Optimus Consulting Adds Industry Veteran Chris Delgado to Lead Middleware and Systems Integration Practice Area; Expanded Practice Offers Business-Driven Solutions using Best-In-Class Middleware Technology.

NORCROSS, Ga. -- Optimus Consulting, the newly formed information technology (IT) consulting arm of Optimus Solutions, announces that industry veteran Chris Delgado has joined as Vice President of Optimus Consulting. Chris is an IBM-certified specialist in WebSphere and DB2 and has worked extensively as a developer and architect in the areas of application integration, relational databases, web services, and portal frameworks. In his new role as head of Middleware & Systems Integration solutions, Chris will lead a team of consultants to deliver business solutions that bridge the gap between islands of data and the software systems that deliver information.

"Optimus Consulting is delighted to hire Chris Delgado, an experienced leader with a record of exceptional IT deployments, best practices, and client relationships who can bolster our growth in the middleware and systems integration practice areas," said Steve Johnson, President of Optimus Solutions. "Chris will help our team successfully enable portals, business intelligence (BI) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions for medium to large businesses using proven methodologies and best of breed toolsets."

"Since we first implemented the Physician's Portal here at Cardinal Health System, Inc., I've counted on Chris and his team for their technical expertise and portal implementation skills," said Christina Fogle, Manager of eSystem Support at Cardinal Health System, Inc. "I look forward to continuing our relationship and working with Chris at Optimus."

"Our goal is to be an industry leader in implementing middleware solutions. The commitment to technical excellence and client focus at Optimus gives us a platform to build solutions that are both creative and effective," said Chris Delgado, Vice President of Optimus Consulting. "Clients benefit from information sharing that fosters better decision-making, speeds products to market, and enhances communications among departments and other organizations."

Prior to joining Optimus Consulting, Chris Delgado was co-founder and President of jSymmetric, Inc., a middleware consulting and application development firm. There he delivered projects involving data integration, middleware, and Java-based application servers as well as building portals and distributing computing, data federation, and transaction processor solutions. Chris is a member of the Java Community Process and regularly contributes articles to technical journals, such as "Building High-Availability Web Applications" in WebSphere Journal. He has also co-authored several books on integration systems. Chris is a graduate of Loyola University, New Orleans.

Optimus Consulting's Middleware and Systems Integration group will use best practices to create applications that share information freely within the computing infrastructure and the enterprise; are location independent allowing them to be deployed via performance, economic, and business concerns; and foster platform independence and a distributed programming environment. Businesses benefit from scalable and reliable solutions that lower infrastructure operating costs, optimize resources, and improve IT administrative productivity.

ABOUT OPTIMUS CONSULTING

Optimus Consulting provides comprehensive IT solutions designed to streamline and integrate business processes across the enterprise. Optimus Consulting professionals use robust tools and best practice techniques for developing, implementing, and integrating information solutions effectively and efficiently. The organization has great expertise in application integration, IBM Domino/Lotus(R) groupware solutions, Research in Motion (RIM) Blackberry(R) mobile solutions, and web-enabled solutions such as Sun J2EE, Microsoft .NET, and IBM Domino and WebSphere. Optimus Consulting is poised to help large and medium corporations leverage their existing technology investments, reduce costs, increase productivity, and improve the quality of information and customer service. The firm is a division of the $190 million OHC LLC. For additional information, contact Optimus Consulting at 1.877.848.OPTI.