Meet Our Team

Brian

Founder & CEO

Brian founded Thesis Technologies in 2014 to help clients "get their systems right." Decades of experience in the manufacturing and retail industries has provided the foundation for over 1,400 client-focused technology projects since that time. Brian has a passion for developing digital solutions which drive growth in sales and profitability for companies of all sizes. Brian is also an active developer and consultant in Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, SharePoint, and Excel VBA.

Brian holds a dual B.S. degree in Accounting and Computer Information Systems and an MBA with concentrations in Finance and Marketing.

Sheila

Microsoft Access, Excel/VBA, Power Automate, Dynamics 365, SQL Azure, Power Apps

Sheila is ThesisTech Employee #1 and has been serving our clients almost from the very beginning. Sheila has decades of experience in developing sophisticated Access database applications and is an accomplished expert in Excel and Excel VBA.

Sheila has developed applications for clients in almost every industry, and has particularly strong experience in manufacturing and distribution.

In her spare time, Sheila can often be found competing at a horse-show with her favorite steed Newman.

Melissa

Excel/VBA, Dynamics 365 Sales, Marketing Manager

After graduating from college, Melissa worked as a recreational therapist for several years before finding a new calling in business technology. Melissa specializes in Excel and Dynamics 365 and has worked with a wide variety of clients since joining the ThesisTech team. As if she doesn't have enough on her plate, Melissa serves as our Marketing Coordinator at ThesisTech. In this role, she has extensive hands-on experience in Dynamics 365 CRM and Dynamics 365 for Marketing. In her spare time, Melissa loves to spend her time with her husband and their very active little daughter.

Natalie

Cloud Solutions, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, SharePoint

Natalie is a cloud Solutions Developer at ThesisTech with a focus on Dynamics 365, SharePoint, and the Microsoft Power Platform. She has a bachelor's degree in Information Systems with a focus in Data Analytics. Natalie enjoys transforming data into meaningful purposes using Power BI and Dynamics 365 Dashboards. When our client's project calls for deeper data analysis, Natalie is also well versed in R and RStudio.

Westly

Cloud Solutions, Dynamics 365 CRM, Power Platform, SharePoint, Web Applications

Westly is our go-to guy for our most technical and complex problems. He loves a good technical challenge and specializes in everything 3rd party API connections. Westly also supports our projects as a developer in Dynamics 365 CRM, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Web Applications built in React and Node.js. Westly has a B.S. degree in Computer Information Systems and enjoys developing games and composing music in his spare time.

Mike

Excel/VBA, Power BI, SQL Azure, Microsoft Access

Mike has spent his entire career in the areas of Systems Support and Database Development and serves as our resident SQL Database expert. Mike is also an accomplished Excel VBA developer and Power BI Consultant. He has a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in Computer Science. In his spare time, Mike enjoys traveling and spending time with his family.

Ben

Power BI, Excel, Excel VBA

Ben is one of our very accomplished Power BI developers and has expertise in Power Query data transformations, DAX, and visualization design. Ben has Bachelor of Arts degrees in Mathematics and Economics, which makes him a great fit for our most complex financial and KPI oriented Power BI projects. Ben is also an experience Excel VBA consultant. In his spare time, Ben enjoys climbing boulders and hiking.

Jake

Business Systems Analyst

Jake is a graduate of Hope College right here in Holland, MI, and serves as the glue that makes our software development process work. From initial project design through all aspects of our project management process, Jake helps make sure that we deliver for our clients. Jake is also a developer in many of our technologies and brings that hands-on perspective to his role. While in college, Jake was a co-captain of the Hope College swim team. In his spare time, he is in active preparation mode for his upcoming wedding.

Kelvin

Power BI, Excel VBA, Data Engineering

Kelvin is part of our Data team with specialties in Power BI, Excel VBA, Data Pipelines, and SQL Databases. Kelvin is also a software developer with experience in various programming languages and development frameworks. When he’s not building client solutions at ThesisTech, Kelvin is fully engaged with his young family.

