• Presenter: Dustin Clonch AgilX
• Co-Presenter: Jake McElroy AgilX

A new product Agilx is working on will change the way general contractors in the construction industry communicate with their vast subcontractor network.  “After discussing our new software with several industry experts, we received immediate positive feedback on the huge impact that the product could have on the construction industry.” said Dustin Clonch, co-founder and software developer at Agilx. “Programs like this make operating a software development company in Nebraska worth it!” said Jake McElroy co-founder of Agilx. “This grant allows us to hire additional developers and really accelerate our plans for the project”. Agilx recently held the 2012 Nebraska Software Builders Challenge in March and later hired the two contest winners to assist in the development of the software.

For more information on the Talent & Innovation Initiative, visit the states website at http://www.neded.org/business/talent-a-innovation-initiative.

About Agilx

Agilx is a Lincoln, Nebraska-based software development company.  Co-founders Jake McElroy and Dustin Clonch were both raised in Nebraska and feel a strong sense of pride and loyalty to the state with a desire to help the state develop an impressive technological reputation.

“Being in the room with the best and brightest CEOs, Presidents and other executives in Lincoln was a truly humbling experience. Humbling, but incredibly educational”, said Clonch of the opportunity to speak about the culture that co-founder Jake McElroy and himself are building at Agilx. “I had the opportunity to put our ideas and core values out into a room of people that have spent decades building some of the best organizations in the world.  Representatives from companies like Lincoln Industries and Kiewit; truly unique and amazing examples of the best corporate culture builders around today.” 

The Lincoln Executive Series is designed to provide executives from both the public and private sectors an exposure to and a deeper understanding of the critical issues facing the community.

The program represents an ongoing commitment to the betterment of the Lincoln community and to the increased dialogue among its leaders. During the past twenty-two years, over 475 executives and their spouses/significant others have been involved in the Lincoln Executive Series.

The day started off with Empire Fence presenting a real world challenge which focused on building a web based residential fence estimating application. The challenge was designed with loose guidelines allowing participants to use creativity and problem solving to build their application. Participants were given 4.5hrs to develop their version of the fence estimating application.   That afternoon the judging panel (assembled from sponsors of the competition) reviewed each teams submission and scored them based on approach, workflow and pragmatism. The results were 1st place going to Timothy Miller and David Dovel. Coming in second were Tyler Zubke and Sourabh Chakraborty and third place went to Michael Hartling.

A large thanks goes out to all the sponsors that supported this event.

Matt Warner and Justin Hernandez from Empire Fence provided the first place prize and also worked with us to develop the context of the challenge.  Thanks guys!

Thanks to Stephen Frayser, Jackie Swanson and Elizabeth Loeck from the Nebraska Technology Park for making this event possible.

Thanks to Rod Armstrong with the AIM Institute and Dan Hoffman from Invest Nebraska for providing some much needed guidance.

Gratitude goes to Layne Sup and Eric Traphagan from Binary.net for providing the virtual servers to host the participants creations.

These other sponsors provided cash for prizes or donated their products for the challenge.

PitchBurner

Automated Systems, Inc.

Centrix Solutions

The AIM Institute

Invest Nebraska

Cabelas

CiCi’s Pizza

Binary.NET

Empire Fence