Ten years later … I continue to value and appreciate the integrity, compassion, and clarity she brings to work and to relationships. Melanie models the high standards she expects from others, causing staff and peers to raise their own level of excellence.

Whether managing technical staff, working through difficult changes with executives, or guiding TerraSys customers through methodology training, Melanie blends insightful probing with a sense of humor to help others find creative solutions and to solve their own problems.

Evelyn E. Crabtree
Director of Information Management and Technology Services
Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency
Sacramento, California

Melanie Cullen is a rarity among Information Technology and management consultants. Her down-to-earth sensibility and insightful clarity delivers results that are both easy to understand and effective. Whether you face a complex IT problem or a management challenge, Melanie can help identify the issues, map out the course, and determine measurements for success.

Richard Plummer-Raphael, Vice President of Sales
Sponsorwise
Fremont, California

Melanie Cullen is one of the most astute people I know. She is a master trainer and coach, and expert at designing and facilitating strategic change.

Melanie is deeply appreciated by her consulting clients and professional colleagues for her impeccable leadership and wise counsel. I have worked with Melanie for years as a colleague and I respect her great ability to be calm and objective during high stress situations. She is a role model for integrity, commitment, and compassion.

Kate Powers, Consultant
Powers Consulting
San Anselmo, California

Melanie Cullen of TerraSys Consulting has provided customized curricula regarding a Managing Technology Series that has been well received by our (campus) staff. She is consistently professional, flexible and provides high quality deliverables in a timely manner. She is collaborative, incorporating a variety of constituent perspectives and producing an outcome that is embraced by all those involved. Melanie is an effective facilitator, solicits input from participants, draws connections in the curricula and handles difficult situations with ease.

After her courses have concluded, she reviews the evaluations and adjusts her future courses according to the input received. In addition, she takes the initiative to recommend additional courses that further our organization's goals.

It is a pleasure to work with Melanie.

Carina Celesia Moore, Manager
Staff Development & Professional Services
University of California, Davis

Working with Melanie over the past several years has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my professional career. As a coach and mentor, she is the Chief Information Officer's Chief Information Resource. Her background in both Information Technology and general business lend her a perspective that is lacking in many consultants.

Melanie was instrumental in bringing a formal Project Methodology into our organization. She not only authored the curriculum but also delivered it to all of our senior and middle management teams as well as key departments. Following this methodology has led to a much greater success rate for not only I.T. projects but also for many key projects in our other departments.

We continue to use Melanie as an advisor for more complex or out of the ordinary projects.

Patrick J. Oates, Vice President of Information Services
Portal Publications Limited
Novato, California

I have worked with and for Melanie for 13 years. Our success can be attributed to the many roles Melanie plays:

When you engage TerraSys to assist your organization, you'll get a complete package:

Melanie in her strongest roles as Partner and Solution Provider.
Solutions ready for implementation -- including RSPMM.
Success.

Richard Jacobsen, Director of Merchandising Application Delivery
Raley's
West Sacramento, California

I have had direct experience of her abilities as an instructional designer, facilitator and project manager. I have been impressed with her talents in those areas. She is clear and collaborative in her approach, working in iterative fashion to ensure that inputs are received from all stakeholders. She is flexible and willing to modify either her approach or the content in order to meet the needs as they evolve.

She has the entrepreneurial foresight to look for potential gaps in program offerings and devise proposals to meet them.

Chuck Yannacone
Staff Development & Professional Services
University of California, Davis

In her capacity at Valley, Melanie was a true leader in every sense of the word. She provided a vision for the company that her people understood through her careful communications. She established both a sense of priority and a high quality standard for work emitting from her group by accepting nothing less. She developed a team that shared her vision, her commitment and her willingness to do their best.

Melanie established a technical group that provided superior service to the company by understanding the underlying business and what was necessary to provide to our customers, both for the current conditions and what they may need in the future.

I have seen in huge growth in individuals' abilities as Melanie has mentored, taught, conditioned, shown, and established the way it is done. Her underlying tone is to treat people as she herself would want to be treated. Melanie is both a shrewd judge of character and a developer of people.

I have known Melanie for well over 20 years and have consistently been impressed with her intellect, her analytical skills, her thoroughness, her leadership skills, and her ability to get the most out of people.

Robert R. Cain, Retired
Former President & CEO, Startle Plc, London, England
Former President & CEO, Valley Media, Inc., Woodland, California

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