Edify is dedicated to furthering the empowerment of knowledge through innovation.
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We believe that education in all its forms is the purpose of our craft.
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Between the tension of creative innovation & marketable change we find success.
GoOur team has been central in the development of a variety of educational, learning, and content management systems. Our customers rely upon our pragmatic computer science practice with a comprehension of the education and knowledge marketplace.
We offer strategic solutions that encompass our customers' organizational culture, business needs and lifecycle development processes. Our decades of experience in enterprise software development creates an effective but flexible team. We strive to match existing processes and infrastructure for the minimum cost and maximum efficiency.
Edify is an enterprise software development firm specializing in knowledge-centric solutions.
Located in Alajuela, Costa Rica, our firm offers its services in the country's local and regional market as well as in the United States through the near-shore outsourcing model.
Julio Arias
Web application developer and open source lover. Worked with different technologies from Java, Ruby to NodeJS. Always looking for the next cool and interesting technology. From backend to UI always looking for the best experience for the end user. Julio holds a BS in computer engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica.
Jennifer Beals
Jennifer focuses on Operations Management and North American Client Relations. Her background is in Technical Support, Network Engineering and Project Management, she honed these skills at Norfolk Southern Railroad, Tachyon and Earthlink before heading up Roundbox Global. She spent the last 10 years at RBX learning the ins and out of owning, managing and growing a 3 person company in her living room to a multi-national software development organization with offices in the US, Costa Rica and Chile. She has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from Kennesaw State University. She is a self proclaimed foodie who loves to travel the world with her husband, Justin. She also enjoyes seeing indie films, concerts and art shows in her free time.
Federico Hess
Federico is a software architect and developer with extensive experience in J2EE application design and development chiefly in the education technology industry. His main areas of interest include performance analysis and optimization and business rule engine implementations for large, complex systems. He holds an MSc and a BS in Computer Science at the University of Costa Rica, where his research has focused on machine learning and bio-inspired computation. Federico's non-work interests include music, travel and reading about psychology and physics.
Diego Munguía
Software architect experienced in delivering technological solutions for financial institutions, commercial businesses and educational organizations, with strong skills for designing software components and modeling databases. Currently focused on learning management systems and content management systems; particularly interested in designing solutions exploiting collective intelligence and knowledge discovery from content. Also interested in academic work on cognitive science research to improve HCI on computer mediated learning processes. Diego holds a BS in computer engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica and is currently pursuing a MSc in cognitive science from Universidad de Costa Rica.
Javier Pérez
Javier is a technical manager and software architect with extensive experience managing teams and implementing enterprise solutions in several industries (education, financial, e-commerce, marketing, gambling, data mining ). He has great technical skills to design and build application services/tools applying mature open source technologies(J2EE, Php, Ruby), but also he has developed soft skills to organize, lead, manage and coordinate small to large project teams. He holds a BS in Computer Science at the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (ITCR). Out of the office Javier invests his time practicing sports (non-professional triathlon, soccer) and spending quality time with his family.
Adrián Porras
Adrián is a seasoned Project Lead and Technical Manager with development skills in Ruby, PHP, J2EE and mobile platforms. Adrian has also deployed, and supported multiple application tiers across complex production environments. He has extensive experience doing technical training for development and support teams, developing Learning Managing Systems and other types of applications like MMO games. Adrian holds a BS in Computer Science from Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica.
Jasson Cascante
Geek and hacker by heart. Front end architech and developer, being honored with the first of his awards at the age of 17. Passionate about web standards, mobile technologies and engaging user experiences as he is, you'll most often find him speaking at conferences, presenting online seminars, or just enjoying the chance to share ideas and brainstorm with other developers. Jasson is passionate about open source and has been contributor for world known projects like jQuery UI, PhoneGap and Appcelerator Titanium and is creator of other not-so-famous libraries and tools. He has been technical reviewer in books like "Evaluación de Sitios Web del Gobierno y Municipalidades de Costa Rica", one of the most important guidelines used by the government as a benchmark to evaluate their web sites' effectiveness. On his spare time he likes to research on new ways to make web applications, reading sci-fi, playing backgammon and drinking coffee.
We took on a project to build an integration portal for a company dedicated to processing educational standardized tests in the United States. The integration effort, which had already been started by another development team, was build on top of Liferay Portal.
From a technology perspective, the project required integration through SOAP web services with applications written in .NET. Our challenge was to propose a new software architecture model to improve maintainability, code clarity and extensibility.
From a cultural perspective, the project required our team to communicate actively and effectively in a multi-group setting, including the organizations' management, business analysis, development and systems administration groups as well as a third party quality assurance team.
Edify worked alongside our partner company, BlueFletch Consulting, to fulfill a key role in the development of customizations to a market-leading LMS solution that will be deployed in one of the largest, most recognized Internet-based public schools in the United States.
We participated in the design, development and stabilization of a set of extensions based on the solution vendor's proprietary API. The extensions themselves where based on a Java enterprise open source stack.
Edify and BlueFletch integrated with the solution vendor's development, quality assurance and user experience design teams and helped make the project a success.
We put our client's needs first by adapting to different development processes, ranging from the waterfall approach to agile development. Our team integrates successfully with management, quality assurance, business analysis and user experience design teams.
Our main focus is on the open source technology stack built on top of the Java programming language, including enterprise technologies like Spring, Hibernate, JPA, JSP/Servlets, Portlets, JMS, JCR, Lucene, CXF. However, our team's skill set also includes extensive knowledge of other technologies on the server side (like Ruby on Rails, Microsoft's .NET framework (tm), PHP, NodeJS), the client side (like javascript, HTML5 and flex) and mobile (like Titanium, PhoneGap, Corona, Obj-C and Android SDK).
Edify has also been successful with the deployment and customization of open source solutions like Liferay Portal, Alfresco, OLAT LMS and Common Library CMS.
We provide strategic design services for robust, high performance technology solutions that embrace our customers' business needs.
We are engaged in all aspects of software application design and development, either by providing and managing our own in-house development team or by providing key persons to incorporate in the customer's team.
We have extensive experience in refactoring, redesign and migration of in-risk and legacy projects to improve maintainability, quality and performance.