Leadership

As a Team Lead at MS3, Rene Lucena is in charge of project execution, handling everything from the planning phase to production release and post-release support. Additionally, he ensures that other developers continue to improve and learn skills essential to sustaining the high level of competence needed for consultants.

Throughout his 14+ year long career, he has interacted with over twelve different companies, in various industries, which have helped him to observe and implement best practices and pitfalls for software solution implementation. He has experience in IT positions, including those in API design and Implementation, Integrations, Project Management, DevOps, Web Development, Quality Assurance, Performance Engineering, Research, Hardware Design and Troubleshooting, Analysis.

Education: Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Oklahoma

Denise Brodowski serves as the Director of PMO for MS3. In her role, she oversees the Sales, Marketing, Admin, and Project Management/Business Analysis teams. Additionally, Denise is a key contributor to defining and supporting company direction and decisions working with the Executive team, HR, Recruiting, Finance, and technical teams to ensure programs are established and implemented successfully.

Before her tenure at MS³, Denise worked approximately 25 years in the IT Software development and the Managed Services industries, working up the ranks from developer to Business Analyst to Manager of PMO organizations in organizations including AT&T, IBM, and HP. Her vast experience in the IT industry serves MS³ in its growth and development, and it helps her to understand clients and their needs.

Education: B.A. degree in Decision Sciences / Computers from Rider University.

Mark Norton is a Senior Contributing Engineer focused on providing business integration solutions using Mulesoft (Certified Developer), AWS (Certified Business Provider), and other technologies. As one of the first team leaders, he has helped MS 3 grow and guide the members of his team on their career path and client work. As a proposal manager, Mark has led and supported several significant proposal efforts at federal and state levels, in addition to commercial opportunities. Before joining MS 3 in 2015, Mark managed his independent consulting firm that developed integration solutions for the Higher Education sector.

Education: Master’s in computer science from Boston University.

Matthew Murgia is a Team Lead and software engineer at MS3. He currently manages the MS3 internal boot camp where we guide junior developers through a custom training program that includes Java, Spring Boot, API Specifications, MuleSoft, Jenkins, and Docker. This role allows him to leave his comfort zone to learn new technologies and help others. He is also a consultant currently working with Mulesoft products and Okta IDP.

Previous positions have given him experience working with the Javascript stack and enjoyed experimenting with Node, Typescript, and Angular to build games.

Education: Bachelor of Science, James Madison UniversityOther interests/hobbies include spending time with his beautiful family, sports, history, sustainable energy, and skiing.

Certifications: MuleSoft Certified Developer

Susan Kelly is the Talent Acquisition Lead for MS3, and is responsible for planning, developing, and implementing practical and creative recruitment strategies. She is focused on a full life cycle recruiting processes: discovering top technology talent, building a strong employment brand, and ensuring great relationships with both candidates and employees.

Before joining MS3 in August of 2019, Susan was General Manager for a recruiting firm in New Jersey, overseeing recruiting, marketing and branding initiatives. Before her career in recruitment, Susan spent many years in Financial Services and Investment Management, enjoying various marketing, strategy, and business development leadership roles with Fortune 100 firms such as Prudential Financial and Cigna.

Education: Bachelor of Science, Economics, Rutgers University

As a Senior DevOps Engineer for MS3, Ryan Wilkinson, primarily works to speed up the application deployment process for developers by providing a persistent stable environment for consistent results. This responsibility means working towards streamlined development operations and automation delivery pipelines while maintaining immutable infrastructure.

With over 20 years of experience, consultant and tech evangelist, Ryan delivers DevOps as a software development strategy, bridging the gap between the developers and the IT infrastructure staff.

As a Solutions Architect at MS3, Jose Montoya is in charge of delivering tailor-made software to our clients. Throughout his 5 year career with MS3 he has worked for multiple companies of every size and of various industries, always delivering business value by working alongside stakeholders at different organizational levels.

In his time off Jose likes working on community-driven open-sourced projects, staying up to date with the latest software engineering practices, watching sports, playing videogames, or tending to his garden in South Texas.

At MS3, Randy consults with our clients to deliver quality cloud integrations and provides support for our internal adoption of new technologies that enable cutting edge solutions. He also works to guide his teammates' continued learning by teaching skills, promoting best practices, and writing documentation.

In Randy’s seven years of development experience, he has worked with a variety of technologies for embedded systems, client applications, machine learning research, and mobile application development. Each of these experiences brings a unique perspective when working with various cloud technologies.

Education: Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

Certifications: MuleSoft Developer, Apigee Professional API Engineer

Eric Nelson is a Sr Software Engineer leading development and delivery of MS3's Data Science services and proprietary IoT product.  He is also a certified Salesforce.com developer.

Eric began his career in nanotechnology, designing novel thin film deposition processes for the LED industry.  He then started his own firm implementing Salesforce.com sales cloud, serving over a dozen firms on 30+ projects over 3 years.  At MS3, Eric is developing a replicable methodology for quickly returning value on early-stage investments in frontier technologies like IoT and Machine Learning.

Education: BS Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota,
(In Progress) MS Computer Science (Machine Learning), Georgia Tech
Certifications: Salesforce Certified Administrator, Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I