Derik J. Aldridge
Sr. Business Consultant / GM

Derik Aldridge founded Eclipse Consulting, Inc. in 1997. With humble beginnings as a jr. progress programmer for a database firm, Derik has shaped Eclipse to become a leader in the ERP Software Consulting Industry. He has personally been consulting on Syteline, Symix and MFG/Pro for the past 13 years. In addition to providing high-level business consulting, Derik is an experienced programmer with years of data conversion and application development to pull from. Presently, Derik is leading the Eclipse team in providing Syteline upgrades, Syteline implementations and customizations, QAD Migrations and full Implementations, custom reports, integrations, training, data conversion & transformation services to midsize manufacturers of specialized transport, material handling, oil and gas exploration, media separation, flow sensors equipment, as well as a variety of food-packaging manufacturers.

In the last six years, Derik has worked on 30 Syteline 7 (SL7) implementations, three (but growing) Syteline 8 installations and one Syteline 8 upgrade. The first of these SQL Syteline implementations was a multi-lingual, multi-site, and multi-national (global) company with 117 business organizations located in seven countries which fit right in with some of the interesting projects in which ECI has played a leading role. Derik, supported by the team at Eclipse, brought this client from Oracle 8i to Syteline 7.02.05, then upgraded them later to SL7.04.20. This was the first vendor-independent implementation and was a beaming success for all involved. Throughout this project and many others before and after, Eclipse Consulting has developed a solid reputation for figuring out solutions where none have existed.

Over the years, Derik has managed several ERP implementations. He has held roles such as:

• Syteline7 Implementation Consultant
• Systems Consultant
• Staff IS Consultant
• IS Manager
• Project Manager
• Planning Manager
• Procurement Manager
• Independent Progress Consultant
• Programmer/Analyst

Derik is an Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and studied Mechanical Engineering at Mercer University in Macon, GA. He is a private pilot, a member of Mensa, and a proud Eagle Scout.

But, more importantly, Derik is very proud of the robust team Eclipse Consulting brings to any project and looks forward to serving the Syteline & MFG/Pro Communities for many years to come.

 

Tony Ochoa
Sr. Systems Consultant

Tony Ochoa is a veteran in the Syteline world, strengthening Eclipse Consulting with his 20 years of experience in technology, centered on Syteline and MFG/Pro. Currently, Tony provides technical and consulting services for ongoing implementations, upgrades, customizations, and integration projects through Eclipse. Tony manages a staff of contract programmers, computer training specialists and Certified Public Accountants who specialize in providing all aspects of customer support to the Frontstep (Syteline/Syman/Symix), VarNet, Marcam MXP, QAD Mfg/Pro and Progress customer base. Tony also performs daily hands-on programming services, modifying and enhancing existing applications and, designing new custom applications.

Tony is very strong in both the "user experience" as well as the technical side of all versions of the Syteline ERP system and QAD's MFG/Pro.

Prior to joining the Eclipse team, Tony was an Implementation Specialist for Symix/Frontstep/Mapics, now Infor. He also served as President of the Frontstep (Symix) International User Group. Tony is APICS certified in product and inventory management. He holds a BA in International Business Administration with minor in Computer Science from Ohio State University.

Tony is well regarded as a leading authority on Syteline, being extremely strong in all areas of the system.

 

Ed Kale
Sr. Syteline Consultant

Ed Kale brings 16 years experience installing, supporting, and customizing Syman, Symix, and Syteline ERP applications to the Eclipse Consulting team.

Ed currently provides both front-end consulting, as well as custom programming for Eclipse. Having gained an in-depth Syteline knowledge as an IT Director; Ed brings an internal-mindset to the team and can relate equally well to shop-floor resources as well as CFO's and explain Syteline's inner workings extremely well.

Prior to joining Eclipse, Ed served as IT director for Nor-Cal Products, a manufacturing company, currently running Syteline 7. In addition to management of overall IT operations for Nor-Cal, Ed provided End user support for their Syteline 7/Symix ERP application, functioned as Syteline 7/Symix administrator and DB administrator (Progress and SQL 2000), received extensive APS training and 'inside' knowledge from Infor resources, developed a very strong financial background through all areas of Syteline, also becoming well versed in Syteline7/Symix programming and personalization, utilized most Syteline add-ons, and managed a Data Collection customization project to improve shop-floor efficiencies and data accuracy.

With our existing client base, Ed has quickly gained a reputation for having excellent ideas and being a foremost authority on the APS engine and proper APS usage for particular client needs.

 

Kelly Harrison
Sr. Programmer

Kelly Harrison came to the Syteline 7 community with a great background in Crystal Reports, various flavors of SQL, and heavy Visual Basic experience. He has been programming with us for 2.5 years and has completed various projects such as:

• 40+ Custom Reports for SL7.0X.XX
• Custom Utilities, such as a highly-modified Planners Workbench, which replaced MRP at a Utah client. This was completed in SL7.04.11 and then brought forward to SL7.04.20.
• Interfaces – Kelly has created a Web Services interface to provide our Houston client with additional information and capital equipment tracking capabilities. This is a two-way interface.
• Kelly has also created a ‘third-party’ application called Syte-X which handles cross-company chargebacks more efficiently that standard Syteline Go-Live support and troubleshooting.

Prior to taking on Syteline7, Kelly had a solid track record for finding ways to help customer gain efficiencies across the board. Kelly developed various business-critical applications for businesses based on Microsoft .NET technology and Microsoft SQL Server such as :

• Task Tracker: Visual Basic.NET and SQL Server application developed for a construction company. Provides job costing and performance analysis for labor, materials, and subcontracting.
• APM Project Manager: C# and SQL Server application for a local Paving Contractor that provides extensive job costing, job scheduling, budgeting and performance analysis.
• Employee Uniform Program Manager: C# and SQL Server application for a local company that supplies uniforms and other items to Toyota employees across the country.
• Inventory Manager: Visual Basic 6 and SQL Server application for flexible inventory management.
• Kelly also developed various custom components for .NET, including a Cross Tabulation component for ADO.NET and an Extensible Application Framework that allows the rapid development of plugin-based Microsoft Windows applications using Microsoft .NET.

• Povided support for and added new features to 3rd party applications developed in Visual Basic and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for Microsoft Office.

 

Teddy Chua
Sr. Syteline Technologist

Teddy Chua first joined our team in 2003 and quickly showed himself to be a stellar SQL, VB, .Net, and Syteline7/8 programmer.  In recent discussions with two clients they each said that 99% of the time, when Teddy delivers a custom enhancement installation package…it works exactly as requested on the first try.  Teddy’s true ability is to mentally place himself in the customer’s perspective, based on their detailed description of a problem…and then consider how to make the problem go away.  He has done this time and time again.  Teddy routinely guides several of our other developers to create faster solutions and is quickly rising through our ranks, by receiving glowing customer recommendations.