Gunnison Consulting Group Inc. provides EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS for AMBITIOUS PROJECTS.

Headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Gunnison is in the business of providing exceptionally qualified senior consultants to assist Federal government customers in tackling the most ambitious IT efforts, including projects such as the only national statistical study of the health of Americans and the massive decennial census.

Gunnison's revenues have grown steadily since the firm's founding in 1994. In 2010 the firm achieved a record $15.1M in revenue. Our employee resources, financial resources, and client base are all expanding. Just as important, we have five solid partnerships with other firms, providing specialized niche expertise to fulfill unique customer needs. The vast majority of our work is from repeat customers.

Principals

President - Norm Asher (B.S.E., Princeton University) founded Gunnison Consulting Group Inc. in 1994 as a small business primarily dedicated to the design, development and implementation of information technologies in support of demographic and health surveys and censuses. We still have the same focus today that he envisioned then.  Mr. Asher has over thirty years of management experience in the IT field, and has authored or co-authored over 150 technical documents. He currently serves as Gunnison's subject matter expert for administrative records linking and matching, having led the design and development of three different automated record linkage systems for the Census Bureau, as well as over fifteen clerical record linkage systems. Prior to starting Gunnison, he was the Chief Scientist of Technology Applications, Inc.

Vice President - Debbie Hillard (MBA, American University) is Gunnison's Director of Health Information Systems. She is a veteran program manager who has focused most of her career in health research technologies, to include architectures, distributed surveys and supporting applications, and data management and integration. Ms. Hillard has been supporting the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)/Westat (prime) with its most ambitious national-level health related research project for almost 15 years--the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). In 2010 she also began supporting the National Children’s Study as lead of two task areas directly supporting the Program Office. Previously she headed operations for a leading systems integration company, where she integrated numerous Document Management System solutions to meet specific customer needs and requirements. Ms. Hillard is also a certified Earned Value Management Professional (EVMP).

Vice President - Christine Krahulec (M.A., University of Southern California), Gunnison's Census Bureau Project Director, is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with a deep background assisting government agencies to communicate intricate technical task details, results and recommendations (often research based) to customer organizations in a timely manner in business terms, allowing them to leverage this data for informed and proactive decision-making. She focuses primarily on business process and technology improvements to enable customers' visions and missions.