Panttaja Consulting - Team Bios

Principals

Jim Panttaja

Jim Panttaja brings more than 30 years of software engineering and management experience to the support of his clients and business partners. Jim is currently a Sapias Fellow, having recently stepped down from his position as Executive Vice President, Engineering and CTO to pursue other opportunities. At Sapias, he has been responsible for overseeing all aspects of engineering and systems operations.

Prior to Sapias, Jim was Vice President of Engineering at Netcentives and was a primary designer of the company’s acclaimed high-performance Internet transactional architecture. Previously, Jim co-founded Panttaja Consulting Group, Inc., a 40-person advanced technology consultancy, where he served as CTO for 10 years before the company was acquired by Netcentives. Earlier in his career, Jim held engineering management positions at IBM and Tandem Computers.

Jim is regarded as an industry expert at resolving complex technical and operational problems and has served on national and international standards committees. He has authored numerous articles and two books on database management systems and is a contributor to books on object relational database management systems. Jim earned Bachelors and Masters degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

 

Mary Panttaja

Mary Panttaja has more than twenty years of executive management experience building technology companies and assisting corporations in their adoption of leading-edge database and application architectures. She was a founding partner and CEO of Panttaja Consulting Group Inc. (PCGi), a 40-person advanced technology consultancy, which was acquired by Netcentives. At Netcentives, she was Vice President of Program Management establishing business and operational processes for the start-up phase of the Custom Loyalty product lines, which grew to be a major source of the company’s revenue.

She is an expert on database and application design, implementation, and performance and has published numerous articles and two books in the field. She is also an expert on technical project management and creative, development, and innovation lifecycles.

She publishes some of her work on mary.pantttaja.com and www.updrafting.com.

Colleagues

 

Bill Staudenheimer

Mr. Staudenheimer is an experienced systems architect, systems and software planner and developer. He has conducted analysis, design, and programming for planning, research, and databases since 1970. For the past twenty years his consulting work has included both practice and teaching on software engineering problems, database systems development, and methods of system analysis, design, and testing. His specialty is group facilitation to draw out the needs, requirements, and behaviors of an organization. For-profit clients include Dentistat, Insurance Dentists of American, Green Diamond Resources, Simpson Timber Company, Legacy Marketing Group, and Transamerica Home Finance. Non-profit clients include San Francisco's City CarShare, Philadelphia's Philly CarShare, Rural Quality Coalition+Foundation, and U.S. Lipizzan Registery. Contact Bill at bstaud at sysgu.com.

Carl Binder

Dr. Carl Binder began his career as a graduate research fellow at Harvard University and was associate Director of a human behavior research laboratory and classroom for ten years before entering the corporate world. Founder of three consulting firms, a thought leader in the International Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA) and the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), he is a widely requested speaker and prolific author in fields that include human learning and performance, sales and marketing, customer service, educational policy, performance measurement, and behavioral research. He is a Certified Performance Technologist who has worked with scores of organizations in a dozen industries, as well as schools and other human services and not-for-profit organizations. Contact Carl at CarlBinder at SixBoxes.com.

Cynthia Riha

Cynthia Riha has more than 20 years of business development, marketing and management experience from diverse industries, including transportation, hospitality, telecommunications, manufacturing/engineering, and aerospace. She has been a top sales producer, sales manager, business development strategist, entrepreneur and business development consultant. Most recently she served as VP of Marketing in a telecommunications startup, successfully coordinating the effort to raise venture capital and position the company in a rapidly changing marketplace. Her business acumen combined with excellent communication and analysis skills enable her to offer the experience and perspective of a seasoned business executive. Contact Cynthia at CynthiaRiha at SixBoxes.com.