Allen - Senior Project Manager

Reimagining Utility Bill Delivery with Scalable PDF Rendering for Avista

Allen — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Background Avista Utilities, a regional energy company with a legacy of innovation, serves customers across the Pacific Northwest. Known for its forward-thinking approach to energy delivery and customer service, Avista sought to modernize its billing infrastructure. The company turned to IntelliTect to help them to design and implement a performant, cloud-native solution capable of handling…

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Paving the Way for Renewable Innovation: Seamless Transition to Remote Control Systems

Allen — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Background A forward-thinking company specializing in modular, hexagonal-shaped solar pavers combines renewable energy generation with innovative safety features such as LED lighting and heating elements. These pavers transform roadways and foot traffic areas into multi-functional surfaces that produce energy while enhancing safety and utility. With a focus on sustainable solutions, the company sought to modernize…

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Demystifying Scrum

Allen — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:18:09 +0000

Your Beginner’s Guide to Agile Development and Scrum Do you nod along when someone talks about a retrospective, stand up, or user story, pretending to know what they’re talking about? Or maybe, you’re currently on a Scrum team and don’t want to ask the obvious questions? Well, then, this article is for you! It will…

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IntelliTect Today: Our Inclusion Efforts

Allen — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:40:56 +0000

Following Up on Our Commitment to Increasing Diversity in Tech A year ago, when I wrote the article about our goals of increasing diversity in technology, IntelliTect was not a very diverse place, but we’re improving! Our efforts to increase the representation of different ages, genders, ethnicities and other marginalized groups at IntelliTect are seeing…

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IntelliTect Today: Increasing Diversity in Tech

Allen — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 17:36:49 +0000

How We’re Navigating the Challenges of Diverse Hiring, and Why It Matters It’s no secret that Big Tech has made little progress regarding diverse hiring, with the significant majority of employees still identifying as white males. Pushes to expand the applicant pool and foster a culture that celebrates diversity appear to fall upon deaf ears,…

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Developing Countries: Struggling to Survive the Pandemic

Allen — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 17:57:09 +0000

Developing Countries During Covid-19 Aid Organizations Adjust to Shifting Health Guidelines: How You Can Help? New economic challenges, social upheaval, political turmoil, and rising untold health problems are the new normal for many in the Western World. In spite of these difficulties, most of us are still living fairly comfortable lives. We have enough food,…

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Spotlight: Child Survival Programs

Allen — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 18:58:10 +0000

Making a Difference in Kenya and Tanzania: One Mother at a Time The IntelliTect team is humbled to be a small part of the hard work and unconditional love pouring out through Compassion International’s multiple Child Survival Programs (CSP’s) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Partnering with Compassion for the past eight years, IntelliTect has helped fund multiple…

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Dare to Lead: Leadership Without Armor

Allen — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 18:57:16 +0000

Are You Causing Your Team Harm by Following Outdated Advice? “Impossible,” you think to yourself after finishing the latest chapter of Dare to Lead, Brene Brown’s lauded leadership book. You trust your friend Meg’s recommendations, and she told you that you needed to read it, and you are. So be it. Glancing out of your…

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Thank You: From a Child Survival Program Mother

Allen — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 18:53:38 +0000

Child Survival Project The IntelliTect team would love nothing more than to share each and every letter and video that they receive from the various groups they sponsor. Often, the letters need to remain private for safety or security reasons. But when allowed, the team is happy to share them with clients as a thank…

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Charity Spotlight: Partners International

Allen — Tue, 12 May 2020 15:39:52 +0000

Helping Those in the Least Reached and Least Resourced Nations During this time of crisis, charities worldwide are stepping up like never before. One of IntelliTect’s long-time charity partnerships, Partners International, is also rising to the call. Partners is a Spokane-based organization that emphasizes working closely with local people to solve the problems most important…

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2020 Philanthropy Update: Impacting Spokane and the World

Allen — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:07:22 +0000

We’re Affecting Positive Change in Spokane, Washington! This past decade, we continued giving freedom to the hopeless through our partnership with organizations that fight to eliminate poverty and injustice both in Spokane and worldwide. We’re excited to see what this next decade will hold. This past year, we continued to financially support the neediest in…

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IntelliTect Today – Finding the Fun as a Team

Allen — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:00:53 +0000

Scavenger Fun At IntelliTect, we’re proud of our culture and are excited to try out new activities as a team. Josh Ward, an active member of our Culture Club and one of our senior software engineers, regularly organizes mini-lunch game-breaks at the office. In September, he treated an intrepid group of IntelliTect explorers to a…

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Our Philanthropic Partners

Allen — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:31:01 +0000

Philanthropic Partners Are you curious about the organizations we choose to partner with in our global fight for justice? Our efforts to understand and alleviate the problems related to poverty, injustice, educational inequality, health and sanitation depend largely on the expertise of our philanthropic partners. Groups like World Relief, International Justice Mission, Food for the…

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Discover Kubernetes: A Container Orchestration Solution

Allen — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:00:41 +0000

Scaling Large Applications With Kubernetes Need to scale large applications? Learn why Kubernetes is a great Docker add-on. Creating an application is a big deal, but that’s not the only step in the development process. Often people forget about the sometimes difficult act of deploying their product to the end-user. Application deployment has changed over…

