Jeff has over 20 years experience in healthcare, telecom, Banking and Ecommerce.  He  has been managing CSI for 12 years and consulting for 15. This has provided him with the skills to manage and deliver cost effective solutions. Jeff enjoys the challenge of assisting both small companies as well as large Fortune 100 companies. Some of the companies that Jeff has worked with are Siemens, Warner Music, Cybercash, IBM and EDS.  

Jeff graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.S. in Computer Science.  He also has a AMIA-OHSU (Oregon Health Sciences Universitiy) 10x10 Certificate in Bio-Medical Informatics. 

As a consultant,  Jeff held the position of  Technical Architect for Warner Music Group responsible for the requirements and design of a multi-terabyte information portal.  He served as CTO of a healthcare payment portal startup company. He's held executive positions in several companies that required his "out of the box"  thinking, innovation and leadership.  Jeff has been acknowledged as a visionary and has recognized the industry paradigm shifts allowing the resultants to meet the challenges head on.    CSI was one of the initial leaders in providing consulting services in wireless technology, Java OOD, and Internet ecommerce.  He also instructed Database Design at Oregon State University.  

Jeff likes to spend his free time mountain biking and sailing.  He is also very passionate about Wine. 

Benne M. Brandt - Vice-President

Benne has a 25 year track record in healthcare IT, technology, program management and project management.

Benne  played a integral role in the EHR vendor selection at an 80 physician multi-specialty clinic.  She has held director level management roles in healthcare IT and has provided EHR project implementation and program manager services.   Benne was instrumental in the execution of BMC’s EHR program which took BMC from hiring an implementation team, selecting a datacenter for application hosting,  to successfully executing a “paper-less” go-live on Allscripts Touchworks EHR.

She worked with Volunteers In Medicine in bringing a viable EHR program to fruition for the uninsured and under served population.  

Benne is a founder of Communication Software, Inc and currently serves as VP .   She is also a principal of the CSIs consulting team providing the knowledge to leverage Medical Informatics technologies, cost-manage medical information and systems to ensure ROI. 

 Previously, she provided software and technical consulting services for Forture500 companies including Siemens, Warner Music, and EDS as well as numerous startups.   Benne attributes her successful consulting career to her strong liaison capabilities of bringing technical teams, domain experts and the management teams together to enhance the power of communications and technology. 

 Benne has completed the graduate program in Bioinformatics at Oregon Health Sciences University and earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma .

 Dr. Mohamad Arif Ali, MD CPHIMS,  Chief Medical Officer, is a practicing Internist with a background in Medical Informatics. He is a member of the HIT Task Force for the Pennsylvania Medical Society. He has been a member of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and is currently on the Board of Directors for Western Pennsylvania HIMSS, Chair of the WPHIMSS communications committee.

Advisors

Brian Ahier - Brian is a Health IT Evangelist for Information Systems at Mid-Columbia Medical Center. He serves on the Board of Mid-Columbia Council of Government and Q-Life.  He is Chair of the  Health Information Technology and Oversight Counsel (HITOC) Technology Workgroup for the State of Oregon, a Blogger at O'Reilly Media, and President of Gorge Health Connect, Inc.  In his spare time he serves as a City Councilor in The Dalles, Oregon.

Pamela Kieffer - Pamela has over 25 years of clinical experience.  See has heald the position of COO in an 80 provider, 17 specilty health facility and currently holds the position of Administrative Director of Operations at Catholic Healthcare West.  Pamela also has extensive experience in HIE and health product development.

Sean Scorvo, MD - Sean is a emergency medicine board certification physisian with over 10 years practice experience. Sean has extensive product development and experience with  intellectual property.  He is currently CEO of MiddleGate ER fraud detection.