Technical Consulting
We enjoy sharing our passion for technology with our clients. Let us help you translate your ideas into actionable requirements and assist you in identifying a sensible application of technology to your challenges. Darkharp combines analytical and quantitative skills, Technical knowledge, experience and excellent communciation skills to support our clients and resolve their technical challenges. We provide technical evaluations, process analysis, requirements analysis, application development, auser focus groups and proposal development resources.
Process Engineering
Darkharp provides human and technical process analysis and business insights, facilitates team and user focus groups, identifies quality metrics, and provides gap analyses helpful to strategic planners. We have assisted clients in creating quality plans, identifying quality metrics, and instituting quality initiatives. We continuously evaluate business processes using quality control and quality assurance standards; collaborating with clients in identifying opportunities for reengineering and implementation of recommended process improvements.
Technical Writing
Content development and proposal writing support is one of Darkharp's most requested services. We provide technical proposal solutions for contractors bidding work in agencies throughout the federal government, coordinating the input of technical subject matter experts, and providing strategic advice regarding level of effort and team composition. Curriculum development, instructional design, and computer-based assessment items are our second most requested service and bridge our content development and application development capabilities.
Front End Development
Darkharp serves as a subject matter expert to support our clients in defining requirements and crafting workable designs that fit into their overall architecture and meet their objectives. We create ASP.NET/MS SQL applications, assessment items and user interfaces that accurately reflect clients' needs. We assist clients in developing metrics for development, design and user acceptance testing and deployment. We ensure that each development iteration (sprint) meets functional and user acceptance test criteria before being deployed to the production environment.
Project Management
Darkharp cultivates the collaboration essential for successfully directing projects and achieving our clients' goals. Our management approach is based on Project Management Institute Standards (PMI) standards and is tailored to meet specific project requirements. Darkharp ensures we perform the necessary process steps, documentation, and review activities required to guarantee performance objectives are met. We are highly committed to ensuring that we remain fully responsive to the needs and desires of our clients.
Disaster Recovery
Darkharp provides assistance with data backup and business continuity planning, and we develop and maintain documentation for Continuity of Operations as a requested service. Our experience managing server space for web clients has evolved with the emergence of highly available Cloud resources. We tailor recommendations for the use of Azure Site Recovery and georedundant storage to support off site backup/recovery capability accessible to small business clients based on Develop Recovery Time Objectives [RTO] and Develop Recovery Point Objectives [RPO].