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Company Information
Staff
- Executive Management
Ken Wagers, CPA, Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives
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Ken is responsible for developing and directing Strategic Initiatives for the combined Unclaimed Property Clearinghouse and Wagers units. He joined the Clearinghouse in 2004 when ACS acquired Wagers & Associates, Inc. The founder of Wagers & Associates, Ken has worked with unclaimed property information systems since 1987.
The Wagers unit provides unclaimed property management systems to 42 unclaimed property departments, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. ACS Wagers’ holder reporting software, HRS Pro, is used by thousands of companies annually to report property to unclaimed property departments.
- Ken is an active speaker at National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators, National Association of State Treasurers, and the Unclaimed Property Holders Liaison Council (now Unclaimed Property Professionals Organization) conventions, and is a member of the NAUPA committee which develops the national unclaimed property electronic reporting standard file format.
Before founding Wagers & Associates, Ken served as Chief Financial Officer for Erbtec Engineering, Inc.
and as Senior Consultant with Deloitte Haskins & Sells.
- Ken holds a bachelor's degree from Albertson College of Idaho, and a Master's degree from the University of Denver. He received his CPA certification in 1986, and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Randy Stroede, MBA, Vice President, Client Service
- Randy has over 14 years of systems development and implementation experience in a variety of industries. He joined ACS Wagers in 2003 after serving as the Project Manager for the Illinois UPS2000 implementation, where he worked as a consultant for the Treasurer's office for over two years.
- Randy has a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from DeVry
Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. from Illinois State University.
- He is responsible for managing the Wagers Client Service team, as well as performing project management and consulting functions.
- Client Service & Support Team
Melissa Cearlock, Client Relations and Support Representative
- Prior to joining the ACS Wagers / UPCH groups, Melissa worked for the State of Illinois for nine years,
the last six of which were in the Unclaimed Property Division managing all facets of the unclaimed property
process, including reporting and compliance, securities, and claims. She was a member of project teams for
both UPS2000 and imaging system implementations.
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Melissa spent 4 years in the United States Navy as administrative support staff,
and has a B.S. in Management/Information Technology Management from Kaplan University.
- She is currently responsible for UPS2000 product support, documentation, and training.
Joshua Horowitz, Client Relations and Support Representative
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Josh has over 8 years of unclaimed property experience. He has assisted in system developments and implementations. Prior to joining the ACS Wagers team he was the project manager from the ACS Unclaimed Property State Services department.
- Josh is responsible for system analysis and development, report development, and various aspects of client support on both SQL Server and Oracle platforms.
- Josh attended Emmanuel College, where he graduated Cum Laude with a BSBA.
Denise Ducharme, Client Relations and Support Representative
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Denise worked for the Maine State Treasurer's Office from 1989 to 1993 as an unclaimed property auditor, and from
1993 to 2007 as Unclaimed Property Manager. Denise introduced the first state-sponsored indemnity bond program for claimants
in 1994 and directed the system conversion from UPMS to UPS2000 in 2006, as well as the conversion to UPMS in 1998.
Denise served on the NAUPA Executive Committee from 1996 to 1999 and participated on
numerous NAUPA committees, including Reciprocity and Audit Guidelines.
Denise served as NAUPA President in 1998.
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Denise has a B.A. in Public Management from the University of Maine and a 2nd B.S. in Information Technology from Thomas College.
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Denise is responsible for supporting both UPMS and UPS2000 products.
Dennis Fuller, SQL Database Developer
- Dennis graduated from the University of Colorado in 1976. He
created a National Database, integrating classified ads from
the fifty largest newspapers in the country using Sybase on
NT. He developed the first technology for making newspaper classified
ad images searchable in a database.
- Dennis has over thirty years of programming experience, using
C/C++, Delphi, assembler, and COBOL including over twenty years
of RDBMS experience.
- Dennis is responsible for all phases of the database development
for the Client / Server UPS2000 Unclaimed Property Management
System.
Peggy Kuhn, Systems Developer
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Peggy has a total of 25 years of network administration, computer hardware, and database software development including C,
Visual Basic, Visual Foxpro, SQL, html, php, cold fusion and Sql Server DBA Management.
Prior to joining ACS Wagers, Peggy worked for PBI Pharmaceutical, WOL Online Internet Service Provider, Boston Market IS, and Coors Engineering.
She has a BA from Western State University, 2 years of computer Science study and teaching at CU and
a year in Masters of Computer Science at Regis University with an emphasis in database programming and web security.
Peggy has worked 8 years with Wagers' Unclaimed Property systems development.
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Peggy is the main systems developer, tester, and contact for support issues for our UPMS product, Laptop Program, and MissingMoney.com website.
David Eaton, Programmer / Analyst
- Dave graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in 1971. He has over 16 years of programming experience
using Delphi, Clipper, FoxPro and RPG.
Dave has written software for construction, medical and petroleum industry. He has been published in the FoxPro Advisor.
- Dave is part of client-side development team of UPS2000.
Steve Sherwood, Programmer / Analyst
- Before joining the ACS Wagers unit, Steve designed and developed the CCware application for CareCredit.com
He has provided application development for such companies as General Electric, Global Crossing, Hewlett Packard and Mincom.
- Part of client-side development team of UPS2000, Steve has over 25 years of software development using languages such as Pascal, C, C++, Delphi, SQL and .NET.
Priya Krishnamoorthy, Programmer / Analyst
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Priya brings 12 years of applications development experience using Clipper, FoxPro and Delphi. Before joining ACS Wagers, she worked with Mphasis Corporation on Charles Schwab's record keeping application for a 401k plan.
- A graduate of Chennai University, India, Priya is part of the development team for the UPS2000 suite of tools.
Frank LeGrand, Database Analyst / Data Conversion Specialist
- Frank has worked as a software engineer in the research, bio-medical, and travel industries in Europe, Australia, and the United States over the past fifteen years.
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He has a degree in economics from the Université de Bretagne Occidentale in France, and as a database analyst and developer, Frank now plays a key role in system conversions and technical development and support.
Mamata Hanumanth, Sql Server DBA
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Mamata Mamata has a M.S in Computer Science from University of Colorado at Boulder and 5 years of Database Development experience.
- Mamata is responsible for maintaining sql server databases up-to-date and applying any new required updates.
Charlie Allen, Systems Consulting Senior Analyst
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Charlie has worked in a variety of IT, computer support and consulting positions for over 20 years, primarily in the meat industry. He has specialized in Crystal Reports development for the past 10 years and is a Business graduate of Western State College of Colorado.
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Charlie is responsible for providing report development and support functions to our UPS2000 clients.
Mitra Fathollahi, Quality Assurance Analyst
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Mitra brings over six years of software testing experience in all phases of the product life cycle, including writing and executing test cases, defect tracking and reporting, and risk analysis. Her experience encompasses testing and validating back-end database applications, including developing SQL queries to validate data.
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She has a B.A. in Psychology from University of California - Los Angeles, and an A.A. in Computer Science.
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Mitra is responsible for testing the UPS2000 suite of tools.
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