Hood River Human Resources and Accounting (HRHR) provides accounting, budgeting, payroll and human resources services to small businesses in the Gorge, whether for a one-time need or through long-term relationships. They serve all types of businesses around the Gorge, from 100 employee hi-tech manufacturing firms to 1 employee beauty salons. Monica Zorza Hockett founded the [...]
Innovative Composite Engineering
Innovative Composite Engineering (ICE) is a big player in the Gorge’s technology sector with over 70 employees at their new White Salmon campus. ICE designs and manufactures structural carbon fiber parts for a broad range of customers with a specialty in hollow or tubular products. Their competitive advantage is in their 22 years of manufacturing [...]
Kinetics, Inc.
Founded in 1996, Kinetics, Inc., is a small business doing software research, engineering and design, and Testing and Evaluation (T&E) for the Defense industry to support the synthetic representation and computer simulation of advanced ElectroOptical/Infra-Red (EO/IR) phenomenology, including scene rendering and signature modeling software programs, as well as research and analysis of integrated real-time EO/IR [...]
Prigel Machine and Fabrication
Since 2002, Prigel Machine and Fabrication has been building custom machined parts, typically out of metals, for local engineering firms that manufacture their own products. As the only shop of this type in the Gorge, Prigel offers quality service at competitive prices and saves customers trips to Bend, Portland or Seattle. Owner Brian Prigel returned [...]
Hire Electric, Inc.
Since 1935, Hire Electric has been providing electrical contracting services from their office in The Dalles, making them one of the oldest electrical contractors in the Gorge. Hire is fully licensed, bonded, and insured to perform work in both Oregon and Washington and regularly serves residential, commercial and industrial customers. In 2009, Hire purchased Seraphim [...]
Wasco County 4-H Program
Don’t be surprised that a 4-H program is a member of the Gorge Tech Alliance. As a leader in positive youth development, 4-H programs nationally, and especially locally, have adapted with changing times. While agriculture programs are still at the heart of the educational and leadership opportunities they provide for children in grades K-12, technology [...]
Brad Schrick
Brad Schrick is a well-known, friendly face among the GTA crowd. Starting off his career in aerospace with degrees from Princeton and Stanford, Brad started out in the field with NASA and work on the first commercial US rocket (see below). He then changed tracks into marketing and started several companies, including an internet 3D [...]
Google- The Dalles
Beginning in 1996, Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin built a search engine called “BackRub” that used links to determine the importance of individual web pages. By 1998 they had formalized their work, creating the company we know today as Google. Since then, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. From offering [...]
RapidMade LLC
RapidMade LLC is an additive manufacturing and engineering company on the front edge of the next manufacturing revolution. Their goal is to take technology that traditionally only Fortune 500 companies could afford and make it accessible to small and medium-sized businesses to give them a competitive advantage. Clients in their primary industries of food processing, [...]
Gorge GIS
Gorge GIS provides Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services for tourism, land trusts, land use planning and economic development. One of their product lines is targeted toward traditional GIS clients, like Planning Departments and Natural Resource Managers, who use maps to answer land management questions. Their second – and newest – product line are GIS Web [...]
