John Collins is one of Nolij’s three founders and
is majority owner. As President, John defines the
strategies and partnerships that enable Nolij’s success,
and personally oversees major product development initiatives.
John received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science
and Applied Physics from Columbia University.
Prior to Nolij, John created and marketed Systems and Computer
Technology Corporation’s (now SunGard Higher Education)
initial imaging solution. His vision for imaging in higher
education enabled the growth of a multi-million dollar product
line after just two years leading this initiative.
In his first role at SCT, John was a professional services
consultant responsible for teaching a variety of programming
language classes and performing detailed network architecture
analysis at dozens of colleges and universities across the
country.
After college, John spent four years at Weston & Sampson
Engineers, a Boston based civil engineering firm.
As manager of the company’s Geographic Information
System (GIS) department (computer-based facilities management),
John led the development and implementation of numerous
GIS projects for utilities and government systems across
New England. While busy with GIS, John managed to
develop a first-of-its-kind graphical modeling tool for
the EPA's then text-only Storm Water Management program.
John is an avid musician playing some guitar but mostly drums
with any band that will take him and is even known to lend
his voice to the cause. Having recently relocated to Boston from the Bay Area, he’s experiencing musical withdrawal while he looks for his next band. Although
he misses applying his nearly second degree black belt in
Kempo Karate to the instruction of the twelve and under
crowd, he maintains his teaching mindset by converting skiers
to snowboarders wherever possible.
John Dording
Senior Vice President
As one of Nolij’s three founders, John Dording has responsibility for all financial operations at Nolij. Professional Services and Human Resources report into John as well. John has a graduate degree in Finance from Columbia
Business School and received his undergraduate degree in
Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
Prior to Nolij, John worked in senior-level finance positions
including operations finance and financial planning &
analysis at United Technologies Corporation and Honeywell
International Corporation (formerly AlliedSignal). His responsibilities
included working with the president and chief financial
officer on a daily basis to analyze overall company and
business unit performance and to assure financial objectives
were achieved.
In an earlier role, John managed software sourcing at Honeywell
International. His primary responsibilities included working
with the CIO’s office to identify software standards
for the $24B company, negotiate corporate contracts, enforce
the standards, and manage the ongoing relationship with
the supply base. John also led several major legacy systems
outsourcing efforts in conjunction with ERP implementations.
After receiving his M.B.A., John spent four years at Booz
Allen Hamilton Inc., one of the oldest and most prestigious
strategy consulting firms in the world. As a Senior Associate
in the Consumer & Engineered Products practice, John
worked with senior management at Fortune 500 companies on
a broad range of issues ranging from strategies around acquisitions
and growth to business process re-engineering primarily
in product development.
After college, John worked at GE Aircraft Engines as a
design engineer of both commercial and military aircraft
engines. John still maintains a great passion for the aerospace
industry where he is working toward his private pilot’s
license. John is an avid traveler and has been pretty much
everywhere on earth.
Carl Gern
Vice President of Global Sales& Marketing
Carl is responsible for Nolij Corporation’s global sales and business development initiatives. He brings 15 years of sales, sales management, and partnership management experience to Nolij, working for firms that provide solutions and expertise into a single industry. Carl focuses the efforts of the Nolij sales team and key partners to ensure that our enterprise software and consulting solutions continue to provide significant value to our growing client base.
Prior to joining Nolij, Carl spent nearly 10 years with Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, a software and consulting firm focused on the education, financial services, insurance and healthcare verticals. During his tenure with WKFS, Carl advanced from an account executive role to National Sales Director within the Banking Analytics Division. In his management role, Carl was responsible for leading sales and marketing efforts for two sales teams within the tier-two and -three market segments of the financial services industry. Before WKFS, Carl sold enterprise software and consulting solutions for GP Corporation within select industries, including higher education.
Carl has a BA in Communications with a minor in Public Relations from Geneseo State University, and a certificate degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Graphic Design. He enjoys attending his kids’ various activities throughout the year, and plays basketball and tennis on a regular basis. And on occasion, Carl will be found playing guitar or drums in his basement, and is often joined by his son and daughter for an impromptu jam session.
