Associates



Amy McMullen
Mrs. McMullen is an accomplished team leader with 10 years of IT experience. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and has developed strong project management skills with a unique combination of practical and conceptual IT experience while working for AT&T Broadband, Qwest, IBM, TeleTech/Compuserve and SITA.  Mrs. McMullen has in-depth knowledge of call center environments, cable billing systems, business strategy development, E-commerce, E-business, data conversions, IT security, and training material development.  

Davyd Smith
Mr. Smith has more than a decade of experience as a Program/Project Manager and Business and IT strategy consultant.  He has worked with direct to consumer, business to business, mobile workforce, billing and finance application development focusing on hard ROI objectives to create efficiencies in client’s sales, marketing and operation programs. Working on each initiative with an entrepreneurial approach, he has produced innovative solutions to business approaches when they failed to evolve with changing business needs and tools.  Mr. Smith's core competency is achieving business goals through creative technology solutions that provide a return on investment for revenue generating initiatives.

Judith Batenburg
Mrs. Batenburg is an accomplished team leader with twenty years of successful management experience in projects from start-up, through full life-cycle. She holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. She has extensive experience assessing organizational, technical, and operational infrastructure to define and implement strategies, solutions, and processes that leverage resources to improve quality and performance. Her experience enables her to work with virtual and cross-functional teams to gain consensus, cooperation and support for ideas, processes, alternatives, and to influence direction. Mrs. Batenburg is currently on assignment at Information Handling Services (IHS-Energy).

Kurt Larson
Mr. Larson has 14 years of experience in information technology and has held roles in the areas of systems support management, network architecture, network security and software development process management. Mr. Larson has held positions in the financial, real-estate and healthcare markets specializing in many areas of technology management and engineering. He holds multiple industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, Novell and Citrix and has a BS in Mathematics with an emphasis on Statistics from the University of Wisconsin.

Lisa Stanek
Ms. Stanek has over 25 years of business experience in Project Management, Business/Systems Analysis, Product Development, and Business Management.  She has a background in a wide variety of industries and has spent the past 10 years in telecommunications/cable, working extensively with numerous billing and provisioning systems.  Her most recent project management activities have included the implementation of flow-through telephony billing and provisioning systems in over 15 cable markets and the coordination of billing system code standardizations and market merges.  Ms. Stanek is skilled in systems/process improvement and has been responsible for the creation of an improved, integrated national systems support structure as well as the development of product and business plans and models.  She has a thorough understanding of end-to-end order flow, has proven that she i s a skilled leader of cross departmental project teams, and has extensive experience with issue identification, tracking and resolution.  Ms. Stanek has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado and Masters of International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management.

Michael Francis
Mr. Francis has over 15 years Operational and Systems Management experience, including Customer Service, Team Dynamics, Team Development, and Process and Property Management.  Mr. Francis has extensive experience designing and developing customer care systems, KPI tracking methods, and developing and implementing corporate sales plans. Mr. Francis has extensive training in Financial Analysis, Product Marketing, and Team Leadership.  He has two BA degrees from the University of Denver and the Université de Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), as well as an MBA from the University of Denver.

PJ Schumacher
Ms. Schumacher is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile Certified ScrumMaster with over 12 years of extensive experience in multiple industries.  Ms. Schumacher has proven experience in applying structured project management methodologies, leading technical teams and meeting customers’ needs with a sound technical solution.  Ms. Schumacher is highly motivated when challenged with meeting aggressive deadlines, creating innovative solutions while incorporating a high level of customer interaction.

Ray Blanton
Mr. Blanton has over twenty-one years of comprehensive Operational Management experience including Customer Service, Field Engineering, Systems Engineering, Process Management, and Network Infrastructure.  Mr. Blanton is a dynamic, highly focused, Datacom & Telecom industry leader with a strong ability to develop and transform groups and organizations through visionary leadership.  His fervent resolve to achieve results and tempered charismatic flare has helped him excel to leadership positions in organizations such as ICG Communications, Inc, MCI Local Service, Total Communications, Inc., Network Equipment Technologies, Inc, Satellite Transmission Systems, Inc., Coherent Communication Systems, Inc., American Satellite Corporation, and the U.S. Army Intelligence Command.

Robert Beer
Mr. Beer has over thirty years experience in data analysis, system design and development, data base design and analysis, system conversion, and documentation within the fields of manufacturing, media, accounting, education, cable systems, and telecommunications. Since 1997, he has worked as a Systems Conversion Consultant specializing in the media, education, ISP, cable, and telecommunications industries, with the majority of his focus on cable and telecommunications systems. Mr. Beer’s attributes include close attention to detail, creativity in solving issues, and client satisfaction.

Steve Hobbs, CMA, PMP
Mr. Hobbs has thirty years of broad based systems, financial and operations management experience. For the last fifteen years, he has focused on implementing systems for large and mid sized businesses in a variety of industries. Previously he served in Chief Financial Officer, Controller and Operations Manager positions. He has also performed accounting and financial consulting services including business planning and process improvement. He has the experience and insight to analyze complex problems and work with senior management to evaluate potential solutions. His qualifications are further highlighted by the Certified Management Accountant and Project Management Professional certifications he has achieved. Mr. Hobbs has a long track record of getting projects done on time and on budget for clients such as Verizon, Sirius Satellite Radio, AT&T Broadband, Comcast, TCI, Echostar, SBC, ICG and Frontier Communications.

Trish Thornton
Ms. Thornton is a professional, innovative IT leader dealing with World Class business practices.  With 17+ years of experience with customer care, billing and provisioning systems, her recent focus has been in the management of data migration practices and methods to maintain data integrity that results in shorter data processing time and realized cost savings. She has a solid foundation in support structures and modeling with an emphasis on the ability to translate operational business process and performance improvement initiatives into software functionality to match key business strategies.