EDINBURGH tech company Workpro has strengthened its project and systems teams with new appointments which it hopes will help to maintain and accelerate growth.
Workpro is the market-facing brand of Edinburgh-based Computer Application Services Ltd (CAS), which was Scotland’s first software development company.
The three new hires boost the headcount to 33, moving the company closer to its target headcount of 40 within the next 15 months.
CAS has grown from being the technology transfer unit of Heriot-Watt University into a case management solutions expert servicing clients throughout the United Kingdom and overseas.
The new hires include infrastructure engineer Aju Jose, having worked in Dubai for seven years and having recently completed a Masters in Cybersecurity.
He said: “I was attracted to Workpro because many of the people here have worked with CAS for longer than 10 or 15 years. I thought; people are happy working here, and that’s common.
“It’s clear that this company knows how to keep its employees happy. It feels like a family.”
The employee-owned company has increased its client portfolio by 400% to 60 over the past four years including clients in national and local government, financial and legal institutions, major retailers and Ombudsman services.
Farhat Sameja has joined the company as a Project Team Leader after being a project manager for an engineering company.
She said: “Team Lead is a step up from being a project manager. I’m going to be starting to build processes in project management.
“I’ll also be looking at how projects are already maintained and improving them so that they become more efficient for us and our customers.”
Ken Naismith, CEO, said: “We are very pleased to have been able to attract young people of this calibre to the business.
“They are talented, committed and enthusiastic and they will contribute a great deal as we continue to grow.”
Workpro is the market-facing brand of CAS (Computer Application Services Ltd) an employee-owned technology company based in Edinburgh which has been developing software since 1969 and is believed to be the first software company in Scotland.
