Our Instructors and consultants

Tom Hathaway

Tom Hathaway is a founding member and managing partner of the Requirements Solutions Group, a training and consulting firm whose mission is to help customers bridge the communications gap between subject matter and technical experts. Mr. Hathaway has extensive experience as a business analyst and as a trainer. His talent for expressing complex ideas in terms that anyone can understand his hallmark. In more than 30 years as a practitioner and instructor, Tom has developed and delivered hundreds of seminars to US and international audiences on business analysis, system analysis, requirements engineering, business use of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), business system testing, and JAD facilitation.

Dan Myers

Dan Myers has been writing and improving system development methodologies since 1979. His focus on methodologies and time compression has led to invitations to present at national and international conferences on tools, techniques, and methodologies. He has authored and presented systems analysis, design, and development seminars for hundreds of organizations with thousands of students worldwide. He also holds degrees in both chemistry and physics and was the recipient of a AAPT’s "outstanding instructor" award for his work in developing computer-assisted instructional material. Dan is a founding member and managing partner of the Requirements Solutions Group.

Stacy Goff

Stacy Goff, PMP, is a founder of the American Society for the Advancement of Project Management (asapm). He has published THE Guide, a methodology for high-risk Information Technology projects and several other project management methodologies. Mr. Goff developed KnowRisk™ and Quest™ for Better Estimates, project management tools which provide management methods in an easy-to-use format. Mr. Goff has also authored and conducted in-house train-the-trainer programs to develop competent, internal program management instructors and consultants.

Rose Johnston

Rose Johnston is a certified instructor for Information Mapping® and ProjectExperts®, and is a Master Certifier for the classes she teaches. As a certifier, she models, observes, coaches, and evaluates the competencies of other instructors. She also has a BSBA in Information Systems and Communications, and has completed graduate-level work in Instructional Systems Design. She began her profession in 1984, improving how people write and how they think about writing. Her specialty is in helping people master the guiding principles that are at the core of effective writing in a business environment.

Jean-Paul Thomas

Jean-Paul Thomas’s experience spans nearly thirty years in the information technology industry. Mr. Thomas has worked as a programmer, analyst, trainer, and development manager for several Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Thomas leverages his experience to help organizations world-wide apply emerging tools and techniques to the challenges of analyzing, designing, developing and deploying modern, web-based, business applications. He has contributed his technical expertise to nationally available Client Server and Project Management series of courses and matching curricula.

Rick K. Fisher

Rick Fisher, CCP, has worked with organizations of all sizes and industries to improve development effectiveness through the use of modern techniques. As an instructor, he has developed and presented interactive seminars to thousands of participants on Data Modeling, Business Systems Analysis, Information Engineering, Business Process Improvement, Data Warehouse, JAD, Project Management and numerous methodologies. Mr. Fisher has published articles in major publications and been invited to speak at national and international symposiums and conferences.

Dino Eliadis

With over 20 years of experience and MBA credentials, Dino Eliadis has dedicated his career to improving organizations, project success, and creating and leading high performance teams.  Always customer-focused, he uses rapid facilitation techniques to define and deliver high-impact solutions.  His extraordinary ability to analyze existing products or services and think “outside the box” has helped many companies expand their current capabilities and find new profitable sources of revenue.