About us

Who We Are

Noblestar is an IT Management Services firm, which provides information technology (IT) consulting and advisory services to evolve an IT organization to be an effective, efficient and compliant part of the enterprise.

We use a practice approach to our services, which includes roadmaps and advice to clarify and fulfill the overall vision of the organization. We believe that information technology is a means to an end – where IT must deliver and manage software and technology as well as add value to a cost-conscious organization.

What We Do

For over 20 years, Noblestar has been supporting organizations in defining, optimizing and implementing critical processes. We achieve this by using industry best practices to enrich business operations in a pragmatic, agile and cost-effective manner. Our expertise and experience begins with practices and processes around requirements management, analysis/design, architecture and portfolio management, and ends with software change and configuration management, deployment, and operations management. In essence, we help an enterprise “do the right things, and do things right,” thereby reducing costs.

How We Are Different

We are different from the competition in a number of dimensions, including expertise, approach, philosophies and culture.

Our Expertise

Our consultants consistently exceed client expectations and quickly hit the ground running, to deliver measurable results in the most difficult situations. We are known for our best practices and risk mitigation disciplines that assure delivery – on time, within budget, and to exacting quality standards. In other words, we sweat the details to ensure success.

Our Approach

Our approach is best described as engaging. We respect and invite the participation and contribution of everyone and do no look to supplant client personnel with our own staff. Rather, we selectively deploy our consultants to best compliment you domain expertise with our own unique blend of business and technology expertise. Sometimes, less is more. Careful coupling of our own highly experienced consultants, with energized and focused client staff, consistently produces superior results.

Our Philosophy

You can count on us to always give our best effort and show up ready to perform. We expect nothing less from our consultants and have solidified this expectation internally. We have earned a broad-based reputation for doing the hard stuff. This is born from an entrepreneurial flair for effectively harnessing emerging technology that benefits our clients’ business. Our culture is a “can-do” one, and we look for challenging opportunities to prove ourselves by taking on the most difficult tasks.

Chronology

2009
Jenny Pittman becomes Marketing Manager

2008
Noblestar headquarters move to Herndon, VA

2008
Julie Kreidel, Senior Manager, returns to Noblestar to head up business development in Federal market

2008
Noblestar re-enters Federal market

2008
Noblestar sells Poland office

2008
Noblestar establishes partnership with Telelogic

2007
Noblestar's 20 year anniversary

2007
Expansion of Education Services offering

2007
Tom Muldoon becomes Noblestar's Chief Financial Officer

2007
Vicki Miller is named Noblestar's Worldwide Director of Sales and Marketing

2007
Noblestar expands into the Denmark region and lands first major project

2006
Noblestar ramps up Rational product sales capabilities and produces close to 400k in Rational product sales

2006
Noblestar is selected to work with IBM at the PMI Global Congress

2006
Noblestar expands UK operations

2006
Noblestar becomes an official resourcing firm for the Texas Department of Information Resources

2006
Noblestar extends operations to the west coast of the USA and Canada

2006
Noblestar is selected to assist IBM in penetrating the Healthcare industry using IBM's Healthcare Business Driven Development Solutions

2006
Kenny Lew becomes Noblestar's Chief Executive Officer

2005
Noblestar establishes partnership with Build Forge to provide next generation processes for developing software

2005
Noblestar begins first Rational Portfolio Manager engagement for a private university

2005
Noblestar is accepted into the Value Advantage Plus Program (now called Software Value Incentive Program or SVI) in the US and UK, which allows Noblestar to re-sell Rational products

2005
Noblestar becomes early adopter of Rational Portfolio Manager and begins enablement of the Noblestar consulting staff

2005
Noblestar establishes an IT Portfolio Management (ITPfM) practice and develops methodology and framework for implementing ITPfM solutions

2005
Noblestar re-engergizes IBM/Rational relationship and is granted IBM Premier Business Partner status

2005
Noblestar re-brands itself as an IT management consultancy where Noblestar leverages its long legacy and extensive experience for developing custom software and implementing enterprise application packages. We call this IT Strategy and Optimization (ITSO)

2004
Logic Library announces Noblestar as newest member of Logidex Service Alliance

2004
Noblestar announces the introduction of a Retail Solutions Practice to its global business

2003
VC firms Intersouth and Anthem Capital invest in Defywire

2002
SI International goes public

2002
The subsidiary Defywire, Inc. is created and funded directly by Noblestar’s owners

2002
Noblestar sets up to advance the state of technology in the area of wireless communications to create Wireless Accelerator

2002
Noblestar joins the Rational Business Alliance Program as a Gold Member

2001
HP announces Noblestar as one of the winners for the 2001 Business Partner Awards

2001
Sun and Noblestar bring proven wireless solution to market

2000
Noblestar sells Riverbed to Aether Systems

1999
Noblestar sells Noblestar Federal to SI International

1999
Noblestar starts showing “mobile middleware” to VCs

1999
Noblestar migrates all of its federal business into a subsidiary, ”Noblestar Federal”

1998
Noblestar develops engagement-ware to allow hand held devices to ‘sync up’ with servers

1996
Noblestar expands into Europe

1992
Noblestar establishes their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Practice

1988
Falcon Systems, Inc. becomes Noblestar Systems Corporation

1987
Falcon Systems, Inc. (Noblestar) founded by Paul Opalack and Paul Pocialik