infotex
In 1978, Chuck Bucheri, Greg McCarty, and Ron Metz created Bucheri McCarty & Metz LLP, an accounting firm serving businesses and individuals. In the late 1980's, the accounting firm created a "technology division" to respond to the needs of their clients. They offered assistance in setting up and supporting various accounting software packages. By 1995, Bucheri McCarty & Metz LLP had used Quickbooks and MAS90 as the two accounting systems of choice.
Then Dan Hadaway met Chuck Bucheri. They both agreed that small businesses must focus on the USE of information rather than the technology used to process information. Hadaway was then hired as IT Manager for the accounting firm. Shortly thereafter, Hadaway and Bucheri McCarty & Metz LLP formed a business plan to spin the technology division of the firm off into its own company to help small businesses design ways to improve the value of information.
In 2000, infotex began engaging with clients of the accounting firm to apply a design process in the creation of Information Technology Plans. Hadaway enlisted the support of several outside consultants, creating a team of associates to assist his clients in the strategy process. The consulting process and core competency we call Information Architecture was successfully deployed for many clients ranging from manufacturers to healthcare to insurance providers.
Our clients were needing assistance with designing, implementing, and maintaining their computer network, leading infotex to hire Julie Tracy to head the Networking Best Practices core competency. Julie consults with our clients and works towards helping them achieve a comfortable level of independence, depending on their individual situation.
Having improved the value of client information, a critical issue became protecting that value. infotex contracted with Paradigm Shift Securities, headed by Matthew Jonkman, to handle issues relating to the protection and security of information, including assessment, design, and implementation issues.
By the end of 2002, all business plan objectives had been met. Still, infotex realized that they were on the front end of a storm of demand... information security would be in high demand due to regulations such as HIPAA, GLBA, and CIPA, not to mention plain common sense. Responding to this new market condition, infotex purchased Paradigm Shift Security, giving way to our Information Security Core Competency.
infotex now has offices in Indianapolis, Lafayette, Kokomo, and Wabash. We serve clients with our three core competencies throughout Indiana, and our Information Security Consulting services are provided to clients worldwide.
Our team has grown substantially in the last three years - from two people in 2000 to the diverse and growing team found at team.infotex.com. And, we still provide MAS90 and Quickbooks consulting services!
Matthew Jonkman, CISSP, Senior Security Consultant
Matthew Jonkman came to us as part of our acquisition of Paradigm Shift Security in January 2003. Prior to then, he was an associate Security Engineer, so we've actually been working with Matt since late 2000.
Matt has been involved in Information Technology since the late-1980s. He has a strong background in banking and network security, network engineering, incident response, and Intrusion Detection. Matt is founder of Bleeding Snort (www.bleedingsnort.com), an open-source research community for Intrusion Detection Signatures and much more. Matt spent 5 years serving abroad in the Army as an Air Traffic Control Radar and Communications Systems Engineer before attending Indiana State University and the Rose-Hulman Institute. After several years as a general consultant he became Lead Technician for Sprint’s Internal and Managed Security division, overseeing the implementation of all Sprint Internal and Managed Security Devices. Matt then moved to the financial sector as Senior Security Engineer for a major midwestern bank and financial services corporation. Matt is helping our firm offer a full range of general and security specific consulting services and Security Assessments to the entire country, as well as Managed Intrusion Detection, Secure Email, and and Managed Firewall Services.
For a more descriptive third-party explanation of the CISSP credentials, see www.isc2.org.
Bobbette R. Fagel, Project Consultant
Bobbette has worked with Bucheri McCarty & Metz LLP since 1989, with primary responsibilities in collections, systems diagramming, web site maintenance, and administrative responsibilities. She has extensive training and experience in various software programs, including word processing, database, web development and graphics software.
Bobbette began her work with infotex in 2000, and since has been intimately involved in the reporting aspects of hundreds of projects, ranging in scope from Vulnerability Assessments to Network Architecture Reviews to IT Audits. She helps develop web presentations, webinars, and debriefing presentations. Bobbette reviews all reports to ensure consistency, readability, and conformity.
Dan Hadaway, BA, Architecture, President, Managing Partner
Dan comes to us from a very wide background of experience, ranging from a degree in Architecture in 1982 to network administrator to owning one of the premier regional video store chains which, when sold in 1995, was ranked in the Top 10 of Video Store Magazine's Top 100 Report four times. Much of this success is attributed to the intense focus the company had on the customer, via the use of Information.
Dan's MIS experience started in 1985, and he began working on the issues of policy as it relates to Information Security in the early 1990's. He has advised a practicum on HIPAA Security at Purdue University, provided CxO level training for banks, hospitals, and other publicly held companies, sat on panel discussions and given hundreds of talks and presentations on Information Security to organizations ranging in scope from academia to small businesses to financial institutions, and consulted with the smallest denovo bank as well as the largest bank in Indiana regarding policy deployment for GLBA and Sarbanes - Oxley. Dan is currently the managing partner of the firm.
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