OptTek Systems, Inc. is an optimization software and services company employing state-of-the-art techniques such as Tabu Search and Evolutionary Scatter Search as well as methods of neural networks, linear, nonlinear and discrete programming. Employing software solutions based on years of research in optimization, OptTek specializes in developing software for a variety of applications including process improvement, project portfolio management, supply chain management, strategic and financial planning, data security, human resources planning, and general decision-making under uncertainty. The innovations underlying the firm's software have been featured in invited plenary lectures and tutorials by the OptTek principals at meetings of the leading optimization societies in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and the Pacific-Rim. OptQuest®, the companys flagship software product, has been licensed to over 80,000 users and has become the optimization standard for simulation modeling. Fields of specialties include Simulation, Optimization, Strategic Workforce Planning, Data Security, Project Portfolio Optimization