Announcements

Rising Star Award Nomination 2010

JPI has been nominated for the NCTC 2010 TechNite Rising Star Award. The Rising Star Award is an award that recognizes a local technology company which is a "rising star." The company might not be a household name yet, but it could soon be another local success story in the NewVA region. Finalists and winners will be recognized at the 11th Annual TechNite Awards Banquet on April 7th at The Inn at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA.
Lotusphere 2010

From January 17th through the 21st, 2010, IBM held its annual training event, Lotusphere, in Orlando, Florida. JPI team members Gerald Howell and Dawn Sangree were in attendance to learn about the latest technologies.

As usual, the exciting opening session was packed with information about the Lotus family of projects (and guest speaker William Shatner). New innovations in Lotus Quickr, Sametime, Connections, and Lotus Live were showcased. Dawn was impressed by the new ability to integrate tasks and events on Quickr calendars with individual Lotus Domino calendars; Gerald could not wait to implement the latest Sametime features back at the office including permanently available meeting rooms and slick new unified telephony features.

As developers, both Dawn and Gerald attended many sessions on how to program Lotus products using the latest Web 2.0 tools. Sessions included plenty of code samples and useful tips on using technologies such as Atom feeds, Dojo, Rest and Xpages to update their work.

Other highlights included a tour through the innovations lab where a great visual planning tool for Sametime was on display, lab time in the Lotus labs learning how to program for Lotus Symphony and a walk through the show floor which offered interesting development and administration tools from Ytria and Cloud computing technology from Group.

Energized for the coming year, the JPI team will be working to implement what they have learned.
Haiti Earthquake Relief Effort

JPI has matched our employee contributions with a donation of $1035 to the American Red Cross in support of the Haiti Earthquake Relief Effort.
Hurricane Relief Efforts

JPI Senior Software Engineer Mike Allred recently returned from his third trip to New Orleans to assist in the ongoing Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. The latest trip was much different than his previous trips; instead of working with homeowners to remove debris and repair damage caused by Katrina, Mike helped revive a local business devasted by the hurricane. Guiott's Nursery was a large garden center located in the Hollygrove neighborhood and it was also part of the New Orleans Food & Farm Network (http://www.noffn.org). As a result of volunteers like Mike, Guiott's Nursery is on its way to once again providing local communities with equal access to safe and nutritious food. JPI is proud to support Mike and his efforts to help rebuild New Orleans.
U.S. Federal Government Awards JPI Mobis Schedule

JPI is pleased to offer Management, Organizational and Business Improvement Services (MOBIS) through the GSA Federal Supply Schedule Program, which features a streamlined procurement process for obtaining these services. The schedule is designed to allow federal agencies to meet mission requirements with integrated business solutions. MOBIS allows rapid procurement of best value services to our clients and it helps avoid costly, long-term acquisition requirements. MOBIS offers pre-negotiated service reates and there is no ceiling limit on the amount of task orders. Under MOBIS, JPI offers our Federal customers the services under SIN 874-7 Program Integration and Project Management. For more information on MOBIS, please click here. For more information on JPI's MOBIS schedule, please click here.
National Institute of Buildings Sciences (NIBS) Contract

JPI is pleased to announce it is working with NIBS again to produce and support a new construction related system for the GSA PBS. JPI always appreciates an opportunity to work with NIBS http://www.nibs.org/ to consult on the latest technologies for smart management in the building industry.

The GSA PBS FY 2007/2008 PBS Strategic Business Plan identified Improvement of Real Property Capital Project Planning and Delivery as a top priority. The Business Plan also tasks the Office of The Chief Architect (OCA) with developing standard scopes of work templates for use in capital design and construction contracts that are consistent across regional offices and developing an action plan to implement an electronic or web-based scope of work application.

JPI is committed to recommending technology and building systems that utilize open standards to deliver content, and this latest endevor will allow for a flexible open system to serve GSA PBS.
New Teaming Partner

JPI is pleased to announce it is now a teaming partner with Unisys Corporation in support of the General Services Administration IT WEB and IT Ancillary BPA.
U.S. Federal Government Awards JPI GSA Schedule

The General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Service (FSS) officially awarded Virginia based JPI GSA Schedule number GS-35F-0637T on September 12, 2007. The contract is valid for a five year base term and can be extended for up to twenty years. JPI's new schedule includes a range of information technology professional service supply codes within a category referred to as SIN 132-51 (Special Item Number 132-51).

"Receiving our GSA Schedule enables us to provide our information technology solutions as a 'most favored customer' to the Federal marketplace," said Doug Garnett-Deakin, JPI's President, adding "The GSA schedule is part of JPI's commitment to provide better and faster solutions at a competitive price."

FSS is one of three Service Organizations of the GSA (www.gsa.gov). It is a source for business, administrative, and mission solutions; providing a source for virtually every commercial product or service an agency might need. With a business volume in excess of $25 billion, FSS offers more services and products than any commercial enterprise in the world.
JPI Awarded VTCRC’s Leadership Award

JPI was selected as the top small company at the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center for community support and contribution, winning the annual "Leadership Award." JPI is one of 15 small companies to ever win the award during the 20-year history of the CRC, and will be commemorated on a plaque in the main CRC offices.
Rebuilding New Orleans

As a member of Spotsylvania Presbyterian Church in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and in partnership with Canal Street Presbyterian Church in the heart of New Orleans, Senior Software Engineer Mike Allred has made two trips to New Orleans to assist in the rebuilding effort.

In 2006, Mike was part of a team that worked with homeowners to remove all of the flood damaged contents from their homes. This included building materials (flooring, drywall, insulation, wiring, etc) as well as personal belongings that the homeowner was unable to remove before being evacuated (furniture, household goods, clothing, etc).

In 2007, Mike was back with the same group again but got to help homeowners with the rebuilding process this time. His group helped install flooring and paint walls in one house. In another house, they helped hang drywall and "mud and tape" the seams and screw holes. JPI was pleased to provide paid leave and other financial contributions to assist this important effort.
Lotusphere

JPI Talk at Lotusphere 2007- Birds of a Feather Session for Dynamic interfaces with XML
Community Service

JPI is a small business leader in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center's Community Impact Program. We were recognized as the program leader in 2006 for CIP. We are a significant local supporter of The United Way, New River Valley Cares, and NRV Land Trust. We contribute to the Heifer International Project, the International Crisis Group, and Mercy Corps.