Expertise
Atelier staff have 35
years of experience using customer input to anticipate
customer needs and define timely solutions that increase
customer satisfaction. We have used business process and
systems engineering techniques on over 80 management
consulting and software development projects to optimize
product and process definition, simplify system
development, and reduce cost and time-to-market. We use
our experience with best practices in 6 different
industries- Insurance, Electric Utility, Information
Services, Business Application Software, Transportation,
and Financial Services-to hone product features and seize
opportunities presented by emerging technology, such as
the world-wide web.
Staff
Louis B. Deziel
Atelier was founded by
Louis Deziel in 1993. Deziel has 20 years of experience
in providing management consulting and product
development services. He previously worked at Minx
Software as Director of Product Development and Marketing
for a family of integrated business management software
products. As senior management consultant at Strategic
Decisions Group, he led large strategy development
projects for Fortune 500 companies.
Deziel has led successful
consulting projects for firms such as Westinghouse,
Pacific Gas & Electric, Teledyne, Harris, Sun
Microsystems, Cisco Systems, EPRI, Liberty Mutual
Insurance, and @Home Network. He holds a Ph.D. in
Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University,
and a B.S. in Computer Science from Michigan
Technological University. Deziel holds a US Patent for
probabilistic scheduling software.
Alison
Polkinhorne
Alison Polkinhorne adds
her strengths in product implementation methodologies and
practice to Atelier's expertise. Polkinhorne has 15 years
of experience in establishing Product Release and Test
architectures, and in managing large-scale product
releases for software development companies. She worked
for Sun Microsystems in its infancy, and has held
Directorships for several Silicon Valley start-ups,
including Nvidia Corporation and, most recently, Ipsilon
Networks (now Nokia). She holds an M.A. from Stanford
University.