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Customer Testimonials - Updated December
2007
Carmen,
I found you
and your staff very accommodating and flexible in expending your time
and efforts to assist us with the 8(a) certification process. Even after
a couple of rounds of questions from SBA, we received our certification
within 40 days following the submission of our packet and we heartily
thank you for being the winning ingredient during this process. More
importantly, you shared many thoughts and processes that I’ve already
found invaluable in helping us manage our business affairs.
I have already
begun to spread the good news about EZCertify - - you deliver on your
promises! I’ll remain a loyal client because you are a genuine
small business advocate and activist, mentor and trusted advisor.
Theodore W.
Nell
Ted Nell, President & CEO
LogIT, Inc.
8626 Groveland Drive
Springfield, VA 22153-2131
(o) 703-644-4238
(m) 703-673-6064
www.logitinc.com
tnell@logitinc.com
Valerie/Rick/Dick,
Thanks for
helping us through this process – we do appreciate and value your
services and knowledge throughout this process. We have been in contact
with our local SBA office in Newark, NJ and once we have our orientation
meeting with them will make an assessment if we need further help from
EZCertify in the short term.
We would recommend
your services and once again thank you for working with us. Rick was
a pleasure to work with.
Regards,
Suresh John
& Jigar Shah
ThinkingWave LLC
www.thinkingwave.com
Dear
Dick,
As the CEO of Astegic Inc, I would like to take this opportunity to
thank you for all the expert assistance you provided to us to get the
8(a) certification. I appreciated your prompt and accurate response
to all my questions during this time consuming process. Your assistance
played a big role in completing this cumbersome process. Please feel
free to use as us as a referral. Thank you once again for all your help
and guidance.
Thanks,
Ria Ramnani
CEO & Chairman
Astegic, Inc.
www.astegic.com
BCV
Solutions
3540 Crain Highway, Suite 405
Bowie, MD 20716
Office 301.218.6206
http://www.bcvsolutions.com
”Dick, you're
a GEM! We hit it out of the ball park both by fax and by FedEX today!
Your assistance (as well as Wendy's) are truly invaluable! You make
it seem so EZ...You've knocked off both our socks and our bunny-slippers!
Thanks greatly!!! …” Karen Lynn Bell
Carter
Consulting
828 Blue Heather Court
Lawrenceville, Georgia 30045
(770) 972-5104
http://www.carterci.com
“Dick, thank
you and your staff for the help in receiving this certification. Wendy
and you made a mission impossible, possible…” Joseph
Carter
ProSecure
“The letter
arrived!!! Congratulations. You delivered what you said you would!”
Charles Barrague
Network
Security Systems Plus
5205 Leesburg Pike
One Skyline Place, Suite 1502
Falls Church, Va. 22041
Phone: (703) 933-7040
http://www.nssplus.com
"I
could not think of anyone else that I would want to recommend to you
Curtis other than Dick. "At the end-of-the-day, Dick is simply
the best". Thank you again Dick for the excellent subject matter
services that you provided to me on behalf Of NSSPLUS…"
Felix Thomas
New
England Die Cutting
42 Newark Street
Haverhill, MA 01832
978-374-0789
http://www.nedc.com
“You
made an impossible process almost a pleasure. We could not be 8(a) Certified
without EZCertify’s professional assistance” Kimberly
Abare
CIRACOM
http://www.ciracom.com
“Thank
you, thank you, thank you. I will be soaking this in for one day and
then off to the races. Thank you, Dick and Team, you can have my testimonial
any time.” Amy Rutt
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I
am Doris Davis, President and Owner of Pure Gold Association. Presently
we are a participant in the Small Business Administration 8(a) Program.
The primary reason I am a participant in the 8(a) Program and presently
negotiating a $3M contract is EZCertify.
I would highly recommend anyone desiring to be a part of this same program
to use EZCertify. They were aggressive, professional and innovative.
They developed a personal relationship which made them easy to work
with. Also, that was crucial to an application process that was anything
but easy.
I have been involved with many consulting services that promise the
sky and deliver only a bill. EZCertify delivered just what I ordered
- MY 8(a) CERTIFICATION. Dick Otero, owner of this service, is a WINNER!
