Leadership

Ken Miller is a Leader, Manager, and Hands-on technical contributor for MS3. He is responsible for ensuring continued success by leveraging his knowledge, experience, and most of all, his in-depth understanding of industry standards. Ken also helps MS3 reach our strategic goals and remain on the leading edge of technology in our industry. The knowledge he provides ensures MS3's success, and more importantly that we do our very best to help our clients achieve success.

Ken is an experienced Solutions Architect with a vast amount of experience in Healthcare and Supply Chain Management.

Certifications: Certified SCRUM Master & Certified Mulesoft Developer

Denise Brodowski serves as the Director of PMO for MS3. In her role, she oversees the Sales, Marketing, Admin, and Project Management/Business Analysis teams. Additionally, Denise is a key contributor to defining and supporting company direction and decisions working with the Executive team, HR, Recruiting, Finance, and technical teams to ensure programs are established and implemented successfully.

Before her tenure at MS3, Denise worked approximately 25 years in the IT Software development and the Managed Services industries, working up the ranks from developer to Business Analyst to Manager of PMO organizations in organizations including AT&T, IBM, and HP. Her vast experience in the IT industry serves MS3 in its growth and development, and it helps her to understand clients and their needs.

Education: B.A. degree in Decision Sciences / Computers from Rider University.

Mark Norton is a Senior Contributing Engineer focused on providing business integration solutions using Mulesoft (Certified Developer), AWS (Certified Business Provider), and other technologies. As one of the first team leaders, he has helped MS 3 grow and guide the members of his team on their career path and client work. As a proposal manager, Mark has led and supported several significant proposal efforts at federal and state levels, in addition to commercial opportunities. Before joining MS 3 in 2015, Mark managed his independent consulting firm that developed integration solutions for the Higher Education sector.

Education: Master’s in computer science from Boston University.

Matthew Murgia is a Team Lead and software engineer at MS3. He currently manages the MS3 internal boot camp where we guide junior developers through a custom training program that includes Java, Spring Boot, API Specifications, MuleSoft, Jenkins, and Docker. This role allows him to leave his comfort zone to learn new technologies and help others. He is also a consultant currently working with Mulesoft products and Okta IDP.

Previous positions have given him experience working with the Javascript stack and enjoyed experimenting with Node, Typescript, and Angular to build games.

Education: Bachelor of Science, James Madison UniversityOther interests/hobbies include spending time with his beautiful family, sports, history, sustainable energy, and skiing.

Certifications: MuleSoft Certified Developer

As a Team Lead at MS3, Rene Lucena is in charge of project execution, handling everything from the planning phase to production release and post-release support. Additionally, he ensures that other developers continue to improve and learn skills essential to sustaining the high level of competence needed for consultants.

Throughout his 14+ year long career, he has interacted with over twelve different companies, in various industries, which have helped him to observe and implement best practices and pitfalls for software solution implementation. He has experience in IT positions, including those in API design and Implementation, Integrations, Project Management, DevOps, Web Development, Quality Assurance, Research, Hardware Design and Troubleshooting, Analysis.

Education: Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Oklahoma

Susan Kelly is the Talent Acquisition Lead for MS3, and is responsible for planning, developing, and implementing practical and creative recruitment strategies. She is focused on a full life cycle recruiting processes: discovering top technology talent, building a strong employment brand, and ensuring great relationships with both candidates and employees.

Before joining MS3 in August of 2019, Susan was General Manager for a recruiting firm in New Jersey, overseeing recruiting, marketing and branding initiatives. Before her career in recruitment, Susan spent many years in Financial Services and Investment Management, enjoying various marketing, strategy, and business development leadership roles with Fortune 100 firms such as Prudential Financial and Cigna.

Education: Bachelor of Science, Economics, Rutgers University

As a Senior DevOps Engineer for MS3, Ryan Wilkinson, primarily works to speed up the application deployment process for developers by providing a persistent stable environment for consistent results. This responsibility means working towards streamlined development operations and automation delivery pipelines while maintaining immutable infrastructure.

With over 20 years of experience, consultant and tech evangelist, Ryan delivers DevOps as a software development strategy, bridging the gap between the developers and the IT infrastructure staff.

As a Solutions Architect at MS3, Jose Montoya is in charge of delivering tailor-made software to our clients. Throughout his 5 year career with MS3 he has worked for multiple companies of every size and of various industries, always delivering business value by working alongside stakeholders at different organizational levels.

In his time off Jose likes working on community-driven open-sourced projects, staying up to date with the latest software engineering practices, watching sports, playing videogames, or tending to his garden in South Texas.

Eric Nelson is a Sr Software Engineer leading development and delivery of MS3's Data Science services and proprietary IoT product.? He is also a certified Salesforce.com developer.

Eric began his career in nanotechnology, designing novel thin film deposition processes for the LED industry.? He then started his own firm implementing Salesforce.com sales cloud, serving over a dozen firms on 30+ projects over 3 years.? At MS3, Eric is developing a replicable methodology for quickly returning value on early-stage investments in frontier technologies like IoT and Machine Learning.

Education: BS Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota,
(In Progress) MS Computer Science (Machine Learning), Georgia Tech
Certifications: Salesforce Certified Administrator, Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I

As Human Resources, Vanessa Pratt is responsible for handling the day-to-day operations behind the workforce at MS3.? This includes efficiently processing new hires and departures, offering support, facilitating immigration processes and managing employee benefits.? Additionally, she holds compliance roles including the recording of employee training, tracking valuable information regarding our workforce and maintaining confidential records.

Vanessa is an experienced professional that was working in the real estate industry prior to coming to MS3.? She has held different roles over the last decade including Director of Operations and Mortgage Loan Processing Supervisor.? Holding a degree in Human Resources Management brought her to MS3 to focus on her passion for Human Resources Management.

Bachelor of Science in Human Resources Management, Magna Cum Laude Graduate of Shepherd University

A key part of Mohammad's role at MS3 is to promote the business benefits of DevOps. His day to day consists of creating robust automated CI/CD systems for internal and client work, new application deployments to kubernetes, and existing application runtime migration strategies and system design. He also focuses on educating other team members about the benefits of infrastructure as code and git ops methodologies.

Mohammad's career started 5 years ago as an IT Administrator for a small e-commerce company. This allowed him to learn more about different systems and applications. He then moved into a support role at a data center which helped him become a better system Administrator and understand Linux at a higher level. He moved into DevOps where he has invested a lot of time into cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Education: BEng Biomedical Engineering from the University of Leeds

Certifications: Working on Certified Kubernetes Administrator