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Decypher Winner in 5th Annual San Antonio Best Places to Work Award

2009-04-26T22:53:38Z

San Antonio, TX, April 22, 2009 – Decypher a full-service management and technology firm was selected as a winner in the San Antonio Business Journal fifth annual "Best Places to Work Awards". The winners represent the top 48 "Best Places to Work" in San Antonio.

Caroline Meador, CEO of Decypher states, "We have focused from day one at providing the best package and growth opportunities for our consultants. This helps confirm we are on the right track."

An award luncheon will be held on June 4th to recognize each winning company.

About Decypher
Decypher is a full-service management and technology consulting firm based in San Antonio, Texas that provides high-quality, risk-free Technology, Learning, and Management solutions to military, government, and commercial customers within the United States and around the world.

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Decypher wins $15B GSA Alliant-SB GWAC

2009-04-26T22:53:49Z

San Antonio, TX, February 20, 2009 – Decypher a full-service management and technology firm as a member of the “Metrica Team Venture,” a five company Joint Venture team, has been awarded a GSA Alliant Small Business Government Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC).

Decypher is one of the five companies that make up the Metrica Team Venture. Metrica Team Venture is one of the 62 vendors across the United States that will share in the $15 billion, 10-year contract. The joint venture is comprised of five tech companies. They are Decypher, Metrica Inc., Netgineer Data Systems Inc., Texas Management Associates, and InfoReliance.

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Decypher Awarded Seaport IDIQ from Navy

2009-04-26T22:54:00Z

San Antonio, TX, December 19, 2008 - Decypher a full-service management and technology firm was awarded a position on the U.S. Navy's Seaport Enhanced (Seaport-E) contract.

SeaPort-e is an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract established to facilitate a Navy-wide electronic procurement process that leverages buying power, improves business intelligence, and reduces purchasing time. SeaPort-e supports all commands within the Naval Enterprise Command including the Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Air Systems Command, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Naval Supply Systems Command, Military Sealift Command, Naval Facilities Command, Strategic Systems Programs, the United States Marine Corps, as well as other Department of Defense agencies.

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San Antonio companies earn spots on Inc. 5000

2009-04-26T22:55:51Z

September 4, 2008. San Antonio Business Journal

The San Antonio area is one of the country’s hottest regions for fast-growing companies, according to the recently released Inc. 5000 list.

The median revenue of the 25 local companies included in the analysis came in at $21.3 million — making the Alamo City the metropolitan area with the second-highest median revenue on the 2008 Inc. 5000 list.
Grand Rapids, Mich. ranked first with median revenue of $26.2 million. Baton Rouge, La., Houston and Kansas City rounded out the top five, with median revenues of $18.8 million, $17.1 million and $16.5 million, respectively.

Companies were ranked by revenue growth from 2004 to 2007. To qualify for the ranking, companies had to be U.S.-based, privately held for-profit businesses. They also had to be independent — not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies — as of Dec. 31, 2007, and had to have at least $200,000 in revenue in 2004 and $2 million in revenue in 2007.

The top five San Antonio companies on the list are Decypher Technologies, Papouli’s, security company Innove, Operational Technologies Corp. and The Denim Group.

The full list is available on inc.com.

Decypher wins $1 million deal

2009-04-26T22:56:11Z

On September 3, 2008, Decypher was mentioned in the Local/State Briefs of the San Antonio Express News. Article follows:

San Antonio-based Decypher Technologies, Ltd., and information technology and training consultant, has received a contract worth more than $1 million from the U.S. Army.

Under the contract, Decypher will provide program management, consulting, and other services to the U.S. Army Medical Information Technology Center.

"This is a great opportunity for us to continue our mission of serving the Army medical community," CEO Caroline Meador said in a news release.

Decypher selected Booz Allen Hamilton as a partner in the contract.

