At that time, and onto now, my time and career has been spent in the provider staffing and recruitment business. From my experience in the field, I have come to understand some of the inefficiencies and road blocks that plague the current system. While many of the road blocks providers and agencies face are unavoidable, I wanted to create a system that broke past many of the upfront challenges to matching the right opportunity for the providers, agencies, and schedulers.

The upfront challenges, I as a agency typically dealt with, included 3 things: Dates, States, and Rates. "Dates" being the availability of a provider. "States" being the states in which a provider is licensed. And "Rates" being the compensation paid for performing an assignment. Understanding it would be difficult for technology to have an impact on the latter two roadblocks of States and Rates I wanted to try to make Dates as easily communicable as possible. In 2010 everything seemed to be going mobile. Smart phones were becoming the norm and In fact by then 82% of Providers were using them. So harnessing the new mobile technology seemed to be the way to go.

Not being very technology savvy myself I started looking for mobile developers, and soon enough I was referred to SoftTrends Inc, a company with offices in Atlanta and India. SoftTrends had the same passion and desire to make a difference as I did. They were excited at the chance to make a program that could potentially impact so many people. Their drive, creativity, and expertise lead to the program we have today. Without them Locum Scheduler would still be just a dream.