Robert Vaughan - President and Owner

Business Accomplishments:
Mr. Vaughan has 20+ years in the IT industry – a career which spans pioneering the first world class end-to-end manufacturing facility to applying instructional design/technology best practices in spearheading the company’s’ web-development division. His blend of strategic project management, practical business analytical skills, and technical proficiency has keyed the successful delivery of enterprise-wide projects in various industries. The company’s 20+ year growth is attributed to an entrepreneurial culture driven by Robert that continues to deliver consulting and training solutions solving client’s critical business issues. Mr. Vaughan believes winning companies are both learning and teaching organizations. He is well-sought after because of his innovative approach to educational leadership in driving the development and delivery of human capital development programs and technical leadership in providing information management and movement solutions.

Education:
George Mason University - MEd. in Instruction Technology
Winston-Salem State University - BS in Computer Technology

Business Accomplishments:
An entrepreneur and former Deputy CIO, with 30+ years results-charged career reflecting achievements in starting, building, growing, and improving the profitability, performance, and value of conglomerates/governments/startups with combined operating and/or project budgets totaling over US $4 billion generating revenues in excess of $30B. The creator of the P.R.O.G.R.E.S.S. problem solving approach, Dr. Harper’s work as scholar-practitioner with Fortune 50/500/1000 and foreign governments; teaching, advising, informing, guiding business modernization along with strategic information management and movement initiatives allows him to offer comprehensive knowledge of fundamental business disciplines and technology enablers allowing management to act and react to the dynamics of their marketplace.

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:

Columbia Commonwealth University
- PhD, with Distinction, in Administration and Management
University of New Haven
- MBA in Marketing
- MS in Industrial Engineering
- BS in Computer Technology (Cum Laude)
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Project Management Researcher
- OPM3 Leadership - Quality Assurance & Navigation
- Certified in Foundation of IT Service Management (ITIL)
- Certified Six Sigma Green Belt
Formal Training:
- Common Business Objectives for Information Technology (COBIT)
- Oracle Certified Professional/Expert Training
- Earned Value Project Management
- The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF
-Activity Based Costing Management
-Information Engineering
-Organizational Change Management
- Six Sigma Black Belt

Business Accomplishments:
Darrell has 20+ years of experience in information technology and computer security and has managed the Technology Risk Management Practice at top accounting firms. He has extensive experience in performing internal control reviews of highly complex information systems. Darrell manages computer network security service and leads a national team of technology risk and incident response professionals. Darrell has designed and assessed security programs and responded to security incidents at companies throughout the United States, Asia and Europe, including several financial institutions (Hedge Funds), technology manufactures and health care organizations.

Education:
Virginia Union University - BS Accounting
New York University - MBA Capital Markets
New York University - Certificate LA N Administration
                                     Information Systems Audit and Control Association
                                  - Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

Business Accomplishments:
K. Michael Slater is on of the nation's leading executive coach and management consultant. Over the past ten years, he has developed strategies and processes for such companies as AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Glaxo Smith Kline, Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, Enron, Home Depot, Prudential Securities, New York University Medical School, NCR, KPMG, Wilson Learning, and the US Postal Services, just to name a few.

He focuses on methods of advising diversity and management in a way that provides a safe and welcomed environment of dialogue and is based on real business results. His area of expertise include economics, emerging technologies, human relations, Professional development, conflict resolution, EEO/AA, and organization behavior. He has lectured at over 100 universities and colleges as well as numerous conferences and conventions. Dr. Slater has appeared both in the electronic and print media as a national and international expert on cross-cultural issues and business.