This company has Blessed Pure Gold Association and does deliver Miracles!
Sincerely,
Doris Davis
I , Doris Davis, authorize EZCertify to use Pure Gold Association's
comments on their website and as a contact for references to anyone
contemplating using their services.
Doris Davis
Pure Gold Association
PO Box 1134
Junction City, KS 66441
785-223-5333
Dick,
Thank you for all
your hard work and professionalism in assisting ECflex, Inc. in obtaining
their 8(a) Certification. In a time of rising costs and declining service,
it is gratifying to know there is a company like EZCertify that remains
dedicated to outstanding service. I would definitely recommend you to
anyone. Thanks again.
Robert H. Williamson
President
ECflex, Inc.
937.545.5228
www.ecflex.com
Dick/Team,
Today I received the Certification for the US SBA 8(a) BD program,
for a period of 9 years from July 1, 2005.
I started this process last September and its close to 10 months now.
But, finally it did go through.
Thanks for all your help at every step, without which I would not have
been able to get this done. I now hope to utilize this certification
to the fullest extent possible and grow the business. I am going to
start doing some research on it right away. Let me know if you also
help in bringing business, just kidding! But, thanks once again for
everything. Let me know if I can be a reference in anyway.
Regards,
Siva Natarajan
Luceo, Inc.
www.luceoinc.com
Cyberdata
Technologies, Inc.
Mike Jing
202-208-3353
www.cyberdatatech.com
I want to thank EZCertify
for all its hard work. We are now officially 8(a) Certified. We were
certified in only 20 days. Please feel free to use as us as a referral.
Mike Jing
Cyberdata Technologies
Topologe,
LLC
Alejandro Sarmiento
781-270-0001
www.topologe.com
Rick,
I finally got my 8(a) certification today with no letter or additional
information request from SBA. I'd like to thank you for your professional
assistance through the whole process. It would have taken me much longer
without your help and I am certain I would have major issues.
Please send my thanks to the EZCertify team.
Best Regards,
Ali Sarmiento
Topologe, LLC
CoSolutions,
Inc.
Ingrid Constantine
Walt Constantine
703-262-0452
www.cosolutionsinc.com
Rick...
Just a quick letter of thanks to you, Dick and the whole staff at EZCertify
for the tremendous job you did in preparing our 8(a) and SDB application
to the SBA. While I admit there was a time, prior to our learning about
your firm, that we thought we could do it all ourselves without any
assistance, we now know how wrong we were! And how glad we were to find
EZCertify.
EZCertify and your particular expertise of the people and players, the
process and the anticipated questions we'd receive were right on - even
down to when you thought we would be hearing from the SBA with our final
certification!
Your services were completely worth your fee. EZCertify was a dream
to work with - prompt, knowledgeable, always responsive, extremely attentive,
and generous with your time and "free" consulting advice.
A great experience overall for us.
CoSolutions has and will continue to recommend EZCertify to all our
business associates in need of your services. No doubt, though, I'm
sure you have more client references than you will ever care to need!
Much success to EZCertify!
Ingrid Constantine
CEO
CoSolutions, Inc.
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Premier
Generator Services, Inc.
Joe Persad
205-680-0158
www.premiergen.com
Hello
Rick,
Just
wanted to let you know that we have been approved! I appreciate your patience and
thoroughness in working with me. I am grateful and will refer you to anyone requiring
assistance with similar matters,
Sincerely
Joe Persad
Angel Staffing
Shannon Ralston, BSN, RN
210-616-9526
www.angelstaffing.net
Angel Staffing, Inc is proud to now be a 8(a) SDB Native American
certified
company as of 28 June 2004. What a long time in the making this was,
and
frustrating at that. Without your services, we would still be writing
the
narratives and pulling all the paperwork together. Stephanie and I
can't
thank EZ Certify enough for you assisistance and truly professional
customer
service. We are now attempting to get our GSA schedule, I wish you
could
help us with that too! Thanks for everything.
