Chief Executive Officer/Owner
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Mar 2015 - Present
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Chief Executive Officer and Owner of Quantam Solutions & Powerwell
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Richard Van Staten previously worked as Chief Executive Officer/Owner at Quantam and Chief Executive Officer/Owner at Powerwell. Richard Van Staten studied at Leaders Excellence At Harvard Square.
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Richard Van Staten was an entrepreneur from the start: making his way from mowing lawns to becoming director of Electronic Data Systems’ Medicaid Eligibility program in Texas at the age of just 24. From there, managing information systems and interfacing between public and private entities became his specialty. After executing and dozens of major projects and modernizations in addition to putting many others that were troubled back on track all over the country, including many that were first of their kind: significant government programs in Iowa, Texas, and Michigan, leading mergers and acquisitions in California, and technical projects in Washington, D.C. He settled in Michigan as Senior Director of an IT division with oversight of clinical and business applications serving over 10,000 doctors. Henry Ford Health Systems, a nonprofit managed care provider, entrusted Richard with the tech that keeps their 100,000+ annual patients managed by 30,000 employees. He continued his modernization efforts for state governments as a leader with oversight of dozens of technologies in short-time frames. For a solutions-oriented tech expert like Richard, the biggest challenges are always the most enticing ones. Richard Van Staten has earned a number of accolades throughout his career, including an Official Member of the Forbes Technology Council, Stevie Award IT Executive of the Year, Executive of the Year, and ComputerWorld Premier 100 Technology Leaders. But trophies and titles aren’t what drives him. Creating real, actionable paths to profitability for businesses and tech clients large and small are what he does best, and he’s never slowed down. His own companies like Quantam and Van Staten and Associates bring his skill to the worlds consulting and market penetration. He also serves as a mentor, helping guide numerous up-and-coming minds in the business sphere.For his roster of satisfied clients and partner organizations, that hard-forged spirit has paid off in droves.
Listed skills include Healthcare, It Strategy, Leadership, Project Planning, and 24 others.
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Chief Executive Officer/Owner
Current
Mar 2015 - Present
Official Member
CurrentRichard Van Staten, CEO of Quantam, a business and technology company that specializes in modernization has been accepted into the Forbes Technology Council, an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. Richard Van Staten joins other Forbes Technology Council members, who are hand-selected, to become part of a curated network of successful peers and get access to a variety of exclusive benefits and resources, including the opportunity to submit thought leadership articles and short tips on industry-related topics for publishing on Forbes.com.Scott Gerber, founder of Forbes Councils, says, “We are honored to welcome Richard Van Staten into the community. Our mission with Forbes Councils is to curate successful professionals from every industry, creating a vetted, social capital-driven network that helps every member make an even greater impact on the business world.”
Jul 2018 - Present
Client Executive State Of Michigan
Richard Van Staten was a Client Executive at the State of Michigan and in charge of the Project Control Office (PCO) and Project Management Office (PMO). He was fully in charge of the modernization for the business and systems for the Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA), which consisted of moving away from a series of legacy systems and modernization to updated and cloud-based systems. Richard Van Staten oversaw approximately 400 staff members from various vendors, state employees, as well as his own consulting group. The projects included implementation of a Tax and Benefits systems with a product called FAST, which was the largest of the projects. Additional projects included Genesys Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), Genesys Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems, SAS Fraud Detection Analytics Systems, overhaul of the call center processes and procedures, switching banking systems for UIA from Chase Bank to Bank of America, OnPoint Financial Recovery Systems, Judging systems, Cybersecurity, and several more. The project was the largest going on in the State of Michigan at the time. Other consulting firms were attempting something similar in other states over much longer periods of time and without success, but Richard Van Staten was able to complete all projects on-time and under budget by approximately $8M. The OnPoint Recovery project won a NASCIO award, which he not only implemented, but wrote for the State of Michigan. The other portion of Richard Van Staten’s position was to expand business for the firm he was working for at the time, which included expansions to seven (7) additional agencies over just a two-year period. This included new projects in Secretary of State, Treasury Department, Transportation Department, Workforce Development, Office of Retirement, Department of Technology Management and Budget, Corrections Department, State Police, Talent and Investment Agency, Lottery and Gaming Agency.
