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Celebrating 35 Years of Excellence in IT Services

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BTG proudly celebrates 35 years of delivering trusted outsourced IT services and technology solutions to clients worldwide!

Since our founding in 1991, BTG- through both BTG Systems, Inc. in the United States and SIA Baltic Technology Group in Latvia- has built a reputation for technical excellence, reliability and long-term partnerships across highly regulated industries, including financial services and the public sector.

Over the past three-and-a-half decades, BTG and its personnel have become recognized experts in Unisys EAE (Linc) and AB Suite technologies, while also maintaining deep expertise in modern programming languages, platforms, and development tools.

Our continued success has been driven by the dedication of our employees, the trust of our clients and the strength of our strategic partnerships throughout North America, Europe and Asia.  

As we celebrate this milestone anniversary, we extend our sincere gratitude to our clients, partners and employees who have been part of our journey.  Your confidence and collaboration have made these 35 years possible.

Looking ahead, BTG remains committed to innovation, quality and the delivery of dependable technology solutions and services that help organizations succeed in an increasingly digital world. 

THANK YOU for being a part of our story on our 35th Anniversary and for helping us shape the future together.  

NEW MEMOIR CHRONICLES BTG FOUNDER DAGNIJA LACIS’ LIFE AS A TRAILBLAZER AND TECH ENTREPRENEUR

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OakTreeBear Publishing is pleased to announce the publication on March 18, 2025, of THE WALL FALLS, A WOMAN RISES, A MEMOIR: How a U.S. Tech Entrepreneur Broke the Glass Ceiling and Helped Modernize Latvia by Dagnija Lacis, Founder, President, and CEO of BTG.

THE WALL FALLS, A WOMAN RISES chronicles the story of Dagnija Lacis, who many know as “Daggie”: how she left her beloved homeland of Latvia in 1944 to flee communism, how she immigrated to Indianapolis in 1950, went on to become the first woman programmer at Burroughs Corporation, the first woman line Vice President at Burroughs/Unisys, brought modern technology and SWIFT to her homeland and launched an international IT company, BTG.

The adventures Dagnija recounts include meeting the father of the computer, John Vincent Atanasoff. She shares his story of how he reached four crucial decisions about the “computing machine” one night in a roadhouse. Even today, every computer is based on those four principles.

After the Berlin Wall fell, Dagnija was invited to Latvia by the newly elected prime minister and foreign minister to install modern technology in the foreign ministry.  She remembers the remarkable incident that inspired her to launch BTG, when resourceful Latvian university students saved a major presentation by creating overnight two essential cables which hadn’t arrived.  She recounts the early years of BTG and recalls the colleagues who were part of those times.

More about the book, including some of its photographs, can be found at https://www.dagnijalacis.com/  Should you be interested, THE WALL FALLS, A WOMAN RISES, A MEMOIR: How a U.S. Tech Entrepreneur Broke the Glass Ceiling and Helped Modernize Latvia by Dagnija Lacis is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.

“As Dagnija Lacis was introducing the latest Western technology to Latvians, I was introducing Western military structure and approaches. I often collaborated with Dagnija and her husband, Andris, in Riga during the early 1990s. I was proud of our efforts, which resulted in the Latvian military meeting NATO standards and Latvia becoming a NATO member. May the Latvia and Michigan partnership continue to grow!”

~Major General E. Gordon Stump, Ret. Adjutant General of the Michigan National Guard

“Dagnija Lacis’ memoir is a story of courage, upheaval, and persistence… Her transitions, first navigating through a male-dominated IT world, then across an ocean to a country that was emerging from fifty years of Communism are noteworthy. Watching through her memoir, we see her tenacity and resilience when confronted with obstacles. The way she always finds a path forward is inspirational for us all.”  

~Lynn Miller, author of Sweating Bullets, historical fiction

Unisys Technology Professionals Available for Projects

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BTG has the following resources available for Unisys EAE and AB Suite clients:

Designer/ System Analyst I

  • 34 years IT experience, including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, project management, implementation and end-user support
  • AB Suite and EAE (LINC, LDA) experience on Clearpath/ A-series, UNIX and Windows platforms
  • 26 years of financial and commercial application development experience
  • Unisys FBA Urbis banking and UFSS mortgage systems experience
  • Strong team leader and creative designer, programmer and troubleshooter

Designer/ System Analyst II

  • 27 years IT experience including design, programming, testing, system support and teaching
  • 26 years EAE experience on Clearpath/ A-series, UNIX and Windows platforms
  • 25 years of banking and financial applications development experience including Unisys UNISURE, FBA URBIS and UFSS
  • Excellent analysis, design, programming, troubleshooting, communications and team leading skills

Systems Administrator/ Developer

  • 18 years IT experience including design, programming, testing, fault fixing and systems administration
  • EAE (LINC) and AB Suite project experience on Windows and MCP platforms
  • 12 years of experience in systems administration on MCP platform
  • Experience in EAE to AB Suite system migration
  • Mortgage banking and student information systems experience
  • Excellent team player with good analysis and troubleshooting skills

For additional information about any resource and availability, please contact [email protected]

 

BTG Now Offers Recruitment Services!

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BTG now offers efficient recruitment services for difficult-to-fill positions specializing in technology, artificial intelligence, big data, operations and project management at all levels.  Our lead recruiter has over 20-years of specialized international recruiting and headhunting experience working in-house with leaders at global companies such as Deloitte, Sapient, Publicis, Electronic Arts and tech startups to fill hundreds of their most critical openings with the best hires in a timely, cost-effective manner.

