There is no continued success without risks. In 2018 Melton Thomas, Founder and Principal of Aspira Investments and longtime entrepreneur, took on the most ambitious risk of his career in launching Aspira Investments; leveraging his expertise and deep industry connections to build a team of highly qualified residential commercial real estate investors, marketers, lenders and agents. Aspira Investments is a privately held real estate and technology firm focused on investing in value-add real estate opportunities in Texas, New York, Chicago, Indianapolis and select cities across the United States and Latin America. Aspira Investments relies heavily on deep understanding of the real estate markets, specialized knowledge identifying & creating exceptional opportunities, continued marketing innovation, and old fashioned gladiator grit that puts points on the board. On the technology side, Aspira Consulting is focused on acquiring, monetizing and divesting exceptional internet and technology-based businesses. Each potential acquisition in our deal funnel is meticulously scrutinized via our proprietary diligence process before on deals before being personally evaluated by our founder Melton Thomas, who’s 20 years of enterprise technology sales and consulting experience personally directs the firm’s strategy in identifying, purchasing and repositioning value-added opportunities. 
Under Melton’s leadership, Aspira Investments has consistently increased in both size and revenue each year.​ Aspira Investments extends technology and real estate advisory, marketing and training services to select clients. For more information about how Aspira Investments can be of service to YOU, or to work with Melton directly, feel free to send a message on LinkedIn.

A dynamic Business Analyst and Project Leader with 20 years of experience driving successful enterprise technology, digital transformation, Quality Assurance, Technical Writing and B2B/B2C initiatives. Below you will find an extensive list of clients for whom Melton's proclivity for winning and reputation for excellence has driven enterprise-scale digital transformation. By utilizing agile methodologies to achieve extraordinary results, Melton has consistently delivered remarkable outcomes for engagements where failure is not an option, despite arduous time commitments and ambitious scopes of work. As trusted advisor to organizations in industry sectors including, Government, Financial Services, Logistics, Higher Education, Healthcare, and Telecommunications, Melton has demonstrated high-competency leading teams in designing and implementing ERP (Oracle/PeopleSoft/SAP), Blockchain (Bitcoin/Ethereum), and Cloud solutions. NOTABLE CLIENTS✓ Calpine Energy ✓ State of Indiana✓ HSBC North America✓ MeadWestvaco✓ Boeing✓ Sprint/Nextel✓ University of Kansas✓ Harvard University✓ Lowe’s✓ FedEx Ground✓ Harris County (Texas)✓ King County (Washington)✓ Community Transit (Washington)✓ Nassau County (New York)✓ FINRA✓ TATA Consulting Services (TCS)✓ WMATA (DC Metro)✓ State of Delaware✓ City Colleges of Chicago✓ SCI (Service Corporation International)✓ Mellon Bank✓ National Stock Exchange✓ NY Board of Trade

Having developed a successful career bringing consultative technology-based solutions to large, complex organizations spanning varied industries, I joined Savvis' (now CenturyLink Technology Solutions) New York-based Diversified Financial Sales team Q1 2013. This role has allowed me to utilize my consulting knowledge and experience to understand the unique business problems of firms within financial services, and procure solutions that position my clients to maximize robust, scalable, and cost-efficient success stories. A long-time Consultantpreneur, I have acquired the adaptability, flexibility and endurance necessary for success in the information technology space. These skills will serve to augment CTS’ “Magic Quadrant” positioning in Managed Hosting and Managed Services by deepening CTS’ already strong presence in the competitive Financial Services landscape. This skill-set, coupled with the ability to continually identify, qualify, and facilitate high quality opportunities in the IT Infrastructure/Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, Managed Security, and Cloud solutions space, serves CTS’ business partners in driving their organizations toward comprehensive solutions that enable innovation in their company’s core business units. My aptitude at strategically leading internal and external resources has cultivated a network of insightful and influential champions, coaches, and chieftains amongst my client-partners; which often help identify and qualify opportunities within their complex organizations. While at CTS I am charged with brainstorming and executing consultative resolutions to the IT challenges that beleaguer the strategic vision of C-Level execs, and amalgamate the position of that vision over the constraints inherent to technologically complex organizations. Knowledge Areas Include:• Consulting/Professional Services & Methodologies• IT Infrastructure Services / Outsourcing• Enterprise Cloud solutions• Managed Hosting• Managed Security• Colocation

• Time and Labor 9.0 team lead contracted to analyze the Collective Bargaining Agreements for King County’s 96 Unions in order to document the impact of the pending change from semi-monthly to biweekly/actual hours, Time & Labor Rules, business process changes and other significant customizations would affect County business, so that Labor Relations could successfully renegotiate future contract revisions • Conducted Fit/Gap analysis, implemented and tested Time & Labor Rule logic and configuration for 25+ county agencies, in order to document/test the impact of new pay practices• Labor Contract preparation, analysis and review describing contract requirements, proposed system options and rules recommendations to meet requirement• Analyzed and Retro-fitted existing Rules for County Agencies• Conducted all testing phases to meet project charter requirements:• Functional• System Integration• Parallel • Time and Labor 9.0 team lead contracted to analyze the Collective Bargaining Agreements for King County’s 96 Unions in order to document the impact of the pending change from semi-monthly to biweekly/actual hours, Time & Labor Rules, business process changes and other significant customizations would affect County business, so that Labor Relations could successfully renegotiate future contract revisions • Conducted Fit/Gap analysis, implemented and tested Time & Labor Rule logic and configuration for 25+ county agencies, in order to document/test the impact of new pay practices• Labor Contract preparation, analysis and review describing contract requirements, proposed system options and rules recommendations to meet requirement• Analyzed and Retro-fitted existing Rules for County Agencies• Conducted all testing phases to meet project charter requirements:• Functional• System Integration• Parallel • Regression

* Build and develop corporate relationships to expand the company brand and B2B sales initiatives. * Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.* Responsible for all aspects of brand development including developing sales team, creating and implementing market strategy, responsible for web assessment and full roll-out of a newly updated site.

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