HHG consultants are a group of very senior consultants and engineers. We work as part of our clients' teams to complete the analyses, justifications, designs, integrations and transitions needed for successful large-scale implementation.
Unlike many competitors, we add just enough of the right people to help our clients' people get the job done. When necessary, HHG supplements our project teams with third-party experts to add specialist skills.
Scroll down for a summary of our current consultants' experience–more detailed biographies are available on request.
Phil Schaadt – CTO & Chief Consultant – Lead Solution Architect
Phil founded HHG in 2003 to leverage 30 years' experience applying IT to deliver tangible business benefits to large and small enterprises. He deploys HHG consultants at client projects. He develops business/financial justifications and funding proposals, builds enterprise and deployment architectures as well as initial implementations at large complex clients.
For the last few years, his personal focus has been on leveraging API Economy, Private/Public Cloud, existing enterprise SOA run-times, emerging FinTech, and third party SaaS offerings, to deliver new business value via comprehensive process integration to organizations, especially in Financial Services, Healthcare, Automotive and Aerospace industries.
Most recently, he has been assisting clients and leveraging the value of their existing SOA infrastructure through API Management combined with Private/Public Cloud deployments.
He has been the overall solution architect for most of HHG's recent engagements.
Selected Recent HHG Engagements
- Overall solution architect for most recent API Economy engagements involving IBM Software Group products at the very largest firms across Aerospace, Automotive, Financial Services and Healthcare.
- Practice and engagement lead for all HHG Information Security, API Economy and Financial Business Process projects.
Prior Professional Experience
- Acting Chief Architect/CTO for HedgeStreet, the first retail-oriented, completely electronic financial exchange and clearing organization. Managed regulatory approval by the CFTC.
- CTO and acting CIO at myCFO, a start-up providing wealth management for high-profile Silicon Valley billionaires.
- Set technology strategy, redefined and re-implemented all financial and internal support applications with associated business processes.
- General Manager of Strategy, Architecture, Standards and Technology Consulting at Bank of America.
- Responsible for 150+ engineers consulting to business units on technology application, enterprise architecture, technical oversight and vetting of total lifecycle financial cost for all major projects.
- Managed advanced technology strategy and monitoring, vendor evaluation and integration lab, vendor product standards and technology consulting groups; provided due diligence for technology investments, including fourth-level support for security, database and transaction-processing technologies.
- Vice President for Consulting Services & Technology Research in the commercial unit of TRW Systems Integration Group.
- Managed business process and advanced technology consultants for clients including: American Express, Bangkok Bank, Bank of America, Bell Atlantic, Citibank, DHL, Federal Express, Fidelity Investments, ING Group, Hong Kong Bank, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, and New York Life.
- Senior Consultant, ROI Consulting, Berkeley-based startup (within the Teknekron Group, sold to TRW), one of the first firms to apply corporate financial analysis and aerospace systems-engineering management to advanced technology projects.
- Executed two dozen technology strategy, feasibility, due diligence and design assignments for many of the same clients as at TRW.
- Developed a proprietary set of tools and methods for the successful application of technology to business process.
- Vice President, American National Bank of Chicago, (acquired by First Chicago), managing projects that automated the Bank's heretofore manual processes, including Corporate Cash Management, Trust/Wealth Management, Trade Finance and Foreign Exchange and payment/check processing.
- Manager of IT Infrastructure Services (data center operations, network and systems support), Manager of Internal Consulting/Project Management, and International Operations.
- Technical User Group Chairman for the original SWIFT go-live, working with the US banks to implement the required security technologies.
- BS and graduate studies in Physics, University of Illinois; MBA in International Finance from Northwestern University GSM (now Kellogg).
- CISSP and ITIL certified.
Ellen M Martin – Managing Director, Life Sciences
Ellen has been a director and officer of HHG since 2003, managing marketing, corporate communications and administration, while continuing her more than 25-year career in life science communications consulting. She has accumulated more than 30 years of domain knowledge in the sciences, technology, marketing, finance, investor and public relations; has directed corporate communications for two public biotech companies and consulted to more than 50 emerging life science companies.
She has worked directly with dozens of senior managers to help them articulate their companies' strategic market positioning and create appropriate tactical communications, including financial presentations, roadshows and collateral, as well as Web content, news releases, articles and white papers. She has written, edited and coordinated production and printing of some 20 annual reports and 10-Ks.
Her experience in research, writing and editing for science and technology includes the following areas: Bio/pharmaceuticals and biomanufacturing, bioinformatics, genomics and analysis tools, digital health, information technology, microbiomics, medical devices, aesthetic medicine and dermatology, autoimmune diseases, agricultural and industrial biotech, pharmacology and optics.
She writes on a wide variety of science and IT topics, including co-authoring white papers, presentations and blog posts with DrBonnie360 on autoimmune disease, digital health and big data in healthcare.
As well as her more than 20 years working with Bonnie, she provides marketing communications with Nadine D. Tosk Communications, and, from 1991-2017, strategic communications and PR consulting services with Kureczka|Martin Associates and its predecessor, J. Kureczka Associates.
From 1995-2000, she led corporate communications at XOMA (one of the original antibody biopharmaceuticals developers and one of the earliest biopharma companies to publish a Web site), also a pioneer in Internet investor relations.
Previous positions included director of communications for DNA Plant Technology (DNAP), one of the first (and last) publicly traded agbiotech companies, also for the Bay Area Bioscience Center (forerunner to BayBio), as well as communications consulting for many life science and high-tech clients since 1991.
An earlier ten-year career in banking gave her a depth of understanding of financial concepts and markets (including complex tax-exempt bond transactions) that has been valuable in investor and financial media relations.
MBA in marketing and finance from Northwestern University's Graduate School of Management (now Kellogg). BS in physical anthropology from the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), with graduate work in archeology, population genetics, and osteology.
Deborah Zippel – Lead WebSphere Analyst and Business Process Consultant
Deb specializes in Business Process modeling, State and Rules elaboration, SOA Governance and Technical process design and documentation, as well as training technical staff in support processes such as Governance. Her 10+ years in consulting to non-profits and public health organizations in database design, development and implementation as well as in data analysis and presentation has honed her skills in working with non-technical people as well as technologists.
Recent HHG Engagements
- Developed the WSRR Step-by-Step user manuals and training materials for multiple HHG clients in healthcare and financial services.
- Produced on-line videos for use as client introduction to new applications, and for training clients in HHG customizations of IBM products.
- Created for multiple clients, as-is and to-be process models in WebSphere Business Process Modeler Advanced, suitable for import into WebSphere Integration Developer.
- Constructed custom databases as prototypes of applications with business role elaborations to be developed with WebSphere Integration Developer.
Prior Professional Experience
- 13+ years experience consulting to non-profits and public health organizations in database design, development, implementation, data analysis and presentations for clients including:
- Area Agency on Aging for Napa/Solano Counties
- Berkeley Systems
- California Department of Public Health
- Family and Children's Trust of Contra Costa County
- First 5 Marin
- NexStep Telecommunications, Inc.
- Population Leadership Program
- Public Health Institute
- Youth Alive!
- Developed and installed computerized media tracking system for a media buying company
- Installed and trained users on computerized accounting/inventory management system for publishing company
Professional Certifications
- WebSphere Business Process Modeler Advanced
- WebSphere Portal Technical Sales
- IBM Maximo Asset Management Technical Sales
- InfoSphere Warehouse C-Class Technical Sales
- IBM Information Management Information Server Technical Sales
- IBM Certified Solution Designer – IBM Rational Unified Process V7.0
Education
- MA Telecommunications, University of Oregon
- BA Humanities, University of South Florida