Our Team

Michael McLaughlin
Managing Director,
Power Generation

Michael McLaughlin is a 22-year veteran of a Fortune 100 energy products and services supplier, where he gained a reputation as a solid finance professional. His skill sets cover a range of financial focus areas including strategic planning and communication, financial analysis and program management, governmental regulation compliance, and financial information systems.

Prior to working in the power industry as a finance professional, he spent several years working in environmental compliance at Dynamac Corporation. Mr. McLaughlin earned his BS in Chemistry from Penn State, and an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the University of Baltimore. He also earned certifications in Financial Management and Executive Leadership from Cornell University.

David (Dave) McIntosh
Organizational Development Consultant

For more than 35 years, Dave has provided personal leadership and assisted executives and managers at all levels in achieving excellence in organizational results.

Dave's experience includes 30 years in human capital and organization development consulting. Interspersed with his consulting, Dave also has more than 20 years experience as a line manager with responsibility for up to 1200 employees. Dave brings a perspective developed in a wide variety of organizations including energy, healthcare, government, medical research, financial services, logistics, education, and the military.

He completed a 26-year career in the U.S. Army, directed the organization development function for a regional utility, managed the development and delivery of leadership programs for a Fortune 125 company, managed sales and technical training at a financial institution, delivered diversity and performance management training at various organizations, and is the founder of Jovid Consulting Services. Dave earned his M.A. in Human Resource Development from Webster University and a B.S. in Psychology from State University of New York.

Skip Carr
PMP,
ERP Consultant

Skip Carr leads efforts within DuraBante to design, develop, document and deliver repeatable processes and tools used to assist DuraBante's clients achieve their business and project goals. Mr. Carr is a senior business consultant, experienced systems integrator and has deep project management skills within numerous industries.

Mr. Carr has 20 years of experience in the design, build, implementation and support of systems ranging from large international ERP implementations at Fortune 100 companies to productivity tool rollouts in small office scenarios. His background in electronics, telecommunications, systems integration and business process redesign has given him a broad foundation of experience from which to draw when serving DuraBante clients. Mr. Carr holds a BS from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and MS and MBA from Johns Hopkins University.

Raymond R. Patterson
Strategic Planning and
Team Building Consultant

Ray is a seasoned management consultant, business advisor, and entrepreneurial catalyst for companies, organizations, communities and individuals who want to thrive during today's rapidly changing, customer-driven marketplace. Areas of expertise include strategic thinking, planning, team building, training and the facilitation of organizational agility which is "the ability to thrive in an environment of continuous unanticipated change."

His core areas of expertise and proficiency include:
Facilitating group processes to discover, clarify and document an organizations’ strategic vision; Facilitating business process engineering teams to dramatically improve business operations; Developing and delivering customized leadership and management training. Ray is the co-author of DRMS IS/IT, a client specific textbook and training course devoted to Information Systems and Information Technology in the reengineering of reutilization and redistribution for the Department of Defense.

Ray's work experience started with five years active military experience in Logistics Management and Computer Science followed by thirteen years of civilian service with the US Army in Logistics Management at the Watervliet Arsenal where he was responsible for all logistics at the Nations Cannon Production Facility. Ray served on a Joint Services team to evaluate and promote logistics initiatives to improve logistics throughout the Department of Defense (DoD). Following his civilian service to the DoD, Ray joined the Agility Forum, located at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA where he led the Small and Medium Enterprise initiatives for the Agility Forum as well as being the coordinator for Federal Funded Agility Projects for the Forum. Ray decided to devote full time to his consulting practice starting in 1996.

Ray's undergraduate degree is from Eastern Kentucky University and he holds a Masters in Business Administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

Stephany Head, PhD
Risk Analysis and Performance Management Consultant

Using a collaborative approach that integrates the latest in risk analysis and performance management, Stephany works with leaders to evaluate investments, resource commitments, organizational focus and their alignment with organizational goals.

Stephany has worked with international and government organizations implementing risk management (RM) programs and performance management systems. She has developed innovative approaches to governance specifically designed to manage high-risk corporate initiatives and maximize value by balancing strategic objectives within a predefined risk framework. She has supported global companies in the areas of: strategic sourcing, supply chain management, outsourcing, and global business continuity management solutions.

Stephany has received national awards for combining her business acumen and informational technology expertise, developing and managing key programs that resulted in exceptional organizational value. Her record of accomplishments include multimillion dollar cost reductions, profit improvements, global product launches, design and delivery of leadership/educational programs, and revenue increases through organic and inorganic corporate growth.

Stephany holds an MBA from the Mason School of Business,College of William & Mary, and earned her Ph.D. in strategic management from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.

Gina London
Senior Consultant

Gina London is an Emmy Award winning veteran CNN correspondent and anchor with more than a decade of television, radio, internet and print experience, who has conducted high-level executive communications training programs around the world.

Her international consulting experience, in part, have placed her before members of parliament in Macedonia and Tunisia; women's rights leaders in the Persian Gulf; Iraqi elected officials and candidates; Egyptian business professionals and political party members; independent broadcast journalists in Romania; and grassroots health advocates in Cambodia.

In the United States, Gina has provided communications, media or campaign strategies for a wide-range of influential clients including financial institutions like Wachovia/Wells Fargo; world-wide engineering firms like Parsons Brinckerhoff; and Fortune 500 giants like WalMart. Gina also played an integral role in the passage of the nation's largest expansion of mass transit, the $6.2 billion Denver area program known as FasTracks

Jay West
Program Manager

Jay has 25 years of industry experience in engineering, maintenance consulting, systems implementation and training. He holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the University of Alabama. His combination of business, technical and systems expertise along with his hands-on skills as a trainer and change agent make him uniquely qualified to help companies achieve alignment and synergy between people, processes and systems – the key to realizing sustainable business benefit from an integrated maintenance solution.

In the past 15 years Mr. West has been a solution architect, consultant and trainer for 4 different maintenance solutions: IBM's Maximo, Revere's IMMPower, Ivara's EXP, and Oracle's eAM. He has a deep understanding of best practices and supporting data/systems for asset configuration control, preventive maintenance, asset reliability management in an industrial setting. His experience with IT infrastructure includes managing a technical team at Stonebridge Technologies that designed, built and managed large network operations centers, co-location facilities and data centers.

Mr. West is a recognized expert on Oracle eAM and other Oracle E-business Suite modules as they relate to Asset Management (Inventory, Procurement and Costing). While at Oracle he was the Global Solution Architect for the Oracle eAM product. In that role he traveled the world to train/explain/demonstrate how Oracle eAM and related modules support maintenance and materials management best practices and deliver business benefits. Since leaving Oracle he has spent the last 3 years helping companies model their infrastructure and equipment in Oracle eAM and set up proper maintenance and reliability protocols to maximize their uptime.