Yevette R. Bratten is one of the original founders of DigiFlight. She currently serves as executive vice president and chief strategy officer and has been nominated to receive a Special Recognition Award at the 2020 Women of Color STEM Conference.
DigiFlight was one of the first small businesses to deploy and integrate Java J2EE and WebLogic backed by an Oracle Database.
Bratten prepared the cost proposal and assisted with the technical proposal for the effort. She served as the program manager for this innovative cutting-edge project that formed the basis for how Web Portals and Sites work today.
“Yevette Bratten’s cradle-to-grave knowledge of business operations is second to none. She is absolutely deserving of this award,” said Stanford Oliver, president and CEO of DigiFlight, Inc.
DigiFlight, a cyberspace, enterprise IT, and aerospace firm, was incorporated in June 1999. The infrastructure at that time was “Mom and Pop” with several partners working their day jobs, while also working night jobs for DigiFlight and attending board meetings every Saturday morning.
DigiFlight struggled early on as the other two owners were working on an expired contract for the Health and Human Services Department (HHS).
Bratten, along with the other owners, put together a plan to present to the HHS. This was an attempt to recover expended funding and obtain a new sole source contract.
The DigiFlight team was triumphant, which led to their first major contract of seven people. The objective was to build a wireless warehouse information management system using Java J2EE and WebLogic. These technologies were new at the time.
The 2020 Women of Color STEM Conference scheduled for October 8-10, with the addition of an all-new virtual online component. Now a hybrid event, WOC 2020 will still include live, in-person programming at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center and the TCF Center in Detroit, MI.
