Our Team

The Educators (Sales/Account Management)

As educators, we listen to your dreams. We dream with you and for you. We educate you about what the Excelisys team can accomplish (most everything, except for brain surgery ((our guys could, but that would just be bragging))...and tightrope walking...and other similar weird feats), about your options (do you need a side order of Web applications with that?) and about the process. We estimate timelines and costs (we know, it’s exciting), and consider what can and cannot, should and should not, be done on your behalf.

Rick • VP of Sales
Rick brings to the Excelisys family a wealth of real–world experience. During Rick’s time in the United States Marine Corps, his main duties were security forces, counter terrorism and “Information Technology Man.” It was in the Marines that Rick learned you lead from the front. Since leaving the Marines, Rick has worked in technologies from Mac to PC, from ACT to Microsoft Outlook, and held many titles, from Account Manager to Director of Sales to Director of Customer Service. While working in the security world, he dealt with customers ranging from small operations to nation–wide retailers, treating each with respect and holding close to the ethic that you “say what you mean and do what you say.” When Rick isn’t taking care of customers, he can be found at home hanging out with his wife and kids, or out on the golf course.

Email: rick@excelisys.com
1-866-592-9235 ext 802

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Mark • Business Development, Account Manager
Mark comes to us not from the more traditional programming path, but from an extensive background in project management, wireless technology, and business solution sales in both public and private sectors. As a business owner himself, Mark not only understands the need for candor from both sides of the table during the discovery and solution process, but has gained a regional reputation for honesty and integrity and empathy for the needs of his clients. After careers in management, production and sales, Mark started his own B to B wireless sales company so he could work with clients in a non pressuring, respectful manner, on a time table that made sense for the client more than for a production report. His attention to his customers after the sale is his trademark. He has a depth of experience in successfully solving communications problems for a variety of Federal, State and Local government, and private businesses of all sizes. Mark and his wife enjoy travel to those ‘off the beaten’ track sorts of places, particularly if they offer turquoise water and white sand.

Email: mark@excelisys.com
1-866-592-9235 ext 804

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The Organizers (Project Management)

Our responsibility is to make sure you are satisfied with the progress and deliverables of the producers. We set goals, refine solutions, solidify communications and keep things on track. In other words, we crack the whip on your behalf. But sometimes we have to serve as Debbie Downer and deliver honest counsel that you need–but might not want–to hear. As a result, we are sometimes unpopular. But we’d rather be unpopular than deliver sub–par results.

Christo • Founder/President
Christo began his career in technology back in 1986, when he was given his very first Macintosh Computer to write a database solution for the Photo/Graphics department of Notre Dame University. Since then, he has had the opportunity to work with various large and small companies as a consultant, an employee, and a manager dealing with several computer platforms and a plethora of database and networking technologies. Christo has a unique way of understanding the needs of companies, as well as the individuals and departments within those companies. After working for several consulting firms both small and large, he decided to start his own company, Excelisys, with a strong emphasis toward customer service and quality. He continues to build a team of loyal and devoted people who have the same common goals, passions, and insight into building intuitive custom information management systems.

Greg • VP of Technology
Greg brings a plethora of skills to Excelisys and its clients. Most recently as the director of technology for a leading systems integrator, Greg assisted a wide variety of clients from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies. He is a proven leader in advanced technologies and applications, providing clients with open state–of–the–art solutions that incorporate both existing and emerging technology. The father of three boys, Greg enjoys sailing, basketball and just about every sport or outdoor activity. He brings to Excelisys his expertise in all things geeky and a strong desire to find the perfect solution for his clients.

Kurt • VP of Production
Kurt began developing software in high school and continued in college, learning Pascal, C++ and various forms of BASIC. He started designing databases professionally in dBase III using Clipper to customize, install, and train his company’s sales departments on custom solutions, including others he developed in Access, Paradox, FoxPro and Lotus Notes. Kurt has worked for several successful consulting firms, selling, customizing and training sales, telemarketing and customer service departments on both DOS and Windows versions of Telemagic. In 1994, using FileMaker Pro 2.1, he built a successful commercial sales force automation product that he continued to expand and update as new releases of FileMaker emerged over the years. Kurt broadened his knowledge of RDBMS systems by installing/configuring, customizing and training users on sales solutions with back–ends in Oracle, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server. He then went on to work as a successful independent FileMaker developer, as well as a senior/lead developer for three of the leading FileMaker development companies. Kurt joined the Excelisys team after spending several years as an IT/Operations manager at an architectural firm, where he was responsible for the development and administration of 5 FileMaker servers hosting more than 700 databases.

Doug • Product/Project Manager
Doug began his career automating routine tasks in OpenVMS, DOS, Windows, and Macintosh operating systems. This lead to an extensive prepress automation project using AppleScript to manage files and data in QuarkXPress and Adobe Photoshop, saving the organization hundreds of thousands of dollars. Most of all, this helped him develop an appreciation for cost-effective solutions that provide substantial benefits to end users. This core purpose has served him well as a FileMaker Pro Developer since the late 90's. He occasionally finds time to relax when he's not building solutions for clients, fixing computers for friends and family, attending his sons' sporting events, running races in upstate New York, or hiking through the Adirondack Mountains.

The Producers (Programmers/Development)

While we are taking breaks from brain surgery duties and tightrope walking, we are the ones cranking out your solution and making those fixes. We are dream weavers and granters of wishes; your solution’s destiny is literally at our fingertips. But we don’t abuse this magnificent power. Instead, we create software solutions that you can sink your teeth into, like fat software hamburgers. Except our solutions aren’t greasy. They run smoothly, flawlessly and exceed your expectations.