Members of Intelligent Directions Consulting

We provide only the very most qualified, experienced and professional knowledge based consultants. Current members of Intelligent Directions Consulting have a combined 125+ years experience in business and technical fields. We also have a network of specialist subcontractors that we have worked with in the past, so that when we propose an additional specialist we know that they will provide quality service as well.

Partner Directors

• Michael H. Johnson

  Mr. Johnson is the Founding and Managing Director of Intelligent Directions Consulting, LLC. He has over 30 years of accomplished Management and IT consulting experience. His consulting experience has involved successful projects in several public and private sector business areas. He has provided varied service levels, and functioned in many different project roles for state and local courts (most case types), health and welfare agencies (IV-A, CSES, WIC, MMIS), law enforcement agencies, and assessor and tax collection agencies. In the private sector, he has worked in regulatory world of aerospace and medical manufacturing, as well as with many varied companies in the accounting, software and technology industries.

  Having an extensive information systems and financial background, has allowed Mr. Johnson to provide helpful expertise involving; strategic planning, project management, project monitoring, budgeting, cost/benefit analysis, procurement, system requirements analysis, business workflow analysis, business process re-engineering, several CASE tools, process modeling techniques, data modeling, data exchange/EDI, software package and system selection, and system implementations. Mr. Johnson is often selected to play the lead role for many of these projects. He has also developed and taught several classes for many of the specific IT disciplines.

  For public sector clients his experience also includes vendor market analysis and preparation of RFP and RFI documents, preparation of state and federal APD documents, establishing vendor scoring criteria, assistance in vendor evaluation and conducting bidder conferences. Ongoing vendor and project monitoring is also a specialized service area that Mr. Johnson provides, which is based in part on the heavy EDP Auditing experience that he obtained while working for one of the Big 4 Accounting Firms.

  Mr. Johnson has a Master of Business Administration, California State University, and a BS in Business Administration/Computer Info Systems, Arizona State University. He is a member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) and the National Association for Court Management (NACM).
  
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• Michael C. Stein

  Mr. Stein is the Managing Director and has more than 30 years of experience in the public sector focusing on criminal justice, the telecommunications industry and commercial banking. His career has been focused on helping organizations effectively utilize technology to solve business problems through business process re-engineering, strategic systems planning, requirements definition, and the management of large-scale systems integration efforts. In recent years, Mr. Stein has been primarily engaged in facilitating the development of IT strategies and assisting organizations in finding effective ways to exchange information between legacy information systems. Recently, he has served as the Director, Systems and Technology Program, for SEARCH: The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics and as the Director, Public Safety and Justice for Gartner formerly Gartner Group). Prior to joining Gartner, he was employed as a Solutions Director in the Information Services Group (ISG) of Unisys Corporation, served as a senior technology manager for the trial courts in the County of Los Angeles, California, and was a Manager in the Law and Justice Practice of Deloitte & Touche.

  Mr. Stein has spoken at national conferences on IT-related matters including the 2002 and 2006 SEARCH symposiums on integrated justice; the annual meetings of the National Association for Court Management (NACM) in 2001, 2002, and 2005; the annual meeting of National Association for Justice Information Systems (NAJIS) in 2005; and delivered one of the keynote presentations for the Annual Meeting of the Ohio Judicial Conference in 2003. He is a co-author of the research note Justice Community of Interest Architecture, published by Gartner Research in August, 2001. Mr. Stein received his bachelor's degree from Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio and conducted his graduate studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York, in Public Administration.

  Mr. Stein is a member of the National Association for Court Management.
  
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Member Associates

• Timothy K. Lawler

  Mr. Lawler has more than 25 years of experience in the public sector focusing on criminal justice. His career has been focused on helping organizations effectively utilize technology to solve business problems through business process re-engineering, strategic systems planning, requirements definition, and the management of large-scale systems integration efforts. In recent years, Mr. Lawler has been primarily engaged in facilitating the development of IT strategies and assisting organizations in finding effective ways to develop justice systems that meet their needs exchange and integrate the latest technologies.
  
  Recently, Mr. Lawler served as the Director, Systems and Technology, for Phoenix Municipal Court. Prior to joining the city of Phoenix he was the Court automation manager for the state of Arizona. He also served as a senior technology manager for the trial courts in the County of Los Angeles, California.
  
  Mr. Lawler received his degree from Chicago City Colleges, Harold Washington College in Information Systems.
  
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Affiliates

• George W. Hogshead

  Mr. Hogshead has over 30 years of experience as an information technology (IT) and management consultant. He has also worked internationally as a manager and advisor for various agencies and jurisdictions of governments throughout the world. In the course of his consulting career, Mr. Hogshead has held highly responsible positions in the law and justice practices of first-tier consulting and systems integration firms including Deloitte & Touche, KPMG, Bearing Point and served as a consultant to Unisys Corp.

  He currently works with agencies responsible for internal security, law enforcement, public safety, integrated justice (criminal, civil, juvenile and administrative law), information technology (IT) and government reform and modernization. He helps clients improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their operations by implementing new governance structures, concepts of operations (ConOps), improved business processes and best demonstrated practices, information sharing and exchange (i.e. iJIS and iCJIS) technologies, and integrated mission critical and tactical systems.

  Mr. Hogshead is a founding member, past Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of the IJIS Institute. He is a founding member of the IJIS Industry Working Group (IWG), and a past IWG industry representative to the Integration Standards Working Group (ISWIG) of the GLOGAL Network Integration Committee, an advisory Body for the Attorney General and the U.S. Department of Justice.

  Mr. Hogshead is a Certified Court Executive Officer (U.S. Federal and state courts) and Fellow of the Institute for Court Management (ICM), and a former member of the faculty of the ICM Program.
  
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