Access
Technology Systems
Leilani Lamartine
President
4290 Kellway Circle
Addison, Texas 75001
972-732-8200
www.accesstechnologysystems.com
We are very excited to be
certified as a participant in the U.S. Small Business Administration's SBA 8(a) BD
program. This certification is a critical element to our company's growth strategy.
You assistance and expertise
was critical to obtain this certification in a very short time. We sent the package on
June 11th and we got the letter from the U.S. Small Business Administration today, July
7th, 2004. Our none year program term begins on June 28, 2004.
Bay
Technologies Consulting Group
George Sellner & Catherine Rice
President & CEO
121 Cathedral Street, Suite 300
Annapolis, MD 21401
410-280-9832
www.btcg.net
Dear
Mr. Otero
I
wanted to send a short note of thanks to you and your company for your professionalism and
expertise in getting our company, Bay Technologies Consulting Group, 8(a) certified. As a
bit of history, we contracted with EZCertify in September of last year to assist in
reviewing our application (which we had initially completed using your EZCertify software
tool). Your company quickly spotted several areas that needed “beefing up" and
provided us with concrete examples and information to assist us. After following your
advice and adjusting our documentation, we submitted our application in late October and
were certified by mid-December.
Your firm’s knowledge of the 8(a) process and its ability to translate that knowledge
to our situation was more than we would have hoped for when we initially contacted
EZCertify. Certainly, without the guidance you provided, we would have never been able to
become certified as quickly as we did, if at all.
On a more personal note, I wanted to mention that, when I started in this field fresh out
of college 18 years ago, my first job opportunity was with RJO Enterprises. During the
several years I was at RJO, I learned more about the dynamics of business than at any
other time in my career. I was continually impressed with the entrepreneurial spirit and
customer focus emphasized to all of us working there in our daily activities. In fact, it
was within this spirit that you may remember me. I was awarded IR&D funding in the
1988 timeframe to develop an expert system for database normalization – the project
was called EKNF Expert. I have tried to take these lessons and approaches with me to every
employer subsequent to my employment with you and now into my own business as well.
When Cathy Rice and I started Bay Technologies over five years ago, it was with the RJO
model in mind. Only recently were we able to organize the company in such a manner as to
be able to apply for our certification. So, I find myself in a position where, 15 years
after having last worked for you, you once again have provided a path for success. I want
to personally thank you for both the past and the present. If I had never been given that
initial chance out of college and had ended up at some more mediocre computer firm, I am
sure I would not have had a fraction of the professional success that I have enjoyed in my
career.
Looking back on the lessons learned over the years and the potential opportunities ahead
for our company, it seemed only natural to inquire as to whether it would be possible to
utilize your expertise in assuring that we start off on the right foot. We would be
grateful if we could employ your services (either informally in a couple of hours of
Q&A or formally, with something more substantial) to assist us in doing things the
“right way". As I hope you can see, I value your knowledge and expertise and
hope that we could benefit from your input if you would be so generous with vour time.
Let me
close by saying once again, it was a pleasure working with EZCertify. Your son, Rick,
could not have been more helpful or knowledgeable about the process in general or our
needs in the particular. We hope all is well and certainly look forward to hearing from
you in the near future.
Sincerely,
George
C. Sellner
President
EZCertify:
As the President of Aurotech Inc., I would like to take this opportunity to thank your
company EZCertify for all the expert assistance provided to us to get the 8(a)
certification. This certification was very important for the growth of our company. The
EZCertify software along with your review services was simply outstanding. The review team
ensured that there was no additional delay during the feedback session. Everyone at
Aurotech appreciates the highest level of consideration given to the customer's time and
special attention was given addressing our questions. We got our 8(a) in one month
and 6 days after the initial submission and from personal experiences of others it usually
takes 3-6 months. So the money invested and time saved was well worth it. We will
certainly recommend EZCertify to other companies.
Thanks
once again for all your assistance.
Hetal Patel
President
Aurotech, Inc.
6909 Timber Creek Court
Clarksville, MD 21029
301-854-1326
www.aurotechcorp.com
hetal.patel@aurotechcorp.com
Mr.
