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RPM is a consulting company founded by corporate planners and MIS
specialists to help companies and organizations to develop and implement
information solutions that are designed to meet t goals. RPM has
developed numerous studies for its clients in the areas of community
needs forecasting, financial and profitability analysis, customer
database management and applications, integrated information and GIS
systems for strategic marketing, trade area and site analysis and
marketing research. RPM studies are supported with a wide range of
custom mapping and graphics capabilities.
RPM also develops user-friendly, user-driven software
systems for some of the largest companies in the U.S., who rely upon and
trust RPM to help them manage their Most Valuable Asset --
their customers and their patients. RPM consulting clients
include the University Of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Bank
Of America, the Los Angeles Times, the City Of Hope, UniHealth, the John Harland Company,
and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Senior RPM staff members are Elio Spinello and
Steve Lackow.
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Staff Members
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Elio Spinello, Ed.D., Partner
Elio has held senior financial analysis and MIS positions with
First Interstate Bank of California, Great Western Bank and Bell
& Howell Company. He has developed a number of spatial
analysis-based analytical tools and custom studies to support
business and marketing planning and profitability measurement
applications. A past Chapter President of the Institute Of Management
Accountants, Elio also serves as Lecturer, Health Science at the
California State University, Northridge, where he teaches Data
Processing and Computer Modeling techniques for Health Science
applications. He is a frequent speaker at a number of conferences and
symposiums.
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Steve Lackow.,
Partner
Steve has held positions as Vice President, Retail Strategic
Planning for Great Western Bank and Assistant Vice President,
Consumer Research & New Product Development for First Interstate
Bancorp. He has helped a number of RPM clients to improve
profitability through the integration of high-tech information
resources and high-touch human resources in a strategic framework.
Steve is also a qualitative consumer research expert with over 10 years focus group experience in the financial
services, health care, automotive, computer and packaged goods
industries. He has been a featured speaker at American Marketing
Association, Financial Institutions Marketing Association, Payment
Systems, Inc., California Credit Union League and other conferences.
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Jim Keating, System
Developer
Jim develops and implements custom software designed by RPM.
An experienced software developer with an extensive background in the
financial services and manufacturing industries, he has developed
systems to support personal and small business banking, market
potential analysis and MCIF marketing customer database add-on
products. Jim has also developed mission-critical systems for National
Child Help, and has worked with RPM in developing the mapping module
for the Harland Financial Services Touche’
Analyzer system.
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Ron
Fischbach, Ph.D., Consultant
Ron is an Associate Professor of Health Science and
Director of Health Education at California State University,
Northridge. He also serves as the director of SITE, a community based
home education program for the families of handicapped children. Dr. Fischbach consults on health care-related studies
for RPM.
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Jim “Woody” Woods, M.S.,
Consultant
Jim holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in geography
and has worked for the Environmental Programs Division of the
Department of Public Works on their Urban Storm Water Run-off
program. He has also worked for the California Governor's
Office of Emergency Services (OES), where he worked amidst the
results of natural disasters everyday and is a faculty member and lab
manager for the Geography Department at California State University,
Long Beach.
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Kurt Gunther,
System Developer
Kurt provides systems development expertise in the application of GIS
technology in enterprise level environments. Kurt
is the CEO of Mapgistics Corp. and has
designed GIS solutions for organizations including City of Hope, Pacificare, and others. Kurt
has also implemented much of the mapping module designed by RPM for
the Harland Fiancial Services Touche’ Analyzer system, in use by over 900 banks.
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