The Interface Consulting Team
We build business through these promises:
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To act with uncompromising integrity and confidentiality.
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Lorrie Blanchard Tietze
Is the founder and manager of Interface Consulting, LLC. She is a strategic, versatile professional with expertise in manufacturing and engineering. She has Bachelors and Masters degrees in Nuclear Engineering. She has managed production operations, implemented technology globally, and delivered results in 24 different countries. She is adept at maintaining strong customer relationships, developing international, multi-functional teams, and quickly learns new, fast-paced, challenging environments. She has well-developed communication and problem solving skills and the ability to resolve difficult situations and complex problems by synthesizing integrated solutions.
Lorrie's background includes 17 years in
production management, engineering, and project management for a
global Fortune 30 company where she delivered $20 million in savings
while also achieving benchmark health and safety and environmental
results for a $5.5 billion business.
She has also consulted with Fortune 500
Companies, Mid-Tier Companies, Government Agencies, and
Not-For-Profit Organizations.
Her results include the facilitation and
update of a client's work process which helped them avoid a $50
million loss in sales.
Outside of work, she
helps
coach youth volleyball
and
supports
several youth orchestras.
Linda Porter-Cox
Is
a
Senior
Associate with Interface Consulting. She is a general management
and strategic planning executive with extensive market development
and product, service, and systems innovation and integration
expertise. She has applied her critical thinking skills and broad
industry experience to help clients improve fundamental performance
and when desired take breathtaking leaps forward in terms of
financial results, market share growth, and organizational
effectiveness. Her approach to innovation is highly practical and
entails an innate curiosity, an aptitude for assimilating a lot of
complex information, and ability to identify, communicate, and
implement a winning strategy through aligning people and processes
for greatest efficiency and impact.
Linda’s 24 years of experience includes a 17 year career at Procter & Gamble where she held numerous leadership positions in general management, B2B and B2C marketing – including retail development/merchandising, supply and value-chain innovation, and brand management. Since leaving P&G in 2002, she has supported a range of companies in developing and implementing business plans, growth strategies, demand creation and supply optimization plans, and organizational improvement models. She is passionate about creating breakthroughs in thinking, in capability, and in commitment that deliver sustainable improvements. She holds a B.S.B.A., in Marketing from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL.
Ray Merenstein
Is an Associate with Interface Consulting. In 2002, Ray returned to his native Denver after a decade of health care advocacy work in Washington, DC. Over the course of the next four years, he oversaw the fundraising for The Children’s Hospital Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Children’s Miracle Network, and The Children’s Hospital Research Institute. In 2004, approximately $15 million were raised for these entities as part of a $51 million record fundraising year for The Children’s Hospital Foundation.
He holds a Masters Degree in Mass Communication from the University of Florida. His expertise in media relations, special events and public outreach has garnered him the American Hospital Association's Silver Touchstone and Circle of Distinction and the Colorado Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America’s Gold Pick -- earmarks of excellence in public relations and marketing. He has been quoted or published in the Wall Street Journal, Science, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Business Week, USA Today, Nature and numerous daily newspapers and broadcast media across the country.
Ray has testified before Congress, spoken at press conferences nationwide and presented regularly to health and communication groups locally and nationally. He currently serves on the Executive Committees of his local synagogue and the American Jewish Committee’s Colorado Chapter. He continues to serve on committees for numerous health, non-profit and education organizations as well. Ray and his wife, Ilana Steinberg, live in Denver with their son and two daughters.
Scott Thompson
Is an
Associate with Interface Consulting.
He is a results-driven executive with a proven track record
of engineering and IT team leadership and staff development.
Scott has a demonstrated ability to plan, develop, implement,
and support cutting-edge, mission-critical enterprise applications
for the health care industry using Microsoft languages,
applications, and servers.
He is a critical thinker drawing from an extensive knowledge
of development best practices, industry requirements, and federal
regulations. Scott has
15 years of in-depth management, technical design and development
experience with Microsoft operating systems, Visual Studio and .NET
languages, Office and Visio applications, and Exchange, SharePoint,
Project, SQL, and BizTalk servers.
Scott was a
Featured Speaker for the Drug Industry Association (DIA) and
Clinical Data Interchange Standards Committee (CDISC).
He has also been highlighted in multiple Microsoft case
studies for the innovative use of Commerce Server, Site Server
edition, BizTalk server, .NET languages, and Office/Visio product
integration. He has
co-authored presentations for Microsoft, Deloitte, and Accenture
supporting the use of development best-practices.
Robin Martin Elston
Is an Associate
with Interface Consulting.
She has gained a national reputation as a speaker, trainer,
and facilitator specializing in coaching leaders to grow more
productive organizations.
She has a vast array of experience including 16 years in
operations management and human resources for Fortune 500 companies
where she led the achievement of industry-wide superior results.
She has degrees in both Chemical Engineering and
Administration.
Outside of work, she chairs several volunteer organizations, is a past President of Big Brothers and Sisters, and is the president of her Parent-Teacher organization.
Lorrie Blanchard Tietze
Linda Porter-Cox
Ray Merenstein
Scott Thompson
Robin Martin Elston