consultants

Company president since 2003, Gary oversees all Langham operations and is the exclusive consultant who teams with clients during vendor contract negotiations. Gary offers clients more than 20 years of high-level software/services and contract-negotiation experience. He is well regarded for his ability to "read between the lines" of a vendor proposal and use that knowledge to the client's advantage. Executives, attorneys and end users from city/county governments and utilities have commended Gary for his thorough negotiation process, project-management skills and Quality Assurance assessments.

Prior to joining Langham, Gary was a corporate officer for three public and private software companies. He is a member of the Governmental Finance Officers Association and serves on the American Water Works Association (AWWA) Standards Committee regarding Best Practices for Operation and Management. Gary has taught several Automated Meter Reading Association seminars and workshops on the software acquisition process and developing the proper RFP. He also leads presentations at the annual CIS Conference. Gary earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas, and master's and doctoral degrees from Oklahoma State University.

Debra Ardoline, Langham Vice President, has more than two decades of experience in higher education, government and utility marketplaces. Before joining Langham in 2003, Debra served in a series of progressively responsible positions at Systems & Computer Technology, a $238 million provider of technology and business solutions for education and utilities. Debra is a solutions-oriented business consultant with a proven track record of effective applications development and implementation. Her extensive background managing CIS software development teams ensure that Langham clients receive a high-level approach to the design of customizations and interfaces. Debra received a bachelor's degree from Miami University of Ohio.

Tim brings 19 years of IT experience from a broad spectrum of roles and areas of expertise. For 10 years before joining Langham, Tim worked for Indus International as a product manager and senior project manager implementing CIS-CRM systems with medium to large utility companies in the U.S. and Europe. Prior to Indus, Tim held a number of IT positions, including data center manager at a leading credit and collections company in the UK. He brings strong project-management and customer-service skills to each Langham project. Tim completed Computer Science studies at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK.

Jay Colmenero has 20+ years experience in utility and local-government industries, and 10 years experience in the software industry. He has successfully implemented CIS projects for a variety of municipal government agencies throughout the U.S. and the Caribbean. Prior to Langham, Jay held various roles in the software industry and worked for a major utility company. Previous responsibilities include CIS implementations specialist, senior business analyst, project manager, and ASP manager for a software solutions provider. Jay earned a bachelor's degree in Organizational Communication from Rollins College in Florida.

Jerry is a highly accomplished Information Technology Executive with more than 20 years of IT technical and management experience. During his career, he has held served in the following positions: consultant, CIO, vice president of IT, director of IT, systems manager, project and program manager, and system administrator. Jerry's experiences are across multiple industry verticals, including manufacturing, higher education, managed care (HMO) and petroleum, with a concentration over the last 10 years in public utilities (power, gas and water). During Jerry's career, he has overseen multiple RFP preparations, evaluations and vendor selections, system implementations, business-process reengineering endeavors and quality-assurance projects. Jerry's experience includes major ERP environments, eGovernment and eCommerce applications, along with CIS, SFA, SCM, and OM environments.