Management

Edward Bouryng, President

Ed founded Metaformers in 2000 with a vision to establish a different kind of consulting firm, focused on leadership and innovation, where each member has the ability to impact strategy, and with the highest professional standards for success. The President's role includes the ultimate responsibility for upholding the team's core values and Ed is strongly committed to this ongoing task.  Ed has twenty years of government and higher education systems and management consulting experience and continues to serve clients in a strategy role.  Ed is considered a knowledge leader with the PeopleSoft Financials suite for government systems and is often engaged to provide strategic guidance, re-establishing government business process in line with best practice and establishing a strategic path to right-track enterprise solution investments.  Ed has worked closely with PeopleSoft and Oracle since 2001 due to his deep knowledge of best practice use of the delivered PeopleSoft solution for government and abilities to work with government executives.  Prior to starting Metaformers Ed was a senior manager with KPMG and chief architect for a financials product line serving the federal government.

Ed holds a BS degree in Accounting from The Pennsylvania State University, is a CPA, and a CGFM.

Andrew Beck, Vice President, Global Operations

Andrew Beck has over 17 years of experience in delivering Enterprise Systems solutions to clients around the world. Andrew joined Metaformers in April 2003 following almost 5 years with PeopleSoft, Inc as an Account Manager and  a Senior Project Manager. His in-depth experiences in strategy, infrastructure technology, applications, and organization performance optimization have led to successful client engagements encompassing over 30 countries. As Vice President of Global Operations, Andrew maintains responsibility for the performance of US and International operations, including leading Metaformers into new country markets. Andrew is also a strong advocate of the Metaformers core values, focusing on their application in customer, internal and partner relationships.   

Andrew attended the University of Plymouth in the UK and holds a BS in Computer Information Systems.

Sheryl Pearson, Vice President, Solutions

Sheryl Pearson brings more than 20 years of business management, global customer relations and implementation experience to Metaformers.  Sheryl has over 16 years of PeopleSoft implementation experience, including her time as Director of Services at PeopleSoft.  During her five-year career at PeopleSoft she built a highly skilled team that provided consultancy services supporting clients’ business objectives and strategic planning goals. She developed and fostered client relationships within the government, higher education, commercial, and utilities sectors around the world.

Prior to Metaformers, Sheryl held senior level management positions with CIBER, Unisys, Exodus and Global Technologies. In each of these organization Sheryl developed a consultancy organization based on PeopleSoft strategic planning and implementation services.  The practices covered a range of PeopleSoft applications including HCM, Financials, CRM, and Campus Solutions.

Sheryl holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from Depaul University.

Sean White, Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Sean White brings more than 25 years of experience in technology management, sales, marketing, project management and consulting to Metaformers.  Throughout his career he has supported Healthcare, Government and Education clients by delivering exceptional results and return on investment.

Prior to joining Metaformers, Sean held the position of Sales Director with Oracle’s Managed Cloud Services where he specialized in the Healthcare Industry vertical delivering solutions for the entire Oracle software and technology portfolio from ERP solutions including PeopleSoft, Fusion and eBusiness to Technology solutions including SOA and Oracle Engineered Systems.  He has also held senior management, consulting and sales positions with PeopleSoft Consulting, BearingPoint, Computer Sciences Corporation, McKesson and Platinum Technology, Inc.  

Sean is a classically trained Heldenbaritone, Pianist and a member of the American Guild of Musical Artists. He has performed with the San Francisco Opera and Symphony and was a student of renowned HeldenTenor, John DeHaan, from the Deutsche Opera Berlin.

While not working, Sean enjoys his daughters’ performances with the Sacramento Children’s Choir.

Paul Stewart, Chief Financial Officer

Paul Stewart has more than 25 years experience as an enterprise system architect assisting clients with software application strategy and the implementation of ERP solutions that provide significant return on the client’s investment.  Paul’s market focus is primarily on public sector including federal, state, local, K-12 and higher education clients.  His experience includes IT strategy, application architecture and large program management; design, development, and implementation of custom ERP solutions; the integration and implementation of COTS ERP solutions; post production maintenance and support of ERP systems, as well as business process re-engineering activities.

As a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Government Financial Manager Paul possesses a detailed understanding of government financial and business management and has actively developed and or implemented software to meet the needs of various government entities including financial, payroll, customer resource planning, and supply chain solutions.  Some of his areas of expertise include: Budget Formulation, Budget Execution and Funds Control, Payment Management, Receipts Management, Cost Accrual, Cost Allocation, Full Costing, Cash Management, Time and Expense Capture, Labor Distribution, Travel Management, Procurement and Contracting, Grants Management, Asset Management, Supply Chain Management, Customer Resource Planning, Executive Information Systems, Financial Reporting and Activity Based Costing.

Prior to joining Metaformers Paul was a Managing Director/Partner with BearingPoint/KPMG where he spent 20 years developing BearingPoint/KPMG’s public services ERP practice supporting custom Oracle and SAP solutions.

Paul holds an MBA from the University of Texas.

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