Baldwin Hackett & Meeks, Inc. Corporate Blog

ATEFI is the Latin American Association of Service Operators for Electronic Funds Transfer and Information. 

Omaha, NE – May 9, 2012 – Baldwin Hackett & Meeks, Inc. (BHMI), a leading supplier of high-volume transaction processing solutions, will be showcasing its Concourse Financial Software Suite™, a proven back-office processing solution for electronic payments transactions, at the ATEFI Annual Meeting of Members.  This event is being held in Ciudad Antigua de Guatemala, Guatemala from May 16 to 19, 2012.

During this event, BHMI, along with partners Alaric Systems (www.alaric.com) and Stratus Mexico (www.stratus.com.mx), will be marketing a powerful and integrated end-to-end payments processing solution for electronic transactions such as ATM, POS, Debit, Credit, Prepaid, and Mobile.  Event attendees will learn how they can leverage the strengths of the most powerful payments solutions in the market to process any type of electronic payment transaction quickly, reliably, and cost effectively.

Click here to read the full press release.

Since 1998, Baldwin Hackett & Meeks, Inc. (BHMI), a leading software solutions provider, has had a very active technical internship program running three separate sessions each year – Spring, Summer, and Fall.

Interns are recruited from several local colleges and universities including the following:

Bellevue University     Creighton University 

Doane College     Midland Lutheran College  

Nebraska Wesleyan     Peter Kiewit Institute

UNK    UNL    UNO 

When choosing intern candidates, BHMI looks for Junior or Senior level students with an average GPA of 3.6 or higher who excel in their course work.

The success of BHMI’s internship program in evident from the number of applicants the company receives prior to each session as well as the number of interns that choose to stay on with BHMI for multiple sessions.  All four of BHMI’s Fall 2011 interns decided to extend their internship through the 2012 Spring session.  In addition to the four, BHMI hired two interns for the Spring session.

When Lucy Horpedahl from UNO, one of the new Spring interns, was asked what she values most about her internship with BHMI, she said, “This is the first time I have worked a computer-related job and have had the opportunity to apply what I am learning in class.”  She went on to say, “I have found that my class curriculum doesn’t always coincide with how things are done at work, so I value the exposure I am gaining to the real world.”

Later this month, BHMI will start looking for local interns for its Summer session that begins in June. If you know of an outstanding computer science student looking for a summer internship, please have them check with their university career center for more information regarding BHMI’s internship posting.  Feel free to download information about BHMI’s internship program.

BHMI was a proud sponsor of the PMI (Project Management Institute) Fall 2011 Region 2 Conference held at the LaVista Conference Center in Omaha, NE on November 10^th – 12th. 

PMI is the world’s leading not-for-profit membership association for the project management profession, with more than half a million members and credential holders in more than 185 countries. Their worldwide advocacy for project management is supported by their globally-recognized standards and credentials, their extensive research program, and their professional development opportunities. 

Casey Scheer, BHMI Director of Sales and Marketing, Cheryl Fitzgarrald, BHMI Senior Project Manager / VP of Membership PMI Heartland Chapter and Michele Francis-Stine, President PMI Heartland Chapter standing in front of the BHMI booth.

The Region 2 Conference was attended by representatives from the following PMI chapters:

• Central Illinois Chapter
• Central Indiana Chapter
• Central Iowa Chapter
• Chicagoland Chapter
• Eastern Iowa Chapter
• Heartland (NE) Chapter
• Madison/So. Central Wisconsin Chapter
• Manitoba Chapter
• Michiana Chapter
• Mid-Nebraska Chapter
• Minnesota Chapter
• North East Wisconsin Chapter
• North Saskatchewan Chapter
• Northeast Indiana Chapter
• Northeast Wisconsin Chapter
• PMI GOC
• Quad Cities Chapter
• Sioux Empire Chapter

The event provided BHMI an opportunity to showcase its custom software solutions, financial software product suite, and messaging middleware application.

Robert Frank, Bill Cain, Bob Brindamour, Scott Boje and Matt Stefan (from left to right)

Baldwin Hackett & Meeks, Inc. recently took third place in its division for the 6th Annual Bike Omaha Commuter Challenge presented by Trek Bicycle Stores of Omaha. 