Ron Wellman Vice President, Sales
Ron Wellman’s focus at Nolij Corporation is to grow the Nolij sales organization and work directly with each of the regional sales managers to meet individual targets and goals. Ron Wellman brings over 15 years of imaging and document management experience to Nolij; nearly all of which has been focused on the higher education market. Prior to joining Nolij, Ron worked with Matrix Imaging/Hyland Software where he was instrumental in growing their higher education market presence. Ron's in-depth higher education experience is instrumental for the continued growth and success of Nolij as the leading provider of higher education focused document imaging, workflow, and data integration technology.
Prior to working at Matrix Imaging, Ron spent five years in sales for Canon Office Equipment. He worked specifically with micrographic equipment (microfilm & microfiche readers and printers) for the Federal Government and State Municipalities. During that time Ron began selling a new product known as the Canofile System. The Canofile System was the first generation self-contained scanner, monitor and optical disk drive storage system used for scanning, archiving and retrieving digital images. One can truly say Ron has been involved with document imaging from the start.
Ron is a sport’s fanatic. His greatest passion is college football and most fall Saturdays you will find Ron and his family at a Michigan State Spartan’s football game. Ron also enjoys watching college basketball, especially during the NCAA Tournament time affectionately known as “March Madness”. When not watching his favorite sports, Ron enjoys playing a round of golf or spending time with his family. Also worth mentioning is that Ron has a fondness for live music and has seen a number of great performances including The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Elton John, The Moody Blues and The Who, but regretfully has never seen Second Avenue or the Divots.
Maureen McCarthy Mello Vice President of Marketing
Maureen McCarthy Mello oversees all marketing and client relations for Nolij Corporation. As a 27 year veteran of higher education sales and marketing, she dedicated 21 years to Academic Management Services, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Sallie Mae and then the leading provider of integrated solutions for paying for education. During her AMS career, she served in various sales & marketing management capacities, capping her tenure as Senior Vice President for Marketing and Corporate Communications.
Using her vast knowledge of the education financing industry, she has been interviewed for finance and education articles by The New York Times, USA Today, US News and World Reports, Newsweek and many other national media outlets. Maureen and her AMS Marketing team were honored by the Publicity Club of New England with the Bell Ringer Award for an outstanding PR campaign and by the American Marketing Association with their Amethyst Award for innovative sales collateral.
Her legacy was the building of the most successful education payment plan in the industry. From there, she built her own counseling company and went on to run two highly regarded advertising agencies.
She is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Wheaton College (MA), where she worked as Assistant Director of Admissions prior to joining AMS. She currently resides in Mattapoisett, MA near Cape Cod with her husband, Jay and their daughter Brianna. Her passion is making a difference in the lives of others and so she volunteers for The Women’s Fund of Southeastern Massachusetts and mentors young female professionals. During the summer, you will find her with her family and 2 cocker spaniels sailing to the Elizabeth Islands and other Buzzards Bay inlets. Her other favorite pastimes are penning motivational essays and journaling.
Jay LaCroix Vice President of Professional Services
Jay is responsible for the leadership and success of Professional Services at Nolij. Jay joined Nolij with over 20 years hands-on experience exceeding the expectations of his numerous clients in ecommerce, commercial, educational and financial markets at both small and Fortune 500 companies. Jay’s career has centered on building and scaling successful services business in several companies where his teams have been consistently recognized with customer satisfaction awards and for their professional career growth. His technical teams have included Senior Solutions Architects, Applications Consultants, Systems Engineers, Software Developers, Project Managers and Tier 2 Support in multiple companies.