Otero:
We have great news to pass along to you. We just received our letter of
certification under the 8(a) business development program. On behalf of the
team here, we greatly appreciate all of your assistance and patience. It has
been a long ride, but well worth the wait. Please pass along our highest
regards and appreciation to your team and thank you again for the excellent
preparation work.
Pretlow Stevenson
Managing/Principal Partner
Diamon Associates International, LLC
21782 Dragons Green Square
Ashburn, VA 20147
703-726-6276
www.daillc.com
Dear
Mr. Otero,
I wanted to thank you for all the expert assistance you gave me during the preparation of
my package. I appreciated your prompt and accurate response to all my questions during
this time consuming process. You assistance was key to completing this cumbersome process
that would have been much more painful without your help. I will recommend you to other
companies without any reservations. It is a pleasure to know you.
Sincerely,
Mansooreh Mollaghasemi
President
Productivity Apex, Inc.
www.productivityapex.com
407-384-0800
Rick,
I've been meaning to get in
touch with you----I got 8(a) certified on May 28. I appreciate all the help and time you
provided into my application. After I submitted my answers to their questions, they
replied with the certification letter in two weeks. Thanks so much for your help!
I will recommend your services to others I know who will be applying for 8(a).
Thank You Again.
Sincerely,
Jas
Walia, MPH
President
HEALTHEON, INC.
201 St. Charles Avenue
Suite 2500
New Orleans, LA 70170
504-599-5982 office
530-684-6984 fax
www.healtheon.biz
I
would like to take this time to thank you for all your assistance in helping us obtain our
Small Business Administration 8(a)/SDB Certification.
I would
also like to thank you for being so prompt with responses to our questions. Your guidance
and assistance was invaluable to us and helped us immensely. You were able to simplify a
complex and cumbersome process that would have taken us a significant amount of time to
navigate without your expertise and insight.
Again,
thank you very much for your assistance.
Hollie
P. Mooers
President
HPM Corporation
www.hpmcorporation.com
509-943-8484
Rick,
it is finally official. We received our confirmation yesterday that
Staff Tech has been formally certified as an SBA 8(a)/SDB firm. Thanks for your
help and you can use us as a reference.
Dan
Kohnke
Staff Tech, Inc.
www.staff-tech.net
916-960-3010
The
purpose of this letter is to sincerely thank you for the phenomenal service EZCertify
provided us in our efforts to become 8(a) certified. Your extraordinary, personal
attention to my application, and your organization’s outstanding customer service,
were instrumental in my successful certification.
Your first-hand knowledge of the Small Business Administration was essential every step of
the way throughout our 6-month engagement.
Your methodical approach to data collection, analysis, organization, and presentation
simplified an otherwise confusing and cumbersome endeavor. In addition, your strategic
analysis of the SBA’s requests ensured that we delivered specifically what the SBA
required to fully understand our eligibility.
After experiencing the 8(a) certification process with the help of EZCertify, I am
absolutely convinced that we could not have been successful without you. In addition, the
initial investment was nominal compared to the time and money it would have required had I
used a less qualified company, or approached the process myself. This is why we have
retained EZCertify once again to develop our SBA 8(a) business plan.
Many times during the process I became frustrated and discouraged. Your perseverance, your
commitment to my case, and your encouragement inspired me to continue forward.
Mr. Otero, EZCertify embodies all that a business should be. You have developed an
unmatched level of expertise in your core competency, you deliver what you promise, and
you hold yourself and your employees to the highest set of values and code of conduct.
It is truly a pleasure doing business with you.
Warmest regards,
Marissa
Levin
CEO, Information Experts
www.informationexperts.com
703-787-9100
Our company’s specialty is dealing with government clients. We ran
into a stumbling block with one of repeat customers because they have to give the work to
an 8(a) company. My husband/partner found EZCertify.com and what a difference it has made!
They have been there every step of the way from preparing the packet, to the appropriate
responses to the SBA’s reply. What a headache this would have been without the
friendly, competent and efficient staff of EZCertify.
To anyone out there who is thinking about becoming 8(a) certified, it is very much worth
it to let EZCertify prepare the packet for you!! I would (and have) recommended them to
many of my business associates who are thinking about 8(a) certification!!!
