Business Consulting that Increases your company's profitability through the practical application of technology
BTS CONSULTING GROUP - BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE
Three principals, Lee Byrom, Karen Treat and Woody Shands incorporated BTS Consulting Group. Our objective is to provide business and technical solutions to organizations that rely upon accurate data and information processes and systems in their day to day decision-making and long-term strategic planning efforts. We provide a full range of consulting services that include business and situational analysis, project management, solution definition and design, system design and programming, system maintenance, database modeling and design, system integration, process documentation and training.
Together, our principals have years of experience in business analysis and software systems development. Our team has managed and developed highly technical multi-million dollar projects on budget and within the prescribed schedules. We have a proven track record of delivering quality projects with short time frames and satisfying our customers. We bring practical knowledge and experience to the table. We believe this alone sets us apart from our competitors.
Lee Byrom - VP-SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
Lee is a software designer and developer with over 25 years of experience providing software solutions. Lee's software development tool experience includes: Basic, C, COBOL, FORTRAN, FOCUS, NOMAD, 8086 Assembler, SAS, REXX, MS Access, MS SQL Server, and ORACLE. In addition Lee has an extensive Mathematics background. He has a M.S. in Mathematics from San Diego State University (GPA 4.0), where he was a lecturer of Mathematics for 3 years. He is also a member of Phi Kappa Phi National Scientific Honor Society.
Lee has developed systems in many business disciplines: Budgets, Financial Performance and Results, Payroll, Product Tracking, and Time Reporting. For Pacific Bell, Lee designed and developed the following systems:
• ETDP - Enhanced Time Distribution Process (Technicians)
• ESTRS - Enhanced Sales Time Reporting System (Direct Sales)
• Employee Marketing Plan
• SKILLS a system to track technical experience levels for employees in IT.
Karen Treat - PRESIDENT-BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Karen has over 25 years of experience directing the design, development, implementation and maintenance of computer systems in the accounting, costing and finance facets of business. She has a successful record of leading project teams from conceptual idea to accounting grade production systems, involving all phases of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). She is a re-engineering specialist in the areas of time reporting and cost accounting and has used state-of-art software and statistical sampling techniques in her system solutions that are recognized as leading edge in the payroll and time reporting process bench marking efforts throughout the United States. For Pacific Bell, Karen led the development and implementation of the following systems which used statistical sampling techniques: Enhanced Time Distribution Process (ETDP) (Technicians), Enhanced Sales Time Reporting System (ESTRS) (Direct Sales), Service Representative, Customer Service Bureau and Marketing Employee Studies.
For Pacific Bell, Karen led the development and implementation of the Corporate Accounting Safeguards System (CASS) to meet the regulatory requirements of FCC Order 86-111 - Nonregulated Accounting. She has extensive experience working with regulatory and legal experts. She successfully represented Pacific Bell's nonregulated accounting and the sampling processes to the FCC, CPUC and Big Four audit firms.
Karen has a Bachelor in Business Administration from Loyola University in Los Angeles and a Masters in Business Administration from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
Woody Shands - VP-EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Woody is a software designer and developer with over 25 years of experience providing software solutions to businesses. Woody has developed systems in FORTRAN, COBOL, "C", BASIC, FOCUS, dBASE, Microsoft ACCESS, and MS SQL Server. He also has extensive experience in application of statistics to business problems. For 14 years he was charged with enhancing Pacific Bell's forecasting methods by increasing the use of Computer Software Systems, Statistical Analysis, and Econometric Modeling.
Woody developed, designed and maintained the following Pacific Bell and SBC Telecom systems:
• FIS - Forecast Information System. A Statistical Analysis and Actuals Tracking System that includes Linear Regression, Seasonal Analysis, and Time Series graphs and charts.
• RMSF - Residence Marketing Schedule Forecasting. A workload forecasting system that project customer call volumes based on a statistical analysis of call volume history.
• PERS/ATDS - Performance Evaluation and Rating System/Automated Time Distribution System
• ETDP, ESTRS, Service Representative, Customer Service Bureau Time and Cost Studies
• TotalView Interface (TVI), Automated Payroll Interface (API)