Prior to joining Nolij, Jay held senior roles at Internap Network Services directing their national Custom Software Engineering and Networks Consulting Practices, at Cisco Systems where he was a Senior Partner Alliance Manager and New Product Introduction Group Manager for their VoIP Solutions software reseller program, and at Akibia where he was National Practice Leader for their Professional Services business. Early in his career Jay held Regional/Group/National services management roles at Digital Equipment (HP). Jay’s expertise encompasses hosted application development, Content Delivery Networking, VoIP and network infrastructures, mainframe and server platforms, complex middleware implementations, Systems Integration and solutions bundling including pricing. Jay takes an active role in presales and supporting sales teams and believes Best Practice tools are paramount to repeatable solutions.
Outside of work Jay enjoys boating, skiing, motor sports, hardcore exercise and meandering around small towns in Vermont. Jay equally enjoys the many past team member friendships he has made over the years by organizing annual functions with colleagues back to the early days of his career.
Mike Brassard Director of Software Engineering
As Director of Software Engineering at Nolij, Mike is responsible for planning, directing and coordinating all activities associated with creating and maintaining Nolij’s software offerings. Mike works with stakeholders to develop requirements, ascertain priorities and report progress. He participates in the strategic decisions about technology, definition and implementation of the Nolij product roadmaps.
Mike has over 15 years of experience in information technology. Prior to joining Nolij as a developer, he worked as a Business Information Analyst where his responsibilities included developing and supervising business process improvement strategies and requirements aimed at providing enhanced customer oriented information services. He also analyzed new system requests and ensured that user needs were translated into specifications that provided the detail for development of systems that were responsive, reliable, friendly and economical. Most of Mike’s past experience was gained while working for Keane Inc. as a Senior Programmer/Analyst. There his work in every aspect of the product development lifecycle led to him receiving multiple client and peer recognition awards.
Mike enjoys spending time with his wife Carrie and two children, Michael Jr. and Allison. When not coaching his kids, being a spectator at family sporting events or participating himself, he enjoys …well, actually, that accounts for just about all of his time!
Sean Langford Director of R & D
As Director of R & D at Nolij, Sean is responsible for leading the design and construction of highly interactive enterprise content management systems leveraging cloud, mobile, and Google technologies resulting in high value products for Nolij's customers. He participates in the strategic decisions about technology, definition and implementation of the Nolij product roadmaps.
Sean has over 10 years of experience in information technology. Prior to joining Nolij, he worked as a Principal Software Engineer for Instrumentation Laboratory where his responsibilities included lead construction of several key infrastructure components for a highly networked mobile Blood Gas Analyzer. This work included: construction of a custom Linux based OS, installer, time synchronization capability, backup and restore, an internationalization framework, and database schema migration utility.
Sean is also the cofounder of Strong Like Bull which is an annual bicycle / triathlon training camp in the mountains of Spain modeled in the style of professional European pro team Spring training camps. The camp features daily yoga, 3-6 hour training rides in the mountains, athlete friendly nutritionist designed meals, and transfer to and from Malaga International Airport. The motto is laugh, train, eat, repeat.
Dave Sculley Director of Professional Services
As Director of Professional Services at Nolij, Dave is responsible for the delivery of Nolij’ high quality implementation and training services. Dave holds a B.S. from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire and is a certified Project Management Professional [PMP] as well as a certified professional coach [CEC].
Dave has over 25 years of diverse experience in enterprise software services and consulting, including over 3 years at Nolij as Director of Client Success. Prior to joining Nolij, Dave worked as Sr. Manager/Principal Consultant in the Global Services organization at Blackboard / WebCT. In the Sr. Manager role Dave partnered with higher education clients to define and manage service strategies to achieve their institutional objectives within budgetary, resource, and scheduling limits. As a Principal Consultant, Dave had primary responsibility for guiding institutions in planning for and executing their e-learning implementation projects, including integration with SIS and other campus-wide systems. Dave’s background also includes work for Dun & Bradstreet Software, Hyperion Solutions and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Dave completely enjoys spending time with his family and has a variety of personal interests including bicycling, skiing, body surfing, karate, cooking, fiction writing and home brewing. Dave is also an experienced professional musician, regularly playing trombone with local “big bands” and brass ensembles, or just hacking at hisguitar for fun.
