Posted on 09/03/2019 11:14:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A New Jersey-based IT services firm announced Tuesday it plans to hire hundreds of employees at its new “Innovation Center” in downtown Hartford co-working space Upward Hartford.
GalaxE.Solutions Inc., which mainly provides its platform to insurance companies and healthcare providers, said it debuted Sunday at The Stilts Building, 20 Church St., with about 25 employees. Tim Bryan, chief executive of GalaxE, told Hartford Business Journal his firm plans to hire “several hundred” more workers in the coming years.
Headquartered in Somerset, N.J., the firm may keep a presence at Upward Hartford long term or grow its operation in another location downtown, Bryan said. The state of Connecticut has not committed funding for GalaxE’s expansion in Hartford, he said.
“We are expanding, whether it’s in Upward or another location downtown, we are open to that,” he said. “We can make long-term plans as our growth takes shape. You will see significant growth over the next year.”
Bryan said GalaxE will support the area’s various insurance companies under its “Outsource to Hartford” program, which is aimed at helping clients foster tech transformation and economic growth.
Bloomfield health insurer Cigna, a GalaxE client, is partnering in the firm’s efforts downtown.
“Outsource to Hartford will position the city as a viable and desirable alternative for next generation IT solutions – taking advantage of Hartford’s strong corporate footprint, outstanding academic institutions and highly skilled and motivated workforce,” he said. “We believe there is energy building in Hartford and we want to be part of it.”
The firm is scheduled to announce the opening of the Innovation Center at a press conference Wednesday at noon attended by Bryan, Mayor Luke Bronin and Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) Commissioner David Lehman, among others.
In a statement Tuesday, Bronin said the firm’s Hartford debut is another sign the city can become a hub for top tech talent.
“We have worked hard with many partners to make Hartford a budding home for innovators in our core industries, and GalaxE’s arrival is another big step forward,” the mayor said. “It’s a perfect complement to the growing scene of startups in insurance, advanced manufacturing, and soon digital health.
Founded as Galaxy Systems in 1990, GalaxE currently employs about 1,500 employees internationally at offices and delivery centers in New Jersey, New York, Detroit, Toronto, United Kingdom, India, Belgium, Brazil, China, Ireland, Japan and Singapore.
GalaxE’s Hartford expansion comes as global IT giant Infosys continues to ramp-up its downtown presence. Infosys is in the process of hiring up to 1,000 employees at its new location in downtown’s Goodwin Square building. The company recently said it has hired more than 500 people in Connecticut, including about 125 in Hartford.
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I keep a list of them as they show up at my tech job, and it seems there is one or 2 new ones every week. THey get hired by promising customers experienced IT staff for bargain basement prices. However most of them are simply given the vendors tech-support number and told to make the vendors do the work that they were hired to do. Oh, and many are offshore, or strictly hire H1B visa holders (few of whom are qualified or who stay for long)...
I have a ton of first-hand stories on this topic...Buyer Beware!!!
That’s a lot of H1Bs!
Yep...there is an overload of buzzwords in this piece.
Outsourcing IT means that...in-house IT won’t be needed or used. Or may be sacked.
It is often a devious means of cutting long term liabilities by jettisoning those with pension plans, profit sharing etc.
In banking it’s a common practice and a dodgy, fast way for CEOs to claim to shareholders and others that they are reducing head count. But the jobs and duties required don’t vanish...so they bring in body shops. Many of the body shops end up recruiting ex bank employees since they obviously have experience....but body shops also bring in H1B bodies.
Top tech talent? Codswallop.
Nice...across the Connecticut River, Goodwin College is starting to create a small business incubator...for felons...
Galaxe.Solutions, Inc has filed 377 labor condition applications for H1B visa and 44 labor certifications for green card from fiscal year 2016 to 2018.
The List of Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement, missing since 1987.
The List goes like this -
1) southern barrier;
2) require eVerify to hire;
3) end all chain migration;
4) birthright per Minor v. Happersett (plural parents);
5) end work visas;
6) 10-year moratorium on all new applications for citizenship (40 years to allow workplace automation effects on downsizing population);
7) Set up an illegal aliens’ victim restitution fund.
Enactment of these provisions will motivate illegal aliens to SELF-deport, and remove foreign workers from our IT worker’s pool; jobs that were promised by Obama.
Management has always thought that IT staff were highly over-paid clerks that took too long to do anything. They fall for these scams because it tells them what they want to hear. The key for them is to hire a strawman liaison manager to catch the Hell that comes down when they don’t get service or get rude service.
If you really want to save money on IT services, quit asking for so much stuff.
I’ve been coding for 38 years now. I’ve gone from COBOL to Java, Burroughs to Linux. This is a pretty tough market. They are stamping out “programmers” in boot camps now. Just knowing the syntax won’t cut it. Everything is a lot more complex than even 10 years ago. I have to constantly remind people “We need to simplify this because someone is coming behind us”.
What I really like is there is no such thing as “slow” anymore. If you write it, it runs quickly.
Hundreds of Americans, or hundreds of H1-Bs?
Hundreds of Americans, or hundreds of H1-Bs?
See post #8 above
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