COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS

COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS was established as a part-time venture in 1974 by Bruce Grant, an ex-IBMer. It became a full-time business in late 1983, and was incorporated in 1989. Although still specializing in IBM mainframe Systems Programming (z/OS, OS/390, MVS), COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS Inc. has since expanded into * Project Management and Data Center Management * Information Security * Network Design, Configuration, and Implementation (WAN and LAN), * Small Business Technical and Accountin... g consulting, * Website design, upgrades, and troubleshooting * Digital Telephone System installation and configuration. == company motto/description: "Solving business problems with technology" Previous clients: * New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI), Fremont, CA * Visa USA, San Mateo, CA * Pacific Gas & Electric Company, San Francisco (twice) * The Gap, Inc., San Bruno & Rocklin, CA * Pacific Stock Exchange, San Francisco * Behring Diagnostics Inc., San Jose & Fremont, CA * Roche Biosciences Inc., Palo Alto, CA * Syva Co., Palo Alto & San Jose, CA * Syntex (USA) Inc., Palo Alto, CA (five times) * [an unamed, $multi-billion, financial institution, S.F. Bay Area (non-disclosure still in effect)] * Calif. State Automobile Assn. Inter-Insurance Bureau, San Francisco (twice) * DeltaNet,Inc., San Francisco * Bank of the West, Santa Clara, CA * USS Posco Industries, Pittsburg, CA * IBM Professional Services Division, Oakland, CA * Wells Fargo Bank, Private Banking Group, San Francisco * Charles Schwab & Co., San Francisco * Amdahl Corp., Sunnyvale, CA * Viacom Cable Corp., Pleasanton, CA * Enigma Logic Inc., Concord, CA (twice) * TDS Healthcare Systems, Santa Clara, CA * Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc., Santa Clara, CA * HBO & Co., Foster City, CA * General Electric Corp., San Jose, CA * Blue Cross of Northern Calif., Oakland, CA * Computer Resources Group, Systems Support Division, San Francisco * Tesseract Corp., San Francisco