A local company that tests software for quality assurance says business is picking up. Could it be a sign the tech economy is preparing for growth?
"Maybe," says Todd Hauschildt, CEO of
SWAT Solutions in Plymouth. "We're starting to see a lot of interest in what we do. Quality is getting more and more important as companies are preparing for growth."
SWAT Solutions makes sure software products--everything from iPhone apps to medical devices--work the way they're supposed to before its clients take them to market.
"We make sure it was built and runs as it was designed," says Hauschildt.
Most of its clients are in the Twin Cities, and it's ramping up for what it expects to be a very busy third and fourth quarter. The company had
six new job positions posted on its website this week, and planned more new hires before the end of summer.
Hauschildt was hired as CEO earlier this year after resigning from a position at Thomson Reuters.
"I'd been in big companies all my career and I've got too many friends who say, dude, you've got to try this," he says. "I really do like it. It's a different type of work, different type of problems, but it's fun and it's sort of re-energized me."
He said another factor in SWAT's recent pickup is likely a "reshoring" trend by companies that had offshored their quality assurance to other countries.
Source: Todd Hauschildt, Swat Technologies
Writer:
Dan Haugen