Company
History
The firm began as Analytical Compensation Services in
October 1995 when Jim McMahon left the Management Compensation Services
unit of Hewitt Associates after a 20-year career. During that period,
he was responsible for developing new industry survey groups and for
improving existing surveys. As a result of an early assignment serving
major E&C companies, he concentrated his efforts in that industry and
became Hewitt's lead consultant to the industry. In addition, he worked
on projects involving consumer products manufacturing, pharmaceuticals
financial services and retail.
Many of ACS' early assignments were also with E&C companies and the
firm was able to broaden its industry coverage to include Home Builders
when Dot Crater joined the firm. Crater and McMahon had worked together
in the Compensation and Benefits Department of Armour- Dial. Then Hewitt
recruited McMahon and Crater moved up and eventually became the top
compensation executive for the Greyhound/Dial Corporation. Her next
stop was as Director of Compensation and later Director of Human Resources
for the Del Webb Corporation the developer of retirement and communities
and homebuilder. Shortly after Crater became part of the Analytical
team, Terry Hakala left UDC Homes and joined up with ACS and we were
on our way to being the principal provider of data to that industry.
Two developments occurred in 1997 that led to an even stronger foothold
in E&C business. The Construction Industry Group (CIG) replaced their
survey consultant with Analytical so we began servicing that group of
20 major construction companies. The second development gave us some
exposure to international compensation. McMahon had been conducting
surveys in the UK for Brown & Root for most of a decade. John Ramsden,
the Director of Human Resources and member of the main board for Foster-Wheeler,
Ltd., was facing mandatory retirement because of his board service.
McMahon persuaded Ramsden to join the team and they formed McMahon-Ramsden,
Ltd. to provide the same services in Europe as Analytical was offering
in the US.
The name Analytical Compensation Services came about from a suggestion
by the President of Analytical Computer Services, a tenant in the same Scottsdale
office building as Hewitt's MCS. We sublet space from this computer
company and decided there may be some synergies by having such similar
names. We had one major project in common and thought perhaps there
would be others. As the business grew and our services expanded we needed
more space. We found a few miles away in central Phoenix and are now
in our 11th year in the Northbank Office Park at 40th Street and
Camelback
Click here for Jim McMahon's Bio
Analytical/FMI Associates
Dot
Crater, Crater was an owner of the business, and
as mentioned earlier, she worked with Jim McMahon at Dial in the Compensation
& Benefits Department, rose to the position of Corporate Director of
Compensation for Greyhound/Dial, held the same position at Del Webb
and before joining Analytical was the Director of Human Resources for
Del Webb and learned a new industry. She heads up the Compensation Data
Services Production unit and works closely with Terry Hakala in serving
our homebuilding clients.
Joan McMahon Joan McMahon serves as Quality Control Manager.
She edits data on all surveys and also is the Project Manager for the
AGC Texas Salary Survey. Her career began with the US Bureau of Labor
Statistics working first on Consumer Price Index, and then became a Branch Chief of Information for the Chicago regional office.
Terry Hakala We have known Hakala since he worked for a major
department store and participated in the MCS Retail Study. He later
became an executive with UDC Homes and was instrumental in creating
the Real Estate Development and Homebuilding Survey with McMahon at
Hewitt/ MCS. UDC was acquired a few years later and Hakala joined Analytical.
Hakala and Crater are recognized throughout the homebuilding industry
as being very knowledgeable and service oriented consultants.
Dr. Eric Lane Dr. Eric Lane was also an owner and serves as our
Quantitative Systems expert. While still in graduate school at ASU where
he earned a PhD, he taught the MCS staff all about compensation related
statistics. The American Compensation Association requested that MCS
develop a seminar for their members and Lane and McMahon presented "Everything
You Thought You Should Know About Statistics But Weren't Interested
Enough To Ask" at all of the ACA Regional conferences and at their National
Meeting.
Jim Schessler Jim
Schessler spent 33 years with Foster-Wheeler Corporation in Houston,
upstate New York and the corporate office in Clinton, NJ. When he took
early retirement in 2002, he was SVP, Human Resources and served on
the Board of Directors. His leaving FWC, coincided with the passage
of Sarbanes-Oxley and together with Mure and McMahon, has identified
several services directed at public and private boards. Schessler is
spearheading our effort to expand this relatively new area of service
and we now regularly receive requests for BOD pay comparisons and we
have organized a group of Chief Financial Officers that are available
for boards in need of financial expertise. We are not an executive recruiting
firm, but we can bring qualified directors to company boards at fraction
of the cost of a retained search. At the time Jim McMahon founded Analytical,
Schessler told him that a valuable service for global engineering firms
would be the establishment of an annual forum for the top HR executives
of global engineering firms to gather and discuss mutual problems. As
a result, the Global Engineering Personnel Executive Group is coming
into its tenth year and Schessler has gone from participant to moderator.
Mike Thomas We are very pleased to announce that Mike Thomas joined us in March, 2006. He retired after 38 years in Human Resources including 19 years with Granite Construction - a member of Fortune Magazine's prestigious 100 Best Places to Work for the past three years. Mike attended the University of Parana in Brazil, studied at the American Institute for Foreign Trade in Phoenix, graduated from Miami of Ohio and received a Master's Degree from Central Michigan. He served as an Air Force Officer for eight years including time as Executive Officer for the Asst Sec of Defense for Manpower (the biggest HR job in the country!).
He is a Founder and Senior Partner of the Monterey Institute for Social Architecture and carried the title of Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Social Responsibility at Granite. Mike is especially proud of Granite's selection as a top employer and now looks forward to helping other good companies become great companies.
Denise McMahon Denise McMahon works on website development and modifications,
but spends most of her time working with Dot Crater on the production
of surveys. She manages most of our compensation surveys for the Engineering & Construction industry as well as our annual Benefits & Pay Practices Survey. She also oversees our bi-annual Human Service Providers Survey for social service agencies in Arizona. She has a degree in English Literature and went back a few years later and finished a second degree in Computer Information Systems from Arizona State University. She is currently working on her Compensation Professional certification from the World at Work.
Darren McMahon Darren McMahon works with Dot Crater and Terry Hakala on the Homebuilding surveys and with Denise McMahon on the Compensation Database surveys. Over the years, his
principal duties have been related to website development and the creation
of marketing materials. He is now back in school working toward taking over programming duties.
Sean Taylor When FMI acquired Analytical Consulting in June of 2007, Sean relocated to Phoenix from Raleigh to work with Jim McMahon and the Phoenix office. For more on Sean, please click the link below.
Click here for Sean Taylor's Bio
Meghan Dorsey (coming soon)
Our Affiliate
Some of our consulting assignments lead us into areas where we lack the
resources and/or expertise to provide a complete service to our clients.
In order that we can address all their needs, we have formed the following
relationship:
International Compensation Data and Compensation Administration
Executive Resources, Ltd. maintains a global compensation data base that
is unmatched by any other source. The principals at ERL include Gary Parker
and Rob Newton.
Parker, prior to becoming a partner, was Practice Chair of Global Remuneration
with Aon Consulting and has held senior executive positions with such
firms as Coca-Cola, Chase Manhattan, Dresdner Bank, Traveler's and Goodyear.
Parker also a founder and owner of ECA-Windham, a provider of international
consulting and relocation services. Newton is a CPA and was a Vice-President
with Century 21 for the Pacific Rim Region before founding ERL in 1991.
The firm was founded to provide technical and data processing support
to business but has evolved well beyond those services and now takes on
a wide variety of global assignments. In recent years they have added
fully outsourced international assignment management and currently operate
a very successful program for Pfizer Global Manufacturing.
