Zack Zambri

Zachary E. Zambri has over 35 years experience in the Information Technology (IT) field. He has held several key positions in New York State Government including Deputy Commissioner of IT for the Office of Children and Family Services, Assistant Commissioner of Management Information Systems Operations for the Department of Social Services, Director of Information Resource Management (IRM) for the Department of Civil Service as well as serving as a member of the Governors Task Force on IRM.

Mr. Zambri has also served as the Project Director for both the New York Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (CONNECTIONS) and the New York State Electronic Personnel System (NYSTEP).

He is currently the President of Zambri & Associates a management and IT consulting firm.

Contact e-mail: zezambri@earthlink.net

Keith Morgan, PMP, MCP

With more than twenty-two (22) years of in-depth, hands on experience in virtually all aspects of Project Management and Information Technology Consulting; from mainframe operations to complex distributed systems, to web-enabled solutions, Mr. Morgan has established unparalleled qualifications and credentials. Mr. Morgan has played an active role in successful companies and projects encompassing every major technology arena; enterprise projects (ERP, EAI), networks (WANs, LANs), customized applications, packaged software, standards, best practices, security, and databases/data warehouses.

A recognized expert in technology infrastructures and application strategies in private and public sectors, Mr. Morgan has given recent seminars and presentations at Microsoft RoadShows in Austin, Texas; Association of Government Accountants in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and the County Clerks of Courts Association in Alexandria, Louisiana. As evidence of his technical strengths, Mr. Morgan held a seat on the Microsoft Infrastructure Partners Advisory Council (IPAC). Selection to this council is made by Microsoft; choosing 25 individual members from the nearly 30,000 worldwide partner companies.

A very experienced project manager and solutions architect; Mr. Morgan is an expert at Information Technology planning, analysis, design, development, implementation, training, and operations. Currently, Mr. Morgan holds certifications as a Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute, and a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)/Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE – 3.x), and has extensive experience in all manner of information technology project management and architecture design.

Mr. Morgan began his professional career as a computer programmer for a Defense industry provider and as a computer operator and programmer for the United States Marine Corps Reserve. He later joined Electronic Data Systems where he held positions in systems design and development, data center planning and operations, international technical manager, and as IT architect. After 13 years with EDS, Mr. Morgan joined MAXIMUS, Inc., where he held the position of Vice President in the Infrastructure Technologies division.

In 2002, he founded Technology Consortium; a firm focused on IT Project Management, Enterprise Architectures, and hands-on technology assistance with State and Local Government entities. Technology Consortium currently counts numerous Government agencies as clients.

Contact e-mail: kmorgan@tech-consortium.com

Don Grier

Don Grier is an Associate Partner with the Accenture Government Operating Unit. He is currently the Accenture Project Manager for the IMPACT project at the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). The IMPACT project transformed the previous client/server SACWIS at DFPS to a browser-based application through the implementation of J2EE and Enterprise Integration technologies.  Teaming with the DFPS Project Manager, Donna Marler, the IMPACT project team implemented a fully web-enabled SACWIS to 7,000 workers throughout Texas on September 1, 2003.

In addition to his current project, Mr. Grier has 14 years of experience delivering, large-scale software development projects for government agencies. Some of Mr. Grier’s other projects include the implementation of the Integrated Statewide Administrative System at DFPS, the implementation and maintenance of the DFPS Child and Adult Protective System, and the deployment of the Integrated Supply Management System for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Prior to joining Accenture, Mr. Grier was Deputy G3 for Exercises of the U.S. Army’s 9^th Infantry Division where he planned the exercise that tested the Army’s first Battlefield Tactical computer system. His specialties include SACWIS, enterprise integration, and enterprise resource planning.

Contact e-mail: don.h.grier@accenture.com

Aaron Nauman

Mr. Nauman has a wide range of systems and applications development experience in both real-time and information systems domains. He is currently leading development of model transformation tools to support automated software verification and testing. His experience includes all aspects of product development from requirements analysis through test implementation.

Contact e-mail: nauman@software.org

Frank Petrus

Frank Petrus is a Vice President with the Center for the Support of Families and has 37 years of experience working in and as a consultant to public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and professional associations. His experience includes child welfare, community-based children and family services collaboratives, education, juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth services, children and youth mental health services, domestic violence, drug and alcohol prevention and treatment services, and the application of information technology to human services. He has extensive experience in the administration and management of government and nonprofit human services and public safety agencies.

As a consultant and in executive level positions in county and state government, Mr. Petrus has been in a leadership role in the development, assessment and implementation of major children, youth and family services policies. He was an advisor to the Federal government in the original development of both child welfare and runaway and homeless youth policies and regulations. He has drafted policy and position papers for state and county governments and professional associations and has played roles that have influenced both state and Federal legislation. He has also worked on child welfare court improvement projects in several states.

Prior to coming to the Center for the Support of Families, Mr. Petrus was the President of the Child Welfare Division at MAXIMUS, Inc. He provided leadership for child welfare best practices projects in ten states and the District of Columbia, and SACWIS planning and quality assurance efforts in twelve states. Prior to his MAXIMUS experience, Mr. Petrus was the Executive Vice President of the Child Welfare Institute where he was the practice lead for the Institute’s Management Consulting Division.

Contact e-mail: fpetrus@csfmail.org

Jim Coursey

Jim Coursey is a Senior Associate with the Center for the Support of Families. Mr. Coursey has more than ten years of experience in curriculum and training program design, as well as the development of technological architecture to support both classroom training and distance learning. He was the Center’s technology team manager for the Illinois SACWIS training project, where he led the development of a computer-assisted simulation system used to train more than 7,000 caseworkers across the state. Mr. Coursey also leads the Center’s distance learning group, which has designed and created more than 30 computer- and Web-based training programs for state- and local-level agencies.

Mr. Coursey has developed or contributed to 20 curricula dealing with various adoption, foster care, and casework practice and policy issues. His achievements in the child welfare field include developing the Strategic Recruitment™ model of resource family recruiting, managing an education and information service for foster and adoptive parents, and developing an effective approach for recruiting foster and adoptive families as part of the Georgia Public Information campaign. Mr. Coursey also has extensive experience in quality assurance and auditing, statistical analysis, technical writing and editing, and computer-based training design. He has led project teams to design and develop curricula, conduct quality assurance audits, develop child-welfare systems training, and deliver post-adoption and foster-care in-service training. He has written resource materials for adoption, foster care, health care, and employment assistance departments in several states. Mr. Coursey has extensive experience with designing, developing, and editing core casework practice curricula, as well as curricula for casework supervision and management.

Contact e-mail: jcoursey@csfmail.org