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Advantive Creating new Drupal Website for Lighting Design Labs (division of Seattle City Light)

Marc Pollard — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:16:23 +0000

The primary users of Seattle City Light’s Lighting Design Lab website are lighting designers, architects, electrical contractors/ engineers, facility managers, lighting manufacturers/distributors/wholesalers, efficient lighting students and employees of LDL utility sponsors.

Advantive is developing a Clean Energy Focused web application, in which these users can easily find information about lighting services and access the vast amount of lighting resources available to help them with their projects. The application incorporate a user-friendly system whereby customers can register and pay for classes. The framework will be built in Drupal with Ubercart as the ecommerce tool.

Advantive continues to make inroads into online energy market space, with customers like Seattle City Light, with the goal of being the go to small business firm that develops affordable custom applications in the energy renewal space.

Advantive Launches the Warfighter Sleep Kit for the DoD.

Marc Pollard — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:23:13 +0000

Advantive announces completion of design and development of a highly technical and effective Warfighter Sleep Kit for the Department of Defense. Advantive’s approach in development of the Sleep Kits focused on providing simple, easy to use tools, that enable military personnel to obtain a good night’s sleep, in order to increase their performance and stay healthy and safe. The Warfighter Sleep Kits included a Camo high quality sleep mask; earplugs; a QuickSeries Guide to Healthy Sleep, and a DVD. The DVD was developed between Advantive, Concurrent Technologies Corp, Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh. “Our approach was to obtain all of the best available sleep help content throughout the world, and work with leading industry sleep scientist and PHDs to customize the sleep guides tailored for the warfighter” said Marc Pollard, lead product manager and co-owner of Advantive. Warfighters work in high tempo environments, often are on shift work, and have massive fatigue and other physical and mental challenges, added Pollard.” The DVD includes a Self-Assessment application, Warrior Mind Training Videos for better sleep, and a host of other tools and resources tailored to a users specific needs. Pollard added that the Warfighter Sleep Kits will be online shortly for sale to all Federal Organizations. Please check back on this website for details.

Advantive Provides Project Management Best Practices at 55zero on Microsoft BizSpark Accounts

Marc Pollard — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:14:52 +0000

55zero, a high-end ASP.NET Web Development Firm, hires Advantive Corporation to implement Project Mangement Services. Advantive Corporation has been providing custom IT development services since 2006 for the largest organizations in the world. One the most important steps a development firm can take is to set-up processes, systems and effecient project management software systems in order to provide best value for the customer. The better the value and quality of work, the ability to ensure profitablity is much greater. Examples of the type of sytems in place includes Project Task Management System such as Jira or BaseCamp. Providing just the right amount of detail to the developer is one of the biggest challenges an IT firm has to figure out. Running a system that does not take more time to manage than the project itself is also a key factor. Everyone in the firm has to embrace it, like it, and use it. One of Advantive’s key strengths is that the team has many year of experience from small firms to large organziations, such as the Air National Guard.

One of the large customers of 55zero is Microsoft Emerging Technoglogy Group. The current application that is helping over 40,000 startups get off the ground is BizSpark. (http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark)

Seattle City Light Awards Advisory Dashboard Contract to Advantive

Marc Pollard — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:43:35 +0000

Advantive has been contracted by Seattle City Light Conservation Resources Division (CRD) to develop an Energy Advisor Dashboard. The purpose of the dashboard is to help the CRD team better serve their residential & commercial customers. as well as trade allies in energy efficiency contracting.Advantive has been developing energy related applications for customers in diverse industries who have a need for real-time data and online access to reports. Advantive’s niche is in organizing complex data systems and infrastructures; we capture that data and provide it in a crisp user interface that is personalized and relevant to the specific user. Saving time and money are mission critical goals, and having online tools that provide organizations with real-time program data for decision making is of high value in today’s economy.Seattle City Light’s CRD team is looking to measure many of their marketing programs on key metrics such as energy savings, return on marketing investment, and consumer desire for specific conservation programs.

Worldwatch Institute Hires Advantive to Develop Drupal Site

Marc Pollard — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:48:29 +0000

Worldwatch Institute, whose mission is to deliver insights and ideas that empower decision makers to create an environmentally sustainable society that meets human needs, has hired Advantive to develop their new website. The project requirements include a new IT Platform and eCommerce solution. Advantive is building e applications in Drupal and Ubercart - both stable and well-supported Open Source platforms. The project will be complete by the end of 2010, so be sure to check out www.worldwatch.org for the new site in January 2011.Advantive provides customers with Energy Consulting, Marketing, and IT Systems development in an effort to promote clean energy and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.