BTG can help you recruit the highest quality candidates quickly for both permanent and contractor positions!

For more information regarding BTG’s talent acquisition, recruiting and contract staffing services, please See https://btgsystems.com/talent-acquisition-recruiting-and-contract-staffing/

Also, please reach out to Brian directly at [email protected] 

BTG Employees Performed at the 27th Nationwide Latvian Song and 17th Dance Festival in Riga during Summer of 2023

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This past summer, BTG had five employees that participated in the 27th Nationwide Latvian Song and 17th Dance Festival that took place in Riga!  This was the 150th anniversary of the song festival tradition and included over 40,000 participants with more than 1,600 groups from Latvia and more than 100 groups from other countries, primarily consisting of Latvian diaspora.  The groups performed choir concerts and dancing performances, among other cultural performances, for over a week.  The participants, including BTG employees, spent long hours practicing the performances with their groups.  We congratulate you all for your hard work and dedication to the Latvian Song and Dance Festival!

BTG participants included:  Astra Kikute (Director of HR and Contract Operations), Rita Krasauska (Office Administrator), Ilze Kasa (Senior Systems Analyst), Juris Kuzis (Senior Systems Administrator) and Sandra Macata (Chief Accountant). Astra, Ilze and Sandra sang in the mixed choir group “Salve” from Riga, Rita sang in the mixed choir group “Vanema” from Tukums and Juris danced in the folk dance group “Jurdancis” from Saulkrasti.  

In the above pictures: 1) Astra and Sandra (missing Ilze) and their Salve choir group, 2) final dance performance stage, 3) Juris and his Jurdancis group at the final dance performance, 4) Juris and his Jurdancis group before the parade through Riga, 5) Sandra in her folk cosutme, 6) Ilze in her folk costume, 7) Rita, Juris and Astra at the Mezaparks Open-Air stage during the final choir concert, and 8) final choir performance at the Mezaparks Open-Air stage.

Technology Contractor Resources Available Through BTG

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BTG currently has available contractors with the following skillsets (all of the resources have at least 3 years of experience and most have 7+ years of experience):

Senior Android Engineers
Kotlin, RxJava, Gradle, CI/CD, Spring, Restful APIs, Google App Engine, MVVM, Coroutine, Dagger, end-to-end development and testing

Senior iOS Engineers
Swift, Swift UI, Xcode, Objective C, Firebase, CocoaPods, iOS design

Senior Test Engineers (Frontend, Backend, Mobile)
JUnit, Selenium, UI Automator, Cucumber, Gherkin, Mockito, Jira, Saucelabs, Appium, Espresso, API SDKs, BDD for Rest APIs

Senior DevOps Engineers
Linux, PHP, Python, Ansible, Snowflake, Terraform, Bash, Powershell, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, EKS, EC2, Azure, GCP, GKE

Senior Backend Cloud Engineers
AWS, GCP, GCE, GCK, Docker, Kubernetes, big data, Python, Django, Rest APIs

Senior Backend Data/ AI/ ML Engineers
Python, Java, JVM, R, SQL, Pytorch, Tensorflow, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, time series data, Pandas, Kafka, Cassandra, Gradle, CI/CD, AWS, GCE, Docker, Kubernetes

Senior Frontend Developers
Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, UI/UX design, Rest APIs, CSS, CI/CD

Senior Full Stack Web Developers
Node.js, Vue, Angular, .Net, Java, Spring, Vue,js, Javascript, MangoDB, PostgreSQL, React, Linux, MySQL

Various Technology Resources Available for Staffing

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BTG and its partners have developers with the following skills to help with your projects:

Web Development (Front-End, Back-End and Full Stack)

Frameworks

          Angular, Vue.js, React, .Net, Django, Laravel, Express, Ruby on Rails, Spring, React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, Node.js

Languages

          Java, Javascript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, C++, Kotlin, C# HTML, CSS, AB Suite, EAE

Mobile Technology Platforms

          Android, iOS

QA and Testing Services

DevOps

          Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, Docker, Jira, CI/CD, Kubernetes, AWS DevOps, Azure DevOps

UI/ UX Services

Cloud Computing

          AWS, MS Azure

BTG can provide quality staff at competitive rates to work on a complete project or provide staff augmentation where our contractors work under the direction of the client’s managers.  We can provide staff on a time and materials or fixed-price basis.  We offer services on-site at the client’s location, offshore at our development centers in Latvia or our partner development centers or a mix of on-site and offshore services to maximize productivity and minimize costs.

For more information regarding BTG’s software development and support services, please contact: [email protected]

BTG Unisys MCP System Administration and Support Personnel Available for Projects

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BTG has administrative and support specialists available to support Unisys clients running their applications on Unisys’ Master Control Program (MCP) operational system.  BTG MCP specialists can provide a range of services including installation, support and daily administration of development and production systems on MCP platforms including, but not limited to, system and reports generation, database backup creation and tuning, creation of database clones, WFL configurations and installation of new AB Suite releases.  These MCP specialists are also skilled in MCP troubleshooting and resolving technical system issues for customers and internal development staff.  Many BTG MCP specialists have over 10 years of MCP experience.  

For more information, please contact: [email protected]

Available BTG Resources for Unisys Clients

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BTG has a group of experienced AB Suite and EAE developers (15 years of experience on average, primarily in the financial business area) and MCP specialists available to undertake new projects.  Most of them have experience providing end-user support and are ITIL certified. 

For additional information, please contact [email protected]

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