Aug 2011 - Jun 2015
Senior Portfolio Director Clinical & Business Applications
Richard Van Staten provided oversight for all Clinical and Business Applications for Henry Ford Health Systems. This included hundreds of systems that operated the entire network of seven major hospitals in the Detroit Metro area, all ambulatory sites, as well as a large network of physicians. Business Applications are those that run the business such as financial systems (Peoplesoft, Oracle), as well as Blackbaud for the philanthropy division, all call center applications which included Siemens, Avaya, Nortel networks, Witness Systems, Blue Pumpkin Workforce Management, Kronos Timekeeping systems for nurses, and dozens more. Richard Van Staten also managed all Clinical applications including Electronic Medical Records (EMR), and all applications and equipment, networks, and hardware infrastructure for the health system. This included products from Epic, Phillips, Thomson Reuters, and dozens more for the purposes of keeping the actual hospitals running including ambulatory, ICU, NICU, etc. Overall, he modernized both divisions in hundreds of ways over his five-year tenure.
Sep 2006 - Aug 2011
Senior Director Erp Crm Scm Practice Director
Richard Van Staten was the Senior Director for the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Supply Chain Management (SCM) division of the organization. This entailed oversight of thousands of employees all over the country and ensuring the projects were being executed properly. Richard Van Staten worked with large companies such as Boole and Babbage, BMC Software, AT&T, John Deere, Safelite Auto Glass, Prudential, Near North Insurance and many more in an executive and consultative capacity. He also worked with many state governments including Texas, Iowa, Georgia, Florida, New York, New Mexico, California, Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio. Most engagements were to oversee the implementation of new technologies particularly surrounding ERP, CRM, and SCM needs. Products that were employed were for ERP included SAP, Siebel, Genesys, Avaya, Nortel, Peoplesoft, SAS, Oracle E-Business, Infor, NetSuite, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, SAGE, Lawson. Products for SCM included SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, IBM. Products for CRM included Vantive, Remedy, Siebel, SAP, SugarCRM, BMC, Zoho, Jira, Microsoft Dynamics. These products are generally used for Sales Force Automation (SFA), Marketing and Campaign Management, Customer Support, Help Desks, Knowledge and Training, Workforce Management, Client Tracking, Contact Centers and Call Centers, and many other functions. Richard Van Staten also worked on the hardware side of each of these implementations which includes networks, servers, server management, data warehouses, cloud infrastructures, modernization of legacy systems.
Aug 2001 - Aug 2006
Senior Practice Director Public Sector Central Region
Mar 1999 - Aug 2006
Director State Of Texas - State Of Iowa - Cook County
Director State of Texas Access Reform Program - Operations, Technology, Call CentersDirector State of Texas Medicaid Eligibility - Operations, Technology, Call CentersDirector Iowa Children's Health Insurance Program. (CHIP) HAWK-IOperations, Technology, Call Centers, Outreach, Marketing.Initiated Iowa's CHIP program
Jan 1994 - Aug 1999
Senior Director
Jan 2004 - Mar 2006
Call Center Manager
May 1992 - Nov 1994
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Richard Van Staten education
Education record
Leaders Excellence At Harvard Square
Master Of Computer Applications - Mca, Information Technology
Villanova University
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Richard Van Staten works for Quantam.
What is Richard Van Staten's role at Quantam?
Richard Van Staten is listed as Chief Executive Officer and Owner of Quantam Solutions & Powerwell at Quantam.
Where is Richard Van Staten based?
Richard Van Staten is based in Detroit, Michigan, United States while working with Quantam.
What companies has Richard Van Staten worked for?
Richard Van Staten has worked for Quantam, Powerwell, Forbes Technology Council, State Of Michigan, and Henry Ford Health System.
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Richard Van Staten studied at Leaders Excellence At Harvard Square.
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Richard Van Staten is listed with skills including Healthcare, It Strategy, Leadership, Project Planning, Strategy, Business Strategy, Government, and Public Speaking.
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