Our Story

Dave Wesley, founder of Sursumcorda Resource Group (SRG), began his 30+ year information technology career as a software developer with Accenture and has worked with Fortune 1000 and small start-up companies to design, develop, and implement progressive software solutions. Dave is also an experienced entrepreneur, founding a leading-edge healthcare software startup in the 1990s, which was acquired in 1996. Leveraging his experience, reputation, and network, he then founded Minneapolis based SRG in 2000, to continue building effective software solutions for USA based organizations.

While software development can be challenging, offshore development can be VERY challenging.

Traditional offshore and virtualized development projects have a mixed track record. Low hourly rates seem very attractive but achieving quality results can be challenging, given diverse cultures, communication styles, and time zones.

There has to be a better way to do offshore development with high quality and discounted rates.

In 2012, SRG began to explore alternative near-shore sources of primary software development talent. Our goal was to build a world-class team with the technical capability and expertise that embodied a cultural and communicative symbiosis with our USA based customers, alongside our commitment to software excellence and to delivering quality software at offshore rates. A tough set of criteria to meet!

There is a better way. Hello Portugal!

We identified beautiful, sunny Portugal as an optimal and underutilized source for great tech. 

In 2013, after struggling with the management of several client offshore development projects, where communication inefficiency and software quality were barriers to project success, Dave and his family moved from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Porto, Portugal, with a mission to create a capability to do offshore software development better. By merging offshore technical and design resources in Portugal with USA based project management, business analysis, and execution resources, SRG ensures both clear and transparent communication combined with world-class quality software. 

SRG has established a team of extremely talented development partners/resources which has grown to over 50 people strong, including developers, systems architects, designers, business analysts, scrum masters, project managers, quality assurance specialists, systems integration specialists, and development experts.

Together, SRG’s domestic USA based and European integrated teams have been resuscitating floundering offshore projects, building new products and apps, and making customers happy. All of our team members learn and embody SRG's contemporary virtualized organic agile methodology and have a strong commitment to writing great reusable code, providing consistent and transparent interaction with our customer project teams, and meeting customer business product release deadlines - all at discounted rates compared to USA based resources.

SRG’s Experience in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Now, more than ever, the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI-ML) within healthcare is growing in importance and is becoming more widely accepted. It enhances levels of precision in medicine, improves treatment and quality of life, and offers many financial and administrative benefits. SRG’s experience in AI-ML began long before the recent hype surrounding its development, dating back over 30 years to when SRG founder, Dave Wesley, headed an advanced AI-ML project in oncology. We are currently engaging with our customers on several AI-ML projects, and are rapidly expanding our footprint in this growing sector.

SRG = Sursumcorda Resource Group

What does “sursumcorda” mean?

Many people ask what "sursumcorda" means and how it relates to healthcare software development. Fair question! Sursumcorda [soo r-soo m kawr-dah] is a Latin musical term meaning "uplifting refrain".

Developing great software solutions resembles writing, producing, and conducting epic music... leveraging and coordinating the perfect balance of right and left brain talents, as we do at Sursumcorda Resource Group.

Although, it may be a bit difficult to pronounce, it’s meaningful to us and it reflects our approach to doing business, communicating with our customer partners, and building software. We've been orchestrating software solutions for healthcare under the Sursumcorda brand since 2000.