BTI financially supported Compassion International this fall to provide assistance to their global efforts in areas of the world in extreme need. Corporately, BTI believes in the importance of supporting organizations that impact the lives of children that live lives of poverty throughout the globe.
Compassion International exists as a Christian child advocacy ministry that releases children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty and enables them to become responsible, fulfilled Christian adults.
Founded by the Rev. Everett Swanson in 1952, Compassion began providing Korean War orphans with food, shelter, education and health care, as well as Christian training.
Today, Compassion helps more than 1 million children in 24 countries.
BTI is a fast growing software solutions company headquartered in Ashburn, VA. Founded in 2004, BTI follows a Principles over Process approach to implementing software solutions for web applications and enterprise services.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
CEO and software engineers speak to Lynchburg College computer science students
Lynchburg, VA - Barlow Technologies, Inc.'s (BTI) CEO MJ Wivell and software engineers Chris Jordan and Jason East spoke to Lynchburg College computer science students about developing software applications in the corporate world. Mr. East emphasized the importance to understand basic object-oriented (OO) principles to enable students to have the ability to program in any programming language. Mr. East explained, "If you can understand objects in C++, you can make the transition to JAVA, C#, or any other language with ease."
Mr. Jordan continued with taking OO principles and solving problems with coworkers, "In the corporate world coding is a team effort. You must be able to work with your team to develop a finished product."
Mr. Wivell described the importance of code quality for long term maintenance. "If you think of your customer as the next programmer that will maintain your code, the way you write code will change. Instead of naming variables "x" and "y" you will begin to understand the importance of taking the time to critically think about the names you give variables, methods, and classes."
Furthermore, students were provided insight on the “How Tos” on finding the first job in areas of interviewing, resume writing, and utilizing professional resources.
BTI is a fast growing software solutions company headquartered in Ashburn, VA. Founded in 2004, BTI provides development expertise for web applications and enterprise services.
Mr. Jordan continued with taking OO principles and solving problems with coworkers, "In the corporate world coding is a team effort. You must be able to work with your team to develop a finished product."
Mr. Wivell described the importance of code quality for long term maintenance. "If you think of your customer as the next programmer that will maintain your code, the way you write code will change. Instead of naming variables "x" and "y" you will begin to understand the importance of taking the time to critically think about the names you give variables, methods, and classes."
Furthermore, students were provided insight on the “How Tos” on finding the first job in areas of interviewing, resume writing, and utilizing professional resources.
BTI is a fast growing software solutions company headquartered in Ashburn, VA. Founded in 2004, BTI provides development expertise for web applications and enterprise services.
Third Annual Charity Giving
Ashburn, VA - Barlow Technologies, Inc.'s (BTI) provided employee directed donations to local and national charities. For the third year running, each BTIer selected a charity of their choice for a financial contribution and the following charities were chosen:
BTI is a fast growing software solutions company headquartered in Ashburn, VA. Founded in 2004, BTI provides development expertise for web applications and enterprise services.
- YoungLives
- Teach For America
- PanCan
- Little Lights
- Shriners Hospitals for Children
- Compassion International
- Make a Wish Foundation
- National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
- American Red Cross
- WGTS 91.9 FM
- Daybreak Ministries
- The Gabriel Network
- McLean Bible Church
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
BTI is a fast growing software solutions company headquartered in Ashburn, VA. Founded in 2004, BTI provides development expertise for web applications and enterprise services.
BTI supports Urban Mentoring Program
Washington, DC- BTI made a donation to a local group Summit for Someone (SFS). SFS is one of the major fundraising groups for Big City Mountaineers (BCM) , 
a non-profit organization who takes groups of at-risk inner city teens all over the country for 8-10 day back country trips where they're paired one-on-one with mentoring adults. In exchange for raising money for BCM, members of SFS were able to climb Mt. Rainier, which at 14,410' is the highest mountain in Washington and one of the tallest volcanoes in the country.
An SFS member stated "Support from generous people and companies like BTI helped change the lives of deserving kids and it helped me reach the summit of one of the most sought after peaks in the country."
BTI is a fast growing software solutions company headquartered in Ashburn, VA. Founded in 2004, BTI provides development expertise for web applications and enterprise services.
a non-profit organization who takes groups of at-risk inner city teens all over the country for 8-10 day back country trips where they're paired one-on-one with mentoring adults. In exchange for raising money for BCM, members of SFS were able to climb Mt. Rainier, which at 14,410' is the highest mountain in Washington and one of the tallest volcanoes in the country.An SFS member stated "Support from generous people and companies like BTI helped change the lives of deserving kids and it helped me reach the summit of one of the most sought after peaks in the country."
BTI is a fast growing software solutions company headquartered in Ashburn, VA. Founded in 2004, BTI provides development expertise for web applications and enterprise services.
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