Having an office in Colorado, close to potential new clients will also allow the company to have a more personal approach with clients in the region, which is sometimes necessary when bringing two disparate things together.Īs for hiring, the company is looking for software and hardware engineers, full-stack developers and technology leads, or as Oakhurst puts it: 'People who can lead consulting on different projects, people who can marry different systems together and business consultants who can help people decide when to make good investments. Whether you need to validate an idea, build an application, or modernize a. The company also sees potential clients in oil and gas as well as the mining industries. 'We make sure the money that companies spend on technology actually matches the business plan and, more often than not, it’s not the case,' Oakhurst says. Skookum is an award-winning digital strategy, design, and development firm.

We came here to add to our growing pool of really talented individuals,' Oakhurst explains. 'We know that Denver has a great talent base of both technology consultants and developers and designers and and project managers. One of the reasons the company located its second office in Denver was because of the workforce. 'We made an app for the system and now you can control the dampening and rebound with an iPhone.' Using a low-energy Bluetooth chip, the company created a mobile app that acted as a remote control. The company brought out seven people from Charlotte, he says, and will grow to around 25 employees in the LoDo office.įor instance, Skookum hacked hardware on some expensive suspension systems for race cars, according to Oakhurst. 'We specialize in custom technology, hardware hacking the Internet of things, skunkworks type of stuff and big data integrations,' says Chief Strategy Officer Josh Oakhurst.

The company, headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., specializes in making things work - even if they weren't supposed to. Skookum Digital Works, a tech consulting firm focused on Fortune 500 companies, recently opened its first satellite office in Denver.

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