Rob Glazier
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Glazier has 26 years of experience in software services, engineering management, and applications development in the avionics/aerospace, communications, manufacturing and finance industries. His background includes management positions at General Atomics, Oak Industries and General Dynamics.
Since founding Donatech, he has served as program manager for over 20 software development and verification projects, including real-time embedded systems, Windows applications development, Client/Server database programs and integrated PC products.
Mr. Glazier holds M.S. in Engineering from U.C. Berkeley and a B.S. in Engineering Sciences from Purdue University.
Laurie Neil Sluser
General Manager
Mr. Sluser has been Donatech's General Manager for the past 11 years. His background includes over 20 years of business operations and marketing experience. He served as Executive Vice President of Corporate Education Resources, an HR software publisher. He co-founded JMB Marketing, a sales and marketing company with 12 offices and 125 sales reps. In addition, he was Executive Vice President of Vollmer & Associates, a prominent national educational consulting and services group.
Mr. Sluser graduated with a B.S. degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Shreyash Nayak
Vice President of Talent Acquisition
Mr. Nayak has been Lead Technical Recruiter for Donatech Corporation since 1997. Prior to his association with Donatech, he worked for a large oil corporation in India as a production executive, where he was responsible for modernization and computerization of a range of processes. His engineering background gives him the technical skills needed to understand complex client requirements, and to establish recruiting systems that ensure "best-fit" placements.
Mr. Nayak graduated from Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, Bombay, India, one of the top five engineering institutes in India, with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He also holds an MBA from MUM in Iowa.
Patrick Adam
Vice-President, Business Development
Mr. Adam has been in an account management role at Donatech since June of 1998. His responsibilities include account management of key engineering clients, sales management, participation in generating technical and project management proposals, and providing operations oversight of Donatech's Cedar Rapids, IA engineering facilities.
Mr. Adam graduated from the University of Iowa in 1991 with a Bachelor in Business Administration degree. He has 18 years of marketing and client development experience that primarily involves high-end services utilized by businesses.
Christopher J. Edwards
Director of Engineering
Since graduating from Iowa State University, Mr. Edwards has accumulated 15 years of experience in the software industry. He worked as an engineer of custom software, telecommunications software, and commercial software before moving into avionics software development and testing, where he has worked for the past 10 years. His roles have included Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Project Management. Mr. Edwards has worked on contracts for Rockwell Collins in both commercial and government avionics. Prior to his work with Donatech, he worked for MCI and several smaller companies, and three of his own businesses.
His approach to project management emphasizes streamlining of processes by using high quality tools, by hiring the right people, and by motivating them effectively. He is an expert at identifying and mitigating project risks. He has a track record of finding ways to remove or reduce the impact of adverse situations before they arise.
James T. Heires, PMP
Director of Program Management
Mr. Heires is a senior program manager with more than 20 years of experience in the aerospace and information technology industries. He is currently leading teams of Donatech systems and software engineers on military helicopter avionics testing and Validation & Verification projects.
Prior to joining Donatech, Mr. Heires worked as a direct employee for Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, IA where he designed, implemented and tested real-time embedded avionics software for commercial primary flight displays and flight management systems.
His other work experience includes implementing and staffing an IT project management office, providing quantitative benchmarking services to several Fortune 500 companies and helping companies achieve compliance with Capability Maturity Model (CMM), International Standards Organization (ISO), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Project Management Institute (PMI) standards. Mr. Heires is an accomplished program manager who has been responsible for projects ranging in scope from $25,000 to $1.2M. His exceptional oral and written communication skills are demonstrated in more than 25 published technical works.
Mr. Heires graduated from the University of Nebraska with a degree in electrical engineering and is a certified Program Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute (PMI).
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