Down On Silicon Bayou

Down on Silicon Bayou, local Baton Rouge companies are carving
out an amazing space in the tech sector. They’re designing
impressive software platforms and tools that are attracting
worldwide attention.


Steve McKinney  is the Chief Operating Officer of Cell
Control, a Baton Rouge company that, in 2009, came up with
technology to help eliminate distracted driving. In the years
since, Cell Control has become the global leader in this field by
selling its services to companies—big Fortune 500 companies—that
have huge fleets of potentially distracted drivers. One reason
the technology is so popular is because it is simple. It pairs a
Bluetooth device with your cell phone to disable texting and Web
surfing from the driver’s seat while still allowing a passenger’s
phone to have full function. With over 100,000 users, Cell
Control is saving big companies with fleets of drivers a lot of
money, time, and frankly, lives. 


 


Calvin Fabre, CEO of Envoc, a Baton Rouge based digital
agency that does custom software development, mobile
applications, advertising and branding campaigns, web design, web
applications, intranets, and portals. Calvin founded the company
in the early 2000s. In the years since, Envoc has grown to more
than 30 employees, a second location in Hammond and a reputation
as one of the go-to software development firms in the Capital
region. One of Envoc’s most innovative new products is is LA
Wallet —a digital drivers license that you have on your
phone and that serves as a legally accepted form of ID. As an
added feature LA Wallet has a Verify function so you can check
the background of an Uber driver  or, even the status of
contractors who come to your home to do repairs. 


 


Photos at Mansurs on the Boulevard by Karry
Hosford.


See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.