Eliassen Group establishes national division; Leading New England high-tech recruiting and consulting firm expands reach with national technical recruiting expert.WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 1996--Eliassen Group, Inc., a leading high-tech recruiting and consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , today announced the establishment of a national operations division and the appointment of Laura Gillette Johnson as General Manager of the division. Headquartered in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area, Johnson will lead Eliassen's national recruitment and placement efforts, and direct business development at the national level. To date, Eliassen Group has served companies primarily in the Northeast and North Carolina's Research Triangle area. Utilizing Johnson's technical and national recruitment industry experience, Eliassen Group is broadening the geographic scope of its recruiting and staffing activities to serve the growing needs of existing clients and to tap the burgeoning market for high-tech talent in other areas of the country. "After establishing the MasterWorks Project Solutions Division for project management and initiating operations in the hot-growth Research Triangle area in the past year, Eliassen is providing yet another dimension of service to our clients," said Mona Eliassen, founder of Eliassen Group. "As high-tech product cycles shorten and companies clamor to attract the most qualified candidates, Eliassen will further strengthen and broaden its ability to provide high caliber technical professionals anywhere on the East Coast, and through a managed national expansion, throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ." Johnson comes to Eliassen Group with over ten years of technical recruiting and business development experience, serving such national clients as AT&T, Bell Atlantic, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , IMF/World Bank and MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. . Johnson has provided expertise in recruiting technical professionals in legacy, client/server and networking arenas. Recently Johnson planned and implemented a national recruiting business unit for OAO OAO Orbiting Astronomical Observatory OAO Over and Out OAO One And Only OAO Ontario Association of Orthodontists OAO Owned and Operated OAO Ontario Association of Optometrists OAO Opticians Association of Ohio OAO Orthogonalized Atomic Orbital Corporation, a top U.S. information systems and aerospace engineering firm, in support of an international software integrator client. Prior to OAO, Johnson served as an integral player in the national expansion of COMSYS Technical Services, Inc., based in the Washington D.C. area. While at COMSYS, Johnson provided planning, implementation and support of technical recruiting and business development for Fortune 500 clients. At VIPS VIPS Volunteers in Police Service VIPS VAT (value added tax) Information Management System VIPS Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity VIPS Volunteers in Public Schools VIPS VIsion-based Page Segmentation Healthcare Information Services See Information Systems. , Johnson initiated a nationwide recruitment plan to attract high level healthcare IS client/server professionals to the Baltimore area. In addition, Johnson has been associated with EDP (Electronic Data Processing) The first name used for the computer field. EDP - Electronic Data Processing Temps and Contract Services in Boston, and has hands-on system analysis experience from Macro Systems and TRITON Corporation in the Washington, D.C. area. Eliassen Group's new national division headquarters is located at 56 Hanover Road, Suite 1000, Reisterstown, Maryland Reisterstown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland. It is located to the north of Baltimore and though it is older than the areas surrounding it, it is now more so a housing community. , 21136; telephone 1-800-353-7595. -0- Founded in 1989, Eliassen Group is based in Wakefield, Massachusetts, with additional offices in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. . Eliassen Group provides information technology recruiting and consulting services to a broad spectrum of companies from entrepreneurial start-ups to Fortune 500 firms. Eliassen's three divisions are: Eliassen Group, Inc., which specializes in placing professionals on an individual contract consulting basis; Eliassen Permanents, which focuses on placing technology professionals in full-time salaried positions; and MasterWorks Project Solutions, which offers turnkey project consulting, specializing in the areas of Internet, multimedia, sales and marketing systems, and software product development. Clients include CLAM Associates, Fax International, PictureTel Corporation and Thomson Financial Thomson Financial A major provider of information, analytical tools, and consulting services to the financial community. The firm, a division of Thomson Corporation, is best known to investors for its First Call segment, which publishes consensus earnings Services. A member of the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses and an approved consultant services vendor for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Eliassen Group was included in Inc. Magazine's "The Inc. 500: The Fastest-Growing Private Companies" in 1995. CONTACT: Collaborative Communications, Inc. Christa Degnan, 617/520-9104, degnan@collaborative.com or Adam Berkowitz, 617/520-9106, berkowtz@collaborative.com |
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