Dan Frakes featured in November AUGmentations from The Apple Groups Team (TAGteam)

Jupiter, FL (PRWEB) November 14, 2005

The Apple Groups Team (TAGteam), a not-for-profit user group community organization, is very pleased and proud to announce that our November edition of "AUGmentations: The Apple Groups Team Newsletter" is now available as a free download for its members. Membership is free.

This issue features an interview with author, editor and gadget guru, Dan Frakes, who's outstanding work appears in numerous publications including Macworld magazine, Playlist magazine, TidBits and more.

"I expect to see a lot more Mac users in the next couple years..." - Dan Frakes

Also in this issue:

RED CAPITAL GROUPs Research Team Shares Mid-Year Multifamily Review & Outlook Report - Proprietary Forecasting Model Integrates Occupancy, Rent and Cap Rate Simulations

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) September 30, 2011

RED CAPITAL GROUP, LLC has posted on its website its Research Teams most recent multifamily housing industry report entitled Multifamily Housing Industry 2011 Mid-Year Review and Second Half Outlook Report.

To access the report, log on to http://www.redcapitalgroup.com and scroll down to the Recent Multifamily Housing Market Analysis section to register for the download.

Researched and written by Daniel J. Hogan and Joseph M. Mandeville, both of REDs in-house Research Team, the report is highlighted by the introduction of a fully-integrated occupancy, rent and cap rate forecasting model. The report provides a full set of 2011 to 2013 annual payroll projections and annual five-year rent growth and occupancy rate forecasts for 46 metropolitan markets across the country (the RED 46) as well as five-year total return and risk-adjusted return estimates and probability distributions of total return for each market. The study also engages in some What If modeling to help probe key questions confronting the multifamily housing space, such as the relative impact of accelerating inflation on asset performance and returns in different metropolitan markets.

In addition, the report contains a summary of the performance of metro markets during the first half of 2011, including:

TurningPoint Adds New Talent to its Management Team

Rockville, MD (PRWEB) September 30, 2011

The companys recent management additions include: Tsippora Rosenberg as Vice President of Engineering, Silvio Renzi as Vice President of Commercial Services, Satya Govindu as Director of Commercial Software Engineering Services, Jim Keith as Director of DoD Business Development, and Steve Lewis as Proposal Manager. In addition, Tina Tyree has been promoted to Director of Federal PMO Practice, and Ramesh Chintagumpala has been promoted to Director of Federal Health IT.

As Vice President of Engineering, Tsippora Rosenberg oversees Federal Telecom Practice which currently serves several federal customers such as: FDA, DHS/HQ, DHS/ICE, FEMA, VA, Army/Airforce etc. In this role, she will oversee TurningPoints proprietary Network Inventory and Optimization Solution (NiOS) professional services delivery team, and software engineering teams. Ms. Rosenberg has held previous engineering and executive management positions with Bellcore, Comsearch, and Realeum.

As Vice President of Commercial Services, Silvio Renzi is responsible for Commercial Services delivery and ensuring effective deployment of customer solutions. Mr. Renzi began his career over 19 years ago, and has worked at AT&T and Bellcore. In 2002 Mr. Renzi founded Solvent Inc. a technology company focused on Network Security and Performance Management. As its Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Renzi raised the investor capital to grow the company and provided strategic and operational guidance for development of SolventViewTM.

As Director of Commercial Software Engineering Services, Satya Govindu will be responsible for managing commercial projects involving Software Engineering Services and ensuring successful delivery and customer satisfaction. Mr. Govindu began his career as Software Engineer with Nortel Networks, and has worked for Lucent Bell Labs, and AT&T prior to joining TurningPoint. Most recently Satya managed the enterprise applications and multi-media data distribution technology for a large multi-media company in New York. Satya brings his expertise in digital media distribution technology, mobile computing, and enterprise software engineering delivery.

As Director of DoD Business Development, Jim Keith will be responsible for identifying, qualifying, pursuing, and winning new business within the DoD market. His responsibilities include application of full life-cycle business development methodologies and tools, including opportunity identification, qualification, positioning, bidding, competitive analysis, price to win, and related activities. Mr. Keith, a United States Air Force Veteran, brings over 15 years of proven success in the federal market, from companies such as AAC, Verbatim, Integrated Communications Solutions, and Computer Frontiers.

As the Proposal Manager, Steve Lewis will coordinate all phases of the companys proposal process in response to U.S. government and commercial requests for proposals (RFPs). Mr. Lewis oversees the coordination of all proposal efforts with the technical division, contracts department, contractors, subcontractors, finance department and human resources. Mr. Lewis brings over 25 years of government IT sales and proposal experience to TurningPoint. He has worked for Wang, 3Com, PeopleSoft, and IT contractors to develop sales opportunities and proposals that helped government agencies to increase productivity by meeting their office automation, software application, and systems integration needs.

As the Director of Federal PMO Practice, Tina Tyree will be heading up TurningPoints expanded project management offices (PMO) Services Division and accelerate the growth of PMO services for their customers. Tina is a certified PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), a Process & Product Quality Assurance (PPQA) Auditor, and an experienced CMMI appraiser, with 15 years experience in customer service, program and project management. Tina has an MBA in International Business from Park Point University, and a Bachelors degree in Humanities and Business Administration from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.