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Why We Give – Child Slavery Still Exists

Allen — Tue, 21 May 2019 00:52:28 +0000

How We’re Helping Fight Child Slavery in West Africa Slavery still exists. Around the world, children are one of the primary victims of slavery—especially those working in agriculture in developing countries. Since 2014, IntelliTect has partnered with International Justice Mission (IJM) to fight child slavery in the fishing industry on Lake Volta, Ghana. Lake Volta…

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IntelliTect Helps the Sawla Children

Allen — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 18:14:51 +0000

Ghana Children’s Home Achieves Self-Sufficiency Through Ongoing Support The fight for global justice isn’t just about giving a handout; it’s about providing a hand up that lifts individuals and whole communities out of their poverty situations. At IntelliTect, we want to do more for communities than give those in need a meal; we want to…

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2019 Philanthropy Update

Allen — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 17:23:47 +0000

Why We Do What We Do IntelliTect’s commitment to finding innovative solutions to the world’s most difficult problems extend beyond software development into social justice and anti-poverty work. Last year, IntelliTect provided financial support to several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working toward ending slavery (click here to learn more), giving legal protection to women suffering extreme…

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2018 Philanthropy Update

Allen — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 20:21:23 +0000

2018 IntelliTect Philanthropy At its core, IntelliTect is a problem-solving company. So, it makes sense that we’ve dedicated significant time toward solving some of the world’s most pressing issues relating to poverty and injustice. Over the past decade, IntelliTect has partnered with African NGOs to build schools in war-ravaged South Sudan and bring justice to…

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IntelliTect Supports La Escuela Integrada

Allen — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 02:33:35 +0000

Why We Believe in La Escuela Integrada During Spring 2014, Mark and Elisabeth Michaelis, the owners of IntelliTect, took their family to Antigua, Guatemala for a vision trip analyzing business and philanthropy opportunities. While there, they toured both campuses of La Escuela Integrada, a school offering free education to children unable to pay the school…

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World Relief Spokane and IntelliTect Welcome Refugees

Allen — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 00:35:16 +0000

World Relief Spokane Sponsors Refugees In addition to its work around the globe, World Relief has been chosen by the United States government to be one of the organizations to sponsor legal refugee settlement into the US. The World Relief Spokane office welcomes hundreds of refugees from all of the world to the Spokane area…

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Tanzania Child Survival Program

Allen — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:28:07 +0000

A Brief Look Into the Tanzania Child Survival Project Mtwivila Iringa, in south-central Tanzania, is the township of Mtwivila Iringa with approximately 12,000 residents. More than 80% of the adults are unemployed leaving these people with little hope. Most homes in Mtwivila Iringa are poorly insulated structures made of adobe and corrugated metal, leaving…

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How Compassion International Works

Allen — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:13:43 +0000

What Compassion International is Doing to Make a Difference Compassion International uses an individualistic and comprehensive long term strategy to help children and their families escape poverty. Compassion does this using a three stage approach based on the age of the child in need. The first stage of Compassion’s effort is called a Child Survival…

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Emmabwi, Kenya Child Survival Project

Allen — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:10:09 +0000

Child Survival Project Emmabwi, Kenya is home to approximately 5,500 residents, nearly 63% of which are under the age of 5. Sadly, only six percent of the children in Emmabwi ever complete elementary grades at school. The unemployment rate hovers at 60 percent, and for those who are employed, the average monthly income is only $12…

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Leadership for Northwest Connect

Allen — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:40:10 +0000

Volunteering with Northwest Connect ](https://www.nwconnect.org/index.php "Leadership for Northwest Connect") On the Northside of Spokane, in the Hillyard neighborhood, Northwest Connect offers people a local food bank, non-food pantry items like soap, dish soap, shampoo and other toiletries as well as summer day programs for children. Because the Hillyard neighborhood has the lowest per capita income…

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Local Homeless Programs

Allen — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:20:44 +0000

IntelliTect’s Support of UGM and AOH IntelliTect provides support to Union Gospel Mission and Anna Ogden Hall to join their work serving the men, women and children who are homeless in our community. UGM provides short and long term shelter, protection from domestic violence, access to food, clothing and other necessities as well as substance…

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Educating Children in Sawla, Ghana

Allen — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:12:58 +0000

International Assistance Program: Sawla Children’s Home IntelliTect’s latest project with International Assistance Program began when we heard the Sawla Children’s Home in Sawla, Ghana needed a new building. Many of the children in the home were attending school for the first time and a larger home for orphans could offer more children the same opportunity.…

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Supporting Refugees through Education in the Horn of Africa

Allen — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:53:49 +0000

Collaboration With Partners International Partners International is a unique Christian aid organization dedicated to giving assistance to local aid groups around the world. Rather than sending people from the US to areas struggling with poverty, Partners International provides strategic and tactical planning assistance to local leaders. IntelliTect has joined with Partners International to provide basic…

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Food for the Hungry in Central Africa

Allen — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:43:00 +0000

IntelliTect Joins Food for the Hungry Food for the Hungry is best known for its work as a primary food and medicine distributor for USAid in Africa. During the past two years, IntelliTect has joined Food for the Hungry in an interesting partnership to sponsor high profile Christian music concerts around the United States. These…

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