PROGRAM OPERATIONS

Gay Lamey, O.T., P.M.P.
Director, Project Management Office (PMO)
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As Direcctor of the Project Management Office, Gay Lamey is responsible for supervising all Project Managers and ensuring that research projects are completed on schedule, on scope, and within budget. Lamey joined Edvance Research from Harcourt Assessment, where she held a number of positions over 10 years, including research director and senior project manager. At Harcourt, Lamey specialized in the company’s speech-language and occupational therapy assessments and was responsible for developing business plans, acquiring new products, managing projects, and managing research for norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests.

She earned a number of company awards, including two awards for her contributions to company patents.

Prior to joining Harcourt, Lamey was an occupational therapist at HealthSouth in San Antonio, and led the occupational therapist team for hand rehabilitation at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas.

Lamey is a licensed occupational therapist, as well as a certified project management professional (PMP). She is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), and past member of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) and the Texas Occupational Therapy Association, as the American Society for Hand Therapists. Lamey served on the advisory board for the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and is treasurer of the Alamo Flyers, a national and international champion sports acrobatics team.

Lamey holds a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy from the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSC-SA), where she served as president of the Student Occupational Therapy Association and was a representative on the UTHSC-SA Student Council.

My Viewpoint

"Project success for me comes down to up-front planning, clear communication and teamwork. Without these components, project execution suffers."

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Dan Hunt, M.B.A., P.M.P.
Senior Project Manager   more

As a Certified Project Manager Professional (PMP), Dan Hunt’s role as Senior Project Manager is to perform project control functions to ensure development of research projects to specifications within budget and schedule. He assesses project risks and develops mitigation plans, as well as facilitating project team communication and briefing senior management on project status.

Hunt brings extensive project management experience to Edvance Research, most recently integrating the efforts of physicians, skilled nursing facilities and the insurer in the rollout of a Medicare Advantage health plan. Previously he led a multidisciplinary project team consisting of architect, civil engineer, audiovisual/lighting, voice, data, cabling, fire, and security contractors in the design process of a new facility construction project. Prior to this initiative, Hunt served as a project manager at Harcourt Assessment, managing all phases of the development and production of psychological, speech and language assessments. In addition, Hunt oversaw planning, development, production, administration, auditing, and scoring of custom achievement tests and led multidisciplinary teams in determining development and production schedules to facilitate test administrations within established timelines.

Hunt also brings a broad range of management experience from his service as an Air Force Medical Service Corps officer. He held management positions in Finance, Logistics and Personnel, as well as a Command position, in various Air Force healthcare facilities.

Numerous awards have been bestowed upon Hunt including Air Combat Command Resource Management Director of the Year for 1995; 355th Medical Group Company Grade Officer of the Year for 1993 and 1995; Awarded Letters of Excellence for Academics and Briefing programs, Squadron Officers School, 1994; and USAF Clinic Junior Officer of the Year, McChord AFB, WA, 1988.

Hunt earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Anderson College in Anderson, Indiana and a Master’s of Arts in Health Science and Master’s of Business in Administration from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.

My Viewpoint

"Project management integrates the knowledge and efforts of our highly professional teams to produce the rigorous research needed to assist our schools at the right time and at the right price." ""

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Brian Brothers, M.B.A., P.M.P.
Senior Project Manager   more

As Senior Project Manager, Brian Brothers is responsible for ensuring client satisfaction and the successful delivery of programs. Brothers comes to Edvance Research from Pearson, where he held a number of leadership positions over 8 years, including Program Manager and Program Director. At Pearson, Brothers was responsible for leading several of the company’s largest state assessment programs, where he managed cross-functional teams and established positive working relationships with clients, internal staff, subcontractors and vendors.

Brothers was directly involved in contract negotiations, preparing presentations and analysis, and identifying opportunities to increase revenue and profitability through scope changes. Prior to joining Pearson, Brothers was a Project Control Analyst at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where he supported several large federal contracts. Brothers holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master’s of Business Administration from Texas State University in San Marcos. Brothers is a certified project management professional (PMP). He is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and active member of the PMI Alamo Chapter in San Antonio.

My Viewpoint

"Education truly is the key to the future. It is rewarding to have impact on student achievement and ultimately the future as the work at Edvance helps to inform education professionals in their work."

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Mark Douglas, M.B.A.
Project Manager   more

As Project Manager, Mark Douglas is responsible for analyzing and managing business requirements and process improvement initiatives for the Statewide Tools for Teaching Excellence (STTE) project, funded by the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation.

Prior to joining Edvance Research, Douglas worked with the Texas Diversity Council as the Regional Director for San Antonio and Austin where he was responsible for increasing diversity awareness through corporate membership and events such as the Women in Leadership Symposium and the Annual Diversity & Leadership Conference.

Douglas has over 12 years of experience in the Financial Services industry where he was the Sr. Business Manager at USAA and the Direct Bank Fulfillment Manager at Citigroup.

Douglas is also an adjunct instructor at Our Lady of the Lake University where he teaches Information Systems & Technology and Computer Concepts.

Douglas earned his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1992 and his Master’s of Business Administration in Electronic Commerce Management from Our Lady of the Lake University-San Antonio in 2002. He is a Fellow in the African American Leadership Institute in San Antonio.

My Viewpoint

"Business processes lay the foundation for success in any industry. Helping educators utilize processes to ultimately increase student achievement is how I can contribute to advancing the outcomes of education."

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Stephanie Adams, P.M.P.
Project Manager   more

In her role as Project Manager at Edvance Research, Stephanie Adams is responsible for ensuring client satisfaction and the successful delivery of programs within budget and schedule. As a certified Project Manager, Adams assesses project risks and develops mitigation plans, as well as facilitates teamwork among the functional groups assigned to projects.

