Decision Dynamics, Inc.

DDI Executive Biographies

Glenn W. Thames - President

Glenn Thames is president and chief executive officer of Decision Dynamics, Inc. (DDI). He was one of the founding partners of DDI in 1998 and accepted his current position in 2002. Glenn oversees the daily operation and strategic direction of the Lexington-based software technology company. DDI provides software products and services to the banking, healthcare, and governmental markets.

Prior to Glenn assuming his current position at DDI, he was a project manager with Unisys Corporation where he developed an enterprise-wide multi-media environmental information management system for South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. The application supports issuance and compliance monitoring of the agency’s environmental permits and is utilized throughout the agency. While at Unisys, Glenn was instrumental in developing the South Carolina digitized driver’s licenses system and was system manager of the South Carolina Child Support Enforcement System (CSES).

Ann Gunning – Chief Information Officer

Ann Y. Gunning is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Decision Dynamics Inc. (DDI), a company committed to excellence in developing software products and delivering superior customer service. Ms. Gunning joined DDI in 2005 as Project Manager of the Electronic Liens and Titles (ELT) program. She organized the ELT software development department and established the information technology operations center for DDI. In partnership with the South Carolina Bankers Association, Ms. Gunning successfully worked with the South Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to establish the ELT program for the state.

Hobart O. Trotter, Jr., Government Relations

Hobart O. Trotter, Jr. provides government relations consulting services with an emphasis in information technology and procurement issues. He is a native of Columbia, South Carolina and is a 1980 graduate of the University of South Carolina. Mr. Trotter has worked with various technology vendors providing solutions to the State of South Carolina for over twenty years. During that time, Mr. Trotter has worked closely with state agencies and their management teams, including the Budget and Control Board, the state Office of the CIO, the Chief Procurement Officers and their purchasing agents, the state Office of Information Resource Management (the State Data Center) and the state's agency technology directors.

William P. Moran, M.D., M.S., Chief Medical Officer

After completing his undergraduate degree work at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Virginia, William P. “Bill” Moran went on to attend medical school at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. and then went on to complete his residency training in Internal Medicine at Georgetown Hospital in 1986. He served in the National Health Service Core from 1986-1990 before earning his Master’s degree in epidemiology and completing his fellowship in geriatrics in 1992 at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Dr. W. P. Moran’s medical interests include general internal medicine, geriatric medicine, managed care, and medical informatics.

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).