William Shields
Chairman
William Shields has worked in the insurance, healthcare, and information technology industries since 1969. He also has been involved in all aspects of Internet development since its beginnings. Shields founded a number of ventures, including a successful third-party administrator. In addition to his work at TMN, Inc, he is president of CyberXpress, a specialty Internet service provider that provides many technical support services to TMN.  Received his bachelor's degree in Business Administration from St Bernard College, and was a Chartered Management Accountant.

Ron Classen, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer
Ron Classen has more than 25 years of experience in the computer and software development field. He has been a consultant and software developer for companies and government agencies such as Rockwell International, E-Systems and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. Classen has developed many Web-based software applications including insurance claims processing, online credit reporting and reservation systems. He has a doctorate in industrial engineering from the University of Arkansas and has been a computer science/engineering professor at several leading universities. In addition, he has authored more than 20 papers in various areas of information technology and networks.

Christopher Rea, CFA
President & CEO
Christopher Rea brings 10 years of business management and 10 years of corporate finance experience to the Company. Prior to joining the Company he worked as a corporate finance consultant for Deloitte & Touche and with several investment banking firms, performing business valuations, financial analysis, and corporate finance advisory work.  Prior to that, Rea was a founder and president of a successful start-up that was sold to management. Rea has an MBA from Warwick University in the United Kingdom and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Michael Tonkinson
Director of Business Development
Michael Tonkinson brings 15 years of healthcare-related experience in sales, sales training and marketing to CompConnector. He has worked in various sales and marketing positions for U.S. Surgical, Abbott Labs and Johnson & Johnson. Tonkinson's sales and sales training strategies and implementation efforts throughout his career have consistently demonstrated outstanding results in market share, ASP and net profit increases. He has been published in various sales and sales training periodicals, including Safeskin News and Surging Sales. Tonkinson received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Spring Hill College, Mobile, Ala.,
where he attended on scholarship.


 

 

Kris Cooper, Ph.D.
Director of Product Development
Kris Cooper has more than 20 years experience in the computer and software development field and is the author of papers on topics including user interface design, database design and using the Web in a learning environment. She has been a consultant and software developer for organizations such as General Dynamics, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and the state of Mississippi. She received her doctorate in computer science from the University of Texas at Arlington and has served in many lead positions in the areas of information technology for several universities. Recent software development projects have included Web-based applications that access online databases, emphasizing user interface and database design to enhance system effectiveness. Cooper's focus at Total Med Network is database architecture design and development, interface design and development, and quality assurance.

David Shields
Director of Network Engineering
David Shields handles network security for the company, as well as all network engineering duties. Shields is a founder of CyberXpress, an Internet service provider specializing in intranet and Internet secured connections. He has extensive expertise in network communications, including advanced Cisco training, and Internet security. This includes firewalls, proxies, network address translation, access lists and encrypted sessions using SSL and Virtual Private Networking with ATMP, PPTP and L2TP.

John Adkins
Director of Network Systems
John Adkins' primary focus is the installation, upgrading and maintenance of network hardware, servers and workstations including network design and layout. Adkins has experience with all versions of Microsoft's Windows applications from 3.1x to Windows 2000 server. He has designed and implemented various networks running TCP/IP, IPX/SPX and other network protocols. He also has extensive experience with client/server applications and other applications running in a network or stand-alone environment. Adkins heads all internal and external network installation and maintenance.

Daniel Rhoden
Director of Technical Support
Daniel Rhoden brings extensive experience in the technical field of computers to Total Med Network. Rhoden has built, configured and maintained many types of systems and software applications. His many talents include trouble-shooting software applications and computer related problems, and setting up, configuring and trouble-shooting networks. He has obtained numerous certifications including MCSE +I, CCNA, Network+ and A+. Rhoden handles customer relations and technical support for the company.