Decypher wins Army Program Management Support IDIQ

2009-04-26T22:54:11Z

San Antonio, TX, September 1, 2008 - Decypher a full-service management and technology firm was awarded a contract to provide the U.S. Army Medical Information Technology Center at Fort Sam Houston with program management, consultation and acquisition strategy services. Decypher is partnered with Booz-Allen-Hamilton for this contract. The base year task order has been awarded for $1.5M. The award potential for the full five year contract is $12M.

The personnel working on this contract will assist USAMITC to cover a full spectrum of life cycle capabilities, from needs assessments to acquisition and/or development through operations and sustainment. The goal of USAMITC is to provide reliable, repeatable, professional program management resulting in the delivery of excellent, cost effective IT solutions for the Army Medical Department (AMEDD).

Decypher Co-founder, Mr. Meador states, “Consultants from both companies will work together to provide the Army with personnel to handle large projects”

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Top 25 S.A. Companies on the Inc.com List

2009-04-20T07:14:52Z

Friday, August 22, 2008. San Antonio Express News.

List of Top 25 S.A. Companies on the Inc.com list. Decypher Technologies was the only company to make the Top 500 and ranked the highest growth in San Antonio, TX.

Decypher Lands on Inc 500 for 2008

2009-04-26T22:55:16Z

San Antonio, TX, August 20, 2008 — Decypher a full-service management and technology firm made the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America. Decypher was listed as 449 on the list and was the only San Antonio-based firm to make the top 500. The

As Decypher’s CEO, Caroline Meador states, “We are proud to be placed in this category. As we move to be leader in the consultancy market this helps provide an important benchmark for us and our customers.”

The Inc. 500 ranks privately held companies according to sales growth over the past five years. With 75% of all new job creation in the U.S. coming from small businesses, the Inc. 500 is a prescient indicator of the companies and industries that are driving the economy forward. Over the years, the Inc. 500 has identified the next generation of world-class companies, with Microsoft, Stonyfield Farms, Timberland, Oracle, Princeton Review, Morningstar, E* Trade, Intuit and Domino’s Pizza all appearing on the list before they became industry powerhouses.

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Richard Baskin Joins Decypher as Vice-President of Operations

2009-04-26T22:54:23Z

San Antonio, TX, August 18, 2008 – Decypher, a full-service management and technology firm, announced the appointment of Richard Baskin as the Vice President for Operations. In this capacity, Mr. Baskin will lead the growth of Decypher products and services addressing information technology, learning and organizational challenges confronting today’s businesses and workforce. He brings a strong client-focused technical and business development background along with many successful years in organizational and program management.

“Richard is a decisive and innovative leader who has successfully implemented complex and challenging, multi-million dollar programs,” said Caroline Meador, President and CEO of Decypher. “He has a history of transforming average organizations into excellent teams.” A certified Project Manager Professional (PMP) he has over 25 years experience in the Federal, military and commercial markets.

Mr. Baskin said his position at Decypher represents an opportunity to use his experience, knowledge and skills to make our clients more effective. “Decypher is a growing, service oriented company based on unyielding integrity community stewardship. The Decypher leadership embraces innovative thinking and encourages its consultants to challenge common approaches to best solve our client’s issues. I look forward to building a consulting team that is a recognized leader in the community and helping our clients achieve their objectives with value added solutions.”

Before joining Decypher, Mr Baskin was the Director, Corporate Process Improvement for NCI Information Systems and also the Operation Director for Karta Technologies’ Training Solutions Division. A DoD certified Acquisition Professional, Mr Baskin served with distinction in the US Air Force for 22 years.

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Decypher Nominated for Best Places to Work San Antonio 2008

2009-04-26T22:54:35Z

San Antonio, TX, April 8, 2008 — Decypher a full-service management and technology firm was nominated for the San Antonio Business Journal’s annual “Best Places to Work” award. The award highlights companies with the best workplaces in the San Antonio area (Bexar, Guadalupe, Wilson, Comal and Kendall counties). The nominees are provided a survey by Quantum, a recognized leader in conducting employment engagement studies. Last year more than 200 companies were nominated, and Decypher was one of the 90 of those companies that successfully completed the nomination process.

