Corporate Backgrounder

Overview

Serving the IT marketplace exclusively, MATRIX is a leading IT staffing and professional services provider to the business community, as well as the preferred partner for career assistance by job seeking IT professionals. We meet the evolving IT services needs of our client companies through a full portfolio of professional staffing and professional services. With offices in Atlanta, Birmingham,  Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Phoenix, Research Triangle Park, San Francisco, and Seattle, MATRIX is ranked among the nation’s top IT staffing and services firms by IT Services Business Report / Staffing Industry Analysts.

History and Scope

At the core of MATRIX is the company’s five founders. Lambert Chandler, Frank Glenn, Bill Gower, Ron McGinty, and John Scarbrough—all former IT professionals themselves—began in 1983 with a vision of matching top-notch professionals with opportunities to use their skills and advance their IT careers. They combined this objective with a commitment to the highest standards of ethics, professionalism, integrity, and responsiveness.

You benefit from this commitment every time you come in contact with a MATRIX Associate. Our clear vision and adherence to the highest professional standards have helped MATRIX become one of the fastest-growing private companies in the nation. At the same time, these principles have guided us to becoming a leader in IT staffing and services.

MATRIX Services

  • Professional Staffing - MATRIX is a full-service IT staffing provider for both contract consulting and permanent positions, averaging 2,500 placements yearly. The company maintains an exclusive database currently exceeding 800,000 IT professionals—quickly providing the most comprehensive coverage of skills available. This database is considered our active inventory of pre-screened, interviewed, and prospective candidates.  In addition, MATRIX provides full-service staffing solutions for long-term employment, satisfying the most selective permanent placement requirements of job seekers and businesses alike.
  • Professional Services - MATRIX offers cost-effective professional services to satisfy a broad array of IT business needs. Our specialties are in Application Development using Agile development methodologies, Client Infrastructure, and Delivery Management solutions. Whether a client requires part or complete life-cycle development, domestic or offshore resources, small scope or enterprise wide, MATRIX mobilizes the talent and resources to offer a solution specific to each client project need.
  • Value Adds - MATRIX provides a host of value-added services including complimentary seminars and lunch and learn sessions covering technical topics and HR best practices; market specific salary surveys for twenty of the most common IT positions; job search webinars; career counseling; and up-to-date technical training.