John R. Riconda - Founder and CEO
John Riconda began his career with Contemporary Computer Services Inc. (CCSI), as an IBM mainframe technical specialist in 1979, becoming a partner in 1985, and was named President & CEO in 1996, after leading its mainframe division. Since 1996, John has been responsible for creating and building two new CCSI business units, CCSI's Networking Division and Application Development Division. Due to the success of these two divisions, CCSI was named a Cisco Gold Partner in 2001, and attained Microsoft Gold Partner Certification specializing in Enterprise Systems in 2002. Under his steadfast and visionary leadership CCSI has grown from a local service company to a nationally recognized network management and systems integration firm with more than 100 employees with offices in three states. CCSI’s focus is on maintaining corporate, government and educational clients’ mainframe, midrange and storage hardware as designing, implementing and maintaining its clients networking and IP infrastructure 24/7.
Mr. Riconda has been a member of Cisco Systems' VAR Council for a number of years, and was a founding member of Microsoft's Educational Partner Advisory Council. He currently serves on the board of directors for Huntington Hospital. Additionally, Mr. Riconda has been the recipient of numerous leadership awards and has recently been honored by the Suffolk County Organization of Public Educators, the New York State Council of School Superintendents, and the National Leadership Council for his commitment to public education.
Mr. Riconda personally designed and managed the development of a comprehensive procurement system that is presently in use by one of the largest city school districts in the United States and has been directly involved as an integral player in the design of the eSchoolData application as well as its supporting infrastructure platform.
Ann M. Savino - Founder and Executive Vice President
Ann Savino is an application design specialist whose career began in 1982. Growing up in a family involved with educators and school board administrators, she has a diverse background not only as a technologist working with school systems but also as a board member in tune with governance issues.
Previously, Ms. Savino served as a Principal Investigator focusing her research on the US Department of Education Solicitation ED-00-R-0013, "Integrated Data System Reporting Initiative".
Ms Savino has published numerous industry related pieces including an article describing common pitfalls in technology implementations which was featured in the February 1997 edition of The American School Board Journal. Additionally, she has been a featured speaker at the National School Board Association (NSBA), the New York State School Board Association (NYSSBA), the Suffolk County Organization of Professional Educators (SCOPE), Adelphi, Hofstra University and NYU to name a few.
Recent awards include New York State Council of School Administrators Leadership Award and the American Legion- Spirit of America Award. Her other Educational Advocacy includes:
- Bay Shore Board of Education - six years
- Eastern Suffolk BOCES Board Member - nine years
- Chair, BOCES Agency-wide Technology Committee
- NY State School Board Association (NYSSBA) Technology Advisory Committee
- NYSSBA Legislative Action Committee Member
- NYSSBA Policy Committee Member
Richard Somyak - Director of Operations
Richard Somyak brings to eSchoolData more than twenty years of direct technical service and experience in systems administration, and networking including solid Project Management and System Development Lifecycle experience. Prior to joining eSchoolData in 2008, Mr. Somyak was the Technical Operations Manager for Omgeo LLC, a global joint venture of the Depository & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and Thomson Financial. Omgeo is the market leader in the development and deployment of post-trade, pre-settlement solutions. Mr. Somyak was responsible for providing leadership for all technical services and support of for all real-time 24X7 production & non-production services.
From 2000 through 2005, Mr. Somyak was the Head of Technology Services in the Americas for British Telecom’s JV, BTRadianz, reporting directly to the CIO. He had direct responsibility for all facets in internal technology related to BTRadianz as well as the global network architecture, design and implementation.