in numerous industries including healthcare, finance, and tourism.
Jay received an Associate in Applied Science (Information Systems Technology) from Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke, Virginia.
