Greetings and welcome to the Mastech Digital Second Quarter Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Jennifer Ford-Lacey, Manager of Legal Affairs for Mastech Digital. Thank you, Ms. Ford-Lacey, you may begin.

Thank you, Operator, and welcome to Mastech Digital's second quarter 2018 conference call. If you have not yet received a copy of our earnings announcement, it can be obtained from our website at www.mastechdigital.com. With me on the call today are Vivek Gupta, Mastech Digital's Chief Executive Officer and Jack Cronin, our Chief Financial Officer. I would like to remind everyone that statements made during this call that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include our financial, growth and liquidity projections as well as statements about our plans, strategies, intentions, and beliefs concerning our business, cash flows, costs, and the markets in which we operate. Without limiting the foregoing, the words believes, anticipates, plans, expects, and similar expressions are intended to identify certain forward-looking statements. These statements are based on information currently available to us, and we assume no obligation to update these statements as circumstances change. There are risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events to differ materially from these forward-looking statements, including those listed in the Company's 2017 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on its website at www.sec.gov. Additionally, management has elected to provide certain non-GAAP financial measures to supplement our financial results presented on a GAAP basis. Specifically, we will provide non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share data which we believe will provide greater transparency with respect to the key metrics used by management in operating our business. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to their comparable GAAP measures are included in our earnings announcement, which can be obtained from our website at www.mastechdigital.com. As a reminder, we will not be providing guidance during this call, nor will we provide guidance in any subsequent one-on-one meetings or calls. I will now turn the call over to Jack for a review of our second quarter 2018 results.

Thanks Jen and good morning everyone. Revenues for the second quarter of 2018 totaled $44.9 million and represented a 28% increase compared to $35.1 million in the second quarter of 2017. Our data and analytics services segment which was acquired on July 13, 2017, contributed $6.1 million of revenue during the second quarter of 2018, which was below last quarter's revenue performance due to the completion of several material projects. The good news is that the activity levels in this business segment remained very strong and we continue to win new assignments. However like most project-based businesses there is some inherent risks or some inherent lumpiness I should say in quarterly revenues due to the timing of project ends and project starts. Our IT staffing services segment had year-over-year organic revenue growth of 11% in the second quarter of 2018 as our billable consultant base increased by 110 consultants over the last 12 months period. Demand for IT staffing services remained robust during the quarter and we were able to expand our billable consultant base by over 6% during the three months ended June 30, 2018. Accordingly, revenues on a sequential basis increased by close to 6% from the previous quarter as digital staffing assignments continue to drive growth at this business segment. Gross profit for the second quarter of 2018 totaled $10.9 million and represented a 54% increase compared to $7.1 million in the same period last year. Our gross margin percentage for second quarter of 2018 was 24.3% of revenues, up from 20.2% in the second quarter of 2017 and also up from last quarter's 23.7% number. Our data and analytics services segment had gross margins of 42.2% of revenues which were down from the 44.3% reported in first quarter of 2018. This decline reflected a cost overrun…

Good morning everyone. Thank you, Jack for the detailed financial review of second quarter 2018, clearly another exciting quarter for Mastech Digital. First, I must tell you that I enjoyed these calls so much more when I can say we delivered a quarter of record earnings. Well, this quarter I'm delighted that I can make that statement once again after saying it's the first time in our first quarter 2018 earnings call. This quarter was our second consecutive quarter of record earnings, an outstanding performance for our entire organization and a sincere thank you to all of our highly committed and dedicated associates. I'm also happy to highlight the board's decision to declare a two-for-one stock split of our common stock. Clearly this action reflects the board's confidence in our strategy, our people, and our future opportunities. On behalf of my management team, I would like to thank them for the trust in our collective ability. Additionally, I also want to point out what we believe is another advantage of the stock split which is that it will increase the liquidity of our shares for both shareholders and potential investors. Having made these important acknowledgements let me share with you my thoughts on the performance of our two business segments during the second quarter of 2018. Data and analytics services, we continue to see strong pipeline demand for our D&A services and we secured a number of projects with some exciting new logos during the second quarter. However we did have a few material projects reach completion which pulled our revenues below the revenues we reported last quarter. As I've stated in our previous calls, our data and analytics services business has inherent lumpiness due to it being mainly project-based and therefore some fluctuation is expected in the revenues from…

I would like to turn the call back to Vivek Gupta for closing remarks.

Thank you, Operator. If there are no questions, I'd like to thank you for joining our call today and we look forward to sharing our third quarter 2018 results with you in late October.