Advantive Moves Into New Office in Fremont

Marc Pollard — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:42:04 +0000

Advantive, Advantive Federal, and Tangerine Power have acquired a new office on the east side of Fremont in the Doc Freeman Marina building right on Lake Union. The building was recently re-built, and houses about 50 offices. On top of the office building is a Tug Boat converted into an office. Doc Freeman also owns the marina. “Fremont is an ideal location for high-tech talent due to the free parking, lots of places for high-octane coffee and eats”, commented Marc Pollard, Senior Partner at Advantive. Advantive’s core compentancy is energy IT consulting, and leasing an office that is energy efficient, and allows employees to easily get to work via the bus, walk or bike is a key factor when deciding where to make Advantive’s home base.Fremont is now becoming the high-tech center of Seattle with companies like Google, Getty Images, and Adobe down the street. The office is right on the Burke Gilman trail, which extends from Lake Sammamish all the way to Ballard. It is a very funky part of Seattle, and everything is walking distance, including the PCC market. “The high-tech work force is very comfortable with the area, and the mood and energy level in Fremont is exactly what we were looking for to grow Advantive’s Energy Intelligence business”, added Pollard.The Fremont Boat Company owns the building, which has been around since the early 1900s. There is a a lot of history behind the building, which still docks three working tug boats.The Advantive offices is located at 999 Northlake Way in Seattle. Advantive also has a presence in Washington DC and Portland Oregon.

Tangerine Solar Hires CFO- Andrew Boyd

Marc Pollard — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:34:28 +0000

Tangerine Solar, a subsidary of parent company Advantive Corp, has hired a new CFO named Andrew Boyd.

Andrew has over 20 years of experience in finance and business administration and brings to Tangerine a blend of corporate and start-up expertise. He has been a licensed CPA in the State of Washington since 1991. Andrew holds a BA in Business Administration (Cum Laude) from the University of Washington.

Earlyin his career, Andrew worked with KPMG Peat Marwick, where he focused on Audits of Healthcare and High Tech clients. Andrew spent several years in the healthcare industry, most notably with DaVita Healthcare (NYSE-DVA) where he served as Assistant Controller and Director of Accounting. He was CFO for NetVersant Seattle and held Controller positions for Microsoft and Reflex Communications.

Andrew Co-Founded Atigeo LLC, a data pattern recognition and personalization software company in 2005, and oversaw the Finance, Legal, HR, IT, and Facilities functions, and raised over $33M in private equity financing.

Andrew volunteers his time heavily to the soccer community. He is an active USSF Soccer referee and can be found on the pitch most Sunday afternoons. He volunteers administrative time as the Treasurer of the Washington State Soccer Referee Committee.

Andrew will be responsible for both internal operations and project financing for Tangerine Solar.

Advantive Launches New Website for Sustainable Business Consulting

Marc Pollard — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:27:00 +0000

SBC hired Advantive Corp to re-design their company’s website. Sustainable Business Consulting delivers strategies and action plans that increase profitability, enhance brand value and bring our clients’ climate and sustainability goals to reality. Kevin Wilhelm founded SBC five years ago with two ideas in mind: to help businesses create sustainable prosperity and to be a fun and great place to work. Since 2004 they have been helping all kinds of organizations shift the way they operate to tackle the big problems facing our world while also becoming an award-winning workplace.Advantive was hired by SBC to redesign their website and User Interface, as well as assist in positioning and branding their corporate online presence.

Advantive Launches New eCommerce Carbon Offset Program for Entergy

Marc Pollard — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:23:16 +0000

Carbon Offset provider 3Degrees asked Advantive to develop a eCommerce program for utility provider Entergy that offers their customers the opportunity to offset their personal and business Carbon emissions. The project called for an eCommerce application where the visitor can log in and purchase Carbon Offsets based on their energy use. Advantive developed the program using Open Source content management system Drupal and its flexible eCommerce plugin UberCart. The Carbon Offset program is named Double Your Difference after Entergy’s commitment to match the offset purchases of program participants. You can visit the Carbon Offset program here: https://entergyoffsets.pewclimate.org/.

Tangerine Solar launches new Solar Community

Stanley Florek — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:58:00 +0000

Advantive launched a new company called Tangerine Solar. Tangerine Solar develops community-scale solar energy systems in partnership with local citizens, advocacy groups, businesses, utilities, and government officials. There is outstanding demand for community solar energy, but virtually no providers that serve the unique needs of community-scale projects. Tangerine Solar will allow many projects on the drawing board across the United States to move from idea to action. The new company’s website will be posted shortly at http://www.TangerineSolar.com.