Finsoft Consultants, Inc., headquartered in New York City, is an Information Technology solutions company that provides very cost-effective staff-augmentation and application development services to blue chip companies and government organizations.
Partnering with our clients, Finsoft provides experienced consultants, handles full life-cycle application development projects and takes responsibility for on-going maintenance and support of client’s systems. Finsoft’s philosophy to cultivate long-term relationships with clients is best exemplified by the track record of our contracts, the average life of which is over three years.
Finsoft maintains its high standards of performance by aggressively recruiting in the United States and overseas then developing the highest level of talent by extensive and ongoing training.
Our consultants come from top universities and technology training centers with proven experience in a variety of industries. On joining the company, the consultants receive initial training, accompanied by on-going in-house training to help them keep abreast of new trends in technology. A technology-based approach to recruiting facilitates consultants from various professions and backgrounds to work together, broaden their individual knowledge and skills, and blend their expertise in various industry and service practices.
The ability to cultivate a big picture distinguishes our consultants from our competitors. They develop a command of the clients’ business philosophy in addition to their systems to partner with them to help them achieve their goals on time and on budget. From the start of each relationship the consultants add value by assessing the customers needs and working with the clients to develop customized methodology for an efficient and cost-effective solution.
Filtering through numerous technology vendors - for products, services and human capital, can be an overwhelming task often consuming resources dedicated to production. Finsoft’s technology consulting division can provide you with a proven vendor selection methodology. Through a process with clearly defined targets and deliverables, Finsoft can help to ensure that your technology dollars consistently add value and are closely aligned with your corporate objectives.
Our consultants span a wide spectrum of experience levels and industries. Some of the most common positions we have successfully filled include:
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1. Desktop:
Help desk support skills level 1 and 2 |
 Support (front end support for end users and applications) |
| Unit upgrades (Customers hardware knowledge in varying desktop hardware) |
| Asset management (inventory control) |
| Application upgrades (Office 97 /2000, Mail clients (Outlook, POP3 clients, Lotus notes), browsers, departmental applications, in house developed apps, PDA’s) |
| Market data applications support (Reuters, Bloomberg, Aspen, News edge, Xyris, Bridge, Telerate, Instinet trader W/S |
| Client OS ( NT W/S, Windows 98/98/ ME , Windows 2000, Linux) |
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2. Network:
Skills involved are design/ implement, administer, maintain and troubleshoot network devices and transport in a LAN / WAN and MAN scenario with Ethernet and Fast Ethernet |
Network monitoring (SNMP protocol., HP Openview, CA Unicenter, Tivoli, Big Brother) |
| Component upgrades/memory add-on’s, OS flash upgrades ( routers/switches) |
| Routing Protocols (RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, PPP) |
| Bandwidth provisioning |
| T1, T2, T3 circuits, DSL ( ADSL, SDSL) ISDN |
| Documentation /Diagrams ( VISIO, Charting or flow diagrams) |
| (network administrator /TCP/IP knowledge, IP segmentation/Cisco routers/ VLANS/ performance / high availability) |
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3. Hardware:
Skills involved: break/fix troubleshoot, vendor specific hardware knowledge |
Dell servers, power edge 2300/ 2400 4200, rack servers, Compaq proliant units, IBM X series and Netfinity series servers |
| Sun ultra series, Ultra enterprise servers |
| Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, BayNetworks, |
| ASIC based security devices (Netscreen, Nokia checkpoint) |
| Raid devices and controllers |
| Backup tape libraries. |
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4. Server:
Skill involved are design/ implement (install /upgrade hardware as well as OS and server based apps, OS patches), administer, maintain and troubleshoot servers
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OS Support ( Solaris, Linux, NT, AIX, BSD) |
| Departmental server ( NT file servers, Solaris, AIX) |
| Database servers ( SQL or Oracle/ Sybase, DB2, Informix) |
| Web servers ( farms) ( IIS 4.0 , APACHE, Netscape ) |
| Authentication servers ( NT PDC) |
| Name servers ( WINS, DNS - **BSD) |
| Web Application servers ( Web logic, Web sphere, IPlanet) |
| RAS servers (NT) |
| Mail servers ( Exchange/ POP3/ IMAP, Send mail) |
| Scripting (C-Shell, PHP, NT scripting ) |
| Connectivity solutions to legacy systems |
| High availability |
| Performance |
| Quota management |
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5. Security:
Skill involved are assessing threats, investigating OS& application holes design/ implement secure networks with an eye towards minimal obstruction for end-user and performance |
Secure Extranet implementation |
| Secure Intranet implementation |
| Database security |
| Logon/ authentication security |
| LDAP |
| DNS servers |
| Fire wall (checkpoint/ netscreen / CISCO) |
| NAT |
| Intrusion detection (Black ICE, Real Secure) |
| VPN |
| OS patches (NT, Solaris Linux) |
| Virus protection on server level/ desktop level and Border router entry level |
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6. Storage:
Skills involved are Low level understanding of file systems (NTFS as well as UFS or NFS, optimal storage blocks, distributed data distribution, Gigabit switches and GIGA fabric for transport. Data recovery, Data redundancy RAID levels) |
SAN design/implement |
| Fiber SANS and GIGA Ethernet SANS |
| Network Appliance and EMC |
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