Blue Collar Objects selected to Washington Technology's Fast 50
October 20, 2006

Blue Collar Objects checked in at No. 16 on Washington Technology's Fast 50 - an annual list recognizing a select group of small businesses in the Washington region that have experienced tremendous growth within the past five years. Washington Technology, the only national newspaper for government IT systems integrators and resellers, published the 2006 rankings in its October 16 issue: www.washingtontechnology.com/smallbusiness/fast50/2006.

The Washington Technology Fast 50 list is an important part of the coverage of the issues and challenges facing small government contractors. The ranking provides in-depth information about the companies and their place in the market. Fast 50 companies are ranked on how fast their government revenues grew from 2001 through 2005, including federal, state, and local revenues. To be included, companies needed to have a minimum of $100,000 in government revenue. They also had to meet the federal government criteria for a small business or be a member of the 8(a) program.

Washington Technology delivers business news to more than 40,000 business executives whose companies provide high-level technical services to the government. Published semi-monthly, each issue features the latest contracting wins, government initiatives and projects, case studies, analyses and fresh technology news. The website www.washingtontechnology.com is a leading resource for systems integrators and IT companies doing business with government.

Blue Collar Objects Opens New Headquarters
May 12, 2006

Blue Collar Objects LLC of Fairfax, VA announced today that it has moved its headquarters to a new facility in Fairfax, Virginia. Prior to the move, Blue Collar Objects was a tenant of the George Mason University (GMU) School of Public Policy’s Mason Innovation Center, which is located adjacent to the GMU campus. The new office will provide a physical collaboration complement to the virtual collaboration environment (implemented using Wiki technology) Blue Collar has been using for nearly a year as part of its strategy to be an “Incubator for Ideas.”

The new facility, located at 3702 Pender Drive in Fairfax, occupies more than 10,000 square feet. The layout provides an open, "no-walls" work environment that is a physical representation of Blue Collar’s objective of minimal hierarchy and maximum opportunity for collaboration and critical feedback from all parts of the organization.

“The move from a basement to GMU’s Innovation Center was marked by the launch of our first major Government Services project with DoD (Navy SPAWAR); this current move to our own space coincides with the launch of our first commercially available software product – BlueJean Time – a web-based time collection and contract administration application service targeted at small businesses,” said Solomon Thompson Jr., Founder and CEO of Blue Collar Objects.

“GMU’s suite of services and passion for nurturing small business has had an immeasurable impact on our maturation and growth,” Thompson added. “We plan to continue collaborating with this winning organization in all possible ways: recruiting their students, sharing ideas on our Wiki, and other ways we will discuss in our continuing efforts to seek win/win opportunities."

Since 2002, Blue Collar Objects had been an “incubator” client of the Mason Innovation Center, an economic development effort designed to grow small businesses by providing common infrastructure and facilities and promoting networking opportunities. In 2005, Blue Collar Objects received the annual Donna Noble Outstanding Incubator Client Award from the Virginia Business Incubation Association, an honor recognizing the top incubator client in the state. Blue Collar experienced a ten-fold increase in size during tenure at GMU with over 40 employees and 2005 revenues of approaching $5 million.

Founded in 2000, Blue Collar Objects has evolved into an innovative force, leveraging Wiki technology to shatter conventional notions of how a small, diverse, decentralized company can be managed. BlueJean Time represents the first of a suite of application services which Blue Collar will develop, use internally, and sell as an application service to other small companies at affordable prices, enabling them to better compete with larger companies and continue leveling the playing field in this “flatter” business world.

For more information about Blue Collar Objects, visit www.bluecollarobjects.com.

Blue Collar Objects announces new Chief Operating Officer
October 12, 2005

Blue Collar Objects is pleased to announce the hiring of Arthur Billingsley as its Chief Operating Officer. As COO, Mr. Billingsley will provide leadership and management for all business operations.

“We are very pleased to welcome Art to Blue Collar Objects. He will provide solid leadership to our growing operations,” said Solomon Thompson Jr, the company’s founder and Chief Executive Officer. “We are continuing to grow our operations and build our agile culture. Art’s contributions will further solidify our position as a premier source of information technology ideas, products and services.”

Mr. Billingsley, formerly of Booz Allen Hamilton management consulting, is a retired Naval Officer. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Auburn University of Alabama in 1985. He earned a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School of Monterey, California in 1992. Mr. Billingsley has also served as adjunct faculty for Auburn University, Memphis State University, Southwest Tennessee Community College, Hampton University and Christopher Newport University.

Blue Collar Objects is an innovative and growing information technology services company with headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia. The diverse, decentralized firm provides services to clients across the United States, in addition to their participation in DoD international programs with Japan, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Blue Collar Objects Wins Donna Noble Incubator Client Award
June 1, 2005

Blue Collar Objects has been selected to receive the Virginia Business Incubation Association's prestigious Donna Noble Incubator Client Award for 2005. The award is presented annually to an emerging company voted the top incubator client in the commonwealth of Virginia. Blue Collar Objects competed against 26 other incubators for the honor, which recognizes achievement in the areas of growth, revenues and company accomplishments.

Blue Collar Objects was eligible for the VBIA award by virtue of its status as an incubator client of George Mason University's Enterprise Center, which offers programs, services and resources to foster enterprise creation and expansion among small businesses in Virginia. The incubator setting is particularly useful for companies with an interest in government contracting, entrepreneurship, technology ventures and international business initiatives.

The Donna Noble Award was presented to Blue Collar Objects at the Virginia Business Incubation Association's 2005 conference June 8, 2005 in Pembroke, Virginia.

Read more about the award presentation.

Blue Collar Objects announces Chief Technology Officer
February 14, 2005

Blue Collar Objects has named Mr. Eric Sedor its Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, Mr. Sedor will provide leadership and focus for the firm's technology initiatives, product discovery and service innovation efforts.

Mr. Sedor has focused much of his career on the identification and effective use of collaborative and practical development techniques. He is joining Blue Collar Objects to help build a unique and agile enterprise.

"Eric has the vision and insight that will bring greater focus to the firm's development and collaboration initiatives," said Solomon Thompson Jr, Blue Collar Objects' founder and Chief Executive Officer. "Eric has been successful throughout his career and we look forward to his contributions in building our agile culture."

Mr. Sedor's extensive background in the industry includes 14 years consulting experience in numerous information architecture roles. He has worked and been successful in the technology areas of eBusiness, service-oriented architectures (SOA), methodologies, Java, Smalltalk, object-oriented design, application integration and application/enterprise architectures. Mr. Sedor is a former member of IBM and General Electric (GE) services organizations.

Mr. Sedor also has significant experience in the software development business in various management, marketing, project management, & development roles from various IBM labs and prior involvement at General Electric. He has developed software that is used in the Financial Services, Insurance, Health Care, Federal, Defense, Entertainment Products, and Power Generation industries. Mr. Sedor has a B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany and has graduate study experience at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Union University.