CSG Pro, a leading IT Consulting company in the Northwest, announced that it has appointed Kevin McVicker as the Company’s new President effective January 1st, 2012. He succeeds Jerry Frank, who will now be focusing on his role as Chairman of the Board.
Mr. McVicker joined CSG in February 2010, with a keen focus on driving growth while enhancing CSG's already strong reputation and consulting capabilities. As President of CSG, McVicker will guide CSG to the next level of leadership in our market, using his many years of experience in information technology and company leadership.
Prior to joining CSG Pro, McVicker was the founder and President of Centerlogic, an IT services company in the application development and infrastructure business. After 10 years, Centerlogic merged with Ascentium where Kevin served as the Managing Director of Portland.
CSG Pro has also made a few key changes in our management team, adding Practice Managers to each of the Practice areas. We are proud to announce Ben Muller as the Business Intelligence Practice Manager, Carl Johnson as the Portals and Collaboration Practice Manager, James Churchill as the Application Development Practice Manager and Diane Carpenter as the Project Manager Practice Manager.
Ben Muller manages a skilled group of Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence experts who serve clients throughout the U.S. He’s led and participated in DW/BI projects for the past 12 years, and is seen as an expert in the field, regularly speaking on DW and BI topics at conferences and event. He is intrigued by the possibilities of the new web and SharePoint BI technologies releasing to market, as well as cloud architectures and their impact on business
Carl Johnson specializes in user-centric business solutions. He leads a team of SharePoint consultants with a strong multi-disciplinary foundation focused on business analysis, taxonomy, metadata, information architecture, and enterprise deployments.
James Churchill manages the development of custom applications for CSG clients. He has worked extensively with Microsoft technologies such as “classic” ASP, ASP.NET, SQL Server and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). As a web developer, James has also worked extensively with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, and even occasionally PHP and MySQL.
Diane Carpenter provides leadership to drive consistency and industry standards that achieve successful project outcomes for our customers. Diane has been leading and participating in business and technology solution projects for more than 15 years. She brings a broad range of management and operational skills to the team.