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Dr. Fitzpatrick is a health psychologist, a registered nurse, and the founder of Inner Reach® Corporation. She is the innovator of the collection of protocols and the Health Information Gathering System— HiGS . Dr. Fitzpatrick holds a Diploma in Nursing, a Master of Education degree with a focus in Counseling Psychology, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Health Psychology. She has particular areas of proficiency in health psychology, medical-surgical nursing, adult development, and ancient ways of healing.
Her areas of substantive knowledge include: American Indian ways of healing; herbal medicine, particularly Chinese herbs and Fangji; Traditional Chinese Medicine theories, therapies and modalities; counseling psychology, alcoholic family systems, anxiety disorders; group therapy, women’s issues, and multiculturalism and diversity.
Gerald L. Byrnes, Chief Business Development Officer, Director at Inner Reach Corporation is a Marketing and Business Development executive, specializing in creating new business opportunities in Computer Technology in Government and Commercial venues. With particular proficiencies in Funding, Legislative and Policy Issues as well as Extensive Capitol Hill (DC) experience, Mr. Byrnes’ areas of substantive knowledge include: New Business Development, Product Management and Marketing Communications, Business Plan Development, Access Control and Security Systems, Biometrics, Secure Identification Systems, Engineering Technology, Trade Show Production, and Press Relations.
He has worked with many federal and state agencies including Departments of Defense (DOD), State and Justice as well as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and Technical Support Working Group (TSWG). He has been a key leader in introducing new technologies into commercial and government sectors. Mr. Byrnes first introduced the use of facial recognition biometrics into the DOD in 1994.
Mr. Byrnes’ past 35 years of experience include upper management positions at Fujitsu (computer technology and technology security), Curtiss-Wright (products and services for commercial aerospace, power generation, general industry, and defense), and Viisage Technology/Lau (developer of biometric identification systems; facial identification biometrics). He has extensive experience in TeleMedicine and Remote Patient Monitoring Systems.
Mr. Byrnes is a former Naval Officer, holding a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Engineering with a Major in Economics from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD (Diploma1971). He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree with a specialty in Marketing and Market Research from Clark University (Diploma 1986).
Mark Fitzpatrick is the architect of the Inner Reach® Health Information Gathering System (HiGS) and the developer of the Inner Reach® Corporation web sites. As VP of Software Architecture, he has devoted 7 years to the creation of HiGS and its e-health technology. Mr. Fitzpatrick has carefully designed secure data bases, weaving more then 10,000 history and assessment questions plus more than fifteen-hundred signs and symptoms in 9 body systems areas into the Inner Reach® HiGS. Inner Reach® is a web-based preventive care technology business designed to place individuals in the center of their own healthcare process by electronically collecting the first and most important step to self-care and healthcare– health histories.
Other experience: Mr. Fitzpatrick has been developing web sites and applications for 12 years. As the chief software architect for Merchant Capital Business International (MCBI) he was the developer of the MCBI web site and architect and software developer of its system and content. He was the architect and chief developer of Unity (a core product of Integrated Biz Tools) a system for matching business sellers and buyers together. He was the architect of an e-learning management solution for Smarter Online, an e-learning management system for the securities industry. Additionally, he designed a prototype to help match people with appropriate medical tests for Test Universe. Mr. Fitzpatrick has designed data bases for many companies using Microsoft SQL Server. His expertise in various software products, technologies, and languages include: Visual C#, Visual Web Developer, Expression Web, and Adobe Dreamweaver; SQL, ASP.Net, and .Net Framework; C#, HTML, XML, and JavaScript. He has also used FORTRAN, COBOL, C, Pascal, and Visual Basic. He has designed and developed e-commerce systems.
Mark Fitzpatrick is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP since 1997) of which there are now around 4,000 active. (Microsoft describes MVPs as exceptional technical community leaders from around the world that dynamically share real world expertise in offline and online technical communities.) He is a contributing author or technical editor of standard texts about Microsoft software, FrontPage, and IIS Administration.
Bill Souder brings to Inner Reach more than 30 years of experience in sales and marketing management. Bill has spent most of his professional career in the highly competitive cardiology medical devices industry of which he has held several senior level management positions. In his roles as National Sales Manager and Director of Sales for two major market leaders in the devices industry, he successfully directed the overall sales responsibilities of the businesses which included training, developing, and directing sales teams in excess of 200 representatives and 26 managers while overseeing budgets of $20 to $30 million. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business with an emphasis in Marketing.
As Senior Director of Corporate Sales, Mr. Souder brings with him an entrepreneurial vision in sales, marketing and business development. Bill oversees the commercialization strategy for the Company’s HiGS Health and other Inner Reach products by directing and coordinating the sales and marketing efforts of all Inner Reach employees actively involved with the promotion and education of HiGS and other products. Overseeing all responsibilities related to sales and marketing, working closely with the CEO, Bill Souder evaluates, develops, and manages, partnering and client relationships, and assists with acquiring strategic technologies and assets.
Simon Hurst of England and Oklahoma City, OK., the official photographer for Inner Reach Corporation.