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JIM LYNCH, president and chief operating officer for Pro V
International, a US based company that provides a unique
spectrum of a fully integrated IT consulting and networking
services, explains the company’s plans for 2007 at a press
briefing at Oakwood Hotel in Makati City. Also in photo is
Robert Berry Jr., Pro V country manager. -- Nonie Reyes
ProV makes RP hub for IT and networking services
By Rizal Raoul Reyes
Correspondent
02/21/07
TAMPA, Florida-based ProV International said Tuesday it
has chosen the Philippines as the hub for its global and
fully-integrated information technology consulting and
networking services,
In a media briefing, ProV International Philippines
president and chief operating officer Jim Lynch said the
decision was made after taking into consideration that
Philippine schools are promoting advanced technologies, high
degree of proficiency in English, as well as the strategic
location of the Philippines in proximity to the Asia Pacific
region and the country’s stable supply of software
engineers.
Although India has a bigger English-speaking population
compared to the Philippines, Lynch pointed out the country
has an advantage because its accent is more universal in
nature.
“English is taught in the schools from a very young age
and used in day-to-day life,” Lynch said. “A great majority
of the people in the Philippines, young and old, speak
English. The English accent of the Philippines is not the
typical Asian accent, and much better understood in the
world market.”
He added that ProV International is expanding its sales
in the Asia-Pacific region in 2007. The Philippines is hours
of target countries such as Singapore, Thailand, China and
Australia.
Unlike India, Lynch said the Philippine software
industry’s fixed costs are still reasonable and have much
room for growth even after achieving a 40 percent
year-on-year growth rate in software development.
According to the Commission on Information Communications
Technology, the number of jobs in 2006 grew from 12,000 to
over 15,600 in a year, while an excess of 300 companies has
been recorded in the same period.
“There are very significant opportunities for us in the
Philippines and that’s the reason why we have put up an
offshore facility here,” said Lynch.
Lynch said Filipino software engineers will be the heart
and soul of ProV because they will be in the frontline of
the offshore engineering jobs. “We will bring Filipino
engineers to the United States for our projects,” he said.
Robert P. Berry Jr., country manager of ProV
International Philippines, said that there is a huge
potential for the country’s software industry.
Berry said ProV International will raise the bar higher
for Filipino software engineers by providing them with
internationally-recognized certifications to become more
competitive in the global arena.
He said ProV is also aware of the looming shortage of
skilled software engineers in the country. To avoid a future
problem for the company, ProV has partnered with the
Technological University of the Philippines (TUP) to train
computer engineering students on the latest technologies in
IT outsourcing. Under the program, TUP students will have
apprenticeship programs with ProV before they graduate.
With the training program, Berry said the students are
now qualified to work in high-end engineering jobs.
“Through our business, we want to reverse the trend of
talent exporting in the country in the long run by enabling
Filipinos to do offshore engineering jobs here,” he said.
ProV specializes in customer relationship management,
data warehousing, enterprise resource management, on-shore
and off-shore outsourcing services and infrastructure
control and management.
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