putting the right people on the right project should not waste time and money. skillshop can reduce both of these pain points and optimize your IT resources.

the problem

Large IT organizations are plagued with ineffective methods in identifying and planning IT resources with specific skill sets needed on company projects.  SkillShop manages this internal marketplace by increasing the findability of employees through a customized taxonomy of IT skills. Unlike existing solutions, SkillShop optimizes the end to end process of resource allocation on projects.

meet the founders

Debbie Cheng

Debbie has always been passionate about technology. She received her Masters in Information Management & Systems from UC Berkeley in May 2007 and is now working at Chevron GlobalMarketing IT. At Chevron she is involved in a variety of projects including a Social Computing Proof of Concept where she has been exploring the use of web 2.0 technologies, including blogs and wikis within the enterprise. Prior to moving to California for graduate school, Debbie was at MIT where she received her B.S. in Management Science (IT and Marketing concentrations). Her research interests include exploring the privacy implications of emerging technologies, biomimicry and sustainable business and the adoption of disruptive technologies. When Debbie is not busy scheming new business ideas with her partner Lindsay she can be found rock climbing, snowboarding and eating sushi.

 

Lindsay Tabas

Lindsay is a jane-of-most-trades in technology, having worked on (to name a few) projects addressing child overweight, regional collaboration on transportation systems, designing for services versus products, and open source for small to mid-sized businesses. Her skills run the gamut from product design to actual software development, and all that is entailed in between. Lindsay and her business partner, Debbie, met as graduate students at the School of Information at the University of California at Berkeley. Before moving to the Bay Area, Lindsay received her B.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia, and earned herself a reputation for building student organizations over a variety of different interests. Currently, she is the Senior Business Analyst for Sycle.net, the hearing industry’s leading practice management system, located in Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. Her personal website can be found here.