Our partners have a combined total of over two hundred years providing independent third-party assurance of quality, reliability, and regulatory compliance in various industries with special emphasis on the medical-pharmaceutical and election administration sectors. We know of no other consulting or auditing firm that rivals the breadth of our experience and expertise.
We will work with you to get your election system needs fulfilled in the shortest time possible, while making sure that every required item is covered.
Providing independent third party assurance to our clients is what we do, all we do and doing it right is what we believe in.
Our team has been at this for a long time. We continually update our skills and broaden our experience. You won’t find a more experienced or skilled group to provide your needs for independent third party assurance.
Partner
Paul Craft became an audit manager, CPA, EDP Auditor, and member of the Inspector General’s office at Florida Department of Revenue conducting both program performance and financial investigative audits. In 1991 he was recruited by the Florida Department of State to establish an elections audit program. After Election 2000, he founded the Bureau of Voting Systems Certification at the Florida Department of State to implement election reform and provide technical assistance and voting system test services to local election offices.
He was a founding member of the US Elections Assistance Commission Technical Guidelines Development Committee.
In 2005, he joined Steve Freeman and Kate McGregor, founding the Freeman, Craft McGregor Group to provide election administration and technology consulting services to state and local election administrators throughout the county.
Partner
Kate McGregor joined the Florida Division of Elections in January of 2001. During her tenure, she revised the Florida Voting Systems Standards, was a member of the certification test team, worked with counties to revise polling place and security procedures and provided on site disaster recovery.
She later joined with Paul Craft and Steve Freeman to form the Freeman, Craft McGregor Group and continues to assist state and local governments with system testing, Ranked Choice Voting, on-site technical support and developing best practices for jurisdictions across the country.
PARTNER
Dr. Gisela Salas is an elections consultant and a professor.
During 2012, as Director of the Florida Division of Elections Department of State she managed and coordinated all administrative, programmatic and operational activities for the 2012 Florida Statewide elections. She worked closely with the Chief Information Officer to modernize the Division’s legacy computer systems and move the voter registration system and election night results to the Cloud.
Previously she worked as Marion County, Florida Deputy County Administrator and worked in Deputy Supervisor roles in the Miami-Dade and Broward County Election Departments in Florida.
She is considered a subject matter expert in the elections industry after working extensively with the media, public information, compliance with election laws, qualifying of public officials running for office, campaign financing, pollworker recruitment, training, and placement, forms design, records management, coordination of call centers, management of elections operations, and strategic planning.
Senior Validation Engineer and Consultant
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Wendy F. Marsh provides consulting on Quality Management Systems, Validation Services and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) for manufacturers of Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals to meet U.S. Food and Drug Administration requirements.
Her background includes twelve years of validation and quality systems consulting for the medical and biotechnological industry, two years updating a Quality Management System, seven years at NASA in engineering, system reliability, quality, and mission assurance evaluation, three years of instrumentation engineering & project management, two years of systems design engineering & development and six years of systems support, installation, maintenance and training.
Specialized training includes:
ISO13485:2016 Lead Auditor (TPECS) for MD, AU, TL
ISO9001:2015 Lead Auditor for MD, AU, TL
SAIC Practical Engineering, SAIC
Safety Implemented Systems, ISA
ControlLogix Motion, Rockwell Automation
Designing Telecommunications Distribution Systems, BICSI
AMPS Training (Project Management Cycle Documentation), USWest
Process Management,
USWest Quality Training