Thanks to you all at EZCertify!!!!
Audra T. Russell
President/CEO
Direct Technology Resource, Inc.
877-445-7441
As a small
business, the prospect of applying for certification as an SDB
was arduous. The time required to understand and complete the application
process on our own would have strained our personnel resources, as the
process is anything but simple. Upon recommendation from another company,
we purchased EZCertify to help us through the process, and I am pleased to
report that we have received our certification. Your software broke the
process down into simple steps, asked questions that we might not have asked
ourselves, assuring that our application was complete and accurate. On the
few occasions where we encountered stumbling blocks, your support team
promptly addressed our concerns and helped us over the hurdles. It was
wonderful to have your support team review our application before it was
submitted to point out any areas of concern. We were able to address these
areas and submit our application with the confidence that it was in
conformance with the SBA's requirements.
Thank you for a great product and a great team of people supporting it. I'd
recommend EZCertify for any small business trying to tackle the complicated
process of SDB certification with the SBA.
Sincerely,
Deborah Wilkinson
Director of Business Development
Electric Masters Service, Inc.
P.O. Box 463
Columbia, MD 21045
888-888-7601
Caroline
Meador
President/ Decypher Consulting
www.decypher.com
After reviewing many companies to help us prepare our 8a
application, we decided to hire EZ Certify. Throughout the process we were extremely
impressed with the level of service and expertise we received.
We especially feel that Mr. Dick Otero, with whom we worked closely in preparing our
application, made the difficult 8a certification process as painless as possible. We were
impressed with Mr. Otero’s knowledge and expertise regarding SBA certifications, his
responsiveness to our many questions and his attention to detail. The final application
our company submitted to the Small Business Administration was both professional and
comprehensive. The assistance we received from EZ Certify and Mr. Otero was well worth the
investment.
Sandra L. Harley
President/CEO Sahara Communications
www.saharainc.net
This is just a short note to tell you how pleased we are at Sahara Communications with
your expert assistance in helping our company become 8(a) certified. All of us at Sahara
are impressed with the detailed roadmap you provided us with during the gathering and
submittal of our 8(a) information. From the beginning, and throughout the entire process,
you were extremely organized, which made the daunting tasks of the 8(a) process easier to
bear.
Moreover, you were very encouraging and upbeat, always reminding us to keep our chin up
when we became overwhelmed with the required paperwork. This helped us to persevere until
the end and to see that victory was near. The EZCertify format, coupled with your depth of
knowledge about the inner workings of the 8(a) world, one that is foreign to us, has been
invaluable. Words like OSDBU, Contract Opportunities Forecast, PRO-NET, and Fed Biz Ops
actually make sense to us now. We feel more informed and ready to tackle contract
opportunities on the federal level thanks to your guidance and motivation.
We appreciate your being available via a 90-minute conference call today to answer our 31
questions about the 8(a) process. Your ability to anticipate our needs and to help us see
the “big picture” has been outstanding. We’re waiting for our certification
in the mail!
I recommend EZCertify.com, without hesitation, to anyone seeking a reliable, energetic,
knowledgeable and professional agency that delivers. I hope we will continue this
association in the future.
Michael Andrews
President, Multi Communication Installation
www.multicommunication.com
We just received by certified
mail today that we are approved for the SBA 8(a) Program. I thank you, Dick Otero, and
your EZCertify team for enabling us to obtain our 8(a) certification all within 28 days of
submittal.
Louis A. Johnson
President, Sunglo Technologies, Inc.
www.sunglotech.com
I would like to personally extend my thanks to Dick Otero and the EZCertify team for your
quick and efficient services to enable us to obtain our 8(a) certification. It was a
significant advantage to have your expertise available during the process. Our team would
not have contemplated doing it ourselves. Your timely responses and can do attitude were
greatly appreciated. It was an added bonus using your EZCertify 8(a)/SDB software. I was
especially impressed by the ease of navigating through the step-by-step structure, it was
so simplified.
Once again, thanks for the outstanding job and the courtesy and patience in seeing us
through the 8(a) application process.
