Kelly Perdew

"We were attracted to Akonix's development program because of its tight integration with the market leading Akonix L7 Enterprise gateway," said Kelly Perdew, president of Core Objects, a leading outsourced product development company and charter development program member.

"We were attracted to Akonix's development program because of its tight integration with the market leading Akonix L7 Enterprise gateway," said Kelly Perdew, President of Core Objects, a leading outsourced product development company and charter development program member.

St. Petersburg, FL. - Dec. 17, 2004, Blue Reef Digital Studios announce the launch of www.kellyperdew.com, the official Web site of Apprentice winner Kelly Perdew.The local digital media studio developed the site, which includes background information on Perdew as well as business-related forums, to promote Perdew as a next-generation business executive.

Selected from more than one million applicants, Perdew was chosen by Donald Trump to be his apprentice for the next year at a salary of $250,000 during a live three hour season finale on NBC Thursday evening.
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Perdew, a West Point graduate with an MBA and law degree, is president of Core Objects, a software development firm, and is launching a new Web-based business called MotorPride.com.MotorPride is an online community for automotive enthusiasts.He previously sold another Web portal (eteamz.com) for several million dollars."Based on seeing their previous work, I knew Blue Reef was the best choice for the job.I needed a site that was clean, professional and easy to navigate and Blue Reef delivered.I've received nothing but positive comments since launching the site," said Perdew.

According to Matt Dieter, Blue Reef president, "The fact that someone like Kelly, who has made a career of building and selling Web-based businesses, would select Blue Reef from the thousands of multimedia firms in the market, speaks volumes about the reputation and talent of our Web designers."

"For lot of the applications we build, whether it's a CRM system or supply chain software, being able to include presence in the product set is interesting for us," says Kelly Perdew, president of Core Objects.For instance, presence builds value for customer service reps to communicate online.

A different application might use presence delivered by messaging to reveal an inventory trigger level to a customer when embedded in an application.It's not unlike email alerting, just a different mode of messaging with a "right now" feel."The technology is beginning to enable that and I believe there is a strong demand for this," Perdew says.