Company
History Click here for Jim McMahon's Bio
Dot
Crater Dot 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 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 recently completed the Compensation Professional Certification (CCP) from the World at Work and the Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification from the Society for Human Resource Management. Darren McMahon Darren works with Dot Crater and Terry Hakala on the Homebuilding 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. Kim Traver Kim recently joined our team. She is currently working in an administrative capacity but, becuase of her background in human resources, we plan to train her as a Survey Analyst. She is also working toward a Certificate in Construction Management. Our Strategic Alliance Partner |
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Jim McMahon | Dot Crater | Eric Lane | Terry Hakala | Mike Thomas | Jim Schessler | Joan McMahon | Denise McMahon | Darren McMahon | Kim Traver