Momentum Magazine August 2019 Edition | Page 8

HOMEGROWN TALENT Adil Analytics brings IT jobs to Lackawanna County For Mani Velaga of Adil Analytics, locating her business at Jessup’s TekRidge Center was a no-brainer. “I was always fascinated by the usage of information technology in the life sciences industry,” she said. “Living in the Lackawanna County area for 15 years, my husband and I have seen several of our close friends and family members who have worked in the field leave the area due to a lack of jobs in the field during the great recession. I was driven by the motivation to make a difference with our knowledge and expertise and to support the local community.” Adil Analytics offers software development, analytics and maintenance services, as well as IT managed services, data center migration to secured complete-cloud or hybrid-cloud setup, infrastructure virtualization and DevOps automation, disaster recovery and storage management solutions, among others. Ms. Velaga and her husband, Kaylan, discovered that there weren’t many local information technology companies that worked with the government in the fields of application development and maintenance. This led them to undertake software development and maintenance contracts with the government, helping them to establish jobs locally. “Our goal has been to develop a job- ready workforce in the information technology field by identifying recent graduates who fit our needs, so we could give them training in order to meet the technology needs of these government contracts,” she said. “We also work with 8 • The Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce local colleges and universities to recruit interns, so they can have hands-on, real- world experience.” Through its work with federal and state customers in application modernization and digital transformation efforts, Adil Analytics was able to use its field expertise to help its customers achieve their business goals. increase complexity, thereby increasing operational costs. We offer innovative and cost-effective software-defined computer, storage and networking-secured solutions with end-to-end virtualization and automation.” “Our goal is to expand our local workforce...” “Our current and potential customers are mostly looking for highly secured, cost-effective solutions that will simplify their IT operations and managed hosting services using virtualization and automation,” Ms. Velaga said. “As custom applications are developed and maintained over the years, changes in technology trends, tools, and skilled resource availability With all of this experience, Adil Analytics is now looking to further its reach and, as a result, grow more jobs in Lackawanna County. “Our goal is to expand our local workforce,” Ms. Velaga said. “We want to reach more commercial, small and mid-sized businesses that are looking to cut costs.” For more information, visit www.adilanalytics.org.