Dereck

Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Excel

Dereck graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Computer Science and has skills in many technologies. Dereck is one of our Business Intelligence experts and builds custom apps for our clients on the Microsoft Power Platform. Dereck played football right here in West Michigan. In his spare time, he enjoys time with family, board games with friends, and is a little obsessed with bargain-hunting.

Lauren

Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dynamics 365 CRM, SharePoint

Lauren graduated from Davenport University right here in West Michigan with a major in Database and Analytics. Lauren is one of our Business Intelligence experts. She also works with our clients on Dynamics 365 CRM implementations and builds custom apps on the Microsoft Power Platform. Lauren has a history of bringing effective automations and digital solutions to her business clients. In her free time, Lauren loves to travel and enjoy the outdoors with her husband.

Rebecca

Office and Human Resources

Rebecca is our Office and Human Resources Manager, with a little marketing support thrown in on the side. Rebecca works to make sure our team is supported and also maintains many of our business systems including our SharePoint intranet, Human Resources portal, and our Project Management systems. She has a B.S. degree in social work and, outside of her work responsibilities, spends her time bringing order to the lives of her very energetic children.

Recent Work

If you are interested in seeing more of our recent custom software projects, please contact us at (888) 705-7253. At ThesisTech, our business systems consultants take pride in helping our clients improve their business through custom software solutions that address their unique needs.

Finance/Operations Dashboard

ThesisTech specializes in the design and implementation of Excel Dashboards and KPI Reports. Most of our dashboard are automated with VBA Macros which makes refreshing the report with new data as easy as clicking a button.

Microsoft Excel CRM Web Application Michigan, MI

Excel Based CRM Application

This CRM application was developed for a home services company. The application is built with VBA Macros that automate the workflow. Excel userforms are used to add and update data. This application has the ability to automatically set appointments in Microsoft Outlook.

Excel MRP & Scheduling

This application was developed for a large manufacturing plant and has complete MRP and production scheduling capabilities. VBA Macros are used to automate workflows and to produce a collection of schedule and forecasting reports.

Quickbooks Conversion

This VBA Macro application was developed to export all transactions from Quickbooks and convert the data for use in a different accounting system. Each transaction type is automatically converted and saved as a csv file.

Excel to Word & PowerPoint

This application imports survey data from Survey Monkey, organizes the survey responses and then automatically exports the data to PowerPoint as a professional presentation.

Access CRM Application

This application is a full CRM system for a web-services company. New leads are logged and tracked along with all followup activities for each lead. Once a project is confirmed, contracted services are scheduled and tracked using a highly functional services calendar.

Microsoft Front-End Access Application Michigan, MI

Safety Issues Database

This application was developed to collect and process all safety issues in a large manufacturing plant. Issues are logged by employees or managers and followed until final resolution.

Microsoft Web Data Access Application Michigan, MI

Project Cost Tracking

This application tracks the costs associate with large equipment turn-around projects. Project costs are tracked by Invoice and by Work Order. Reports and Queries allow the client to analyze costs from various viewpoints.

Inventory Control

Our Client needed an application to track inventory throughout their plant locations. This Application allows the users to track purchased inventory which is applied to various inventory locations. Inventory issued to production is also tracked and inventory balances are maintained.

Microsoft Access Web Front-End SQL Application

Production Scheduling

This application was developed to manage the production schedule, shipping and invoicing for manufacturing. The main production schedule is shown on a big screen on the production floor. The colors assigned to each job indicate the real time status of that job.

Sales & Marketing/CRM

For sales, marketing and CRM related projects, we will provide a project manager with over 10 years of experience in that area. Our team will help you design and build a custom application that automates your unique sales process.

Retail

For retail related projects, we are able to provide a project manager with over 10 years of management experience in retail. Our team can help you build dynamic Apps that enhance the customer experience and streamline the retail process for your team.