Adams brings over 15 years of experience in the education industry through her tenure at Pearson Assessment, where she served in various leadership roles including Senior Business Analyst and Director of Publishing Operations. In these roles, she was responsible for overseeing large department budgets, as well as managing multiple-phase project schedules. Adams was instrumental in incorporating metrics into the production process to identify measures for process improvement.

A recipient of numerous company awards while at Pearson, Adams consistently demonstrates innovation and teamwork. These skills are being applied to all aspects of Edvance project management to exceed client expectations.

Adams received her Bachelor’s of Arts in Biology from Texas A & M University.

My Viewpoint

"It brings great satisfaction to meet the challenges of projects through teamwork and innovation. Client trust and success are the most important aspect of each project, which ultimately leads to success in our children’s education."

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Karl Brennan, P.M.P.
Project Manager   more

As Project Manager, Karl Brennan is responsible for identifying and executing customer requirements and implementing strategic solutions to address customer expectations for the Statewide Tools for Teacher Excellence project, funded by the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation.

Brennan comes to Edvance Research from Pearson (formerly, Harcourt Assessment) where he enjoyed a successful record of managing complex, large-scale educational assessment programs with annual revenues of $15 million. He was responsible for leading state assessment programs where he managed cross-functional teams and established a positive team environment with customers, internal staff, and subcontractors. He was directly involved with contract negotiations, budget analysis, schedule development, scope identification and definition and identifying revenue and service opportunities on assessment programs.

Prior to joining Pearson, Brennan held Program Manager positions at Riverside Publishing and MCI/Worldcom, where he supported large-scale assessment programs.

Brennan holds a bachelor degree in management from Benedictine University and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

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Norma Reyna, M.A.A.
Project Analyst   more

As a project analyst, Norma Reyna assists the project manager by providing support services, including activity scheduling, report formulation and resource coordination. Reyna has a strong background in project coordination and has created and maintained project documentation, such as project schedules, project management plans and status reports, for high-profile research and evaluation studies for REL Southwest.

Prior to joining Edvance Research, Reyna was a reporting analyst at Harcourt Assessment, where she worked with relational database systems to create standard and ad-hoc executive-level reports regarding state and district assessment activities throughout the United States.

Reyna holds a bachelor’s degree in organizational development, business, and human resources and a Master's degree in Administration, with a concentration in organizational development, from the University of the Incarnate World in San Antonio.

My Viewpoint

"Using sound project management principles, along with the many tools available to us, enables us to deliver high-quality results to our customers."

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Denise Clyburn, PMP
Project Coordinator   more

As a Project Coordinator, Clyburn supports the Program Operations team by creating and maintaining project documentation, such as project schedules, management plans, budgets and status reports for Edvance Research clients.

Clyburn has vast experience in analysis and successfully coordinating projects simultaneously.

Prior to joining Edvance Research, Clyburn served in various positions at Harcourt Assessment including Senior Production Associate, Data Supply Chain Analyst and Permissions and Licensing Analyst. Each of these roles required excellent planning and analysis, as well as collaboration with functional teams across the organization. She is known for her collaborative relationships with internal and external teams.

Clyburn holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of Incarnate Word in San Antonio.She is a certified project management professional (PMP) and a member of Project Management Institute (PMI).

My Viewpoint

"Successful projects require the teamwork of multiple functions within a company. It is gratifying to be in a role that is integral to facilitating collaboration and ultimately providing clients with tools to deliver products on time and within budget."

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Debrale Graywolf
Business Operations Analyst   more

In the role of Business Operations Analyst, Debrale Graywolf provides an array of support across the company, including the creation and management of standard and custom reports, as well as business strategy research. She also provides desktop publishing support for the entire organization.

Graywolf was previously employed by Harcourt Assessment as Senior Proposal Design Coordinator. In this position, she compiled proposal documents employing attractive styles, charts, tables, and exhibits and created graphics to enhance the business message. In addition, Graywolf created and administered SharePoint websites for the management of proposal-related documents, tasks, meetings, and events and monitored site usage, security, and document version control.

Graywolf holds an Associate of Applied Science degree in Technical Illustration, as well as dual bachelor’s degrees in Marketing and Advertising, from Ferris State University in Michigan. In addition, she has undertaken graduate coursework in Mass Communications from Florida State University.

My Viewpoint

"It is exciting to be involved with a company focused on improving the educational experiences of our children. It is particularly exciting to be a member of a team whose focus is providing high-quality rigorous research, based on best business practices, to build a better educational system"

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Anna Baldwin
Project Coordinator   more

At Edvance Research Anna Baldwin serves on the Program Operations team in the role of Project Coordinator. Baldwin assists various project teams by monitoring and communicating the project status to insure all deliverables are met in a timely manner and within budget. She creates and maintains multiple project documents, including the project schedule, project management plan, and status reports. She also coordinates project activities such as planning and status meetings.

Prior to joining Edvance Research, Baldwin held several positions at JP Morgan Chase including Team Leader, Transition Trainer, and Production Support Analyst. She earned several awards for her high Quality ratings. Baldwin was also trained and served as a Subject Matter Expert on Six Sigma Projects.

Baldwin has completed coursework in Project Management through Villanova University and is currently working towards earning her PMI Certification. She has also earned a Technical degree as a Registered Medical Assistant.

My Viewpoint

"It is exciting to work on a team that takes pride and understands the importance of paying attention to the details of each of our research projects to ensure successful outcomes."

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