Decision Dynamics, Inc

Mr. Thames also worked for Lexington County Hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina, where he acquired many responsibilities. These responsibilities included the following: Programmer Analyst, Systems Programmer Analyst, and Systems and Programming Supervisor. As the Programmer Analyst he designed and developed an online cash system and designed and helped develop a patient accounting system, both systems being online real-time database systems. As the Systems Programmer Analyst, he developed and implemented, with the assistance of the Burroughs Corporation, a message control system when the hospital converted from B1800s to B5900s. He was also responsible for and helped redesign and rewire a data communications network which consisted of 100+ terminals. As the Systems and Programming Supervisor, he was responsible for the supervision of Systems Programming, database administration, and Applications Programming.

Mr. Thames was able to play a pioneering role in the electronic commerce market by participating in a new startup that developed and marketed the Automated Loan Machine (ALM). He developed the software architecture which allowed a Closed Loop Loan Process to be deployed in the electronic commerce market. A patent was requested from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for this process. Mr. Thames also designed and developed the centralized decisioning engine which implements the Closed Loop Loan Process and enables Automated Loan Machine operations.

Mr. Thames was responsible for designing, developing, and implementing client/server based SNA communications to support digitized drivers’ licenses in South Carolina. The software provided camera workstation connectivity to a UNIX server and an IBM host CICS application. Mr. Thames was also responsible for the management of hardware, system software, and database management software support for the South Carolina Child Support Enforcement System (CSES).

Mr. Thames served as project manager for the development of a centralized permitting application for the state of South Carolina. The application supports issuance of more than sixty-eight different environmental permits and is utilized by more than one thousand users. The project followed the standard development life cycle with a development team of six software developers. Additional resources provided by the State worked closely with the Unisys development team.

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In response to requirements established by the DMV and a selected task force of SC lenders, Ms. Gunning was responsible for the development of the Premier eTitleLien™ product that enables lenders to exchange lien and title information with state titling agencies. Premier eTitleLien™ is highly acclaimed by each of DDI’s customers. The high quality Premier eTitleLien™ product and Ms. Gunning’s emphasis on superb customer service by all staff is key to the success and growth of DDI’s ELT program.

Ms. Gunning’s career began as a software developer for NCR Corporation. In her 17 years with NCR, she served in various management capacities, including department manager. Ms. Gunning was responsible for various areas of software development and quality control for NCR’s line of multi-processor computer products for the retail and financial industries.

Prior to joining DDI, Ms. Gunning was the Information Technology Manager for the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control’s Environmental Quality Control Bureau. Ms. Gunning was instrumental in the development of an enterprise-wide Environmental Facility Information System, and has over 10 years of experience in developing information systems for state environmental programs.  She has extensive experience in managing projects, including contractual services, involving complex database systems, Intranet and Internet applications, and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). 

Ms. Gunning holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina. She and her husband, Rob, reside in Columbia, SC. Her son, Robert, is a computer specialist, her daughter, Laura, is a college senior, and her son, Andrew, is a high school student.

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Through his experience, Mr. Trotter has acquired a working knowledge of the organizational structures of state agencies, their technology infrastructure, their purchasing policies and procedures and the business drivers affecting how their budgets are allocated. He has proven experience managing large procurement initiatives for several worldwide organizations currently doing business with the State of South Carolina. Mr. Trotter has an in-depth understanding of the various steps of the state procurement process, from budgeting through contract award and contract settlement. Mr. Trotter, his wife Patti and their three daughters reside in Columbia, and Mr. Trotter has been involved in various community service organizations, currently serving as Chairman of the Board of the American Diabetes Association for South Carolina.

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Dr. W. P. Moran has recently been invited to participate in several national and international workshops which include: Community Care Coordination Network, Panel of Model Programs, 12th Annual Multidisciplinary Conference on Aging, Northwest AHEC., Hawthorne Inn, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, April 2-3, 1997; Integrated Delivery Information Systems: Acute and Chronic Care Coordination, American Society on Aging, Nashville, Tennessee, March 23-26, 1997; Medical Informatics in Support of the Primary Care Physician, National Rural Health Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, May 26, 1994; and The Factorial Design Randomize Trial: Relevant Features to General Internal Medicine, Southern Region Society of General Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 4-5, 1996.

Dr. Moran has also written in excess of fifteen medical, research-based articles which were published in various medical journals. These article topics include, but are not limited to: “Clinical Documentation: The Hand-held Computer as a Survival Tool,” MD Comput., 1998 Nov-Dec.; “Computer-generated Mailed Reminders for Influenza Immunization: A Clinical Trial,” J. General Internal Medicine, 1992 Sept.-Oct.; “Implementing Computerized Tracking at a Community Health Center: Challenges and Solutions,” Proc. Annu. Symp. Comput. Appl. Med. Care, 1993; “Community Surveillance of Falls Among the Elderly Using Computerized EMS Transport Data,” Am J. Emergency Medicine, July 1994; and “Use of technology to Improve Service to Older Adults: A Computerized Community Care Coordination Network,” Proceedings of the RESNA 1994 Annual Conference, 1994. Dr. Moran is also credited with compiling educational materials in the field of geriatrics. He is credited as well with writing several commentaries, one of which is titled Computer-generated Reminders and Patient Drug Compliance, ACP J Club, March-April 2, 1993.

Dr. Moran, in recent years, has received grants in many realms of the medical field which he has utilized to further his goal of higher quality care for patients. These grants include, but are not limited to: “Computerized Patient Tracking to Facilitate Inter-Agency Communication,” Kate B. Reynolds Poor and Needy Trust, Co-Principal Investigator, 1992-1995; “Community Care Coordination Network,” The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, under the program “Building Health Systems for People with Chronic Illnesses,” Co-Investigator, 1993-1996; and the “Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Faith in Action Program: The Community Volunteer Program,” Principal Investigator, 1995-1997.

Dr. Moran also has several grants which are either current or pending. These grants include the following: “Community Care Coordination Network: Generalist Perspective,” the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars program, Principal Investigator, 1994-1998; “Program Evaluation: Winston-Salem State University Nurse Managed Care Center,” the Kate B. Reynolds Foundation (subcontract), 1997-1999; and “Community Care Coordination Network on the World Wide Web,” Technology Development Grant, North Carolina Baptist Hospital, 1997 (Pending).

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