We're changing our name, but not our game! We will still be the same, passionate team of enterprise web designers, architects and developers. We are still obsessed with quality and fiercely dedicated to our clients' success. As anyone who has ever worked with us will attest, we care deeply about every pixel we touch. We care that the systems we build are effective, elegant, easy to understand, and a delight to use. That passion has been with us since we started working as a team together at Studio Interactive ten years ago, it stayed with us when we were acquired and became part of IBM, and it is the fire that will power our new brand: Base22.

Why are we changing our name?

Burleson Technology Group was always supposed to be a 'temporary' name while we sorted out our official brand (we just didn't know that was going to take almost 3 years to do that). There are hundreds of other Burleson and BTG companies. This made it hard to find us on the internet and it did not reflect the uniqueness of our company. For example, if you searched for 'BTG' on Google, you'd find us on page 50. If you searched for 'Burleson', you'd find us on page 9. Burlesontech (in our URL and email) is also cumbersome for some to spell or remember. Base22 is short, easy to say, easy to spell, and easy to remember. But more importantly, it's loaded with the kind of nerd symbolism a bunch of technology geeks can appreciate.

Did You Know?

• "Base" means foundation, or platform - the starting point upon which great works are created, the home from which great teams are deployed and from which great operations are managed.
• 22 is the atomic number of titanium.
• 22 is the number of the “master builder” in numerology.
• 22 is the number of players on the field in a Football (soccer) match, and also the number of players on the field at any one time in an American football match.
• 22 is the number of players in a rugby squad (the word “Scrum” from rugby is used in Agile software development).
• %22 is the url encoding for a question mark.
• The Human head is constituted of 22 bones: 8 for the cranium and 14 for the face.
• The Phoenician alphabet has 22 characters (making it a base 22 counting system) and since Phoenician was the first alphabet to use symbols instead of hieroglyphics, it is the base from which Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Latin, and eventually all modern western languages grew.

In the end, a name is really only what you make it and we hope to make our new name represent excellence in our industry. We believe that a brand is a promise that a company makes and intends to keep with its customers. Our promise and our mission is to be the kind of company organizations want to partner with - to deliver solutions our clients really need with costs they can really manage; solutions that improve productivity and profitability, increase brand equity and revenue, create I.T. efficiencies and spur innovation.

We are looking for a senior level consultant and technical architect with team leadership experience, a passion for technology and innovation, disciplined practices, a strong understanding of leading standards and patterns, true creativity, and the hands-on skills to make big things happen against all odds. We are looking for this type of person because that's what we feel we are. We are a company of enterprise web architects, designers, and developers who only take on the most challenging projects for the largest corporations. Over the years we have built a reputation of being the best at what we do. If this describes you, and you've got the stories to prove it, we want to talk to you.

Skills and proven experience required:

• Technology: J2EE, JSP, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript (and a little bit of everything else). You'll need to have experience with best-of-breed content management systems and enterprise portal platforms and databases, CRMs, etc... You'll need to have the ability to guide a client through technology selection process and explain the pros and cons of different technical approaches using your own real world experience and battle scars as examples.
• Enterprise Architecture - the ability to design a multi-system integration strategy and advise senior executives
  of next steps and road-map.
• System Architecture - the ability to design an end-to-end solution strategy and road-map.
• Project Management - the ability to select and guide a team, estimate project time-line, budget and the team skills required to do a job, change control, and managing client expectations.
• Development - Sometimes you'll have a huge team, sometimes you'll be a one man show. So you need to be able to get your hands dirty. You will also be expected to lead code reviews with junior developers.
• Design - not just software design but a strong understanding and appreciation of information architecture, graphic design, interaction design, requirements gathering and analysis.
• Communication - You'll be in a position where you need to lead a proposal effort and communicate with the client, develop trust, and make new friends with senior executives, overcome political situations with a finely tuned PowerPoint, status reporting to senior leadership.

Send us your resume, CV, or whatever you call it to info@burlesontech.com

Monterrey, Mexico is dwarfed by large mountains, yet the city seems to be reaching up towards them with aggressive growth as a leading technology hub in Mexico. It is here in the shadow of majestic peaks that Mexico appears to be establishing its own 'Silicon Valley'. Numerous buildings, in mid-construction, reach for the skies with surprisingly modern architecture. Yet with horses grazing under highway overpasses, the city maintains the classic charms of Latin culture.

BTG has been leveraging near-shore support from Monterrey with good success and is now expanding into Monterrey with a permanent facility.

"Monterrey is a dynamic city," says Cody Burleson (a co-founder of BTG). "They have great talent in Monterrey and we know that a near-shore model works better for our customers than off-shore. Expanding into Monterrey is just one way that we are improving our service delivery capability. It allows us to meet the prices our customers demand while still giving the excellence they deserve."

BTG will continue to provide top-tier business and technology consulting services from the U.S., but now with improved service capability from BTG Mexico (BTG MX). BTG MX brings a host of new skills to compliment our existing strength in Java/J2EE and enterprise-class platforms such as IBM WebSphere Portal (WPS) and IBM Lotus Web Content Management (LWCM). With more technical range, BTG is better poised to deliver solutions that are right for our customers and at prices they can afford.

Our PopKong plugin is now free to customers who purchase Atlassian Confluence from BTG.

• Confluence is a simple, powerful wiki that lets you create and share pages, documents and rich content with your team.
• PopKong is our plugin for Confluence that provides a unique theme and practical macros to help you improve user experience and adoption.

Contact us for purchasing, installation, training, support, custom development, and more.

Video and slides from Summit 2009 are now available at http://www.atlassian.com/summit. You can watch any of the sessions you missed and download all the slides. Note, there are a handful of sessions that Atlassian did not have permission to post.