One more high-tech company has established a presence in downtown Wilkes-Barre, which is full of positive energy as the city revitalizes.
This week OPTiMO Information Technology opened an office inside the Innovation Center @ Wilkes-Barre, about 30 miles from its Bloomsburg headquarters. OPTiMO provides such services as staffing, IT consulting and protection of electronic information, working with government and private-sector clients. The company employs a total of about 50 people among its offices in Bloomsburg, Wilkes-Barre and Washington, D.C., with 30 working in the Wilkes-Barre location. OPTiMO’s CEO, Mike Miguelez, says the company plans to hire 30 more workers.
Miguelez says the decision to open a new office came about because the firm has built up a strong client base in Wilkes-Barre. He also credited the Governor’s Action Team, which works with businesses moving into or expanding within Pennsylvania. As part of its expansion, OPTiMO is receiving a $120,500 funding package that includes grant money and tax credits.
OPTiMO also plans to increase its presence in the area of digital forensics, which essentially means mining data from devices such as smart phones and digital cameras. Analysts pull and analyze this information for clients as diverse as law firms, corporations and government agencies, says Heather Spillane, manager of digital forensic services.
Sources: Mike Miguelez and Heather Spillane, OPTiMO Information Technology
Writer: Rebecca VanderMeulen