The overall risk of the classical software engineering process can be drastically reduced by developing a prototype first.

Some advantages of a prototype are:

• Working software in all stages of the project
  After the initial development phase (typically 2-3 weeks), a first version of the prototype is ready to be used.
  
  
• Reduced overall risk
  Contracts are only awarded for reaching the next working version of the prototype.
  
  
• Flexibility
  The prototype grows with the project. New and changing requirements are incorporated contemporary.
  
  
• Continuous testing and improvement
  As new versions of the prototype are immediately tested, the overall error-rate is drastically reduced.
  
  
• Cost effective
  Most of the work put into the prototype can be reused for the final version of the software.

I offer to develop prototypes based on the Eclipse Rich-Client-Platform, the de facto standard for small and medium sized software projects. With my strong background in molecular biology and genetics as well as software engineering I am able to communicate effectively with the scientific stuff of my customers, suggest improvements to the analysis process and implement them into the prototype. I also offer to take over the project management for developing the complete software package after the prototype is finished.