Socorro Harvey : President, CEO

Socorro Harvey is the President and majority owner of NVision Solutions Inc. She brings more than a decade of leadership and training skills developed though her distinguished career with Oral B Laboratories in Iowa City, IA.

Socorro founded NVision after working for another successful Mississippi high-tech startup, where she managed the day to day operations including data management, order shipping and tracking, personnel training, customer satisfaction and development of desk top procedures for the NASA Data Buy project and was a valued member of the GIS team.

Her desire to create an employee-centered business led her to develop the NVision concept. Careful selection of team members, personal improvement plans, and a sincere desire to see each and every person achieve their personal goals produced a highly cohesive, focused, energetic team not afraid to tackle imposing jobs using new and enlightened methods.

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Don Peyton : Executive VP

Donald Peyton devoted fifteen years to United Parcel Service, in operational management, before seeking opportunities at NASA John C. Stennis Space Center.

He was the first employee of another successful high-tech Mississippi startup. As General Manager, Don was responsible for hiring technical staff and developing the customer base in the Southern United States for the companys Washington-based owners. The company at Stennis rapidly expanded to sixteen employees. Through Dons networking of university and government agencies he was able to secure over $1 million in revenue in less than two years from hire.

In February 2002, Don partnered with Socorro Harvey to begin forming a start up a Geo-spatial company. In March of 2002 they founded NVision Solutions, a small, disadvantaged, minority woman-owned company at NASA John C. Stennis Space Center. Don and Socorro incorporated NVision Solutions in the state of Mississippi the same month.

Their shared vision is to grow the need for geo-spatial applications and products for the commercial sector. NVisions goal is to provide high paying, technical careers that keep Mississippi graduates from fleeing to other states in search of other financial opportunities.

NVision Solutions, Inc. as of November 2002 has already exceeded its first years expectations in both revenue and staffing. The Mississippi-based business already has secured numerous private and partnering contracts extending well into 2003 and looks forward to continued growth and stability. Dons philosophy for achievement mirrors a quote from United Parcel Services founding father Jack Casey, Determined people can accomplish anything. NVisions success through its people has shown this to be true.

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Craig Harvey : COO, Executive VP

Professional Certifications: GISP

Craig Harvey brings more than 15 years of GIS experience in nearly all aspects of the technology.

A graduate of the highly progressive Geography program at the University of Iowa, he worked with the USGS for nearly a decade and a half where he honed his technical skills from the ground up. He spent more than 5 years on the senior GIS staff as a national instructor teaching GIS to water resources scientist across the country. Specializing in automated processing procedures and GIS model development, Craig culminated his career with the USGS by commercializing the watershed model BasinSoft.

Craig left public service to join a fledgling startup company located at NASAs Stennis Space Center in 1999. There he grew a nonexistent GIS program into nearly a million dollar program and balanced training and production while developing a first-rate technical staff in just under two years.

Intent on positioning his technical staff to capitalize on the Web-based evolution of Geospatial data processing and data delivery, his experience and vision made him a natural candidate to lead NVisions highly technical and eclectic staff.

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Joel Lawhead : Program Manager

Professional Certifications: PMP

Joel Lawhead, originally from Oxford, Mississippi, received a B.A. in print journalism from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama in 1998.

While working as a college intern at the Biloxi, Mississippi newspaper "The Sun Herald" he began a career in Web site development by assisting with the newspaper's award-winning Web site "SunHerald.com".

When the newspaper's parent company created a seperate division called "KnightRidder.com" in 1999, Joel joined the "dot-com" gold rush and began development of the regional portal site "MississippiCoast.com" until KnightRidder.com dramatically cut its workforce in late 2000.

After his dot-com adventure Joel involved himself in the emerging field of GIS Web development with the realistic goal of building solid, user-friendly Web applications using proven standards at a successful Mississippi start-up company where he used his background in communications and Web development to build cheaper, easier to use GIS applications.

After a couple of years, Joel decided to join NVision founders Socorro Harvey, Don Peyton, and Craig Harvey in their vision of becoming industry leaders in geo-spatial technology integration.

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