Omaha cyclists tracked their trips/miles ridden between work and home from May 1 through October 1, 2011.  Five BHMI employees rode a combined total of 2,438 miles to and from BHMI’s corporate headquarters.  The following chart shows the overall rank and total mileage of each BHMI participant. 

RANK             NAME                         TRIPS              MILES             POINTS

84                    Bob Brindamour          35                    1151                1501

86                    Robert Frank                50                    982                1482

385                  Bill Cain                         12                    165                  285

420                  Matt Stefan                  12                    115                  235

617                   Scott Boje                       1                      25                    35

Winter BOCC 2011

BHMI employees are also participating in the first Winter Bicycle Omaha Commuter Challenge that started November 1, 2011.

According to Bob Brindamour, cyclist and BHMI software engineer, bicycling is becoming a more significant part of Omaha’s culture.  Omaha is now one of 11 cities, including St. Paul, Santa Fe, and Reno, that have been awarded bronze designations from the League of American Bicyclists in recognition of the city’s efforts in supporting bikers, including Omaha’s expanding network of dedicated bike lanes and trails that link downtown Omaha to distant parts of the city. 

Bob Brindamour stops for a snapshot during a commute to BHMI.

Omaha Bikes, founded by Bob Brindamour, played a big part in improving Omaha’s biking environment by working with Omaha officials to create a more “bicycle friendly” community.  Bob and other members of the Omaha Bikes team serve on the Mayor’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee to encourage civic policies that benefit cyclists, pedestrians, and public transit users.

BHMI is bicycle friendly as well.  In addition to funding participation for employees and their families in community cycling events, BHMI also provides secure indoor bike parking for BHMI cyclists.  BHMI’s flex time policy also permits BHMI cyclists to adjust their commute times to and from work in order to avoid “bicycle unfriendly” weather conditions.  Additionally, private employee offices make it easy for BHMI cyclists to change between bike attire and work attire.  All in all, BHMI wants to keep its cyclists pedaling. 

Where the rubber meets the road.

To learn more about Omaha’s biking activities, please visit http://OmahaBikes.net/.

The Governor of the State of Nebraska and the state’s chief medical officer, Dave Heineman, recently honored 28 Nebraska employers for implementing workplace wellness programs that are improving people’s health. 

The honored companies include the following SimplyWell clients:

• Box Butte General Hospital, Alliance
• CASSLING, Omaha
• Conductix-Wampfler, Inc., Omaha
• Jefferson Community Health Center, Fairbury
• SilverStone Group, Omaha
• Streck, Inc., Omaha
• The Nebraska Medical Center Wellness Center, Omaha

SimplyWell works to understand the goals of an organization to develop customized programs that suit each client’s unique needs and culture.  They collaborate with employers to design wellness programs that maximize opportunities for employees to enjoy better health.  As a result, SimplyWell’s clients are enjoying the benefits of a healthier, more productive workforce as well as reduced healthcare costs.  For more information, please read SimplyWell’s case studies.  

Working in partnership with Baldwin Hackett & Meeks, Inc. (BHMI), a leading specialist in creating primary software applications, SimplyWell recently rolled out a new state-of-the-art website to its participants.  The new site features a more intuitive medically-based system that empowers participants with individualized information, stressing the importance of preventive care and individual accountability.  For more information about SimplyWell, please visit www.simplywell.com.

On Sept. 19, 2011, SimplyWell released a newly designed website featuring an all new Home for Health dashboard.  SimplyWell partnered with BHMI to create video tutorials in English and Spanish to describe the new enhancements and features that are available to participants in the SimplyWell health and wellness program.  The dashboard serves as a starting poing for participants to find individualized information on how to improve their health.  Participants can launch the tutorial after they logon to www.simplywell.com and select the “View a Tutorial Link” located on the left side of the My Home for Health page.  You can view these tutorials here:

English:

Spanish:

If you would like to learn more about BHMI, please visit www.bhmi.com.  Or, for more information about SimplyWell, please visit www.simplywell.com.

