Small high-tech firm spreading its wings
POCATELLO, Idaho – One of Pocatello’s most promising new high-tech businesses is going national with its computer software technology and plans to begin hiring more employees.
TetriDyn Solutions Inc., which set up shop in Pocatello two years ago, so far employs 14 people with salaries well above average for this area.
TetriDyn, a data integration and management software products company, plans to double employment within the next year and expects the payroll to hit 60 in Pocatello within two years and as many as 100 a year after that. “We feel that’s a very realistic goal,” says John Iasonides, a marketing and finance specialist with TetriDyn.
The company has had positive growth monthly and TetriDyn’s anchor product, AeroMD, is selling across the country.
“We’re slowly scaling it to a national level,” Iasonides says. “We’ve been doing very well.”
The company is starting to grow and its sales are increasing.
“They’re on the right track,” says Ray Burstedt, executive director of Bannock Development Corp.
AeroMD is a wireless system that allows doctors to use hand-held computers instead of traditional charts to record patient visits. The device sends data back to the organization’s billing system.
TetriDyn officials say the applications save medical offices about 3 1/2 percent. The technology, they say, has the potential to transform the medical field’s records system.
It can also be used to benefit professionals in other fields, and TetriDyn has already received requests from mortgage lenders and stockbrokers, among others, to apply it to their professions.
If that happens, and TetriDyn officials are hopeful it will, it would create a need for many more employees in Pocatello.
Iasonides says if the technology is applied to other sectors, employment here could soar to several hundred. The technology can be applied to just about any profession, Iasonides says, because it allows people normally restricted to an office to be mobile.
“Everybody keeps a schedule, and everybody has to collect data, and that’s exactly what this allows you to do,” he says. “We’ve got a core product, and we can put just about any shell we want to on it.”
Some of the technology TetriDyn uses has its roots in the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory west of Idaho Falls.
Burstedt says the company illustrates the positive benefit the laboratory can have on the eastern Idaho economy.
“Besides being a poster child for the types of companies Bannock Development is trying to recruit to this area, they’re a perfect example of the types of businesses we’re trying to spin off from the lab, too,” he says.