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BMF LLC is a 3-year-old start-up headquartered in Portland, Oregon. In addition to its Portland office, the company also has locations in China and Mexico, which are primarily focused on manufacturing.

BMF is set up to be a luxury fashion online retailer that will style and groom male executives who desire to look great at work. This company will send a pre-selected and ready-to-wear outfit to the customer, who can then choose to send unwanted items back at no cost. BMF also has an online retail presence that is hosted on a premise with several servers dedicated to the supply chain, including custom applications for their stylists.

The company is currently funded by venture capital and has ramped up to 100 employees. Of those employees, there are two IT support staff, five developers and one IT manager. The IT manager and support staff handle both the server support for the website and supply chain software, as well as employee hardware and software issues. Collaboration cloud software has been used in this company since it was funded, and support for this is included in software support. The IT manager spends 50% of his time as a support staff and thus would like to have more time to focus on IT strategy instead.

The five developers consist of the following: a Python developer on internal tools that are custom to this company, two front-end developers for the website (and as needed on the tools’ User Interface (UI)), and two java and python developers to develop server side code for the website and supply chain integration.