“This award is highly competitive, and we feel confident our consultants will again present Decypher as a collaborative place to work, where a path to professional growth is truly achievable,” states Caroline Meador. Decypher already had an extremely comprehensive package, but has added several new benefits and career growth services in place for its consultants in 2008.

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Local companies will share in multibillion-dollar fed pact

2009-04-26T22:57:58Z

San Antonio Business Journal, Catherine Dominguez

San Antonio-based Metrica Team Venture has snagged part of a multibillion-dollar information technology federal contract. Metrica Team Venture is one of the 62 vendors across the United States that will share in the $15 billion, 10-year contract.

The pact is designed to provide worldwide information technology solutions to federal agencies while strengthening opportunities in federal contracting for small businesses.

Jonathan Fast, director of the San Antonio IT group for Metrica Inc., says his company decided to form the joint venture to go after the contract.

By forming the alliance, he says, the team was able to qualify for all aspects of the contract.
"We were looking to put together a team that could get past all the hurdles," Fast says. "That was our goal."

Metrica Team Venture is a joint venture between Metrica Inc. and five other tech companies. They are Decypher Technologies Ltd., SecureInfo, Netgineer Data Systems Inc., Texas Management Associates -- all based in San Antonio -- and Fairfax, Va.-based InfoReliance.

Metrica Team officials say they do not know yet how big their stake will be in the contract pie.
The contract, called the Alliant Small Business Government-wide Acquisition Contract, is administered through the General Services Administration (GSA).

The GSA is an independent agency of the U.S. government that helps manage and support federal agencies. The GSA supplies products and communications for U.S. government offices, provides transportation and office space to federal employees, and develops government-wide cost-minimizing policies, among other management tasks.

Metrica was founded in 1986 and specializes in providing government and private industry customers products and services in the areas of information technology, logistics, personnel and training, and automation and robotics. Fast says each company in the venture brings a specific capability needed for the contract, including management, manufacturing and purchasing.

"We thought it would be a great idea to have a San Antonio-based company go after this contract because it would be easy to come together," Fast says. "I tried to get as much capability on the team from San Antonio as I could."

He adds although InfoReliance is not in San Antonio, the company is brought to the table crucial past experience needed to win and execute the contract.

Fast says the venture will also give the companies a great opportunity to grow and expand their customer base.

San Antonio-based RX Joint Venture LLC, a venture between Rothe Development Inc. and X-Technologies Inc., also won part of the $15 billion contract.

Tech firm finding growth in training arena

2009-04-26T23:00:21Z

Randy Lankford is a San Antonio-based free-lance writer.

San Antonio Business Journal - by Randy Lankford

It's not unusual for someone in the information technology (IT) field to be deliberate. People who design software and develop complex data processing and manipulation programs have to be precise and methodical. They tend to take things one step at a time; making sure each phase of a project is completed before moving on to the next.

Take Orvis Meador. After asking the parents of his future bride, Caroline, for her hand, it took him more than a year to actually propose.

But Caroline says that her husband's methodical approach balances her strengths now that the two share the helm of Decypher Technologies -- Orvis as CIO and Caroline as CEO of the 6-year-old IT consultancy.
"Caroline's the majority owner, so she tells me what to do at work and at home," Meador jokes.

The Meadors, both San Antonio natives, were living in Europe and working as consultants for Merrill Lynch when they were asked to take on an IT project at Fort Sam Houston. Even though they were enjoying life in England, the Meadors took the opportunity to come home after three years abroad. "The consultants they had hired for this project weren't getting the job done, and we'd done some work at Fort Sam
in the past, so we were invited to take over," he says.

Meador, who describes himself as "very challenge based," took the job of integrating a fee-for-service billing system at Fort Sam. His assignment was to create a system by which every contracted service at the base could be billed back to each operating unit which would be responsible for its own budget.

"There are something like 400 chargeable services at Fort Sam," Meador explains. "Anything you can think of. They decided to try to run the base like a business instead of the way the Army usually operates. The program turned out to be very successful."

