In Summer 2010, high90 LLC will move our offices to Carson City, NV. Through cutting-edge remote management and video-conferencing technology, we will continue to faithfully serve our customers in Hampton Roads and across the United States.

For some clients, that will mean a simple, distinctive, one-page billboard-style website that tells your customers who you are and what you do.

For others, it means taking a blizzard of confusing numbers, percentages and prices and placing them into a clean, readable, informative layout for in-house or customer use.

We’re here to bring order (and maybe a little bit of style) to the hurricane of data in your world.  Drop us a line – design@high90.com.

Albert Einstein

At high90 we believe that in today’s data-saturated world, reducing noise and clutter to its effective minimum is not only the right approach, it’s the only approach.

We’ll work with you to define the most important points you wish to communicate, then help present them in a way that maximizes their Signal-to-Noise ratio.

Innovation

Sometimes you’re faced with a problem you’ve never encountered before. Sometimes you’re faced with a problem nobody has ever faced before.

We’re not afraid to try new things. There are rarely any one-size-fits-all solutions. Each of our previous sites has been custom designed to the needs of our customer. If an existing solution isn’t right or isn’t available, we’ll make one for you.

Freedom

It is our firm belief that what’s yours should stay yours. We believe in your freedom to pick up and move to another provider if we’re not working out for you. We believe that you should remain free to do what you want with your information.

At high90, we use Free / Open Source solutions to save you money and time. Open Source Software also keeps you free to modify or change your site or application whenever you’d like. You should never have to ask for someone else’s permission to use your information.

Chief Designer

Erik has a BSFS in Science, Technology and International Affairs from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service .

He received a commission in the US Navy in 1997 via NROTC and immediately began pilot training, earning his Wings of Gold in 1999. After being selected to fly the F-14 Tomcat, Erik reported to NAS Oceana, Virginia. Since then, he has completed two combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and is currently serving as Force Landing Signal Officer for the Navy’s Atlantic Fleet. In 2007 and 2008 he waved the first-ever arrestments of the French Rafale and Boeing EA-18G aboard a US Navy aircraft carrier.

As an instructor at the US Navy’s Landing Signal Officer School, Erik helped design and implement a $2 million instructor console and graphics upgrade to the world’s only LSO Trainer. His roles included designing the custom touch-screen user interface and displays for the instructor/operator station, setting program requirements, software engineering, and troubleshooting. He’s most proud of writing the code to determine and display proper lunar light levels for night-time recoveries.

Erik was fortunate to represent the US Navy on the F-35 Lightning II requirements staff. While there, he provided a fleet perspective on pilot vehicle interface designs, particularly the unique dual touchscreen cockpit displays which replace the traditional gauges and multifunction displays on older aircraft. After deep immersion in two complex government acquisition programs, Erik learned a great deal about what to do and what not to do as a customer, broker and contractor.

Bob VanderClay

Chief Technologist

At high90, technology doesn’t support the business, technology is the business. So when you’re building something completely new and different than anything that’s been done before, who do you find to harness your vision?

You go find Bob.

Bob earned a degree in Computer Science at the University of Michigan, and has honed his skills working with a diverse set of clients, including NASA, ETS, BAE, and the US Joint Forces Command. He’s helped dozens of small businesses leverage technology to stay competitive in an unpredictable economic climate. He’s designed and built applications, and he’s lead and taught others to do the same. Bob doesn’t just respond to this fast-paced, constantly evolving industry – he thrives in it.

Even though Bob brings a broad and unique background to bespoke application design, he knows that technology alone isn’t enough. To succeed, it must work hand in hand with good business practices and good people. For Bob, it’s not enough to just create better software, it’s his goal to create better users.

But all this technology stuff is only half the story. Bob brings a passion for creation, a drive to do something new, something better, something greater. Whether it’s optimizing the code to squeak out a little more performance, designing a new user interface to convey huge amounts of data in a clear and concise manner, or taking some time off to just play guitar, Bob craves creation. He craves pushing the envelope. For Bob, “good enough”, isn’t.

As he would say, “Perfection may not be attainable, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.”

We like to think of ourselves as fun, friendly, hard-working, creative, outdoorsy, geeky folks here at high90.  If that sounds like you, then you’d probably like it here.

If you think you’ve got the talent and temperament to work with us, we’d love to hear from you.  Introduce yourself – jobs@high90.com.