Manufacturing

Our team members have built custom applications for inventory control, MRP, scheduling and procedures to more closely integrate manufacturing with accounting. We are able to provide a project manager with 15 years of experience in a manufacturing environment.

Finance & Accounting

Our project manager in the Finance and Accounting area has over 25 years of practical experience and has earned a CMA designation. We have developed financial reporting apps and procedures to automate accounting tasks. We also specialize in quoting/costing systems.

Project Management

We have extensive experience in many aspects of Project Management and have developed custom project management systems for clients in several industries.

Dynamics 365 Field Services

An in-home health care provider's process was built around Excel spreadsheets updated by manual entry. To enhance quality of care and customer experience, the Field Services functions in CRM were used to create a central database accessible via mobile devices in the field.

Dynamics 365 Sales

A global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services adopted Dynamics 365 Sales as well as Dynamics 365 Project Services to enhance business processes and to gain timely insights into past projects and future business opportunities.

Dynamics 365 Service Desk

A call-center services company standardized on Microsoft Dynamics 365 as the CRM for its 3,000 call-center agents. Using Unified Service Desk, agents have access to everything they need, including a consolidated knowledge base for each customer.

Dynamics 365 Project Services

A leader in designing and manufacturing amusement parks is committed to delivering high quality products to their clients, installed on time and on budget. The Project Service Automation features of CRM online along with Power BI for Analytics was the chosen solution.

Dynamics 365 & Power BI

One of the larges providers of crushed stone in the U.S. restructured its sales strategy around a customer-centric model by deploying Dynamics 365 CRM and linking it to Office 365 and Power BI which let's sales staff communicate, collaborate and view sales dashboards.

Sales & Marketing

Connect Power BI to Accounting or a Sales Order system to build a view of sales trends, market share and growth opportunities. Data filters can be linked to each dashboard element to focus in on a particular division or region.

Procurement Analysis

Procurement data may be contained in a massive database of P.O. or Invoice Records. Power BI can be connected directly to this type of database. Visualizations are then built to provide interesting metrics such as purchases by country. Filter down to cities for more insight.

Sales Opportunities Analysis

A CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system contains mission critical data related to sales opportunities. Power BI can be connected to CRM data to help you visualize key indicators such as leads per source, dollars per lead, closing ratios and repeat business.

Microsoft BI Web Front-End SQL Application

Human Resources

A Human Resources dashboard in Power BI can provide key insights into new hires, active employees, turnover and employee tenure. Even if this data is tracked in an Excel Spreadsheet, Power BI can be connected to create a dynamic analysis tool.

Supplier Quality Analysis

Quality issues are often captured in a database. Connect Power BI to this database to build insights such as material defects, downtime minutes, poor suppliers, plant comparisons etc. This data can be trended to show year over year comparisons by supplier or reason for defect.

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Workforce Empowerment

A leading consulting firm empowered all employees with Office 365 and SharePoint to foster collaboration and increase engagement. Workforce and Workplace changes prompted the firm to find new tools to help its employees succeed.

Document Management

An international oilfield services company had grown rapidly. The company's library of 40,000 process documents had become too complicated to manage. The company deployed SharePoint to allow its 5,000 employees to manage documents collaboratively with automated workflows.

Microsoft Sharepoint Web Front-End SQL Application

Media Sharing & Distribution

A homebuilding company needed an efficient way to engage and train their staff using video. The company chose Microsoft Office 365 Video alongside SharePoint Online. The company has empowered employees and lowered training costs by making it simple to share videos.

Innovation & Communication

A major food retailer realized a need to take team communication to a new level. Email was provided to only 20% of the staff. Office 365 and SharePoint were implemented to connect all employees in creative ways. Better communication resulted in new and innovative strategies.

Microsoft Web Data Sharepoint Application

Accessible Information

An IT consulting firm implemented an on-premise and cloud hybrid approach using SharePoint and Office 365. Employees can now find any document whether they are on the company network or not. These documents are accessible from anywhere on any device.