Decypher Technologies, which the Meadors started upon their return from Europe in 2001, has grown from five to 50 employees. The company has also doubled its gross revenues each of the last three years. It is housed in two locations, with one serving as headquarters and sales office and the other as its production facility where software and training material are developed.

That training material is a large and growing part of Decypher's product line. What started out as a way to explain how each of its customized software solutions works, has evolved into a multi-media profit center for the company. "Our training solutions division is my personal favorite," admits Meador. "I'm an IT guy but I've always been interested in training. We have our hard-core technology endeavors where you have people writing code. These are the high-end computer integration people who push out some really incredible stuff."

That "incredible stuff" has to be understandable. The more complex the program, the more critical the training, according to Meador. All the technical capabilities in the world aren't of much use if the end-user doesn't know how to operate them. "We have people who are dedicated to producing training materials. Those are the instructional designers. They sit down with the customers and decide what they want the training to achieve. Once the designs have been completed, they turn them over to the programmers who develop the programs to deliver them," Meador says. "It's mostly computer-based courseware. We have a recording studio and all the equipment we need so those plans and objectives can go into one end and the finished product can come out the other." Paul Patton is the training division program manager at Decypher, a position he took after 22 years in the Army. "I retired in January 2005 and went to work for another company," Patton says. "We were working alongside Decypher on a project at Fort Sam, and I was just very impressed with how they did things. Their ethical and business makeup, just the way they conducted themselves, was a huge draw for me." Patton joined the company in the fall of 2007. Since then, he's been involved in all four levels of the company's computer-based training capabilities.

"Level one is simple page turning," he explains. "Sort of like a PowerPoint presentation. Level two is more in-depth with some higher level graphics and more interaction. In level three you have to use more cognitive skills and the user becomes more in charge of where the training is going. In level four there are more stimuli and more decision making. Level five is virtual reality. We're just starting to venture
into those kinds of capabilities."

The quality of Meador's end-user training so impressed his military clients that they asked if he could produce other, not necessarily computer-related, training material. One project the company took on was a video program called "Talk. Listen Connect." to help children understand and deal with the reality of a parent being deployed overseas. "That was a three-part project," Meador explains. "We did two of them. We developed a Sesame Street-type program for toddlers and then an animated show for kids between five and 10. We tried to make it a package that can be delivered to families and watched in the living room. I don't have a military background, and I never thought of it before we did this project, but I can really understand now how these children might feel when their mom or dad is gone for who knows how long."

The package has since been endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Again, Decypher's military clients were impressed with the company's product and asked for yet another, and even more critical, training program: Medical Solutions. "One course we've developed is called, 'Operating Room Specialist,'" explains Meador. "It's a high-definition video in a computer-based training package that is intended to train reservists on basic operating room procedures like how to sterilize equipment and things like that." The training is meant to be delivered either in preparation for more intense face-to-face training or as a refresher after detailed training is completed.

Even though 90 percent of Decypher's medical solutions training development has been for the Army, the company has also helped civilian facilities such as the Heart and Vascular Institute of Texas. "We have a lot of very complicated imaging equipment," explains Steve Doak, IT manager at the institute. "They've helped us integrate that equipment and our databases. Those projects led to other innovations we hadn't even thought of. That's one of the things Decypher is really good at. They don't just take an assignment and complete it. They're always looking for ways to improve it." Meador would like to see his young business grow by expanding his civilian client base, but not at the cost of quality. "That's our main focus and we don't want to compromise that," he says. "We have a lot of different clients on Fort Sam, but I think we'll start picking up some civilian clients as well as people see what we're capable of. A lot of our business is by referral so our reputation is critical. I believe every customer, either military or civilian, wants someone who's reliable, easy to work with and honest."

Decypher Technologies
What: IT consultancy
Address: 200 Concord Plaza Dr., Ste. 500, San Antonio, TX 78216
Tel.: 210-735-9900
No. of employees: 50
Web site: www.decypher.com