As the Director for Federal Health IT projects, Ramesh Chintagumpala will be directing and managing health information technology and healthcare informatics projects. Mr. Chintagumpala is a certified PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) with 15 years experience in Health IT, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and program and project management and 5 years assisting CMS in reducing Medicare and Medicaid fraud, and its cost to the taxpayer. He has a successful track record in managing numerous projects under several contracts within CMS Divisions (OIS/OBIS/CPI) with an annual budget over $ 6 million.

The recent growth of our leadership team at TurningPoint really emphasizes the fact that we are a strong and flourishing company. It is through solid leadership and the enterprise-wide adoption of our standardized and repeatable industry best practices, such as ISO, ITIL and CMMI, that enable us to continually deliver the excellent results that our growing repeat customer base has come to expect, explained CEO Bangalore Shivacharan.

ABOUT TURNINGPOINT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS

Headquartered in Rockville, MD, TurningPoint is a CMMI Maturity Level 3 independently appraised software engineering professional services firm that serves a diversified group of commercial and government customers, enabling them to generate value from their IT investments. TurningPoint achieves these results through the successful planning, development, integration, and maintenance of IT solutions and by driving operational efficiencies into infrastructure operations. TurningPoints focus is on providing high availability business applications that improve bottom-line results by streamlining high-transaction-volume, mission-critical business processes. For more information, visit http://www.tpgsi.com.

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Better Life Maids & Better Life Team Up to Develop a National Name Brand in Green Cleaning

Saint Louis, MO (PRWEB) November 07, 2011

Better Life Maids, a green house cleaning franchise, has teamed up with Better Life, a manufacturer of premium green household cleaning products. Together they hope to create the nations first household name brand in green cleaning.

Founded in 2008, Better Life has made a name for itself by developing a line of household cleaners which are unmatched in safety and unbeatable in performance. Carried coast-to-coast in retailers such as Whole Foods Market, Better Life provides a range of products from their what-EVER! natural all-purpose cleaner to their Oak-Y Dokey wood furniture cleaner and polish. They have also recently launched a 100% plant derived line of hand soaps and lotions.

According to Better Life co-founder and CEO, Tim Barklage, Better Life products provide todays educated and discriminating consumer what they are looking for in a household cleaning product safety, performance and a touch of whimsy. Barklage adds, Our products smell great but they are free of synthetic perfumes and fragrances, they perform great but are free of petrochemicals, and they look great in your home.

Founded in 2008 as well Better Life Maids, up until now, has operated in the St. Louis region. Like its name says, Better Life Maids provides maid services using the entire line of Better Life cleaning products. In addition to these products, Better Life Maids use green cleaning practices, an environmentally friendly fleet featuring the Toyota Prius, and promotes itself as a high quality alternative to most traditional house cleaning services. Co-founder Angela Ricketts, who is the VP of Client Experience at Better Life Maids and has a large social media following states.

I love the fact that we are so accessible to our clients, potential clients, followers, and fans. I wanted to build a business that was transparent, and that shared my own personal values. Our marketing relies heavily on leveraging our Core Values online and developing an ongoing relationship with our clients.

Angela says she relied heavily on developing the culture first. Our Core Values are the fundamental reason we are one of the highest rated maids services in St. Louis. Our Core Values are the standard we set for ourselves every day to deliver an excellent client experience.

While many companies make claims like this it appears that Better Life Maids actually delivers. On its Facebook page are many reviews that verify that the philosophy they have developed is a major part of its success. Angies List, a source of independent reviews by consumers has dozens of A reviews for Better Life Maids as well. In fact for 2010 Better Life Maids received a Super Service Award from Angies List.

Technology has been one of the key reasons for our success as well. We have developed IPhone apps for cleaning checklists and other forms needed in the field. Our dispatch, scheduling, customer relationship management, and accounting software are all tied together with our field service apps. Its all web 2.O hosted software that we can use anywhere. Our systems make it really easy to keep up with the hundreds of clients we have built relationships with in the last 3 years, said Matt Ricketts the President and Chief Experience Officer of Better Life Maids.

As of now Better Life Maids will be expanding along side Better Life into new markets. They are planning an aggressive expansion that includes franchising in new markets, and expanding company owned units when appropriate. The combined marketing efforts of the two brands of Better Life and Better Life Maids, appears to be a first of its kind in the green product and service sector, with a service brand directly supporting the efforts of a household product line. We wanted to create a partnership that really strengthened our consumers affinity for Better Life. We wanted to create something really unique that had the potential to educate, and introduce people to the Better Life brand. Better Life Maids was a natural extension, and compliments our grass roots efforts to build a name brand in green household cleaning that people can trust and count on, said Tim Barklage.

About Better Life Maids

Better Life Maids is a green house cleaning service founded in St. Louis, MO. It has created a unique marketing partnership with Better Life a natural household cleaning products manufacturer. Together they are working to create the first national name brand in natural household cleaning products and green house cleaning services. Better Life Maids is expanding in select markets through a franchise development system. For more information visit http://www.betterlifemaids.com or http://www.cleanhappens.com.

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