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Primordial Attends TBOLC FTX

June 27, 2008

Back in May, several members of Primordial - Kyle Estes, Robert Dahlstrom, and myself - were invited to attend and observe a Field Training Exercise (FTX) for the Transportation Basic Officer Leader Course (TBOLC). Dubbed “Manassas Run”, the FTX ran from 12 May 08 to 16 May 08 and took place at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. The primary objective for the TBOLC students was to conduct convoy operations to resupply fictitious units in their area of responsibility. While not a full train up for convoy ops in Iraq or Afghanistan, the exercise did give many of these new lieutenants a taste for what to expect while out in the “Sandbox”.

Primordial’s goals in attending the FTX were to learn more about the workflow of convoy operations and to demonstrate our integration of Ground Guidance with the Movement Tracking System (MTS).

A little history about Manassas and Bull Run.

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Primordial Attends First Job Fair

February 11, 2008

Tim Oehler and I recently manned Primordial’s booth at the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology (IT) Job Fair on Wednesday, 30 Jan 08. We both graduated from the University of Minnesota with degrees in Computer Engineering in 2006 and know what it is like to be a student with graduation looming large. I hoped this fact would render us more approachable than the company reps I remember from previous job fairs I attended as a student. It didn’t hurt that our booth was sweet, with a nice centerpiece and two computer screens running our Ground Guidance Desktop software and the Floodwater video.

Our objective was to find candidates interested in filling our software engineering position. Decked out in our new Primordial shirts, we spent the next six hours gathering over 50 resumes from interested candidates. We figured a good outing would have been 10 to 15 resumes, so I think we did quite well. Even better, I have been blown away by the quality of the candidates from whom we have received resumes, and predict we’ll face one of those “good problems” where there are more highly-qualified candidates than we can hire.

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