Essential Software, Inc

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Essential Software began focusing on high-quality software maintenance services in 199X, in conjunction with a request from KLA Tencor. While our focus is relatively recent, Essential Software has been in software business since 1990 gathering experience as a provider of contract software services. In 199X, working with KLA Tencor Essential Software was literally transformed from a successful software-contracting house to a provider of software maintenance outsource services. We have been growing ever since. Our engineering team is based and grown from the heart of Silicon Valley, which provides customers the ability to locally outsource complex projects to a team of engineers that have extensive experience in software maintenance and understand the need for rapid analysis and programming of high quality products. Bill Welden, CEO Mr. Welden founded Essential Software Incorporated in 1990 to provide fortune 500 companies the experience of elite Silicon Valley software maintenance engineers. He developed the processes in place at Essential Software to deliver a high quality product to clients in the most efficient way possible. Mr. Welden has completed many software maintenance projects since founding the company including: migration to Windows NT, MFC, ObjectStore 4.0 for KLA-Tencor, hardware compatibility middleware packages for Hewlett Packard, and most recently working with Elsevier MDL maintaining their suite of desktop discovery tools used by over 1,000 life sciences companies. Mr. Welden holds a BA in Mathematics from California State University and a MS in Computer Science from UCLA. David Shirley, COO Mr. Shirley took on responsibility for business operations at Essential Software, Incorporated in 2006, following two decades of software development experience. He spent 15 years with IBM, managing information systems planning and control, delivering executive briefings, and directing software marketing campaigns. Mr. Shirley holds a BA in Political Science and Economics from the University of Arizona.

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