WiSys has deep roots in ERP solutions- four years old with more than 100 years of Macola consulting and development experience of some of the original Macola founding personnel. WiSys has dedicated itself to fulfilling the promise of Real Time Macola ERP system integration and our motto of Information at Your Fingertips. Read on to learn more about the WiSys team to find out what makes this team and WiSys a unique provider of Macola solutions.

Michael Hollinger, Vice President

Mike Hollinger is Vice President and co-founder of WiSys LLC. He has been the primary developer of the Pocket ES device applications and has been directly involved in dozens of on site implementations of the WMS solution. Mike identified and leveraged the value of CE .Net as a new Bar Code non proprietary platform combined with standard wireless technology as the technology backbone of WiSys WMS.

Prior to becoming involved in WiSys, Mike worked for Booz, Allen and Hamilton on several SAP integration projects. Some of the most notable with the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA Glenn Research Center, and the NASA Johnson Space Center. Working with tier one ERP systems he was amazed with the amount of effort required to integrate legacy data or the redundancy of re-keyed data. This background was a key component in realizing what value real time would bring to the ERP market and also to understanding how complex ERP transaction interfaces needed to be designed.

Mike graduated from the University of Dayton, OH with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems.

Bob Hawk, Director of Sales

Bob Hawk is the Director of Sales at WiSys LLC.  He was one of early resellers working with Macola Software in 1984.  Bob joined the Macola management team in 1986 and served as VP of Sales through 1994.  Bob focused on growing the Macola customer community through a network of Business Partners, which grew to more than 800 by 1994.  During his tenure Bob opened 6 regional territories plus the international division establishing business partners in 8 countries.  Bob spearheaded the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategy at Macola Inc. by using the rich data in Macola Software to provide new information about customers and trends creating new marketing opportunities.

Prior to WiSys, Bob was a partner in Algorithm Inc. and served as VP of Sales.  Algorithm Inc. was a startup in 1995 and grew to become the #1 Macola Software partner by 2000.   Algorithm Inc. continues as a top business partner for Exact / Macola Software serving over 8 Midwestern states with more than 300 customers.

While at Algorithm, Bob introduced GoldRush Software, a CRM application for GoldMine Software and Macola Software.  GoldRush reached over 300 customer's world wide.  Bob also opened Algorithm's Automotive EDI Solution, TierLinkT; providing seamless integration for tier 2 and 3 automotive suppliers. 

Bob graduated from Kent State University with a BA in Business Administration and Marketing.

John Nicol, Developer

John Nicol was one of the early developers at Macola and worked at Macola for over 15 years. Mr. Nicol began his illustrious tenure at Macola as head of support and documentation for the Operator 10 product line Line which is still the leading Municipality Water and Wastewater Plant software product in the industry today. Macola sold Operator 10 in the early 90's and Mr. Nicol then moved on to become a Manufacturing Consultant for Progression and became APICS certified. As a product consultant he coordinated and managed many on-site implementations of full Progression manufacturing systems.

John then moved on to working on the Quality Assurance team for testing and approving all Macola processes. However, John is best know as the manager of the development team that produced all of the Macola Visual Tool applications such as the Bill of Resource for Macola ES and the Visual Bill Builder in Progression. He was also the key developer of the new MRP system for Macola ES which was a complete re-write in transact SQL and led to a significant boost in regen performance over the Progression version.  

Mr. Nicol joined WiSys in 2005 and is the primary developer of the WiSys Business Object Library, the SF Work Center Reporting, and the Pick/Pack module. While at Macola he developed object models for inventory, order entry, bill of material and Macola security.

Glen Poston, Developer

Glen Poston was one of first employees at Macola Software. Mr. Poston began his long and illustrious tenure at Macola in 1983 as the lead developer of the Operator 10 Product Line which is still the leading Municipality Water and Wastewater Plant software product in the industry today. Macola sold Operator 10 in the early 90's and Mr. Poston began working on the design and development of the Enterprise Reporting System which was the foundation for Flexibility, Progression Integrated Crystal Reports and the Progression SQL Search Engine.

The development of the Progression Version 7 series was a major re-write creating significant quality assurance problems. Mr. Poston next became manager of the QA department and was instrumental in building the Quality assurance team that wrote and developed regression scripts. Without his management of this team and without their effort, Version 7 would have probably never become stable. Those scripts are still used by Macola today.

Mr. Poston was next involved in the development of the system layer of Progression. This encompassed the User Interface and the Macola SQL layer (MSL) which is the core application enabling Progression and Macola ES to access SQL databases. Mr. Poston also developed most of the Excel Add in functions for Macola ES that work with Macola today.

In mid 2006 Mr. Poston joined WiSys and developed TaxSys V4.0 as the next generation of that product. He is also a key engineer in developing core technologies for WiSys.