About Us

Our Team Approach

Our consulting practice focuses on providing complete digital strategy implementation and technology solutions based on the WordPress and BuddyPress platform. Together, Dr. Ron Suarez and Margarete Koenen possess the full spectrum of design and development skills that needed by organizations of varying sizes to deliver these solutions. For decades Ron has also been able to quickly build teams to scale up as needed for multi-million dollar enterprise projects, while simultaneously understanding how to implement solutions and budgets for small non-profits.

Our History

Ron is a former cognitive psychology professor turned serial software entrepreneur. He wrote assembly language programs for a Cognitive Psychophysiology Lab he directed in the early 1980′s and has since done virtually every aspect of development in the four startup businesses he founded. Ron’s involvement in community led him to found a Food Coop at NYU in 1971, co-found a computer consultants cooperative in the 1980′s and run for Ann Arbor City Council where he served from 2006 – 2008.

Many of the solutions developed in these experiences, find their way today into the corporate enterprise under the name of crowd sourcing and new management techniques.

Margarete is a web designer and developer. Her skills include  HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript/ JQuery. She has been focusing on WordPress and BuddyPress for the last three years, creating her own child themes and customizing plugins. Margarete has also worked with Ron providing services to the Music Label customers of LoudFeed, which included the use of Magento for online ecommerce to handle digital music, CDs and vinyl albums sales.  LoudFeed’s work with music also included the 2009 launch of a private social network for the non-profit trade association, The American Association of Independent Music,  using WordPress and the earliest working version of BuddyPress.

Our combined experience set includes a history that goes back to Object Oriented Analysis, Design and Development practices with Smalltalk from the 1980′s through the 90′s, followed by years of experience with Java related product development and enterprise projects, Ruby on Rails and WordPress – BuddyPress. We have been a part of the creation of the Agile and User Centric approaches that we practice.

History of Consulting, Products and Training at Four Companies

Customers From Object Insight, Inc. Included

3Com, 3M, AT&T, Battelle, Caterpillar, CNN, Computer Sciences Corp., Cornell University, Dept. of Interior USGS, Detroit Edison, Dresdner Bank AG, HewLett Packard, Harvard Business School, GTE, Gartner/Griggs-Anderson Research, Florida State University, FermiLab, Federal Express, FAME, ESRI, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, MCI, Lockheed-Martin, Knight Rider New Media, Kaiser Foundation, IBM, Honeywell, Pratt Whitney Canada, Oracle Corp., Nortel Networks, National Bank of Georgia, Motorola, Mitre Corp., Swisscom AG, Sprint, Sony Online Entertainment, Smith, Kline and Beecham, SDRC, Schlumberger, Sandia National Laboratories, Quest, Chase Manhattan Bank, ThoughtWorks, Inc., Tivoli Systems, University of Michigan, Wells Fargo Bank, and Yale University.

Our Philosophy

As a team Dr. Ron Suarez and Margarete Koenen have decided to “live our lives now and conduct our business affairs now the way we want the world to be.” We believe that sustainable solutions must spring from the combined efforts of individuals pursuing their dreams, non-profits, social entrepreneurs and innovative capitalist businesses that produce thick value as defined by Umair Haque.