Mentora Management Team

Kathryn provides business leadership across Mentora lines of business. She also leads Mentora’s marketing and PR initiatives.

She serves as a Principal Consultant, applying her technology and management expertise to plan, organize, and execute complex IT projects involving cross-functional teams that combine elements of strategy, planning, business prioritization and project management. Her experience includes implementing the Oracle Applications eBusiness suite, integrated healthcare systems, remote claims processing systems, employing Conference Room Pilots, Model Offices, User Acceptance Testing and collection and analysis of quality metrics. As a consultant Kathryn has managed IT systems deployments in the finance, healthcare, petroleum, manufacturing and entertainment industries.

Kathryn has held IT management positions in technology and enterprise companies including AppGenesys, Private Healthcare Systems, Cumberland Farms, GSX and Prudential Insurance Company.

Kathryn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hamilton College, NY, and has completed technical and professional courses in financial planning, project management and leadership. She is certified in ITIL methodology.

Dan leads Mentora’s Testing Services. He provides general management, principal consulting, and coordination with Application Hosting.

Dan is a subject matter expert in load testing, a practice he established in 1997, creating the 5-Steps of Load Testing methodology initially taught at Mercury Interactive. He is a frequent presenter at Software Quality conferences such as STAREAST/WEST, STPCon, HP Software Universe, and Workshop on Performance and Reliability, for which he is currently one of the organizers. He has led enterprise load testing projects for manufacturing, healthcare, communications, ecommerce, software, scientific and non-profit organizations such as AT&T Wireless, Tyco, SunGard, March of Dimes, National Institutes of Health, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Harvard Risk Management Foundation, HealthNet, Boston Medical Center Health Plan, K-Mart, J&R Electronics, Sharp USA and Kinko's.

Dan has more than 25 years technical and leadership experience as programmer, sales engineer, product manager, senior manager, and consultant, in technology and healthcare companies such as Ingres, Project Software & Development, Kendall Square Research, AppGenesys, Fresenius Medical Care, Private Healthcare Systems, and Tufts Health Plan.

Dan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and did graduate-level work in Computer Science at Boston University.

Susan manages Mentora’s business operations encompassing administration, accounting and finance, contracts, human resources and insurance. Susan’s business experience includes operations and general management positions in technology services companies where she has established and managed business processes for account management, contracts, financial planning and human resources programs.

In a 21-year US Air Force career, she held positions as commander, executive officer, operations officer and inspector in Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Operations.

Susan has a Master of Science Degree in Behavioral Psychology from Troy State University, AL. She completed an Executive Development Program with Georgia Institute of Technology and has completed business, leadership and international business partner courses in university programs and the military.

Andrey leads Mentora’s managed hosting and datacenter operations through technical excellence, standardization of tools and processes, better documentation, managing change, utilizing the right technologies, hiring the right people and planning ahead.

His specialties include 24x7 mission critical datacenter operations, technical project planning and delivery, full solution architecture, budget and vendor management, team building and hands-on management. In his role at Mentora he leads the hosting operations for all managed hosting locations

Andrey has held management and senior technical roles in software/database development at The Sporting News and Small World.

Andrey has a Master of Business Administration Degree from Baruch College of the City University of New York and a degree in Computer Science from the Queens College of the City University of New York.