Dee and Nick Costanza.
www.utrs.com
Universal Technical Resource Services, Inc.
I want to personally thank and endorse Dick Otero and his staff at EZCertify. They
epitomize the values of customer service and product support and hold to a high standard
of excellence.
Our experience has been superb and their product and service has been invaluable to our
firm. If you want your efforts to succeed, work with the pros at EZCertify.
Jose Angel Santana
CEO, Applied Integrated Technologies
www.applied-integrated-technology.us
"EZCertify's example, in both their software as well as their customer service and
support throughout the 8(a) certification process, has raised my company's standards of
excellence to new heights. They are by far the finest collaborators that I have ever come
across in my 25 years in business. Words can not express how happy I am with what they
have done for our company."
Besteq Information Services, LLC
www.besteq.com
Fiona S. Best
Managing Member
Dorothy A. Parker
Managing Member
“EZCertify made the
daunting process of tackling the mountain of required forms achievable. We had heard that
as white women we might have a difficult time proving our social disadvantage. EZCertify
significantly increased our confidence that we were submitting a successful, complete, and
thorough certification package. EZCertify provided substantial expert guidance and
information that we were unable to find anywhere else. EZCertify simplified the data
collection process. Well worth the price!”
Win-Net Computer Technologies, Inc.
Jorge E. Vargas
President and CEO
“This software is a winner! It helped me identify problems with the enclosures to my
SDB application that I would never have found for myself. It took me less than four hours
to complete the EZInterview. Previous to using EZCertify SDB, I had heard the horror
stories about the months it would take to complete the package. I would heartily recommend
EZCertify to anyone who wants to complete the application without the expense, hassle and
concern about being certified, after having invested their valuable time.”
DynaTek, Inc.
Lorne Prince
President
“Before discovering
EZCertify’s 8(a) CD-ROM, I had contemplated applying for the certification. Each
time, I decided against it because there was no guidance available without spending
thousands of dollars with a consultant or my attorney who said it would cost $10K to have
him do the application for me. Either that or I could have taken one month away from my
billable work to complete the application – I couldn’t afford to do that! Thanks
to EZCertify I completed my application in less than a day. The cautions/tips were great
-- they were easy to understand and the free on-line advisor helped me to work through
some problems with my operating agreement.”
Horizon Consulting, Inc.
Wanda Alexander
President
www.horizon-inc.com
Update:I just
wanted to provide you with an update: We are now 8(a) certified after again using the
EZCertify software. The process was as simple as the SDB process, and after a few
follow-up requests from SBA, we received our certification.
Thanks again EZCertify for such a terrific product!
SDB Certification:When
it was time for Horizon to obtain certification from the US Small Business Administration
(SBA), I found myself in a bind: certification is vital to Horizon, but extremely
time-consuming, frustrating and expensive. I wondered how I could balance Horizon's
expanding workload with the minutia of filling out the SBA's forms?
"The application process
is tedious". "Collecting the forms, understanding what each form is for,
gathering all the information on accounting, taxes, personnel, ownership, etc. are all
extremely time-consuming."
Instead, we used EZCertify and
they finished Horizon's application in several hours.
"It would've taken months
without EZCertify."
"Using EZCertify is like
having a certification expert asking you all the pertinent questions and taking you
step-by-step through the application process,". "It's more like being
interviewed than filling out a form."
The speedy process directly
affected Horizon's bottom line. We needed certification especially fast, since a contract
deadline was looming.
"It took less than two
weeks from start to certification," she said. "It was easy for the SBA to
evaluate and accept our application because our submission was so thorough - thanks to
EZCertify."
Today, Horizon is healthy and
growing. They've posted double-digit growth for five consecutive years and, last year,
exceeded their projected revenues of $3.5 million. Top-level talent and a strong
management team makes Horizon's future bright.
Mr. Otero makes a strong claim: if you're a qualified minority business owner, EZCertify
guarantees you can be certified.
If it looks like Mr. Otero
runs EZCertify like a small business, that's because it is. He offers help and advice to
EZCertify customers whenever they need it.
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