Steven Cusumano – UNO

Baldwin Hackett & Meeks, Inc. (BHMI), a leading international software solutions provider, offers a unique and rewarding internship program for students enrolled at Nebraska universities. Up to six interns are employed during each of three sessions – spring, summer, and fall – and work on projects related to software development. No key/data entry, watching operational logs, working a help desk, or deploying workgroup products.

Nikhil Ghanta - UNO

During the week of August 15th 2011, Steven Cusumano and Nikhil Ghanta joined the intern staff at BHMI for the fall session. When choosing intern candidates, BHMI looks for Junior or Senior level students with an average GPA of 3.6 or higher who are majoring in computer science and/or computer engineering. 

 The internship at BHMI will enable Steven and Nikhil to:

•  acquire skills and experiences working in a professional environment
•  assume advanced responsibilities as they prove they can handle them
•  gain exposure to project deadlines and client feedback
•  improve their interpersonal communication skills
•  have access to facilities, tools and resources that are the same as those provided to  BHMI’s full-time software engineer professionals
•  springboard their careers in the software development field

The fall session is now closed, but BHMI will be opening up Spring applications soon.    Click here to learn more about BHMI’s internship program.

Omaha, Nebraska – (SEPTEMBER 19, 2011) SimplyWell LLC is raising the bar for employer wellness programs with  new website enhancements designed to motivate its participants to embrace wellness and improve their health through wellness solutions targeted to their specific health needs.  Working in partnership with Baldwin Hackett & Meeks, Inc. (BHMI), a leading specialist in creating primary software applications, SimplyWell rolled out its new state-of-the-art website to its participants on September 19, 2011. 

While still relying on the SimplyWell acclaimed platform based on a medical model, the new website design is much more intuitive as well as interactive. 

“Our objective is to get the highest level of engagement and commitment from our participants,” said SimplyWell CEO Mike Demman.  “With our newly designed website, we have enhanced our capabilities to exchange health information and provide proactive education based on an individual’s health risks and health screening results.  Information on how a participant can improve his or her health is now just one mouse click away.”

“SimplyWell had a vision to make their online health system more intuitive,” said BHMI Project Manager Megan Whittle.  “They wanted it to provide participants with health topics and tools specifically related to their individual health conditions.  BHMI helped SimplyWell make this vision a reality.”

“BHMI shared SimplyWell’s vision for a medically-based system that empowers participants with individualized information, stressing the importance of preventive care and individual accountability,” Whittle said.  “And, both companies knew this enhanced system would require sophisticated intelligence in order to make each user experience unique to the participant.  The resulting enhancements were truly a team effort – a meeting of SimplyWell’s medical mind with BHMI’s technical mind.” 

According to Demman and Whittle, the most significant changes to the online health system were made within the “My Home For Health” section.  The main “My Home For Health” page now serves as a participant dashboard with a quick snapshot of each participant’s individualized health statistics, action plan and related links.  Information most relevant to each participant’s health is literally at his or her fingertips, making the system more user-friendly and easier to navigate.  The new website’s innovations include:

• Enhanced navigation with quick mouse-over functionality, drop down menus, and a new look with fresh graphics.
• A “My Home For Health” page that is individualized to the logged-on participant with personalized program information and direct links to targeted needs-based education.
• Up-to-date information on the participant’s risk assessment, health score and progress on the home page as well as a customized “What’s Next” section to direct wellness efforts.
• A message center providing a secure inbox for announcements, reminders, news and confidential health information. 
• Specialized features for program administration.

 “It’s one thing to provide people with access to information, but it’s another thing entirely to get people to act on it.  This is what we believe the new SimplyWell website will accomplish,” said Demman. 

 For a preview of SimplyWell’s new website, please visit www.simplywell.com.  

ABOUT SIMPLYWELL.

SimplyWell was founded by physicians in 1998 and is privately owned by Clarkson Regional Health Services and Private Practice Associates LLC.  SimplyWell’s Integrated Health Solutions product portfolio offers comprehensive solutions with proven results. SimplyWell provides solutions that identify risk and disease early and empower participants with the tools to modify personal health risks, stressing the importance of preventive care and individual accountability. SimplyWell is private, secure and HIPAA compliant. For more information on SimplyWell, please visit www.simplywell.com.