Ethan is one of the founders of Piraeus Data and has made a career of designing solutions and redesigning processes that enhance efficiency and productivity. Ethan brings over 12 years of experience with the design, implementation, and supporting skills needed for database systems. He has a proven record of design and business process enhancements, which brings an essential level of expertise to projects involving improvements and modifications to reporting systems. His previous experience with database applications includes the design, build, enhancing integration, and automation of key functions. Ethan’s assessment of client needs and strategic approach to custom development bring high levels of insight, organized planning, and highly effective communication to any reporting project.

In addition to heavy involvement in overall company strategy and leadership, Ethan’s core client role is to assess clients’ business needs, plan out the high-level approach for custom development and business intelligence projects, and manage the Piraeus development team through a project’s end-to-end execution. He revels in difficult business problems and the subsequent solution design.

Sean is one of the founders of Piraeus Data, and comes from a strong background in transformative data from AdRelevance (now Nielsen NetRatings), key consulting companies, and Microsoft. While at Microsoft, he was a core contributor to the design of a prospect database that merged various third-party lists into a single format that included all of their best attributes; he also helmed the redesign of a target audience scorecard that helped identify over- and under-targeted segments. His passion for the ways in which data assets can be leveraged to both inform and transform corporate and program strategy is the ribbon that runs through the center of his career.

Sean’s core duties include management of key initiatives and partnerships, coordination of overall business strategy, and the technical growth and health of the consultancy arm of Piraeus.

Justin has been with Piraeus since incorporation and comes from a strong background in database marketing, data warehousing, and reporting. Over the past decade Justin had the opportunity to serve as a contractor/consultant for several of the region’s largest employers (Boeing, Microsoft, and WaMu), and he has brought that knowledge and expertise with him to allow Piraeus’s customers a deeper insight into their information assets. Justin’s vast technical, development, and analytical capabilities are essential to implanting clients’ IT projects.

At Piraeus, Justin serves as a key contributor to the successful design and development of custom applications, both internal to Piraeus as well as client-facing. His past experience and exposure to various databases and solutions gives him the unique qualifications to recommend custom IT solutions to clients. After a project’s design phase, Justin is involved with various facets within a project, including the development, implementation, and maintenance of custom BI solutions. While able to create reports and design metrics, his focus is on designing scalable, easy to use, back-end systems to feed reporting solutions. In addition to his role as senior analyst, Justin is passionate about mentoring the Piraeus junior analysts and offering guidance as they develop their skill sets and career paths.

After having taught language and literature classes for nearly a decade at the universities of Washington and Wisconsin, Dr. Elizabeth DeNoma began work in the field of information technology in 2000, eventually working for Microsoft on the Windows Server, IT Professional, and Windows Digital Media Web sites. In that capacity she led her team’s business intelligence and editorial programming efforts. She was also the editor from 2003 to 2005 of Windows Platform News, a publication that went out to 600,000 people worldwide, bringing the latest news on the world of the Windows operating system.

In 2006 she began her tenure leading teams of vendors for Microsoft, managing teams devoted to Microsoft Encarta, MSN, Windows Mobile (Windows phone), and MSIT. She now works for Piraeus Data as an account manager for Microsoft accounts, focusing on business intelligence, content creation and management, and communications strategies.

Abel joined Piraeus soon after incorporation in 2006. His career experience is rooted mostly in the health care industry, where he developed his management style and principle to approach every project with heavy emphasis on accuracy and precision. His expertise in operational details and management has been essential to successfully heading the HR and Operations Departments as the director of finance here at Piraeus.

Currently, Abel continues to apply his management style to his work through implementing and executing operations and financial protocols. Since Piraeus’s early days, he has played an essential behind-the-scenes role in the company’s expansion through continuously managing the growth of the Operations and HR Departments. While his overall role at the company is broad, his primary focuses include the company financials and managing payroll and accounts payable/receivable.

Gail brings a breadth and depth of experience to Piraeus gained from managing data and business intelligence solutions at Microsoft for nearly 10 years. She combines a passion for wanting to understand every bit of data with an ability to help build not only business processes supportive of better data quality but also longer-term strategy to enable business decision-making based on quality data. During her years at Microsoft, she worked with multiple teams to develop and evangelize data auditing to provide proactive management of data quality, whether in customer databases to support execution of marketing campaigns or in the data bits needed to successfully publish Web-based training for sales personnel. Throughout her career, she also put her technical writing skills to work by creating robust documentation and training materials to support end users, both at Microsoft and academic institutions. She led the way in designing and implementing online help systems as well as service request tracking processes and tools.

At Pireaus, Gail’s role as development manager enables her to provide technical consulting and subject matter expertise for data-centric projects. She works closely with clients to understand their business and clarify their needs for data-driven solutions.

When enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence (BI) became affordable to the mid-caps, Pat Smith discovered his professional obsession. Over the past dozen years he has been an ERP consultant, product manager, budget analyst, and business developer. These differing roles gave him a perspective on the importance of synchronizing all lines of business in a project. In his role at Piraeus Data, business intelligence and data governance take center stage.

Business intelligence is again changing how companies operate. The tools are becoming simpler and more personalized. Dashboards are now role-based. Under these conditions, Pat is continually “recurving” (staying on a perpetual learning curve) to keep him current on these new trends.

Pat believes the next generation of breakout companies will leverage their people and data to uncover their true customer base and teams will discover where profitability can be maximized.

Bryan has extensive experience managing technical projects across various industries, including healthcare, mobile, consumer software, and consumer electronics markets. As a seasoned PM he is highly skilled at bringing projects to a successful close. He brings a diverse project management background, creating well-organized and documented project plans. His role includes management and coordination of all facets of the project from start to finish using Piraeus’s successful project management approach.

Bryan’s experience ranges from coordinating projects within the non profit sector to successfully managing various projects within multiple departments of a Fortune 500 company. Bryan is an essential part of the BI team and has been with Piraeus since 2008. As the senior project manager, Bryan brings his ability to assess, plan, manage, and deliver products as he oversees the day-to-day progress of various development efforts.

Rich comes to Piraeus with experience in technical writing, community management for online services, program management, and testing. Rich’s background includes serving in the United States Marine Corps for six years in the reserves with two years of active duty as a squad leader during Operation Desert Shield/Storm. He currently leads the Customer Acquisition and Retention Engine {CARE} Team as the project management and operations lead and program setup manager. Rich leads the operational elements surrounding registration and email setup using a variety of Microsoft proprietary tools. He coordinates with the marketing and product groups to create and maintain essential working elements of the program and offers leadership throughout the launch process.

Rich is on the Piraeus management team and offers leadership and mentoring to consultants, as well as leading a variety of IT projects related to improving operational efficiency.